The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation
With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with Kitty, the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Act One, is a landmark memoir that influenced a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and general book readers everywhere. The book eloquently chronicles Moss Hart's impoverished childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn and his long, determined struggle to his first theatreical Broadway success, Once in a Lifetime. One of the most celebrated American theater books of the twentieth centure and a glorious memorial to a bygone age, Act One if filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the 1920s and the years before World War II. Views: 12
"Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion."—The New RepublicThe depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms.Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. His novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948).Review"'Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting...has the immediacy - and the significance - of a nerve-shattering explosion' New Republic 'Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself' The Nation 'Language is not minced in this short novel which presents life in its most brutal aspect' Saturday Review of Literature" About the AuthorHorace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver and his varied career included reporting, sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). He died in 1955. Views: 12
A book written by the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, first published in 1975, outlining his views on democracy and his political philosophy.
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Paul Gallico relates in his own inimitable way the story of the best known Christmas carol in the world. It is a tale where truth is touched by legend and research is coloured by imagination, and it tells of a village priest and a school teacher in a tiny Austrian hamlet who, more than a hundred years ago, wrote the words and music which are sung today at Christmas in at least seventy different tongues.
Since the publication of The Snow Goose early in World War II Paul Gallico has established himself as one of the best loved authors in the world. He has put into this Christmas story all the warmth and charm for which he is so justly famous. Views: 12
Contents:Who Mourns For Adonais?The ChangelingThe Paradise SyndromeMetamorphosisThe Deadly YearsElaan of Troyius Views: 12
The Powerful Newbery Award-Winning ClassicA landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's father isa sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family's kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that night, an angry sheriff and his deputies come, and the boy's life will never be the same.A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. Views: 12
Into the empire of the Metalix-an intelligent but cruel race of robot men-journey the members of Perry Rhodan's staff. Homunk, an android crew member mistakenly identified as the returning god of these automatons, must fight to secure the freedom of the Galaxy. The battle between the non-believers and the crusaders begins as the monstrously evil-minded Metalix plot to destroy the Universe in their Solver Arrow armada. What the future holds for the Terranian and Arkonide stellar empires can only be found out by this journey- IN THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY Views: 12
Over the Edge, a collection of twelve short stories and essays from Harlan Ellison, is a must-read for any fan of the wild abandon and laser focus of one of the century's most brilliant authors. Complex, alluring, audacious, sublime—it is not hyperbole when applied to the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author whom the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers." Views: 12
29 marvelous tales, many anthologized here for the first time, by such masters as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson and others, written for the discriminating science fiction fan of the Mauve Decade and the early 1900s.Contents:CATASTROPHESTHE THAMES VALLEY CATASTROPHE by Grant Allen (The Strand Magazine, December 1897)THE DOOM OF LONDON by Robert Barr (The Idler, November 1892)A CORNER IN LIGHTNING by George Griffith (Pearson's Magazine, March 1898)THE TILTING ISLAND by Thomas J. Vivian and Grena J. Bennett (Everybody's Magazine, September 1909)FINIS by Frank Lillie Pollock (The Argosy, June 1906) MARVELOUS INVENTIONSAN EXPRESS OF THE FUTURE by Jules Verne (The Strand Magazine, January 1895)THE RAY OF DISPLACEMENT by Harriet Prescott Spofford (The Metropolitan Magazine, October 1903)CONGEALING THE ICE TRUST by Capt. H. G. Bishop, USA (The New Broadway Magazine, December 1907)LORD BEDEN'S MOTOR by J. B. Harris-Burland (The Strand Magazine, December 1901) MONSTERS AND HORRORSTHE DEATH-TRAP by George Daulton (Pearson's Magazine, March 1908)THE AIR SERPENT by Will A. Page (The Red Book Magazine, April 1911)THE MONSTER OF LAKE LAMETRIE by Wardon Allan Curtis (Pearson's Magazine, September 1899)THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT by William Hope Hodgson (The Blue Book Magazine, November 1907) FUTURE WARTHE LAND IRONCLADS by H. G. Wells (The Strand Magazine, January 1904)THE DAM by Hugh S. Johnson (The Red Book Magazine, April 1911)SUBMARINED by Walter Wood (Pearson's Magazine, February 1905) MAN-EATING PLANTSTHE PURPLE TERROR by Fred M. White (The Strand Magazine, September 1899)PROFESSOR JONKIN'S CANNIBAL PLANT by Howard R. Garis (The Argosy, August 1905) FAR-OUT HUMORAN EXPERIMENT IN GYRO HATS by Ellis Parker Butler (Hampton's Magazine, June 1910)THE HYBRID HYPERBOREAN ANT by Roy L. McCardell (Hampton's Magazine, December 1910) SCIENTIFIC CRIME AND DETECTIONWHERE THE AIR QUIVERED by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace (The Strand Magazine, December 1898)IN RE STATE VS. FORBES by Warren Earle (The Black Cat, July 1906) MEDICAL MIRACLESOLD DOCTOR RUTHERFORD by D. F. Hannigan (The Ludgate Monthly, September 1891)ITSELF by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (The Black Cat, May 1907) ADVENTURES IN PSYCHOLOGYCITIZEN 504 by Charles H. Palmer (The Argosy, December 1896)THE MANSION OF FORGETFULNESS by Don Mark Lemon (The Black Cat, April 1907) Views: 12
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The complete history of the growth of the NHLChanging the Game: A History of NHL Expansion celebrates an often-overlooked aspect of hockey history. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the NHL's spread across the North American market in the 1920s along with the memorable expansions that began in 1967. Relive some great and painful moments from the debut seasons of forgotten teams such as the Montreal Maroons and California Seals along with fan favorites like the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. Every first-year NHL roster is covered and nearly 100 players share their memories of playing for hard-luck clubs. Views: 12
Compelling novel of 15 years' married love and a moment of infidelity. Set in 1953. Views: 12
