A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire
Title A World Lit Only by Fire PDF eBook
Author William Manchester
Publisher Back Bay Books
Pages 367
Release 2009-09-26
Genre History
ISBN 0316082791

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A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Title A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man PDF eBook
Author James Joyce
Publisher The Floating Press
Pages 395
Release 2010-06-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1775417891

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.

Our Age

Our Age
Title Our Age PDF eBook
Author Noel Gilroy Annan Baron Annan
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages 479
Release 1990
Genre Great Britain
ISBN 9780297811299

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Portrait of an Age

Portrait of an Age
Title Portrait of an Age PDF eBook
Author Erich Salomon
Publisher New York : Macmillan
Pages 248
Release 1967
Genre Documentary photography
ISBN

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The Hirschfeld Century

The Hirschfeld Century
Title The Hirschfeld Century PDF eBook
Author Al Hirschfeld
Publisher Knopf
Pages 338
Release 2015-07-07
Genre Art
ISBN 1101874988

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I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil. Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers; film posters and publicity art; and on fifteen U.S. postage stamps. Now, The Hirschfeld Century brings together for the first time the artist’s extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs—his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist’s extraordinary output. Here is Hirschfeld at age seventeen, working in the publicity department at Goldwyn Pictures (1920–1921), rising from errand boy to artist; his year at Universal (1921); and, beginning at age eighteen, art director at Selznick Pictures, headed by Louis Selznick (father of David O.) in New York. We see Hirschfeld, at age twenty-one, being influenced by the stylized drawings of Miguel Covarrubias, newly arrived from Mexico (they shared a studio on West Forty-Second Street), whose caricatures appeared in many of the most influential magazines, among them Vanity Fair. We see, as well, how Hirschfeld’s friendship with John Held Jr. (Held’s drawings literally created the look of the Jazz Age) was just as central as Covarrubias to the young artist’s development, how Held’s thin line affected Hirschfeld’s early caricatures. Here is the Hirschfeld century, from his early doodles on the backs of theater programs in 1926 that led to his work for the drama editors of the New York Herald Tribune (an association that lasted twenty years) to his receiving a telegram from The New York Times, in 1928, asking for a two-column drawing of Sir Harry Lauder, a Scottish vaudeville singing sensation making one of his (many) farewell tours, an assignment that began a collaboration with the Times that lasted seventy-five years, to Hirschfeld’s theater caricatures, by age twenty-five, a drawing appearing every week in one of four different New York newspapers. Here, through Hirschfeld’s pen, are Ethel Merman, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers, Barbra Streisand, Elia Kazan, Mick Jagger, Ella Fitzgerald, Laurence Olivier, Martha Graham, et al. . . . Among the productions featured: Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Rent, Guys and Dolls, The Wizard of Oz (Hirschfeld drew five posters for the original release), Gone with the Wind, The Sopranos, and more. Here as well are his brilliant portraits of writers, politicians, and the like, among them Ernest Hemingway (a pal from 1920s Paris), Tom Wolfe, Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Sumptuous and ambitious, a book that gives us, through images and text, a Hirschfeld portrait of an artist and his age.

Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
Title Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic PDF eBook
Author Robin S. Wagner
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 0
Release 1986-08-12
Genre Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN 0345342429

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Sarah T. is only one of America's 500,000 teenage alcoholics. Based on the Universal Television Production. Teen-age problem drinkers are not just young adults of legal age. Many are alcoholics at 12 and 13, and some even sooner. They’re raiding their parents’ liquor cabinets . . . bribing older friends to buy it for them. Young girls are trading sex for it. Sarah T.: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic takes both a shocking and compassionate look at the growing problem of adolescent liquor abuse . . . and the desperate need for rehabilitation.

Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man

Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man
Title Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man PDF eBook
Author Joseph Heller
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 194
Release 2011-08-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1849836515

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Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.