Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 144643432X
Danton
David Lawday
Danton
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The Giant of the French Revolution
David Lawday
Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802197023
The Giant of the French Revolution by David Lawday Pdf
A biography of Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading French revolutionary—from his rural upbringing to his death five years after the storming of the Bastille. One of the Western world’s most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. Georges-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. Now David Lawday, author of Napoleon’s Master, reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois reformers and the street alike; his impassioned speeches, often hours long, drove the sans-culottes to action and kept the Revolution alive. But as the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided Revolutionary government. Working tirelessly to halt the bloodshed of Robespierre’s terror, he ultimately became another of its victims. True to form, Danton did not go easily to the guillotine; at his trial, he defended himself with such vehemence that the tribunal convicted him before he could rally the crowd in his favor. In vivid, almost novelistic prose, Lawday leads us from Danton’s humble roots to the streets of revolutionary Paris, where this political legend acted on the stage of the revolution that altered Western civilization. “A gripping story, beautifully told . . . Danton was a headstrong firebrand, a swashbuckling political showman with a prodigious memory, whose spectacular oratory held audiences in thrall.” —The Economist
Danton's Death
Georg Buchner,Howard Brenton
Author : Georg Buchner,Howard Brenton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408135594
Danton's Death by Georg Buchner,Howard Brenton Pdf
This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.
Danton's Death ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck
Georg Büchner
Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192836501
Danton's Death ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck by Georg Büchner Pdf
This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.
Danton
Norman Hampson
Author : Norman Hampson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038475021
Danton by Norman Hampson Pdf
The Lost Dream
Steve Simmons
Author : Steve Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Hockey players
ISBN : 014317830X
The Lost Dream by Steve Simmons Pdf
Mike Jefferson grew up like a lot of Canadian kids, obsessed with hockey and consumed with making it to the NHL. His father, Steve, and his family were determined to do anything and everything to make their son's dreams come true. So how did this promising young man's hockey career turn into a harrowing real-life crime story played out in sensational news reports? Coach and agent David Frost fast-tracked Jefferson's route to the NHL, but at a staggering cost to almost everyone involved. Along the way, the affable young man turned against his parents, changed his name to Danton, and descended into a spiral of paranoia and violence that finally cut short the career he had sacrificed everything for when he was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder. In this fast-paced and gripping story, veteran hockey journalist Steve Simmons digs beneath the surface to answer questions that have left Canadians shocked and fascinated. How did Frost get such a grip on Danton and his family? How did his parents allow this to happen? What exactly was Danton's relationship with Frost? And whom did Danton hire a hitman to kill--his father or his agent?
Danton
Louis Madelin
Author : Louis Madelin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015012147305
Danton by Louis Madelin Pdf
Danton
Hilaire Belloc
Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : France
ISBN : NYPL:33433082333596
Danton by Hilaire Belloc Pdf
The Danton Case ; Thermidor
Stanisława Przybyszewska
Author : Stanisława Przybyszewska
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810108062
The Danton Case ; Thermidor by Stanisława Przybyszewska Pdf
Stanislawa Przybyszewski is recognized as a major twentieth-century playwright on the basis of her trilogy about the French Revolution, of which The Danton Case and Thermidor are the principal parts. The Danton Case depicts the battle for power between two exceptional individuals: the corrupt sentimental idealist, Danton, and the incorruptible genius of the Revolution, Robespierre. Thermidor shows the final playing out of this drama, as Robespierre, left alone with the heroic absolutist Saint-Just, foresees the ruin of himself and his cause, and in his despair predicts that hatred, war, and capitalism will steal the Revolution and corrupt nineteenth-century man.
Danton
Norman Hampson
Author : Norman Hampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015006562246
Danton by Norman Hampson Pdf
Designing Danton's Death
Kristin Aileen Ellert
Author : Kristin Aileen Ellert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009476037
Designing Danton's Death by Kristin Aileen Ellert Pdf
A Letter from Danton to Marie Antoinette
Georges Jacques Danton
Author : Georges Jacques Danton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNXLP3
A Letter from Danton to Marie Antoinette by Georges Jacques Danton Pdf
The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution, 1789-1795
Henry Morse Stephens
Author : Henry Morse Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:$B84163
The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution, 1789-1795 by Henry Morse Stephens Pdf
Riverrun
Danton Remoto
Author : Danton Remoto
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9814882860
Riverrun by Danton Remoto Pdf
Riverrun is a novel that talks about the rite of passage in the life of a young gay man who grew up in a colorful and chaotic dictatorship. Shaped in the form of a memoir, it glides from childhood to young adulthood, from provincial barrio to cosmopolitan London. Its chapters are written like flash fiction, talk stories and vignettes; interlaced with recipes, a feature article, poems and vivid songs. Riverrun marks the global debut of one of Asia's best writers.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020034406