Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show write by Frank Delaney. This book was released on 2012-01-17. Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. January 1932: Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him back,” thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood. Interweaving a host of unforgettable creations—“King” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous decade.
The Traveling Vampire Show
The Traveling Vampire Show - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Traveling Vampire Show write by Richard Laymon. This book was released on 2014-03-31. The Traveling Vampire Show available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's 1963 and the Travelling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, is coming to the rural town of Grandville. It's a one-night-only show and three local teenagers don't want to miss it. It starts at midnight in Janks Field - a place that's off limits, but they can't let Valeria do her thing without them.
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Traveling Show to Vaudeville write by Robert M. Lewis. This book was released on 2007-10. From Traveling Show to Vaudeville available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
Traveling Show
Traveling Show - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traveling Show write by Robert E. Zucker. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Traveling Show available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyone has his or her own Traveling Show. As we interact with the people we meet, their influences on our lives shape the way we grow and how we present ourselves to the world. The people in these poems lived, and died, with their own Traveling Shows as they tried to reach for rainbows. Some never did finish that journey. Through their eyes, I wrote about their travels through life. Through my eyes, they became my own travels.
Come from Away
Come from Away - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Come from Away write by Genevieve Graham. This book was released on 2018-04-24. Come from Away available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.
