Louis Kronenberger
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Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
A youth encounters a girl who is delivering flowers to his celebrated diva mother. They fall in love. The youth leaves for war and the diva brings the young wife into the theatre where she is dazzled by the lustre and social gaiety. She embraces it with all her love. Her husband is advised she has been unfaithful. He comes home to find her as merry as ever, and unembarrassed by her new life; she has passed him by and will go on to new glory without...
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Language
English
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A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire--though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century...
9) Four plays
Author
Series
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
For many years the editors of the Modern Library sought to include in the series a representative collection of plays by Bernard Shaw. Finally, we are able to fulfill this hope and offer in a single volume four of the major plays, with the famous preface complete and unabridged. An Introduction by Louise Kronenberger matches the brilliance and perception of the Shavian plays. -- From publisher's description.
