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Tom Never´s Ghost: An Eyewitness Account of the Past 350 Years on Nantucket Island and in Its Little Known Southeast Quarter. (buecher.de - Topseller) |  Produktbeschreibung (24434361): Almost everyone who has visited Nantucket can recite its ´´official history.´´ But very few know the real reasons why things turned out as they did. Why the British first came to Nantucket and why the Indians let them in. Why Nantucket eclipsed all other ports in whaling wealth and why its fortunes ultimately fell. How the tiny hamlet of ´Sconset saved Nantucket from becoming a near ghost town. The true mission of a ´´top secret´´ Navy Base at Tom Nevers, the attempted Federal takeover of the whole island in 1972, and three unrelated events that triggered Nantucket´s recent real estate feeding frenzy. In ´´Tom Never´s Ghost´´ you´ll gain a fresh new understanding of the Island´s history, both past and present, and learn much that has never been reported before, all in a lively historical narrative format that goes well beyond a straight history to ´´connect all the dots.´´ At 288 pages, the book is illustrated with 32 historical maps and photos. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - Topseller ansehen oder für EUR 14.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21352818): ´´That place is evil. Fernwood has always been a house of death.´´ More than a century of secrets have been locked away in a house abandoned decades ago. Now the McCaslin family comes to the seaside Northern California hamlet of Golden Bay with the promise of a fresh start in a home some say is haunted. ´´The people that used to live there are all dead.´´ ´´That house puts a lot of people on edge. Some people believe Fernwood is cursed.´´ ´´...Every member of the Fernwood family fell victim to the curse. Even people who were close to them died freakish deaths. You see, the curse is like a contagious disease, spreading to anyone who has ever had dealings with the family or comes in contact with that house.´´ But tragedy extends beyond the overgrown grounds of the stately manor. A body found in the swollen waters of a nearby creek triggers a major murder investigation--the first in over 50 years. Confounding police and shocking locals, the widening probe affects the lives of some of Golden Bay´s most prominent citizens--both living and dead. ´´I know some secrets, some I shouldn´t tell.´´ | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 11.95 bestellen! |
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Privet Lives: An Imaginary Tale of Southampton´s Iconic Shrub (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21716724): After nearly two decades defining and designing the natural environs of Southampton, New York, landscape architect Perry Guillot has created Privet Lives, a fanciful and fascinating collection of watercolors and witty text that tell an imaginary tale of the humble privet shrub, as it evolved in a tiny hamlet in the wilderness and follows its transformation into becoming the mighty hedges we see today. In future scenes the drawings become a metaphor for the town´s residents diminished appreciation and understanding of the natural landscape beyond. Our story begins eighteen thousand years ago, when a huge glacier pulled back to reveal rocky debris in the form of a 120-mile island extending eastward from New York, known today as the aptly-named Long Island. Many millennia later, the island became inhabited by Indians, then English settlers, who imported the privet plant as a hedge to define their property lines. As time passed and the local economies developed, a new privileged class found itself in want of an escape, a summer getaway, and settled in Southampton, near the eastern tip of the island. Guillot´s drawings reflect the changing styles of the time. Rows of privet begin to morph into shapes that reveal as much about the owners as they once concealed--´´The Game Show Host´´ has three garage-door entrances; ´´The Hypochondriac´´ took up gardening for her health but has gone a bit mad with the pruning shears; and while ´´The Best Director´´ already has two Oscars, he has instructed the gardener to get going on a third; don´t even ask about ´´The Proctologist.´´ Guillot´s cinematic story brings us from the Ice Age through to the present day, and then imagines the future, a horrific hereafterwhere the environment rebels against its inhabitants, bringing us back to where we started, albeit with mansions, rather than sand and rocks, as debris. Deeply concerned about conservationism. Guillot has brought heavy thinking to a medium often reserved for lighter ideas, y | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 79.95 bestellen! |
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Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (24473031): Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of ´legitimate´ Shakespearean culture by a seemingly ´illegitimate´ popular culture. This was true most of all in the nineteenth century. From Hamlet Travestie (1810) to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891), Shakespeare burlesques were a vibrant, yet controversial form of popular performance: vibrant because of their exuberant humour; controversial because they imperilled Shakespeare´s iconic status. Richard Schoch, in the first study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques, explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly ´not Shakespeare´ purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. Bringing together archival research, rare photographs and illustrations, close readings of burlesque scripts, and an awareness of theatrical, literary and cultural contexts, Schoch changes the way we think about Shakespeare´s theatrical legacy and nineteenth-century popular culture. His lively and wide-ranging book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare in performance, theatre history, and Victorian studies.
Table of contents:
Introduction: ´New Readings for Unconventional Tragedians´; 1. ´Vile Beyond Endurance´ : the language of burlesque; 2. Shakespeare´s surrogates; 3. Shakespeare in Bohemia; 4. Politics ´burlesquified´.
