The Basis and Essentials of German

Duff, Charles

Freund, Richard

Thomas Nelson & Sons

Spanish for Adults

Reference

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

This book revisits many of the best productions of those years. The resuliting book is vital and necccessary re-evaluation of the era, which will alter many a mind-set and provoke many more discoveries.

The Lost Summer

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Heinemann Drama

The West End of the thirties, forties and fifties was remarkable for the roster of supremely accomplished actors more or less permanently in residence. Names such as John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans, Gladys Cooper, Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield and Michael - and, later, Vanessa - Redgrave headed the cast-lists of play after play. And the plays they appeared in were equally remarkable. Though less well-known today than the actors who starred in them, many are in the process of rediscovery - a process which this book seeks to encourage. Typical is the case of Rodney Ackland, whose plays, after years of neglect, have been successfully revived, televised and re-published in recent years, culminating in a major production at the Royal National Theatre in 1995. Amongst his contemporaries, Terence Rattigan, John Whiting and Robert Bolt have suffered less obviously from neglect though their work can still be too easily dismissed as 'dated', while two other writers from the 'lost summer' still await the sustained reclamation they deserve: Wynyard Browne and N.C. Hunter. Taking the career of one man, Frith Banbury, an actor/producer/director who was active throughout the period, The Lost Summer revisits many of the best productions of those years, recreating the significant action both on and off the stage. Banbury acted with or directed all the luminaries already mentioned as well as many more. He has been an invaluable source of firsthand knowledge and informed opinion in the writing of this account.

THE LOST SUMMER

An exposition of Joyce's writings, rather than critique. All the more interesting in view of the fact that at the time this monograph was written, the ban on Joyce's magnum opus, "Ulysses" had not yet been lifted.

James Joyce and the Plain Reader: An Essay

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Haskell House Pub Ltd

Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation, and Electrocution; Data and Wrinkles on Hangmanship; with the late Mr. Hangman Berry's Method and his pioneering List of Drops; to which is added an Account of the Great Nuremberg Hangings; a Ready Reckoner for Hangmen; and many other items of interest.

A Handbook on Hanging; Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Stra

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

A handbook on hanging: Being a short introduction to the fine art of execution, containing much useful information on neck-breaking, throttling, ... of interest including the anatomy of murder

Criminal Law

Journeyman Press

A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

A Handbook on Hanging

History

World

NYRB Classics

The lost summer: The heyday of the West End theatre

Hern Books

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. \nIt is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered―the row house―which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world’s great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay, and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.

The North Atlantic Cities

Architecture

ORO Editions

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