[PDF] Billys Bungalow eBook

Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147664070X

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Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

Author : Eleanor Maud Crane
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
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ISBN : 9781357628116

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Author : Eleanor Maud Crane
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781331056232

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Excerpt from Billy's Bungalow: A Comedy in Three Acts and One Scene Act I. - In the course of which the audience becomes acquainted with the members of the house-party forming at the Bungalow. The Colonel is treated to a shower-bath. The arrival of the uninvited guest. Dorothy announces her engagement. "How figures can lie." The Bungalow is christened. Act. II. - The next morning. The discovery of the departure of the servants with the only boat. Gordon decides to get breakfast. Francis decides to milk the cow. The Colonel makes coffee. Teddy makes an omelette. Kitty makes trouble. Miss Cauldwell makes herself scarce. The landing of the fish. Act. III. - The end of the week. Kitty makes a kite. The Sound Steamer passes by. The stolen dinner. "He needed strength." The Hon. Francis in a new light. "How do you kill a cow?" A fishing-smack. England, the United States, and "Billy's Bungalow." Billy Middleton. Act I. - White flannels. Act II. - Blue outing-shirt, serge trousers, tan shoes. Act III. - Light summer suit. Peggy. Act I. - Pretty summer afternoon dress. Act II. - White muslin gown very simply made. Act III. - Semi-evening gown. Col. Varker. Act I. - Grey suit, hat, gloves. Act II. - Kliaki uniform or hunting costume. Act III. - White ducks. Miss Cauldwell. Act I. - Travelling-gown, hat, gloves, veil, small hand-bag, lorgnette. Act II. - Simple morning-dress. Act III. - Dressy afternoon costume. Dorothy French. Act. - I Pretty travelling-dress, hat, gloves, veil, umbrella. Act II. - Attractive morning-dress or shirt-waist suit. Act III. - Dainty afternoon costume. Kitty Campbell. Act I. - Travelling-suit, hat, gloves. Act II. Girlish morning dress or sailor costume. Act III. - Pretty afternoon dress. Theodore Thurston. Acts I. and II. - Blue serge suit, straw hat, grip. Act. III. - Long ulster or light overcoat. White flannels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Colin Forbes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074346138X

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Is Al-Qa'eda about to attack London? Who is the traitor in Britain, manipulating his opponents mercilessly? Time has run out. This Tweed does know. But what is the target? When and where will the attack be launched? Panic grips Whitehall and Tweed is road-blocked by bureaucrats at every turn. Unless Tweed's team track the mass killers, thousands of Londoners will be annihilated. Tweed brings in the SAS. The climax - along the Thames and London's most famous bridges - is shattering.

Author : Sara Banerji
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448208327

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As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things. The humming of the Silence is her secret, even from her beloved father, as is the day that she walks along a cobweb. But with adolescence comes a loss of childhood innocence and the intrusion into her perfect world of an unwanted stepmother and baby sister. These loud and chaotic presences, together with an act, as she perceives it, of unwarranted violence by her father, have a traumatic effect on Morgan. Sent by her father to get help-for the family has been trapped in a fall-out shelter for days-Morgan, a dwarf, goes instead on an odyssey into the unknown, seemingly hostile, world outside her home. Mourning the disappearance of magic from her life and realising for the first time that she is physically deformed, Morgan learns that only through love can she regain her empathy with the Silence and the ability to transcend the boundaries that enclose other people. In this, her first novel published in 1986, Sara Banerji has created a work of startling originality and beauty. Full of vivid images, Cobweb Walking is a perceptive story about shattered childhood dreams and the painful awakening to self-awareness.

Author : Darwin Porter
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780966803020

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Hollywood's Silent Closet provides a banquet of information about the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, compiled from eyewitness interviews with men and women, all of them insiders, who flourished in its midst. Not for the timid, it names names and doesn't spare the guilty. If you believe, like Truman Capote, that the literary treatment of gossip will become the literature of the 21st century, then you will love Hollywood's Silent Closet. Hollywood's Silent Closet is a vivid portrait of the decadent, homosexual, and gossipy world of pre-talkie Hollywood. It's an Info-Novel where 90% of everything in it is true. It represents the greatest collection of star-studded scandal ever assembled on the film stars of Hollywood's Silent Era. Valentino, Ramon Novarro, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Nazimova, and many others figure into eyewitness accounts of the debauched excesses that went on behind closed doors. It also documents the often tragic endings of America's first screen idols, some of whom admitted to being more famous than the monarchs of England and Jesus Christ combined. Many of the interviews that went into the compilation of this book were conducted between 1940 and 1974, as the subjects were nearing the end of their lives and were willing, at last, to reveal scandals and insights that had previously been repressed by their own fears and by the media machines of the studio system. Marriages of convenience are the norm as intra-male peccadillos (and lots of lesbian love, too) are swept under the potted palms of the Edwardian age. The hero of this tale is the amiably cross-dressing Durango Jones, a wide-eyed neophyte from Kansas, circa 1919, who hits Hollywood during its Pre-Code excesses, and stays for a sexual feast wherein the banquet consists of many of the era's most flamboyant sex symbols. And although technically, this title has been formatted as a novel rather than a straight-line biography, there's the sometimes disturbing sense that this book is genuinely historical as well as being a jolly and rollicking piece of very savvy entertainment. This is high-testosterone Hollywood at its most compulsively readable. The 60s didn't invent sex-the stars of the Silent Screen did. --Cruiser. Who slept with Mary Pickford's three husbands, her two brothers-in-law, and even her brother? The hero of Hollywood's Silent Closet, that's who! --Trova Roma.