Author: Margaret TrouncerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Pompadour
Author: Margaret TrouncerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Essex Units in the War, 1914-1919: 2nd Battalion (56th) (Pompadours)
Author: John William BurrowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Madame LaGrande and Her So High, to the Sky, Uproarious Pompadour
Author: Candace FlemingPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Pompadours have become the rage in Paris, and Madame LaGrande wants to get one in time for the upcoming opera season. But since neither she nor her stylist know when to say "Enough!", her outrageous coif winds up housing two pigeons, three cats, four dogs, and the King--all without Madame L. knowing it! In the grand tradition ofThe Emperor's New Clothes, this uproarious story of exaggerated vanity will have kids laughing so hard it will curl their hair!
Madame de Pompadour
Author: Nancy MitfordPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.
German fiction
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369406427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The history of the German novel would have, however, also to record that those writers have secured the most permanent distinction who have most significantly modified in their own way the suggestions which foreign examples gave them, and that the greatest distinction of all belongs to writers whom we can, if we will, associate with one or another of the main currents, but who are by no means carried away by it. In the work of these men the national character of the German novel, if it has a national character, ought to be discoverable. The German novel after Goethe followed his lead. The idea of education by experience, and the idea of the symbolical presentation of the inexplicable background of life, give to some of the greatest examples of prose fiction of the nineteenth century-such as Mörike's "Maler Nolten," Keller's "Grüner Heinrich," and Spielhagen's "Problematische Naturen" — this Goethean, Romantic picturesqueness. If the heroes are seldom great public characters and the background of their lives does not always suggest relations with illimitable space, these facts find their explanation in the German proneness to particularism The best works of four German authors are collected here: and nbsp;Johann Wolfgang von and nbsp;Goethe, and nbsp;Gottfried Keller, and nbsp;Theodor Storm, and nbsp;Theodor Fontane.
Techniques of Satire
Author: Emil A. DraitserPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110875926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Confidantes of a King
Author: Edmond de GoncourtGerman Fiction
Author: Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000806847
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 6586
Book Description
This 26-volume set is a wide-ranging, time- and subject-spanning examination of the phenomenon of political protest. What drives people to take to the streets, and how do their governments respond? These questions and many more are analysed in areas as varied as sixteenth-century German peasant uprisings, revolutionary Russians at the Paris Commune, women protesting nuclear weapons at Greenham Common, and the role Christianity played in protests across the ages. An impressive reference resource, this set also looks at the policing of protests and official responses to them.
Out Without My Rubbers
Author: John Murray AndersonPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 178912834X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
On January 30, 1954 a great showman passed away. His name was John Murray Anderson. A few days before, he had submitted to his publishers the final version of his autobiography as told to his brother, Hugh Abercrombie Anderson. It is, therefore, with mixed emotions that we find ourselves privileged to present the full and complete story of “Uncle Broadway.” As Robert Coleman, distinguished drama editor and critic, has said: “John Murray Anderson pioneered a new form of revue. Revues, until his time, had been super burlesque shows. And, mind you, the great Florenz Ziegfeld was producing them successfully. But Murray brought heart, sophistication, brilliance and genuine artistry to them. He explored new paths and set new standards for the form.” We have all been saddened by Murray’s death; but we are thankful that he has left such wonderful memories behind—memories of twenty-nine major Broadway musicals beginning with his own Greenwich Village Follies and including Jumbo, New Faces of 1952 and the last, John Murray Anderson’s Almanac. Among the other works to his credit are seven circuses for Ringling Brothers and four aquacades for Billy Rose, not to mention the multitude of movie stage shows, night club shows, pageants and motion pictures. For the pleasure of many hours with a wonderful, stimulating and informative friend, read Out Without My Rubbers. It includes information and anecdotes concerning hundreds of familiar people and places. This book is not only for the theater-minded but for all those interested in meeting new and exciting people.