This first study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly ´not Shakespeare´ purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. The book brings together archival research, rare photographs and illustrations, close readings of burlesque scripts, and an awareness of theatrical, literary and cultural contexts.
The first study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 91.95 bestellen! |
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| | Produktbeschreibung (22180311): On September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. The marchers - Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English - were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding confidence in their new found rights as free men in their newly adopted country. The mine operators took another view of these rights and of the strange, alien men who claimed them. When the posse was done firing, nineteen of the demonstrators were dead and thirty-nine were seriously wounded. Some six months later a jury of their peers was to exonerate the deputies of any wrong-doing. This long-forgotten incident is here movingly retold by Michael Novak, himself the son of Slovak immigrants and one of our most gifted writers and social observers. In his hands, the so-called ´´Lattimer Massacre´´ becomes not only a powerful story in its own right (and an invaluable key to the history of the growth of the United Mine Workers), but an allegory of that peculiarly American experience undergone over and over again throughout the land, and down to this very day; the experience of new immigrants, still miserable with poverty and bewilderment and suffering the trauma of culture shock, being confronted by the hostility and blind contempt of the ´´real´´ Americans. In Michael Novak´s uniquely vivid account, the incident at Lattimer is seen as a tragedy brought on not so much by inhumanity as by the profound failure of majority WASP society to understand the needs and responses of ´´foreigners´´. The Guns ofLattimer is a gripping book that tells Americans, old and new, a great deal about themselves and the society they live in. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 23.95 bestellen! |
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Felix Moses, the Beloved Jew of Stringtown on the Pike (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21251218): From the author of Etidorhpa. Pages from the life experiences of a unique character, a man whose romantic record challenges imagination. Stringtown in folklore is Florence in fact. It is a hamlet in Boone County, Kentucky, on the ridge that lies between the Licking and Kentucky Rivers. The unique thing about Stringtown is that there are people living there who remember the originals from whom Mr. Lloyd has drawn his characters. The inhabitants have taken a vast pride in this book, and the best tribute to the author was when he heard the praises of the admiring townspeople. This is a story of real life, knitted with the strong threads of actual occurrences. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 25.95 bestellen! |
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| | Produktbeschreibung (21021311): This new, revised edition, with an up-to-date Introduction, a new, extensive bibliography, the most recent population and similar statistical figures, reproduces the author´s classic text in full, including the Gazetteer--describing every place, hamlet to city, in the county--and his superb collection of contemporary photographs. The book is packed with detailed information, as remarkable in its high quality as its huge quantity. This new edition will be warmly welcomed by all who know and love Devon and its unique history as well as by those who wish to own a copy of the first single-volume account of any county ever written. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 22.95 bestellen! |
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Determined to prove a villain: Zur Charakterisierung der Hauptfigur in Shakespeares Historie ´´Richard III´´ (buecher.de - (Teil1)) | | Produktbeschreibung (23105302): Seminararbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar Heidelberg), Veranstaltung: PSI Literaturwissenschaft: Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet und Richard III: Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Betrachtung, 14 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Richard III., wahrscheinlich zwischen 1590 und 1594 uraufgeführt und somit eines der frühesten Stücke Shakespeares, gehört sicherlich zu den bekanntesten und bösartigsten Schurkencharakteren in Shakespeares Gesamtwerk. Die Figur des gleichsam faszinierenden wie teuflischen Tyrannen und vermeintlichen Titel-´´Helden´´ scheint seit Shakespeares Zeit nichts von seiner Anziehungskraft eingebüßt zu haben und ist heute noch eines der beliebtesten Aufführungsstücke im Shakespeare-Kanon. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Figur und dem Charakter Richards von Gloucester. Das erste Kapitel soll helfen, die Persönlichkeitsstruktur Richards herauszuarbeiten und Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen zu klären, unter denen sich Richard zum mordenden Bösewicht entwickelte. In Kapitel zwei stehen Richards ´´verschiedene Gesichter´´ im Zentrum der Untersuchung. Dabei interessiert v. a., inwieweit seine schauspielerischen Fähigkeiten als Werkzeug zur Durchsetzung seiner Absichten und Pläne dienten. Kapitel drei widmet sich der Frage nach der Rolle seiner Umwelt und untersucht, inwieweit das Verhalten der anderen Dramenfiguren die Entwicklung Richards vorangetragen, unterstützt oder ihr entgegen gewirkt hat. Das vierte Kapitel beschreibt Richards sukzessiven Machtverlust und Untergang und beleuchtet die Gründe dafür, weshalb Richard schließlich scheiterte. Im fünften und letzten Kapitel werden nochmals kurz die wichtigsten Ergebnisse zusammengefasst. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 12.99 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (22310015): America´s love affair with Mark Twain continues with the paperback publication of this new work that first emerged in the fall of 2001. Twain´s delightful rendition of life (and a disturbing death) in the mythical hamlet of Deer Lick, Missouri, chronicles the fortunes of a humble farmer determined to marry off his daughter to the scion of the town´s wealthiest family. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 10.95 bestellen! |
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