Author: Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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The Overland Monthly
Author: The Marriage of Contraries
Author: J. L. WisenthalPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674550858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.
The Third Circle
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
There are more things in San Francisco's Chinatown than are dreamed of in Heaven and earth. In reality there are three parts of Chinatown-the part the guides show you, the part the guides don't show you, and the part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be written-at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the lowest ooze of the place-wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the dark. If you don't think this is true, ask some of the Chinese detectives (the regular squad are not to be relied on), ask them to tell you the story of the Lee On Ting affair, or ask them what was done to old Wong Sam, who thought he could break up the trade in slave girls, or why Mr. Clarence Lowney (he was a clergyman from Minnesota who believed in direct methods) is now a "dangerous" inmate of the State Asylum-ask them to tell you why Matsokura, the Japanese dentist, went back to his home lacking a face-ask them to tell you why the murderers of Little Pete will never be found, and ask them to tell you about the little slave girl, Sing Yee, or-no, on the second thought, don't ask for that story.
A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire. Including a Particular Description of the University and City of Oxford ... With a Travelling Map and Plans
Author: John Murray (Firm)Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
All the Year Round
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The third circle. A deal in wheat
Author: Frank NorrisWorks
Author: George Bernard ShawThe Phytologist
Author: George LuxfordPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
The New Zealand Mining Handbook (with Maps and Illustrations)
Author: New Zealand. Mines DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description