Painted Veils

Download or read book Painted Veils written by James Huneker and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The hero is a worldly young drama critic who falls in love with a soprano who refuses to let any emotion halt her career. He courts a Good Girl who fantasizes 'dream-children' and exercises his lust on a perky trollop. Others in the Huneker salon are a gossipy music critic and a seminarian who flies too close to the sun."--Amazon

Download or read book Painted Veils written by James Huneker and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey from Washington had been stupid. An early November afternoon sky heavy with threatening snow, her nerves tense with expectation, made the girl feel that the big city once reached her troubles would be over; but at Jersey City they began. After a few blunders she reached the 23rd Street ferry and noted the snow falling in the foggy river. Her baggage had been checked to the hotel and she had nothing to do but climb into a hansom and direct the driver to west 25th Street. She made a tentative bargain with the man. Easter was prudent because she had little money. The hotel—it was in reality two old-fashioned houses with high steps and brown stone façades, the conventional residence of the early eighties—did not impress her; besides, it was snowing so thickly that she could hardly distinguish anything, and when she was admitted into the hall the light dazzled her eyes. She felt lonely, timid, uncomfortable. A tall, portly lady saluted her...FROM THE BOOKS.

Download or read book The Painted Veil written by William Somerset Maugham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1925 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.

Download or read book Painted Veil written by Beverle Graves Myers and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, 1734. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, singer Tito Amato finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting star. When the murder of scene painter Luca Cavalieri threatens to close the opera house, Tito jumps at the chance to regain his worth by finding the killer. Suspicion falls on members of a Jewish ghetto family that produces masks for the theater. But Tito discovers a mysterious veil that leads him in a different direction. Assisted by Augustus Rumbolt, an Englishman making his Grand Tour, Tito is soon on the trail of Dr. Palantinus, a masked figure who heads a secret society that charges exorbitant fees to partake of its enticing rituals. But who is behind the mask of Palantinus? Tito's search for the answer pierces the treacherous depths of a city dedicated to masquerade and pleasure, where ancient hatreds thrive, cultures uneasily coexist, and where opera is the stuff of daily life.

Download or read book VEIL PAINTINGS written by DAMIEN. HIRST and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art and Objecthood written by Michael Fried and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.

Download or read book Equipment for Living written by Kenneth Burke and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.