Author: H. A. R. Gibb
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: chronicle, ibn, qalanisi, translated, extracted, crusades, damascus
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-02-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0486425193
ISBN-13: 9780486425191
Remarkable contemporary account of early Crusades by one of Damascus’ leading citizens covers events of 1097–1159. Based on both written and oral reports, colorful narrative relates every particular of life during wartime: battles, blockades, and diplomatic negotiations, plus vivid portraits of the personalities on both sides.
Author: Nicholas Tracy
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: naval, chronicle, navy, war, record, contemporary, royal
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1999-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0811711080
ISBN-13: 9780811711081
*50 illustrations * 6 x 9 From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account of the naval part of the Napoleonic Wars. Outside the major libraries the 40 volumes of The Naval Chronicle are not generally available. This new consolidated edition, in five volumes, contains all the most significant material from the originals, including Admiral Nelson’s only a
Author: Robert Bonfil
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: history, chronicle, jewish, paltiel, culture, studies, ben, family, folklore, medieval, ahima
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2009-08-30
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 9004173854
ISBN-13: 9789004173859
Author: Gerald Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: drama, comedy, chronicle, american, theatre, vol
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-11-21
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195090799
ISBN-13: 9780195090796
This book concludes Gerald Bordman’s acclaimed survey of American non-musical theatre. It deals with the years 1930 to 1970, a period when the number of yearly new plays was shrinking, but a period during which American drama as a whole entered the world stage and became a dominant force. With works like Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, American theater finally reached adulthood both dramatically and psychologically. Bordman’s lively, authoritative stu
Author: Gerald Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: drama, comedy, chronicle, american, theatre, vol
Number of Pages: 808
Published: 1994-01-06
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195037642
ISBN-13: 9780195037647
This three-volume work will accomplish for the American non-musical theatre what Bordman’s American Musical Theatre did for our song-and-dance entertainments: it chronicles, in order by opening, every Broadway comedy and drama, show by show, season by season, offering a plot synopsis, principal players, and important statistics. Scenery and costumes are described where they might be of interest, and comments of the plays’ contemporary critics are quoted. In many instances, extended excerpts from the play are included to give the reader a fuller understanding of its nuances and its
Author: Ivo Andric
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: novel, chronicle, bosnian
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-09-07
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1559702362
ISBN-13: 9781559702362
Set in the Napoleonic era in the town of Travnik, the book presents the power struggles within the region.
Author: Yu Hua
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: merchant, blood, chronicle
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-11-09
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400031850
ISBN-13: 9781400031856
One of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland’s most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greate
