The City of Beautiful Nonsense

The City of Beautiful Nonsense

Author: Ernest Charles Temple Thurston

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-11

Total Pages: 293

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" Of course, the eighteenth of March--but it is out of the question to say upon which day of the week it fell. It was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets that houses are telling when the shadows draw them so close together! But you never will know. They close their eyes and they whisper. Around the fields of Lincoln's Inn it was as still as the grave. The footsteps of a lawyer's clerk hurrying late away from chambers vibrated through the intense quiet. You heard each step to the very last. So long as you could see him, you heard them plainly; then he vanished behind the curtain of shadows, the sounds became muffled, and at last the silence crept back into the Fields crept all round you, half eager, half reluctant, like sleepy children drawn from their beds to hear the end of a fairy story. There was a fairy story to be told, too. It began that night of the eighteenth of March the Eve of St. Joseph's day.


The Bookseller

The Bookseller

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Published: 1917

Total Pages: 620

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Returned Empty

Returned Empty

Author: Florence L. Barclay

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13:

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'Returned Empty' by Florence L. Barclay is a novel that unfolds with a heartbreaking scene of a baby left on a doorstep with only a label that reads "Returned Empty." The baby is taken to a foundlings' institution where eventually he grows up as Luke Sparrow, a lonely child with sad eyes and a yearning for love. As he grows older, Luke excels in school, but his heart remains closed to others, leaving him feeling like a misfit. The novel follows Luke's journey as he searches for his true identity and a sense of belonging in a world that seems determined to reject him. Will Luke ever find the love and acceptance he desperately craves?


Ghana's Concert Party Theatre

Ghana's Concert Party Theatre

Author: Catherine M. Cole

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2001-07-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0253108985

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Ghana's Concert Party Theatre Catherine M. Cole An engaging history of Ghana's enormously popular concert party theatre. "... succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." -- Karin Barber Under colonial rule, the first concert party practitioners brought their comic variety shows to audiences throughout what was then the British Gold Coast colony. As social and political circumstances shifted through the colonial period and early years of Ghanaian independence, concert party actors demonstrated a remarkable responsiveness to changing social roles and volatile political situations as they continued to stage this extremely popular form of entertainment. Drawing on her participation as an actress in concert party performances, oral histories of performers, and archival research, Catherine M. Cole traces the history and development of Ghana's concert party tradition. She shows how concert parties combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, adapting characters and songs from American movies, popular British ballads, and local story-telling traditions into a spirited blend of comedy and social commentary. Actors in blackface, inspired by Al Jolson, and female impersonators dramatized the aspirations, experiences, and frustrations of their audiences. Cole's extensive and lively look into Ghana's concert party provides a unique perspective on the complex experience of British colonial domination, the postcolonial quest for national identity, and the dynamic processes of cultural appropriation and social change. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of African performance, theatre, and popular culture. Catherine M. Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles on African theatre and has collaborated with filmmaker Kwame Braun on "passing girl; riverside," a video essay on the ethical dilemmas of visual anthropology. June 2001 256 pages, 26 b&w photos, 3 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, notes, bibl., index cloth 0-253-33845-X $49.95 L / £38.00 paper 0-253-21436-X $19.95 s / £15.50