Author: Kirt WOOD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The year is 1772 on the eve of the French Revolution. The Marquis and Marquise of Rosemont have escaped the court of Versailles, and the endless gossip fueled by the Marquis' scandalous reputation, to their castle in the South of France. No sooner do they arrive in the village of Rochefort than a young maidservant is found gruesomely tortured and murdered. The Marquise, remembering a fateful tarot card reading, finds herself caught up in a web of terrifying secrets and vile relationships. Her charm and her wits are her only defense against impending doom.Will Lieutenant Saint-Clair be able to stop the killer?
Noble Fool
Author: Kirt WOOD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The year is 1772 on the eve of the French Revolution. The Marquis and Marquise of Rosemont have escaped the court of Versailles, and the endless gossip fueled by the Marquis' scandalous reputation, to their castle in the South of France. No sooner do they arrive in the village of Rochefort than a young maidservant is found gruesomely tortured and murdered. The Marquise, remembering a fateful tarot card reading, finds herself caught up in a web of terrifying secrets and vile relationships. Her charm and her wits are her only defense against impending doom.Will Lieutenant Saint-Clair be able to stop the killer?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The year is 1772 on the eve of the French Revolution. The Marquis and Marquise of Rosemont have escaped the court of Versailles, and the endless gossip fueled by the Marquis' scandalous reputation, to their castle in the South of France. No sooner do they arrive in the village of Rochefort than a young maidservant is found gruesomely tortured and murdered. The Marquise, remembering a fateful tarot card reading, finds herself caught up in a web of terrifying secrets and vile relationships. Her charm and her wits are her only defense against impending doom.Will Lieutenant Saint-Clair be able to stop the killer?
Fool of the Kingdom
Author: Philip D. Noble
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing, U.S.
ISBN: 9781566080231
Category : Clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We're amazed at the scope of this book. Its collection of clown sketches -- its skill-building how-to -- its clown history -- its philosophy of life -- and more.
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing, U.S.
ISBN: 9781566080231
Category : Clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We're amazed at the scope of this book. Its collection of clown sketches -- its skill-building how-to -- its clown history -- its philosophy of life -- and more.
Fool
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061974773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061974773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”
King Lear
Author: Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135973652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135973652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Everybody's Fool
Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
The history of Court-fools
A Noble Fool
The History of Court Fools
Nobody's Fool
Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
The History of Court Fools
Author: Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Fools and jesters
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Fools and jesters
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description