| Author | : Luise Rinser |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780803289680 |
The doomed romance of Abelard, a 12th century French teacher of philosophy and his pupil, Heloise, which led to his castration and her confinement in a convent. The relationship is recounted in the form of letters, written to Heloise by their son, Astrolabe.
| Author | : Foster Hirsch |
| Publisher | : Cooper Square Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2000-09-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1461698758 |
From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship made 42nd Street the heart of American popular theater and won them the most sought-after stars of the day, including Al Jolson, Carmen Miranda, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Mae West, and Fred Astaire.
| Author | : John Schad |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2007-12-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 183624116X |
Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead - this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times.
