Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 81
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486264769

A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man
Author: William Lowther
Publisher: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Chronicles the life and death of Dr. Gerald Bull, inventor of the supergun and one of the greatest weapons experts in the world, who was murdered when he became involved in weapons dealing in the Middle East.

"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."

Author: Arvid Løsnes
Publisher: University of Delaware
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611490030

This study referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment ?thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expression under which it was made," supported by Dryden's expressed intention "to make Virgil speak such English, as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age," together providing a genuinely relevant basis for an understanding of Dryden's translation, "the conditions of expression" here allowing the inclusion of all the possible implications this phrase includes.

The Man with Two Arms

The Man with Two Arms
Author: Billy Lombardo
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590206029

“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole

The Man of Destiny

The Man of Destiny
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Napoleon is the famous central character in this novel by the renowned George Bernard Shaw. Through the writing, Shaw is able to deliver a devastating opinion of the English from the perspective of Napoleon. We also get a glimpse into the life of this major historical figure just at the point when he became truly great and knew it.

Plays by George Bernard Shaw

Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2004-08-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1101157666

George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd

The Man With No Arms and Other Stories

The Man With No Arms and Other Stories
Author: Glenn Busch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007-03
Genre: People with disabilities
ISBN: 9780473118174

In this absorbing book Glenn Busch captures with compelling authenticity the intimate stories of nine people who live daily with the reality of a disability. They speak candidly of growing up, the importance of work, family, relationships, parenthood, of wanting to be treated like everyone else in a world that still chooses to see them as different.