Author: J. E. BuckrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Gossip Shop
Author: J. E. BuckroseThe Gossip Shop
Author: Percival WildePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humorous plays
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: Retail and Community
Author: George Campbell GoslingPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529235243
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
Gossip
Author: Beth GutcheonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062100947
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.” —Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others, the consequences of rumor, and the unexpected price of friendship. A story set among the rich, famous, and well-dressed of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gossip is a bravura display of this exceptional author’s breathtaking talents, addressing important themes of motherhood, friendship, and fidelity. Every reader who admires the strong, character-driven women’s fiction of Sue Miller, Alice Hoffman, Elizabeth Berg, and Kaye Gibbons should lend an ear to Beth Gutcheon’s Gossip.
The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor
Author: William Evans BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Escape into a Labyrinth
Author: Benita A. MoorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351331531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This title, originally published in 1988, examines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Catholic roots and his repudiation of those roots in pursuit of the American dream. The study aims to suggest that an investigation of Fitzgerald’s basic cultural and religious milieu might illuminate what he wrote, and may also illuminate the situation of Catholicism in America at the time. This title will be of interest to students of both literature and religious studies.
The Damned Don't Cry - They Just Disappear
Author: Harlan GreenePublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611178126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South In The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries,and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values. As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view to the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first century readers can decipher them easily. Greene also discusses Hervey's travel books and successful Hollywood scriptwriting, as well as his use of exotic elements from Asian cultures. The iconic film Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, was based on one of his original stories. He also wrote some of the first travel books on Indochina, with descriptions of male and female prostitution and allusions to his own sexual adventures, which still make for sensational reading today. Despite Hervey's output and his perseverance in presenting gay characters and themes as openly as he could, he has not been included in any survey of twentieth-century gay writers. Greene now rectifies this omission, providing the first book-length study of Hervey's life and work and the first scholarly attention to him in more than fifty years. It furthers our understanding of gay life in the South, as well as the impact of gay artists on popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Sketches of English Character
Author: Catherine Grace Frances GorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Marquis and Merchant
Author: Mortimer CollinsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382105519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.