Anastasie
Anastasie

Author: Chris Zas's

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2021-10-09

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9354903037

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Anastasie, the young woman at the center of this story had no clue that the young man she was falling in love with was nobody but her own sister�s ex. FRUITELLA, the caring older sister didn�t wish the same fate for her sibling under the same man that she knew perhaps better. The misunderstanding between sisters was just the drop in the ocean as a lot more hidden stories came from a dark past to emerge in a bright present to haunt their present lives. Love, heartbreak and crime made such an entertaining cocktail to be tasted.

Political Censorship
Political Censorship

Author: Robert Justin Goldstein

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9781579583200

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This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration

Author: Keri Yousif

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1317176359

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Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of the Romantic revolution and its immediate aftermath. Both men were social portraitists who collaborated on the influential encyclopedic portrayal of nineteenth-century society, Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. However, their collaboration soon turned competitive with Grandville's publication of Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, a visual parody of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée. Yousif investigates Balzac's and Grandville's individual and joint artistic productions in terms of the larger economic and aesthetic struggles within the nineteenth-century arena of cultural production, showing how writers were forced to position themselves both in terms of the established literary hierarchy and in relation to the rapidly advancing image. As Yousif shows, the industrialization of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer, and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair. Her study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literature, art, and their interactions in a new marketplace for publication during the fraught transition from Romanticism to Realism.

Royal Romances of To-day
Royal Romances of To-day

Author: Kellogg Durland

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13:

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This book details the life and love story of King Alfonzo XIII and Queen Ena of Spain, Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia, and Queen Elena of Italy. Initially published in 1911, it aims to examine contemporary monarchies across Europe. In hindsight, the book offers an interesting glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people towards the monarchy. Alfonzo and Ena are portrayed as being in love when they, in fact, become estranged. The book also provides a detailed look at Nicholas and Alexandra and the Russian aristocracy and correctly predicts their fall.

The New Orleans of Fiction
The New Orleans of Fiction

Author: James A. Kaser

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0810892049

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The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.

The Enamoured Knight
The Enamoured Knight

Author: Douglas H. Glover

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781564784049

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"This book is filled with a great love for the art of writing and is a celebration of the act of reading. Through the prism of the renowned Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky, Douglas Glover provides a scrupulous reading of Cervantes's Don Quixote. By showing us how Cervantes constructed his novel, and how we as readers participate in his magical creation, he opens the 400-year-old Spanish masterpiece to a new generation of readers. Glover seduces us with his stunning prose, while making it possible for even the casual reader to understand and enjoy Cervantes's genius."--BOOK JACKET.

The Devil's Playground
The Devil's Playground

Author: Craig Russell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2024-09-17

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0593468317

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A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect. "An excellent, engrossing historical horror novel."—New York Times Book Review "Rich and riveting...a masterful thriller." —Lincoln Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Addictive." —A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window "Totally engaging." —Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan series 1927: Mary Rourke—a Hollywood studio fixer—is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly talking about... a terrifying horror picture called The Devil’s Playground that is rumored to have unleashed a curse on everyone involved in the production. Mary finds Norma’s cold, dead body, and she wonders for just a moment if these dark rumors could be true. 1967: Paul Conway, a journalist and self-professed film aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumor. He has heard that a single copy of The Devil’s Playground—a Holy Grail for film buffs—may exist. He knows his Hollywood history and he knows the film endured myriad tragedies and ended up lost to time. The Devil's Playground is Craig Russell’s tour de force, a richly researched and constructed thriller that weaves through the Golden Age of Hollywood and reveals a blossoming industry built on secrets, invented identities, and a desperate pursuit of image. As Mary Rourke charges headlong through the egos, distractions, and traps that threaten to take her down with the doomed production, she discovers a truth far more sinister than she—or we—could have imagined.

Witness in the Square
Witness in the Square

Author: Gini Anding

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0595410952

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Amy Page is trying to get her life back on track, back to writing her cookbook, back to strolling around her beloved Ile Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris. Her lover, Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet, is on leave, recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in the course of their last adventure. How can they now possibly help the police solve the murder of the young woman found in the Square Barye? Clues abound, but are they red herrings? Is the victim an agent, an untrained operative, an art restorer, or something else? What do jewelry design, the color blue, a river goddess, a trumpet, wooden earrings, biometric identification systems, oil paintings, stamps, and the South Pacific have in common? Will Amy be able to connect the dots, as she has in the past? Danger awaits Amy and Jean-Michel once again, and their romantic relationship is certain to change because of it.