You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A beautiful, haunting and searingly honest play from one of the UK's most exciting new theatrical talents.
Raw, delicate and bold, Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships.
A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity-obsessed culture.
A new play from the award-winning writer of Bird.
Steph is 15 years old. Simon is her teacher. Both live in Cardiff but their parallel lives couldn't be more different. When an accusation is made and their worlds collide, things aren't as simple as they might seem.
Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. --Publisher description.
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their ...
A young architect, after many years, returns home to visit his parents in Bar Harbor and unexpectedly meets the girl of his dreams. Then through a series of circumstances, he gets involved in a drug trafficking operation, that centers on the sleepy hollow inconspicuous small town of Bar Harbor, in Maine in the North of New England.
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.