The Story Of Follies
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The Story Of Follies
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Author : Celia Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2022-11-28
The Story Of Follies written by Celia Fisher and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-28 with Architecture categories.
A beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in their historical and architectural context, looks at their social and political significance, and highlights their relevance today. She explores follies built in protest, follies in Oriental and Gothic styles, animal-related follies, waterside follies and grottoes, and, finally, follies in glass and steel. Featuring many fine illustrations, from historical paintings to contemporary photographs and prints, and taking in follies from Great Britain to Ireland, throughout Europe, and beyond, The Story of Follies is an amusing and informative guide to fanciful, charming buildings.
Follies
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Author : Stephen Sondheim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Follies written by Stephen Sondheim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Drama categories.
A new edition of the landmark musical
Pure Folly The Story Of Those Remarkable People The Follies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Pure Folly The Story Of Those Remarkable People The Follies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
Follies
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Author : Ann Beattie
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-05-03
Follies written by Ann Beattie and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-03 with Fiction categories.
From four time O. Henry Award–winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories. Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. In Follies, her most resonant collection, she looks at baby boomers in their maturity, sorting out their own lives and struggling with parents who are eccentric, unpredictable, and increasingly dependent. In "Fléchette Follies," a man rear-ends a woman at a stoplight, and the ripple effect of that encounter is vast and catastrophic. In "Apology for a Journey Not Taken," a woman's road trip is perpetually postponed by the UPS deliveryman who wants to watch TV in her house, by the girl next door who has lost her dog, and by the death of her friend in a freak accident. Impatient in his old age, the protagonist of "That Last Odd Day in L.A." can hardly manage a pleasant word to his own daughter, but he finds a chance for redemption on the last day of a vacation he spends with his niece and nephew. Ann Beattie is at the top of her form in this superb collection, writing with the vividness, compassion, and sometimes morbid wit that have made her one of the most influential writers of her generation.
Follies
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Author : Ann Beattie
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2006-06-27
Follies written by Ann Beattie and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-27 with Fiction categories.
From four time O. Henry Award–winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories. Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. In Follies, her most resonant collection, she looks at baby boomers in their maturity, sorting out their own lives and struggling with parents who are eccentric, unpredictable, and increasingly dependent. In "Fléchette Follies," a man rear-ends a woman at a stoplight, and the ripple effect of that encounter is vast and catastrophic. In "Apology for a Journey Not Taken," a woman's road trip is perpetually postponed by the UPS deliveryman who wants to watch TV in her house, by the girl next door who has lost her dog, and by the death of her friend in a freak accident. Impatient in his old age, the protagonist of "That Last Odd Day in L.A." can hardly manage a pleasant word to his own daughter, but he finds a chance for redemption on the last day of a vacation he spends with his niece and nephew. Ann Beattie is at the top of her form in this superb collection, writing with the vividness, compassion, and sometimes morbid wit that have made her one of the most influential writers of her generation.
The Brooklyn Follies
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Author : Paul Auster
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2008-09-04
The Brooklyn Follies written by Paul Auster and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Travel categories.
' I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption. Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly. 'Auster at the top of his game. This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise.' New Statesman
Pure Folly
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Author : Fitzroy Gardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Pure Folly written by Fitzroy Gardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Burlesque (Theater) categories.
Follies Of God
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Author : James Grissom
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Follies Of God written by James Grissom and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An extraordinary book; one that almost magically makes clear how Tennessee Williams wrote; how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-twentieth century; a book that does, from the inside, the almost impossible—revealing the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the unwitting collaboration between playwright and actress, playwright and director. At a moment in the life of Tennessee Williams when he felt he had been relegated to a “lower artery of the theatrical heart,” when critics were proclaiming that his work had been overrated, he summoned to New Orleans a hopeful twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written an unsolicited letter to the great playwright asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on the playwright’s behalf to find out if he, Tennessee Williams, or his work, had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him, those who had led him to what he called the blank page, “the pale judgment.” Among the more than seventy giants of American theater and film Grissom sought out, chief among them the women who came to Williams out of the fog: Lillian Gish, tiny and alabaster white, with enormous, lovely, empty eyes (“When I first imagined a woman at the center of my fantasia, I . . . saw the pure and buoyant face of Lillian Gish. . . . [She] was the escort who brought me to Blanche”) . . . Maureen Stapleton, his Serafina of The Rose Tattoo, a shy, fat little girl from Troy, New York, who grew up with abandoned women and sad hopes and whose job it was to cheer everyone up, goad them into going to the movies, urge them to bake a cake and have a party. (“Tennessee and I truly loved each other,” said Stapleton, “we were bound by our love of the theater and movies and movie stars and comedy. And we were bound to each other particularly by our mothers: the way they raised us; the things they could never say . . . The dreaming nature, most of all”) . . . Jessica Tandy (“The moment I read [Portrait of a Madonna],” said Tandy, “my life began. I was, for the first time . . . unafraid to be ruthless in order to get something I wanted”) . . . Kim Stanley . . . Bette Davis . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Jo Van Fleet . . . Rosemary Harris . . . Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”) . . . Julie Harris . . . Geraldine Page (“A titanic talent”) . . . And the men who mattered and helped with his creations, including Elia Kazan, José Quintero, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud . . . James Grissom’s Follies of God is a revelation, a book that moves and inspires and uncannily catches that illusive “dreaming nature.”
Pure Folly
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Author : Fitzroy Gardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-09
Pure Folly written by Fitzroy Gardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-09 with History categories.
Excerpt from Pure Folly: The Story of Those Remakable People the Follies Fourteen years ago, when the entertainments provided on piers and in special enclosures for the amusement of visitors to the smaller seaside resorts were for the most part barely tolerable, though generously tolerated by uncritical audiences, a company of pierrots at Worthing attracted particular attention. Their performance was distinguished by a freshness of style, a natural spirit of humour, and an ingenuous enjoyment of their own entertainment, which suggested the amateur, rather than the professional, artist; and amateurs they were, in the sense that none of the company bad had any professional experience. They had come to stay - to create and establish in England a new school of humour, a new interpretation of the art of burlesque, a form of entertainment worthy of something more than the term " entertainment," a vogue which has gradually developed into an institution. To-day, instead of touring seaside towns, staying a night here, two nights somewhere else, or at the most a week in one place, the Follies have from month to month been drawing crowded audiences, representing all classes, to one of the principal West End theatres of London. While other playhouses suffer from the effects of temporary adverse influences, the Follies defy the effects of trade depression, the usual summer exodus from town, heat, snow, and fog. Theatre managers and playwrights, who regarded them with tolerant approval two years ago, have now discovered in this company of nine a real power, the influence of which cannot be ignored and has to be reckoned with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Everything Was Possible
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Author : Ted Chapin
language : en
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Everything Was Possible written by Ted Chapin and has been published by Applause Theatre & Cinema this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with categories.
An updated paperback reprint of Ted Chapin's classic, Everything Was Possible, featuring a new afterword reflecting on the show's 50th anniversary.