Not about Nightingales

Not about Nightingales
Title Not about Nightingales PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 196
Release 1998
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780811213806

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One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Title The Theatre of Tennessee Williams PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 436
Release 1971
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780811211963

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Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.

The Eagle & the Nightingales

The Eagle & the Nightingales
Title The Eagle & the Nightingales PDF eBook
Author Mercedes Lackey
Publisher Baen Books
Pages 416
Release 1995
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780671876364

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Nightingale, a gypsy Free Bard, is tasked with finding out why the High King of the human kingdoms is allowing the Church to become ever more overtly hostile to non-human sentients, as well as to anything that it does not at least indirectly control, such as gypsies and Free Bards.

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
Title The Traveling Companion and Other Plays PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 356
Release 2008
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780811217088

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"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

Nightingale's Nest

Nightingale's Nest
Title Nightingale's Nest PDF eBook
Author Nikki Loftin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 274
Release 2015-01-29
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1595146237

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An award winning modern fairy tale about friendship and family, for fans of Bridge to Terabithia Twelve-year-old John Fischer Jr., “Little John” as he’s always been known, is spending the hot Texas summer helping his father to clear trees for Mr. King, the richest and most powerful man in town. Then one day he hears a song through the brush, one so beautiful that it stops him in his tracks. He follows the melody and finds, not a bird, but a young girl sitting in the branches of a tall sycamore tree. There’s something magical about this girl, Gayle, especially her soaring singing voice. Little John's home is full of sorrow over his sister’s death and endless stress over money troubles. But his friendship with Gayle quickly becomes the one bright spot in tough times . . . until Mr. King forces Little John into an impossible choice: risk his family’s wages and survival, or put Gayle's future in danger. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice. "Magical realism meets coming of age in this sensitive and haunting novel."—BCCB, starred review "Smart and beautiful . . . Once you’ve read it, you’ll have a hard time getting it out of your head.”—Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal Blog

Spring Storm

Spring Storm
Title Spring Storm PDF eBook
Author Tennessee Williams
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 196
Release 1999
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780811214223

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A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today

Nightingales in Berlin

Nightingales in Berlin
Title Nightingales in Berlin PDF eBook
Author David Rothenberg
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 196
Release 2019-05-09
Genre Music
ISBN 022646718X

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A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,—from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale’s song? It’s a strange and unsettling sort of composition—an eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, whistles, twitters, and gurgles. At times it is mellifluous, at others downright guttural. It is a rhythmic assault, always eluding capture. What happens if you decide to join in? As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale’s song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin—longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard—and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other’s sounds. Through dialogue, travel records, sonograms, tours of Berlin’s city parks, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy, a music impossible for any one species to make alone. In the tradition of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Invention of Nature, Rothenberg has written a provocative and accessible book to attune us ever closer to the natural environment around us.