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The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the invention of the Irish-born playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and they unfold, collide, and backfire hilariously in his masterpiece, The School for Scandal, a play still considered by many the best comedy of manners in English. It is a comedy with two...
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A gifted American artist finds fame, fortune, and tragedy in Europe in this classic tale. Working in obscurity, sculptor Roderick Hudson finds a generous patron in Rowland Mallet, an art aficionado so captivated by the young man's work, he offers to take Hudson with him to Europe. Mallet soon falls in love with Miss Mary Garland, a distant cousin of Hudson's who lives with the family and tends to his aging mother. Unfortunately, Hudson has already...
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A Five Star Life is the sophisticated story of one woman's quest for personal and professional fulfillment set against some of the most stunning cities and opulent hotels of the world. Stylish and independent, Irene (Margherita Buy) is a single career woman in her forties with a job to die for. As a luxury hotel critic, she checks into the world's finest establishments incognito to assess their standards, meticulously judging every detail from the...
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El Rastro del Fuego
de Claudio Calzoni
El Rastro del Fuego: de Notre Dame a la Mole Antonelliana.
Hay una estela de fuego detrás de la muerte de tantas personas, la destrucción de monumentos que custodian la memoria de la Humanidad y una reliquia, la más importante que la cristiandad ha conservado durante milenios. El juego de ajedrez entre el Bien y el Mal ha comenzado. Los jugadores mueven sus piezas. Ganará el que ponga en jaque al Rey....
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A story of the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea. An exciting account of life on the high seas as seen through the eyes of young Ned Hearne. The brave 16th-century teen sails with Francis Drake, experiences a harsh seafaring life, and visits unexplored lands. The historical portion of the story is absolutely to be relied upon.
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In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies--the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary--that captured the imagination of the city. The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production...
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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country's three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina), whilst...
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La España del siglo XVIII no llama la atención por su grandeza o su capacidad creadora, sino por su prosperidad. El país no se había metido en grandes aventuras, y solo cabía esperar un tranquilo XIX. Sin embargo, entre 1808 y 1812 una serie de acontecimientos cambian el curso de la historia: un destronamiento coloca en el trono a Fernando VII; España es invadida por Napoleón y José Bonaparte se proclama rey de España; el pueblo se alza,...
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Un repaso ácido y crítico a la actual clase política que nos está llevando al precipicio. Desde los origines de esta vorágine de despropósitos que se inició con la llegada de los socialistas al poder en 1982 hasta nuestros días.
Como Felipe González empezó a corromper las instituciones, con su afán de intervenir en todos los aspectos de la vida nacional, desde hasta que hora podíamos ver la televisión, pasando por el control de la Justicia...
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Gerhard Krug schreibt seit 1980 als Ghostwriter und Autor für Presse und Rundfunk. Daneben hat er zahlreiche Fachartikel und zwei Sachbücher zum Thema Projektmanagement veröffentlicht.
Bei seinem historischen Roman: Die Söldnerin hat er sich vor allem mit der Frage beschäftigt, wie existenzielle Probleme einen Menschen verändern. Also eine Frau, die sich als Mann in einer Armee versteckt, in einer reinen Männergesellschaft die typischen männlichen...
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A gloriously moving and entertaining, picaresque debut novel, about a young man's sentimental education in late 19th-Century Europe; inspired by a real historical figure: 'Captain' Paul Boyton — the 'Fearless Frogman' '"But who among you might assist me on this adventure?" the Captain shouts. And then the Captain's eyes fall on me, as was his plan all along, and he points me out, making sure just so's everyone can see. "What about you, sir?" "Me?"...
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Gloria Ruiz vuelve a la narrativa con una novela corta en la que pueden encontrarse todos los rasgos de su novelística: protagonistas femeninas en un trasfondo rural de la España de posguerra caracterizado por la represión de las emociones y la dureza de vivir para los perdedores.
La protagonista de 'Morir por cesar el llanto' es Adana, una mujer que intenta sobrevivir a la pena de un marido y un hijo desaparecidos y a la que ni la aparición de...
14) The Persians
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“Aeschylus” was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being “Sophocles” and “Euripides”. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times.
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There are not too many German books that can offer fiction, romance, mystical and suspense stories in one collection, but this one has it all! The reading material in this book is especially helpful for beginners and is perfect for anyone who wants to learn to read and write German. You'll have fun reading whilst learning a wide range of new vocabulary and phrases.
This book contains a collection of 25 culturally interesting and entertaining German...
16) McCarthy Gold
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In the aftermath of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, the Clans seek McCarthy Gold as Collin searches for his missing sister. Wicked Head Constable Boyle plots revenge on them all. Irish rebels Tadgh McCarthy and partner Morgan reunite with Peader O'Donnell to unravel riddles they hope may lead them to the McCarthy treasure. Kathy O'Donnell joins Collin in Ireland with an ultimatum to abandon his search for Claire or suffer losing his wife forever....
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Picking up where The Blunt Playwright left off, Clem Martini returns to the subject of playwriting, turning his attention to the lessons modern playwrights can learn from the ancient Greeks. Outlining the major playwrights of the era, their major works, and the impact they had on our modern understanding of drama, Martini weaves his direct, informative, and entertaining style through centuries of dramatic evolution to show us exactly what the first...
19) Rising
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Irish Republican martyrs rise against overpowering British forces to spark the revolution at Easter 1916, while the Clans search for unity and treasure to honor the Clans Pact of their ancestors in the third book, Rising in The Irish Clans historical fiction eight novel series. Follow Tadgh, Morgan, eventually Collin and their compatriots through the brutal Rising and its aftermath.
20) Obsessing Rufina
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Growing up an orphan in the care of the Benedictine Sisters in post World War II Germany, Lina clings to the simplicity of her sheltered life, even as she longs for a taste of adventure and an identity of her own. As a college student, on a trip to the Louvre in Paris, she becomes transfixed- haunted even- by a 17th century Spanish painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo. Lefebvre captures the hurt and deception as seen through the eyes of an intrepid...
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