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“A delightfully nostalgic look at some of the notable eating and drinking establishments and their celebrated clientele,” said LJ’s reviewer of this volume, which takes readers on a tour of such sites as Brodie’s, Delmonico’s, McSorley’s, the Waldorf Astoria, and the Plaza Hotel. With most [...]
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This major new study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including country house entertainments, tiltyard speeches, and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the evidence provided by the surviving material texts. Drafts, royal presentation manuscripts, widely-circulating scribal copies, and printed pamphlets are all carefully placed in their cultural context, [...]
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Here are two quirky and entertaining collections of celebrity profiles. Since 1993, The Onion’s entertainment section, “The Onion A.V. Club,” has regaled millions with its profiles of artists and entertainers whose stars are not necessarily on the media ascendant. Section editor [...]
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In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship’s steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan’s West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown [...]
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From Library Journal
Here are two quirky and entertaining collections of celebrity profiles. Since 1993, The Onion’s entertainment section, “The Onion A.V. Club,” has regaled millions with its profiles of artists and entertainers whose stars are not necessarily on the media ascendant. Section editor [...]
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From Library Journal
Here are two quirky and entertaining collections of celebrity profiles. Since 1993, The Onion’s entertainment section, “The Onion A.V. Club,” has regaled millions with its profiles of artists and entertainers whose stars are not necessarily on the media ascendant. Section editor [...]
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The stories contained in this “store house of ingenious fiction” initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance here. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation [...]
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Carnival is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen’s career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote “just for entertainment.” The collection includes “Second Meeting,” her last work, and the title story, the first written under her now-famous pen name. None of [...]
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Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls! Habitues of Burlesque (and sons of habitues) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin.
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Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Fisherman and the Jinni, Judar and His Brethren, and Khalifah the Fisherman of [...]
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