The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf, Taylor Jesse Oak

Автор: Love, Catherine E.
Название: Tim crouch`s an oak tree
ISBN: 1138682829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138682825
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: ‘You will see no false nothing false tonight’ – the Hypnotist Tim Crouch’s second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation, in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving. Written for two actors, An Oak Tree depicts the fraught meeting of a grieving father and the stage hypnotist who was behind the wheel of the car that killed his daughter, with the father played by a different actor at each performance, walking on stage with no prior knowledge of the play. Catherine Love explores An Oak Tree's connections with conceptual art, the unique process of its creation, its interrogation of stage representation, its relationship with audiences, and its place as part of Crouch’s ongoing body of work.

Автор: Miles Archie
Название: British Oak
ISBN: 1472123751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472123756
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A major work celebrating the oak tree in Britain - exploring the history, culture, topography and biology of the nation`s iconic tree.

Автор: Oak B. B.
Название: Thoreau in Phantom Bog
ISBN: 0758290276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758290274
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Henry David Thoreau's impassioned activism in the Underground Railroad leads him away from the banks of Walden Pond into a morass of murder...

In the spring of 1848, Thoreau returns to Plumford, Massachusetts, in search of a fellow conductor on the Underground Railroad, who has gone missing along with the escaped female slave he was assigned to transport. With the help of his good friend, Dr. Adam Walker, Thoreau finds the conductor--shot to death on a back road.

When the two men discover that Adam's beloved cousin Julia has given the slave safe harbor, their relief is counterbalanced by concern for Julia, who has put herself in grave danger. Another conductor has been murdered in a neighboring town and a letter has been found from someone claiming to have been hired to assassinate anyone harboring fugitive slaves. With all of them now potential targets, the need for Thoreau and Adam to apprehend the killer is more urgent than ever...

Автор: Oak B. B.
Название: Thoreau on Wolf Hill
ISBN: 075829025X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758290250
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Far from the tranquility of Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau confronts the chilling reality of an epidemic. . .as well as cold-blooded murder.

The winter of 1847 has brought a consumption epidemic which is devastating the village of Plumford, Massachusetts. In an atmosphere of increasing hysteria and superstition, country doctor Adam Walker and philosopher Henry David Thoreau seem the only voices of reason.

The winter also brings two visitors to Plumford. Solomon Wiley hails from Rhode Island and offers his services as a vampyre hunter, insisting that the scourge is supernatural in origin. At the same time, Adam's cousin Julia has returned home from France, mysteriously without her new husband.

When a former student of Thoreau's is found mutilated and drained of blood in the woods, Wiley insists that a legendary Indian vampyre has arisen. Dismissing the blustering fearmonger, Thoreau and Adam follow clues to the backstage world of a Boston theater, the smoky decadence of an opium den, and an Indian burial ground. Both men will need to keep their wits about them--or risk ending up in coffins of their own. . .

Praise for Thoreau at Devil's Perch

"A promising debut. . .Thoreau is just as you'd expect him: erudite, eccentric, waxing philosophical about his love of nature, and a natural detective." --Publishers Weekly

"Ambitious. . .the research and fresh take on Thoreau make for an admirable start." --Library Journal