The Walled Orchard
Author | : Tom Holt |
Publisher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0748113517 |
'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST 'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side
Goatsong
Author | : Tom Holt |
Publisher | : St Martins Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312038380 |
Eupolis of Pallene, goatherd, nascent playwright, and contemporary of Pericles, Sophocles, Euripides, and Socrates, spends his days in the company of goats composing comic verse, in a tale of Athens at the height of its glory
Reconstructing Satyr Drama
Author | : Andreas Antonopoulos |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110725231 |
The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.
A Goat's Song
Author | : Dermot Healy |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446475417 |
In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up Catherine's RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.
A History of the African American Novel
Author | : Valerie Babb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107061725 |
This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.
Birds in Fall
Author | : Brad Kessler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2007-03-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743287398 |
Hauntingly beautiful, this new work by the author of "Lick Creek" is an extraordinarily moving novel about solitude, love, losing one's way, and finding something like home.