Authors:John Ford, Marion Lomax,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: tis, whore, pity, warbeck, oxford, classics, perkin, world, broken, plays, lover, melancholy, heart
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0199553866
ISBN-13: 9780199553860

Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. Setting Ford’s earliest surviving independently written play, The Lover’s Melancholy, alongside his three best-known works, The Broken Heart, ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, and Perkin Warbeck, this edition includes an introduction with sections on each play, addressing gender issues, modern relevance, and staging possibilities.

Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: war, pity
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-09-21
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0395849829
ISBN-13: 9780395849828

This moving and thought-provoking anthology brings together more than 70 poems inspired by the horror and heroism of war. From the eleventh century B.C. to the present day, including translations from Chinese, Latin, Greek, French, Russian, and Japanese, and ranging from poignant lamentation to sardonic humor, a wide selection of voices speak about every aspect of human conflict, exploring the universal themes that have moved poets throughout the ages. Illustrated with striking scratchboard drawings, the poems collected here reveal both the shifts in people’s attitudes over time and the

Author: J. O. P. Bland
Publisher: Bland Press
Keywords: pity, china
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1406758434
ISBN-13: 9781406758436

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHINA Tltti PITY OF IT J. 0. P. BLAND DOUBl. KPAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. < iAKl> KN CITY, NKW YORK 1932 Printed in Grtat Brfttla CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Introductory I II The Washington Conference and After 8 III The Influence of the Cantonese 26 IV The Cult and Legend of Sun Yat-sen 43 V The Missionary Factor 69 VI China’s Modern Students 113 VII East and West; Can China be Westernised? 137 VIII China in Recent Literature 154 IX The F. O, School of Thought 176 X Kuomintang Propaganda and Geneva 198 XI The Anatomy of Idealism in Politics 217 X

Author: Susan Hahn
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: pity
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-08-19
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0810151642
ISBN-13: 9780810151642

Drawing on history, myth, folk rhymes, human physiology, and the psyche’s crevices, Susan Hahn’s Self/Pity is a relentless journey of the self through time, into the labyrinth of the present with its own stimuli and despairs. She strikes a delicate balance of contrast and collision between the various linked poems in this collection, which all deal with birth, the body, and the soul. As with her previous collections, the poems in Self/Pity can be read as a cohesive whole.From the simple prayer "To Jacob Four Months In The Womb" to the complex territory of the poem sequence "The Po

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: war, world, explaining, pity
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2000-03-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0465057128
ISBN-13: 9780465057122

A landmark work of history that challenges our most basic assumptions about the causes and consequences of the First World War In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on nave assumptions of German aims-and England’s entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather th

Author: Josephine Herbst
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: reconsidered, novel, radical, pity
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0252066529
ISBN-13: 9780252066528

Author: Robert Fisk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: war, lebanon, nation, pity
Number of Pages: 727
Published: 2001-10
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0192801309
ISBN-13: 9780192801302

Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain’s foremost journalists, this remarkable book combines political analysis and war reporting in an unprecedented way: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade. Fisk’s book recounts the details of a terrible war but it also tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of Western blindness that had led inevitably to political and mili