H.L. Humes
Back in print after nearly fifty years-the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review The Underground City "Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet ... [... more]
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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, ...
 Melodrama and Modernity: Peter Brooks' book, "The Melodramatic Imagination," would be helpful even due only to its serious examination of the structural and philosophical underpinnings of traditional French melodramatic theatre. However, what [... more]
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Finistère
One of the earliest explicitly gay novels: Melodramatic to a fault, this book allows some of the typical early stereotypes to stand, especially that of the lead gay character dying (suicide) in the end. However, its historical value as one of the first [... more]
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A Density of Souls
From Amazon.com: Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected by his friends and frightened of his own homoerotic impulses and you [... more]
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City of Secrets: The Startling Truth Behind the Vatican ...
Sex, lies and secrets: John Follain investigates the deaths of three people in the heart of the Vatican, including a young soldier and the commander of the pope's famous Swiss Guards. The evidence he finds is neither surprising nor inconsistent with the [... more]
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Naked Came The Phoenix
Zany and fun but certainly not memorable.: Naked Came The Phoenix was a book selection for two of my local reading groups because we were intrigued by its unusual format. Twelve bestselling mystery and suspense author joined together to contribute a [... more]
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Faith and Treason
From Amazon.com: Our term "guy," slang for any man, comes from the name of Guy Fawkes, the alleged ringleader of the bungled plot to blow up King James I and the subject of Bonfire Night, the odd English holiday celebrated on November 5 by [... more]
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Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore
Sullivan's masterpiece?: Ruddigore in its original form was considered in rather poor taste (in Victorian London) although after a few cuts in act 2, and a discreet change of name, it went on to a very respectable first run. Gilbert is supposed to have [... more]
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Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination
Author: Ien Ang Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 791 EAN: 9780415045988 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0415045983 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 1985-12-27 [... more]
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Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation ...
Author: Patrice Petro Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430943 EAN: 9780691008301 ISBN: 0691008302 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 1989-03-01 [... more]
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Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, ...
Author: Bruce A. McConachie Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 792.097309034 EAN: 9780877453604 ISBN: 0877453608 Number Of Pages: 334 Publication Date: 1992-05 [... more]
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Breakable You
SUBTLY CRAFTED, REMARKABLY WISE: Author Brian Morton returns to New York, a setting he painted to perfection in A Window Across The River (2003 ). Once again his characters are fully realized, passionate, funny, and flawed, perhaps microcosms of [... more]
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