Author: Charles GILBERT (Editor of “Endless Mirth.”.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A Companion Book to “Guess Me.” Endless Mirth and Amusement. A ... Collection of Mirthful Games, Parlour Pastimes, Forfeits ... Compiled and Arranged by C. G. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank, Etc
Author: Charles GILBERT (Editor of “Endless Mirth.”.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands
Author: James PartonPublisher:
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Endless Mirth and Amusement
Author: Charles Author GilbertPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015382060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Garies and Their Friends
Author: Frank J. WebbPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Originally published in London in 1857 and never before available in paperback, The Garies and Their Friends is the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing, ' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.'
The Romance of George Villiers
Author: Philip GibbsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Stolen Childhood
Author: Wilma KingPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"King provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents".--"Booklist". "King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience".--"Choice". 16 photos.
New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Eric J. SundquistPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A critical and historical interpretation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, reflecting the best of recent scholarship.
Phonetics, Theory and Application
Author: William R. TiffanyPublisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Swallow Barn, Or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion
Author: John Pendleton KennedyPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Our American Cousin
Author: Tom TaylorPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.