Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. Written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published, and set in 1953, Beat Generation portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America. Kerouac`s characters are working-class men and women - a step away from vagrants, but not a big step. Their dialogue positively sings, suggesting...
ISBN: 978-1-84749-007-0
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Written in 1957, but only recently rediscovered in manuscript form in a New Jersey warehouse, Beat Generation bears the hallmarks of vintage Kerouac: flowing, stream-of-consciousness language, orchestrated with a jazz-like sense of adventure and rhythm. Entertaining and exuberant, and conjuring up a thrilling, smoke-filled, atmospheric New York of bygone days, the play probes the American working-class psyche and tackles profound questions of religion, mortality and rebirth.
Publishers are given to attempts to whip up excitement about debut novels (it's their job, after all), and often such fireworks splutter out all too quickly. But that's not going to happen with Josh Bazell's debut thriller Beat the Reaper, which is (it has to be said) quite as impressive as his publishers are trumpeting - in fact, if this book doesn't take the crime and thriller world by storm, there's no justice. What marks the book out from the rest of an increasingly overcrowded field is its vibrant, glittering prose - streaked through with a mordant wit (highlighted by a series of pithy - and highly entertaining - footnotes; an unusual element in the thriller genre) The plot is highly original. Peter Brown is...
ISBN: 978-0-316-07376-9
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Original / British English (Available April 2008) The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the story of the greatest band in the world from the early days in Liverpool to the Beatles` music in the world today.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8175-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Few insiders know "The Beatles`" story like Miles. And no one has had access to anything like so much intimate detail. Far more than a simple chronology, "The Beatles: A Diary" is pop music`s greatest success story told just as it happened - with fresh insights and new authenticity. For the world The Beatles were a gift - the definitive Sixties group, reliable icons of their age to be pressed into service for whatever the fashionable agenda might be. Here, though, the high points and the daily routine of fame are presented just as life presented them to The Beatles-day by day. The result is the most revealing personal history of The Beatles ever written, fascinating for those who grew up with their music, and essential reading for anyone...
There was rich praise for the original edition of The Beatles Stories Behind The Songs Book, including Steve Matteo in The Music Paper describing it as `One of the most readable and illuminating books ever written about The Beatles`. In his autobiography, Many Years From Now, even Paul McCartney acknowledged Steve Turner`s work. Who was `just seventeen` and made Paul`s heart go `boom`? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four`s rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles` music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture`s collective imagination.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-267-8
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It perhaps seems impossible that any images of the Beatles remain unseen, but this fascinating book accompanied by a DVD of rare 8mm footage provides a whole new insight into the Beatles, in pictures. The over 200 images include several early photos of The Quarrymen - when John first met Paul; the filming of A Hard Day`s Night at Paddington; the Beatles in the Bahamas in 1965 filming Help; John and Yoko at home; and Paul on holiday in Frank Sinatra`s Learjet - plus many more! Encapsulating the culture, music and spirit of the 60s, this unique book brings us closer to one of the world`s all-time favourite bands and is sure to delight any fan. While it could be said the pictures `speak for themselves`, interviews with many of the...
ISBN: 978-1-86205-867-5
Издательство:
Anova Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It's an album-by-album, track-by-track run down of every Beatles song on record and includes The Beatles Live At the BBC album, various compilations and the three best-selling Anthology sets released in 1995 and the 1 compilation, the Love medley CD and the re-mastered back catalogue albums.
There was rich praise for the original edition of The Beatles Stories Behind The Songs Book, including Steve Matteo in The Music Paper describing it as, `One of the most readable and illuminating books ever written about The Beatles`, and in his autobiography, Many Years From Now, even Paul McCartney acknowledged Steve Turner`s work. Where is Penny Lane? What was the inspiration for Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four`s rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles` music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture`s collective imagination.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-268-5
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Two of the world`s preeminent music journalists tackle the liveliest debate in rock history: which band is the greatest ever - the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? More than two dozen topics of debate are addressed, with cases being made both for the lads from Liverpool and rock`s proto bad boys. From the Cavern and Crawdaddy clubs through head to head comparisons of specific albums (, Exile or the White Album?), members` roles within the bands, the Svengali like managers, influential producers, musical influences, and more, this is the book that dares confront the topics over which fans have agonized for years. Illustrated throughout with photography and memorabilia.
Beatrice follows the story of the Welsh title character Beatrice Granger, a teacher, and the affair that takes place with an unhappily married man in the form of barrister Geoffrey Bingham. Trouble awaits, in the form of Bingham`s wife Honoria (who`s only interested in money and social climbing), Owen Da-vies (one of the richest men in Wales, who is morbidly obsessed with marrying Beatrice), and Elizabeth (Beatrice`s older sister, who will do just about anything to marry Davies herself).
ISBN: 978-5-521-06601-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
A charming story about moving into your own bedroom, based around the world of Peter Rabbit and his friends.Peter can`t sleep. He`s too big for his bedroom with his sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail. But is he big enough for his own room?This is the fourth title in a new series of board book stories for the very young set in Peter Rabbit`s world. The simple tales mirror important early experiences and emotions of young children through the eyes of Beatrix Potter`s most well-loved characters, while Eleanor Taylor`s illustrations are filled with charm, warmth and humour.
Lavishly illustrated, this journal describes Beatrix Potter s life as a young woman in Victorian England as she struggles to achieve independence and to find artistic success and romantic love. Full color.
ISBN: 9780723258056
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006
Beatrix Potter loved rhymes and riddles, and made two collections of them, as well as using them in her famous tales. This volume brings together all Beatrix Potter`s nursery rhymes, accompanied by her delightful illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0-7232-5771-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s Peter`s birthday, but he feels sad because nobody in his family wants to play or even see him! It`s turning out to be the worst birthday ever for Peter... until he gets a special surprise.This is the third title in a new series of stories for the very young set in Peter Rabbit`s world. The simple tales mirror important early experiences and emotions of young children through the eyes of Beatrix Potter`s most well-loved characters, while Eleanor Taylor`s illustrations are filled with charm, warmth and humour.
L`éducation sentimentale d`un jeune homme, Calyste du Guénic, "magnifique rejeton de la plus vieille race bretonne" (l`action commence à Guérande), et le douloureux vieillissement d`une femme de lettres, Félicité des Touches, qui, après avoir hésité devant un dernier amour, achèvera dans un couvent "l`ardente aridité" de sa vie. Georges Sand a inspiré le personnage de Félicité. Marie d`Agoult et Liszt ceux de la marquise de Rochefide, "Béatrix", et de son amant, le musicien Conti, qu`elle a autrefois volé à Félicité. Entre ces quatre êtres se joue un drame subtil et dangereux dans lequel Pierre Gascar voit "l`expression la plus...
ISBN: 978-2-07-037123-5
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
