Download or read book Fugitive Lovers written by Jennifer Dunne and published by Ellora's Cave. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future Earth torn apart by prejudice and religious strife, only the members of the outlawed Auric Rights League dare defy the Inter-Continental Police, fighting for survival against those who fear their genetic gift. Ruthless ICP agent Val Tarrant and the League member he is pursuing, Raven Armistead, are betrayed by both sides, left for dead and framed for murder. Reluctant allies, they become fugitives in a world where they must make their own laws. If they are successful, they will create a new world order. If they fail, a civil war will be the least of their problems.
Download or read book The Real Nick and Nora written by David L. Goodrich and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the screenplays for some of America's most treasured movies, including It's a Wonderful Life, The Thin Man, Easter Parade, Father of the Bride, Naughty Marietta, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Legendary films, indeed, but writing both the play and screenplay for The Diary of Anne Frank was their crowning achievement. Controlled chaos best describes their writing method. They discussed a scene at length, sometimes acting it out. Afterwards, they each wrote a draft, which they exchanged. "Then," Frances said, "began 'free criticism'--which sometimes erupted into screaming matches." Noisy and contentious, the method worked splendidly. Enormously successful and remarkably prolific, Goodrich and Hackett began their thirty-four-year collaboration in 1928. Married after the first of their five plays became a hit, they were in many ways an unlikely pair. Frances, the privileged daughter of well-to-do parents, graduated from Vassar, then played minor parts on Broadway. Albert's mother put him on stage at age five, when his father died, to help pay the bills, and he became a highly paid comedian. The Hacketts were known for their wit and high spirits and the pleasure of their Bel Air dinner parties. They waged memorable battles with their powerful bosses and were key activists in the stressful creation of the Screen Writers Guild. Once they had created Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man's bright, charming, sophisticated lead couple, played memorably by William Powell and Myrna Loy, many people saw a strong resemblance, and the Hacketts acknowledged that they "put themselves into" Nick and Nora. The Real Nick and Nora is a dazzling assemblage of anecdotes featuring some of the most talented writers and the brightest lights of American stage and screen. The work was arduous, the parties luminous. On any given night the guests singing and acting out scripts at a party might include F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham, S. J. Perelman, Oscar Levant, Ogden Nash, Judy Garland, Abe Burrows, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell and June Allyson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, James Cagney, and Dorothy Parker.
Download or read book The Libertine s Friend written by Giovanni Vitiello and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine’s Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Vitiello’s story unfolds chronologically, beginning with the earliest sources on homoeroticism in pre-imperial China and concluding with a look at developments in the twentieth century. Along the way, he identifies a number of recurring characters—for example, the libertine scholar, the chivalric hero, and the lustful monk—and sheds light on a set of key issues, including the social and legal boundaries that regulated sex between men, the rise of male prostitution, and the aesthetics of male beauty. Drawing on this trove of material, Vitiello presents a historical outline of changing notions of male homosexuality in China, revealing the integral part that same-sex desire has played in its culture.
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Download or read book Tunnel of Love written by Hilma Wolitzer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPregnant, recently widowed, and hoping for transformation, a young woman moves to Los Angeles with her teenage stepdaughter/divDIV Linda has known only a few worthwhile men, and the good ones have a nasty habit of dying young. While teaching at the Newark branch of the Fred Astaire Dance Studio she meets Wright, who has a Mustang and a thirteen-year-old daughter, Robin. Soon enough Linda and Wright are married and pregnant, but just six weeks after the wedding he drops dead, leaving Linda with little besides the car and the girl. Unsure what else to do, Linda packs Robin into the Mustang and sets off for Los Angeles, toward a promise of a new and better life./divDIV /divDIVRobin is surly, cynical, and addicted to junk food—in short, a typical teenager. But as Linda’s pregnancy progresses and they try to make their way in the City of Angels, this unlikely pair will forge an unexpected emotional connection. Hilma Wolitzer’s storytelling recalls the best work of Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, and her wit shines through in this tale of improbable allegiances and contained grief. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Hilma Wolitzer, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div
Download or read book Of Love and Loathing written by Nicholas A. Robins and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage and intimacy, their effects on people's lives, and how they resisted them to create, and break, intimate bonds in colonial Charcas"--
Download or read book Gretna Green Or All for Love With Beautiful Wood Engravings written by Susannah Frances Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The 1931 1940 American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Download or read book Love Is a Cause written by Anna Prinzi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote these short stories from when I turned 25, back in 1994 to when I was 35.They are a painstaking compilation of imaginary journeys hat record the brief and erotic edge on which I presumed to live. During those years I may have lived actively for a universal cause (as in motive and provocation), namely that of a crucial and abstract phenomenon which our species predominantly refers to as Love, which once again, for me remained confounding and a little hard core, in an elemental sense. I did not ever own a camera so I recorded sensual data through descriptive writing, hopefully capturing those intense and illuminating moments of bliss and abandon, in a literary form. Like photographs, I could always access these experiences if I ever had to recall those years. The characters and locations and events are essentially fictitious and are the sole creations of my imagination. Whatsoever seems traceable to fact is as they say in the movies, purely coincidental. Randomly included are illustrations from an altogether later stage than previously mentioned. These are from my Pop Art series which I painted in 2009 as an art pupil which contain cinematic references. As part of this collection their input remains aesthetic. However you are at liberty to interpret them as you feel. I hope you enjoy the fallacy, myth and desirous energy that illustrates the colourful, vibrant, bold, messy, loud, soft and sticky world of Love is A Cause.(When Virtues are lost to Ludicrous, Erotic & Manic Forms of Being).
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Download or read book Dennis Potter written by John R. Cook and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Viganò.. A unique selection - no competing Italian edition.
Download or read book Heroic Emeralds A Trove of Fantastical Adventure Tales written by Jared Stevenson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tale-weavers of old have long known the mythological alchemy that fashions a gripping adventure tale. Quests force heroes out into the world where they encounter ancient dangers and temptations of the heart. Treasures give these heroes purpose while forcing us as readers to question what is worth valuing. Fantastical beasts and adversaries lure imaginations from the depths of oblivion. This collection exhibits thirty adventure tales that have survived through the ages due to their mythological usefulness. They portray a range of narrative structures, yet each story carries the same adventurous spirit that excites and encourages the soul. These tales do not merely entertain, but also serve as historic guides built on the knowledge of ancient tale-weavers. Dragons, fairies, dwarves, and more inhabit these pages, and they are willing to tell their secrets to those who will listen.
