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Masks and Faces, The Courier of Lyons, It is Never Too Late to Mend

By: Charles Reade

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Masks and Faces, The Courier of Lyons, It is Never Too Late to Mend

By: Charles Reade

This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums. He assigned a specially important role to women in his plays, choosing to write for the charismatic actresses of his day. Masks and Faces (1852) is concerned with the public image and private life of a leading Covent Garden actress; The Courier of Lyons (1854) is based upon a real case of mistaken identity; and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) describes the legal and financial oppression of poor English farming folk. All these plays were very popular and successful, performed and revived many times. Dr Hammet provides alongside them an informative introduction, notes on the text, a short biography of Reade, a full list of his plays and productions, and a bibliography.

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196

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CUP Archive

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0521286271

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9780521286275

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Charles Honoré Lannuier,Frances F. Bretter,Ulrich Leben,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Charles Honoré Lannuier,Frances F. Bretter,Ulrich Leben,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998, represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date.

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273

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870998358

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9780870998355

Charles Reade, D. C. L., Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist. a Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains

By: Charles Reade

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Charles Reade, D. C. L., Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist. a Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains

By: Charles Reade

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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456

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Inman Press

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1409796434

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9781409796435

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Plays by Charles Reade

Plays by Charles Reade

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

Charles Reade, D. C. L., Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist. a Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains

Charles Reade, D. C. L., Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist. a Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains

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