Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in Eminent Victorians, the reputation of the Victorians and what they stood for has provoked vigorous debate.
1984! George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imagination of the dramatis personae the human spirit remains triumphant.Pathways to romantic enlightenment for the romantic couples, their cross-play and tensions, evolve through meditations-in-form: Architecture, Music, Physics, Dance and the Photograph.Portraits is a meditation through comedy on the timeless experience of men and women falling in love, drawing parallels with the comedic creations of previous eras, referencing the spirit of Much Ado About Nothing and George Meredith's famous opening lines from his novel The Egoist in particular.Portraits Volume One opens against an autumnal tapestry luminous with transformations changing the lives of the dramatis personae. The compelling imagery of their inner meditations is contrasted with the vividly realized natural world in which they are physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually immersed. Comedy is the leaven building and finally releasing tensions, whether in politics or romance, and proves to be the most effective and sustainable antidote against the infection of existential despair.Portraits is staged and photographed on the page and the Comic Muse invoked by George Meredith overshadows the reader.
This lively musical, originally written for teenagers and young people, is based on the life and times of Al Capone, the infamous Chicago gangster. Although there are 114 characters appearing in this musical the parts can be divided between a minimum cast of twenty. The set comprises a standing construction of scaffolding which is used to represent different areas in Chicago.
NEWPORT RISING --Historical Novel by prize-winning author John Rolfe Gardiner Pre-Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, thriving nest of the American slave trade, a virtual city-state of multiple faiths, independent traders and craftsmen, boasted a perfect harbor for its tariff-flouting commercial armada. It was thus a prime target for British invasion and occupation. Here, Cotton Palmer, journeyman printer and political essayist cuts a dangerous path between colonists who might shoot him and the British who hope to hang him. Palmer and the abolitionist lady-friend who won't be his wife are subjects of censure in the precariously-balanced town, where religious tolerance and the slave trade, freedom of conscience and bondage, side by side, sow the seeds of our American civil history. The novel delves into the pliable mind of this 18th Century hub where the war's outcome will turn many friends of England, and fence-sitters, into life-long patriots. John Rolfe Gardiner is the author of five previous novels and three story collections. He is recipient of a National Endowment grant, winner of the Lila Wallace award and has appeared in The New Yorker, American Scholar, American Short Fiction, Ontario Review, Oxford American, O Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize volume, and many other periodicals and anthologies.
Dazzle, a parody of Star Trek, charts the first voyage of the Star Ship Sunburster One under the control of the dashingly handsome (and doesn't he know it) Captain Sam Galatic. The mission is to transport Home World President Sekurikor's beautiful daughter Dazzle Star to finishing school. Captain Sam, First Officer SPeck and an incompetent crew successfully defy Big Olga and her Bolshies on their Red Star satellite when Dazzle Star is kidnapped by an Irish astral pirate. Zany space sirens rock 'n' rotate you through a time warp to the sixties and come face to pimple with Sue Zuki and the Greasers. The cosmic score sizzles and the book is packed with lunar-tic lyrics and stellar one liners!
Welcome to the turbulent, emotion-packed sixties as you've never experienced them before. In author John Gardiner's groundbreaking and entertaining novel WHAAM! a cast of multidimensional, vivid characters live through 1968, 1969 and 1970, journeying through history and deep into their own emotional lives, losses, and loves. Filled with references to popular culture, music, politics, film and more, WHAAM! is a journey of the mind as well as the spirit. Because modern quantum physics insists that time does not exist, WHAAM! is written in a fluid style, moving effortlessly from past to present. In a psychedelic writing style that can only be called pop prose, WHAAM! sprinkles in the epic poetry of John Milton's classic Paradise Lost and the hard-edged language of quantum physics to craft a brand new kind of novel. History buffs will appreciate the many details of the period, while readers of groundbreaking fiction will love the thought-provoking story.
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