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American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present
by Jacqueline FoertschAn essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.
Das alte Wunderland der Pyramiden: Geographische, geschichtliche und kulturhistorische Bilder aus der Vorzeit, der Periode der Blüthe sowie des Verfalls des alten Aegyptens
by Karl Oppel
Die Verlagsbuchhandlung von Otto Spamer in Leipzig an alle diejenigen Geschäftsfreunde, welche mit ihr in offener Rechnung stehen, wegen Fortsetzung der Verbindung vom Jahre 1865 an
by Otto Spamer
Alois Senefelder Erfinder der Lithographie: Festschrift zum 100sten Geburtstage Senefelder’s am 6. November 1871
by Ludwig Pietsch
Plays Volume Two: Volume Two (Maugham Plays)
by W. Somerset MaughamWitty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter. Eclectic in theme and sardonic in style, these plays are masterpieces of English social comedy and melodrama.
Die Kultur der Eiche und der Weide in Verbindung mit Feldfrüchten zur Erhöhung des Ertrages der Wälder und zur Verbesserung der Jagd: Die wilde Fasanenzucht in der Garbe
by Fritz Reuter
Onomatik der Englischen Sprache zum Gebrauche neben der Grammatik, enthaltend ein Vocabular nach neuen Principien und einen Abriß der wissenschaftlichen Wortkunde
by R. Dihm
Geschichte der griechischen Literatur für höhere Lehranstalten und für das Selbststudium
by Waldemar Kopp
Goethe und die Fikentscher: Dem freien Deutschen Hochstift in Goethe’s Vaterhaus zu Frankfurt am Main am Wolfgangstage 1878
by Woldemar Freiherrn von Biedermann
Plain Words
by Rebecca Gowers Ernest Gowers'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.Six decades on, writer Rebecca Gowers has created a new edition of this now-classic work that both revises and celebrates her great-grandfather's original. Plain Words has been updated to reflect numerous changes in English usage, yet Sir Ernest's distinctive, witty voice is undimmed. And his message remains vital: our writing should be as clear and comprehensible as possible, avoiding superfluous words and clichés - from the jargon of 'commercialese' to the murky euphemisms of politicians.In a new preface, this edition draws on an extensive private archive, previously hidden away in family cupboards and attics, to tell the story behind a book that has become an institution: the essential guide to making yourself understood.
The Common Reader: Volume 2
by Virginia Woolf'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge to correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole - a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing.' So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote. This is her second series of essays, first published in 1932. Here she turns her brilliant eye on Lord Chesterfield's letters, the novels of George Gissing, the poetry of Donne: we meet Dr Burney and Beau Brummell, Christina Rossetti, Geraldine Jewsbury, Jane Carlyle, Mary Wollstonecraft and many others.
