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  • Dorothy Parker

    What Fresh Hell Is This?

    de Marion Meade ...
    Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating womenIn this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Lonelyhearts

    The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

    de Marion Meade ...
    A "breezily entertaining" look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day ( The New York Times Book Review).Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, which remains one the most penetrating novels ever written about Hollywood. He was also ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase

    A Biography

    de Marion Meade ...
    An American icon, Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton is easily acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers in early cinema and beyond. His elaborate slapstick made audiences scream with laughter. But, his stone face hid an internal turmoil. In BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE, biographer Marion Meade seamlessly lays out the life and works of this comedy genius who lacked any formal education."Buster" ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bitching

    de Marion Meade ...
    In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood—single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes—were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Madame Blavatsky

    The Woman Behind the Myth

    de Marion Meade ...
    The life and times of Helena Blavatsky, the controversial religious guru who cofounded the Theosophical Society and kick-started the New Age movement.Recklessly brilliant, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky scandalized her 19th century world with a controversial new religion that tried to synthesize Eastern and Western philosophies. If her contemporaries saw her as a freak, a charlatan, and a snake oil ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Stealing Heaven

    The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard

    de Marion Meade ...
    Based on the true story of tragic love in twelfth-century France, this "garrulous, bustling" novel offers "the grand old tale, updated for feminist focus" ( Kirkus Reviews).In twelfth century France, two of Europe's greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they were torn apart from each other. But the spark of it remained smoldering ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Free Woman

    The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull

    de Marion Meade ...
    Victoria Woodhull is a historical figure too often ignored and undervalued by historians. Although she never achieved political power, her actions and her presence on the political scene helped begin to change the way Americans thought about the right to vote, particularly women's suffrage, and she set the stage for political emancipations to come throughout the twentieth century.Woodhull was a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sybille

    Life, Love, & Art in the Face of Absolute Power

    de Marion Meade ...
    In thirteenth-century France, a female poet endures the chaos of the Albigensian Crusade in this novel by the author of Eleanor of Aquitaine.A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.Sybille d'Astarac, born to pampered luxury, is a gifted female troubadour. But her poems grow dark as the Catholic crusade seeks to eradicate her sect. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    A Biography

    de Marion Meade ...
    "Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."-Allene Talmey, Vogue. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

    de Marion Meade ...
    "A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait" of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn ( Publishers Weekly).Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era's most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began crafting a larger‑than‑life neurotic persona that has since entertained and enlightened millions. In his films, ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

    Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

    de Marion Meade ...
    In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Alpine Giggle Week

    How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)

    de Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade ...
    A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape—that woman being Dorothy Parker.“Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy and I was afraid of boring the combined tripe out of you, so I never sent them.” Thus starts a little-known and ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD