18th Century Wedgwood, A Guide For Collectors 7 Connoisseurs

18th-century Wedgwood: A guide for collectors & connoisseurs

Buten, David

Methuen, Inc.

Shows different types of theaters and the evolution of their design, and examines stages, scenery, and acoustics

Theatre and Playhouse: An Illustrated Survey of Theatre Buildings from Ancient Greece to the Present Day

Arts & Photography

Richard Leacroft

Helen Leacroft

Architecture

My search for B. Traven

One of the greatest back stories ever. This book starts out as a search for the mysterious author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. However, when the scene moves to Mexico things get weird.

My Search for B. Traven

Raskin, Jonah

This innovative study gives a powerfully argued view of Mary Shelley's life and works, using not only her masterpiece, but also The Last Man and other fiction. Drawing on unpublished archival material, Anne Mellor studies the relationships between Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other key personalities in her circle. Throughout the book, the ways in which Mary Shelley's life and writings voice a distinct personal philosophy about the bourgeois nuclear family are unfolded. Not just a horror story, Frankenstein is a warning about parents who fail to care for their children, when Shelley's ideal family' is absent, and when scientists refuse to take responsibility for their discoveries. At the same time, she emerges as a critic of the romantic ideology that elevates the creative process above the created product.

Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

Biographies & Memoirs

Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz

Arts & Literature

Miffy at the Beach

Dick, Bruna

What do fishermen really get up to when they abandon a warm bed before the crack of dawn, stuff a haversack with maggots and a folded campstool, and disappear into the drizzle? Cartoonist Norman Thelwell explores the funny side of fishing in this classic humor title. Norman Thelwell is best known for his much-loved pony cartoons, collected in Pony Panorama and Pony Cavalcade. He died in February of 2004.

Compleat Tangler

Norman THELWELL

Contents of Volume I: A HISTORY OF GREECE is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. As Cyril Robinson's exquisite narrative unfolds, we find ourselves plunged into mankind's greatest and most magnificent adventure. The story begins in Minoan Crete, but quickly shifts to a dimly understood mainland culture. We follow the heroic deeds of the Mycenians and the Trojan war, the glorious artistic and intellectual triumphs of the Ionians, the turmoil of the Doric invasion and resultant dark age, the slow recovery culminating in the epic Persian wars and the renewed splendor of Periclean Athens. In the fifth century B.C., philosophy, literature, art and architecture reach a pinnacle in Athens which no civilization has ever equaled. But civil strife soon follows and eventually embroils all of Greece. 
Contents of Volume II: A HISTORY OF GREECE continues with the bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens for mastery of the Hellenic world. Though Sparta finally emerges victorious, her victory soon turns to ashes with the ascendancy of Thebes and the still greater power of Philip of Macedon. Philip unites an unwilling Greece with his iron policy. Athens gives up her independence, but maintains an aloof intellectual and artistic leadership in the Greek world. Across this magnificent fabric of history strides Alexander the Great, who takes the banner of Hellenic culture all the way across the Persian Empire and into India itself, a stunning event that altered the course of human history. This is followed by the Hellenistic age and the final subjugation of Greece by Rome. An incredible epic, indeed.

History of Greece

History

Robinson, Cyril E.

Europe

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