The Novels Of G K Chesterton A Study In Art And Propaganda

The novels of G. K. Chesterton: A study in art and propaganda

Politics & Social Sciences

Ian Boyd

Politics & Government

Paul Elek

The second volume of Sarah Shears' autobiography. She goes off to Holland, Switzerland and finally through the Suez Canal to Bombay. When she is recruited into the Civil Service again, she returns to the country where she falls in love.

Gather no moss

SHEARS, SARAH

Hemisphere function in the human brain

DIMOND, Stuart J. and BEAUMONT, J. Graham

<p>This volume gives the first substantial outline in any Western language of Chinese theatre, from its origins to the present day. Dr. Dolby's is a pioneer introduction to one of the most vital and vivid aspects of Chinese life through the centuries, as well as to what, in many ways, has been the most potent genre of Chinese literature and entertainment.   Dr. Dolby pursues the origins of Chinese theatre back to the court-jesters, wrestlers, tumblers, troubadours, story-tellers, puppeteers, preachers, Buddhist missionaries, dancers, slapstick clowns and singing-girls of ancient times, and probes the emergence of a drama consciousness and of the first proto-dramatic institutions. He thereafter discusses each of the major forms of Chinese drama, from the Yuan zaju theatre, which flourished during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries under Mongol conquest, right up to the Peking Opera, Western-style drama, and other twentieth-century developments. Close attention is paid to the interaction between the drama of the imperial court and that of the villages and markets, and also to the wider social significance of drama in China.   Individual outstanding plays are considered in detail, and extended passages are quoted in the author's own new translations; many of these plays have never previously been translated. A bibliography of translations into Western languages is provided.</p>

A History of Chinese Drama

William Dolby

Maya Cities

Kochan, Lionel

Kochan, Miriam

Rivet, Paul

Sharar begins with a history of the Avadh dynasty, and the relations of its rulers - who ranged between extremes of political wisdom and dissolute instability - with the Mughal Emperors in Delhi and with the British at a time of rising British power in India.  He also describes the development of Lucknow people's culture and social institutions to a degree of richness that may be compared with the levels attained by the most admired of the great civilizations of history.  There follows a virtual 'anatomy' of the everyday life and artistic achievements of Lucknow during the period, covering an astonishing variety of topics: religion, education, medicine, ceremony and etiquette, dress, the culinary arts, calligraphy, dance popular speech and the practice of story-telling; such pastimes as kite- and pigeon-flying and the arts of combat and self-defence; the evolution of the Urdu language and its prose and poetry; architecture, music, pottery, theatre and other forms of entertainment.  The culture of which Sharar writes was still alive in his day; it died out completely only in 1947, with the ultimate collapse of the feudal system. The editors provide extensive annotation that includes much background information for the benefit of both Western and Eastern readers, and takes account of scholarship on a number of subjects over the half-century that has elapsed since the original work was written.  Among the attractive and varied illustrations are some particularly valuable early photographs of Lucknow buildings, a number of which were completely destroyed during the Mutiny.

Lucknow, the last phase of an oriental culture (UNESCO collection of representative works)

History

Abdul Haleem Sharar

Asia

Physical description; xix, 235 pages ; 23 cm. Subject; Froude, Richard Hurrell 1803-1836.

Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement

BRENDON, Piers

Large oblong folio size, lavishly illustrated book with 24 color plates reproduced in six-colored lithography from original 18th. & 19th. Century engravings, bound in green cloth with gold lettering & decorations. Book is fine but for tape ghosts on the endpapers where the dj protector was taped down..The Dj is also fine but has been covered with a clear plastic lamination.Heavy book may require extra shipping charges, please ask.

Coaching Days of England

Burgess, Anthony [Introduction]

Landscape and Inscape: Vision and Inspiration in Hopkins's Poetry

Hopkins, Gerard Manley) Milward, Peter

Literature & Fiction

John Bird's acclaimed biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English." A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work.This fully revised edition includes much new biographical material from John Bird's continuing research. Grainger's reputation and popularity as a uniquely individual composer continue to grow, and this book remains the definitive biography.

Percy Grainger

Biographies & Memoirs

Bird, John

Memoirs

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