A guide to reading "The Great Gatsby" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Barron's Book Notes)

Literature & Fiction

Abbott, Anthony S.

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

Classics

B E S Pub Co

A guide to reading "Invisible Man" with a critical and appreciative mind encourages analysis of plot, style, form, and structure, and includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Barron's Book Notes)

Ellison, Ralph Waldo

History & Criticism

The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.

Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama

Dramas & Plays

University Alabama Press

 The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.

The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama

For 11-year-old David Lear, there is nobody quite like his mother. She can be so caring, so warm and funny, but there are times when her drinking sweeps her away and her affection gives way to verbal abuse and sometimes even violence. As her moods grow darker and more intense, David tries several times to run away from home, before he is finally sent away to boarding school.
 At the beginning, it's an odd and unfamiliar place, an exclusive prep school in the New England hills, where the rules seem oppressive and hard for a boy to understand. David struggles to adjust and to find friends who will accept him despite the vestiges of an old physical handicap that still haunt him.
 With elegant prose and a deep and personal understanding of the story, award-winning poet Anthony S. Abbott offers us his debut novel, a coming-of-age odyssey that novelist Jill McCorkle calls "a beautiful story, a story of hope."
 As David slowly finds his footing at school, he must also contend with the legacy of his family. He sets out alone on a summertime journey in search of a father he hasn't seen in many years, a stepmother who loathes him, and a mysterious benefactress who pays for his schooling. Yet the most powerful and problematic character he must deal with is his mother, Maggie Hope, whose life has long since slipped from its moorings.
 For David, the question is whether something similar will happen to him or whether he will manage, as he becomes a young man, to overcome his family's history of tragedy and find the strength to make his way in the world.

Leaving Maggie Hope

Literary

Novello Festival Pr

The Man Who

Poetry

Main Street Rag

Dark Side of North offers us the tenderness of love, the heart's protest of grief, and the power of reimagining silence as a new song. Only the poet understands that we are servants of thought and our words are the only lamp we will ever need for nights that bring unapologetic truth, scars, and the solid ground for abiding grace. This beautiful new collection of poems by Anthony S. Abbott provides the reader a rich invitation to witness the wild man threading his truths through the eye of the sharpest needle. -Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2018-Present) Dark Side of North breaks your heart and then stitches it back together again-seamlessly. The poems provide a rare peephole into the heart-space of a man who traverses the terrain of the third stage of life, and now courageously stands on the threshold of death's cabin in the woods. Thanks to Abbott's brilliance, readers of this book will rediscover how to "receive each morning as a wrapped gift," and find themselves pointed once again toward their true north. -Dr. Jacqueline Bussie

Dark Side of North

Self-Help

Relationships

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