Die Upon A Kiss

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307418022
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Upon a Kiss written by Barbara Hambly and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Free Man of Color and Sold Down the River, Benjamin January guided readers through the seductive maze of New Orleans' darkest quarters. Now January joins the orchestra of the city's top opera house — only to become enmeshed in a web of hate and greed more murderous than any drama onstage. In 1835, the cold February streets glitter with masked revelers in Carnival costumes. An even more brilliant display is promised at the American Theater, where impresario Lorenzo Belaggio has brought the first Italian opera to town. But it's pitch-black in the muddy alley outside the stage door when Benjamin January, coming from rehearsal with the orchestra, hears a slurred whisper, sees the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. The bombastic impresario first accuses two of his tenors, then suspects his rival, the manager of New Orleans' other opera company. Could competition for audiences really provoke such violent skulduggery? Or has Belaggio taken too many chances in the catfight between two sopranos, one superseded by the other as his mistress and his prima donna? But burning in January's mind and heart is a darker possibility. The opera Belaggio plans to present — a magnificent version of Othello — strikes a shocking chord in this culture. Is the murderous tragedy of the noble Moor and his lady, the spectacle of a black man's passion for a white beauty, one that some Creole citizen — or American parvenu — would do anything to keep off the stage? Bloody threats and voodoo signs, poison and brutal murder seem to implicate many strange bedfellows. And Benjamin must discover who — in rage, retribution, or an insidious new commerce in this beautiful cutthroat city — will kill and kill ... and who will Die Upon a Kiss.

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0553581651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Upon a Kiss written by Barbara Hambly and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater’s impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it’s pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audiences—or for Belagio’s affections—provoke such violent skulduggery? Or is Shakespeare’s tragic tale, with its spectacle of a black man’s passion for a white beauty, one that some Creole citizen—or American parvenu—would do anything to keep off the stage? The soaring music will lead January into a tangle of love, hate, and greed more treacherous than any onstage drama, as he must discover who is responsible...and who will Die Upon a Kiss.

Author : Marvin Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136579
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Illuminations written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics in this collection include discussions of acting the "Big Four, " as well as studies on politics, language, and history.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Start Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Die Upon a Kiss--Othello is Shakespeare's great tragic play of love trust and deceit. Iago an officer of the watch sets out to destroy Othello by convincing him that his young bride Desdemona has betrayed him and is secretly in love with another man.What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?I saw't not thought it not it harm'd not me;I slept the next night well was free and merry;I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.He that is robb'd not wanting what is stol'n Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all.

Author : Tillie Cole
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1405955325
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Boy Kisses written by Tillie Cole and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS 'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW 'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW 'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW ________ Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers. What happened to turn her sweet, thoughtful Rune into this brooding stranger? And will the secret Poppy is carrying bring them closer together or separate them forever? Discover the story that will break your heart and make you believe true love really does last for eternity . . . ________ 'I have read books that have had me ugly crying in the past but I honestly don't think I've read a book before this one where tears flowed in every single chapter' 5***** READER REVIEW 'The most heartbreaking, soul-shattering yet beautiful book I have ever read . . . I sobbed. I mean ugly crying' 5***** READER REVIEW 'One of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking books I have ever read' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Rune couldn't have been more perfect, nor Poppy more perfect for him' 5***** READER REVIEW

Author : Robert W. Jenson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664237509
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of Songs written by Robert W. Jenson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary E. Pearson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805099239
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kiss of Deception written by Mary E. Pearson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199535876
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly edition of Othello to give full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes. Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, the edition includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives.

Author : Lana Citron
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 9781426879128
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Compendium of Kisses written by Lana Citron and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From first kisses to missed kisses, stolen kisses, the chemistry of kisses, around-the-world kisses, silver-screen kisses, Freudian kisses, lipstick kisses and record-breaking kisses, this eclectic collection of facts, figures, quotes and curiosities has everything you've ever wanted to know—and more—about that most deceptive, delightful and indispensable gesture: the kiss.

Author : Miles P. Grier
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813950384
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inkface written by Miles P. Grier and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.