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Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0573627118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780573627118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Not about Nightingales by : Tennessee Williams
Never produced until this year (1998), NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES (1938), portrays a shocking prison scandal in which convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams himself later said that he had never written anything to compare with it in violence and horror. The play indelibly presages the great plays he was later to write. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Kristin Hannah |
Publisher |
: Macmillan Audio |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1427212678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781427212672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nightingale by : Kristin Hannah
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
Author |
: Nikki Loftin |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2015-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781595146236 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1595146237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nightingale's Nest by : Nikki Loftin
An award winning modern fairy tale about friendship and family, for fans of Bridge to Terabithia Twelve-year-old John Fischer Jr., “Little John” as he’s always been known, is spending the hot Texas summer helping his father to clear trees for Mr. King, the richest and most powerful man in town. Then one day he hears a song through the brush, one so beautiful that it stops him in his tracks. He follows the melody and finds, not a bird, but a young girl sitting in the branches of a tall sycamore tree. There’s something magical about this girl, Gayle, especially her soaring singing voice. Little John's home is full of sorrow over his sister’s death and endless stress over money troubles. But his friendship with Gayle quickly becomes the one bright spot in tough times . . . until Mr. King forces Little John into an impossible choice: risk his family’s wages and survival, or put Gayle's future in danger. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice. "Magical realism meets coming of age in this sensitive and haunting novel."—BCCB, starred review "Smart and beautiful . . . Once you’ve read it, you’ll have a hard time getting it out of your head.”—Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal Blog
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811217086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811217088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Traveling Companion and Other Plays by : Tennessee Williams
"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.
Author |
: Thomas Wolf |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643131627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643131621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nightingale's Sonata by : Thomas Wolf
*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.
Author |
: Mercedes Lackey |
Publisher |
: Baen Books |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671876368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671876364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Eagle & the Nightingales by : Mercedes Lackey
Nightingale, a gypsy Free Bard, is tasked with finding out why the High King of the human kingdoms is allowing the Church to become ever more overtly hostile to non-human sentients, as well as to anything that it does not at least indirectly control, such as gypsies and Free Bards.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811211967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811211963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by : Tennessee Williams
Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.
Author |
: Eugene McCabe |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2011-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409002901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140900290X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death and Nightingales by : Eugene McCabe
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN ‘Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel’ Hilary Mantel 'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín It is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family’s past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2012-12-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811225328 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811225321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer by : Tennessee Williams
Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, “lewd vagrant” Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a “short morality play,” has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman — he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer — this volume also offers Williams’s related essay, “The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps,” and a chronology of the playwright’s life and works.
Author |
: Robert Timberg |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 1996-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684826738 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0684826739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nightingale's Song by : Robert Timberg
Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years.