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Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Beginnings

By: James Fisher

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Beginnings

By: James Fisher

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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081087833X

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9780810878334

52 Weeks Through the Psalms

A One-Year Journey of Prayer and Praise

By: James Merritt

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52 Weeks Through the Psalms

A One-Year Journey of Prayer and Praise

By: James Merritt

Experience God's Compassion and Glorious Character in Your Life The book of Psalms is often our first choice when we're searching for comfort, mercy, or reassurance. The meeting of human emotions and divine love shines bright in every chapter. From the author of 52 Weeks with Jesus and 52 Weeks Through the Bible comes an insightful and inspiring journey through select portions of the Psalms. As you spend time contemplating the holy words of Scripture, you'll gain new levels of... understanding about the provision and power of God trust in the faithful, approachable presence of God growth in your soul's joyful response to God Enrich your relationship with the Lord of your life as you find new reasons and ways to come before him in prayer and praise.

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290

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736969462

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9780736969468

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

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791

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Oxford University Press

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0195065484

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What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?

By: D. James Kennedy,Jerry Newcombe

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What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?

By: D. James Kennedy,Jerry Newcombe

But the Bible, more than any other book, is also the most maligned on the market. Many of the cities of our culture dismiss the Word of God. In What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?, D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe show that this collection of books was indeed the inspiration for almost all of the great explorers, scientists, writers, artists, politicians, and educators the world has ever known. That such a book, which has influenced so many and stood the test of time for so long, is dismissed as folklore or myth, just goes to show what extremes nonbelievers will go to rationalize their behavior. From the Ten Commandments, which many of our laws and government are based upon, to the Golden Rule, a verse taken straight out of the New Testament, to many of today's most common phrases and expressions...there is no doubt as to the influence the Bible has on everyone, in some degree, every day. What If the Bible Had Never Been Written? provides a well-documented and in-depth look at the impact the Book of Books has had on humanity, pointing to specific areas in today's society that would not be as they are now, if it were not for the Bible.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418519316

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9781418519315

The Legend of Thomas Didymus. The Jewish Sceptic

By: James Freeman Clarke

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The Legend of Thomas Didymus. The Jewish Sceptic

By: James Freeman Clarke

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385469783

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9783385469785

The Preliminary Examination Journal and Student's Literary Magazine

Vol. 1

By: James Erle Benham

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The Preliminary Examination Journal and Student's Literary Magazine

Vol. 1

By: James Erle Benham

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382831392

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9783382831394

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

By: James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf

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Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

By: James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf

Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

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JHU Press

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0801859867

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9780801859861

Book's by James Howard Payne

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

52 Weeks Through the Psalms

52 Weeks Through the Psalms

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?

What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?

The Legend of Thomas Didymus. The Jewish Sceptic

The Legend of Thomas Didymus. The Jewish Sceptic

The Preliminary Examination Journal and Student's Literary Magazine

The Preliminary Examination Journal and Student's Literary Magazine

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

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