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The book has since been published under the name given to the film in the English version and in some other versions. His other works available in English translation are Rice , My Life as Emperor , Petulia's Rouge Tin ( Hongfen in Chinese), Binu and the Great Wall (tr. Howard Goldblatt ), Madwoman on the Bridge and Other Stories , Tattoo ...
Dance Dance Dance received a 69% rating from the book review aggregator iDreamBooks based on seven critics' reviews. [2] Kirkus Reviews said that "Despite intentions and effects that are sometimes too strained", the novel was "a sobering descent into a contemporary hell—with a guide who's made it brilliantly his own dark literary domain."
The book was described by The New York Times as "the only truly definitive history of ballet". [5] It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award [6] and was named as one of the "10 Best Books of 2010" by the New York Times. [7] Homans' claim that ballet is a dying art form generated controversy. [8]
Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku (also known by other orthographic variation including Keali'inohomoku) (1930–2015 [2]) was an American anthropologist and educator, co-founder of the dance research organization Cross-Cultural Dance Resources (CCDR).
Ōgai first published "The Dancing Girl" in 1890, based on his experiences as a medical student in Germany from 1884 to 1888. [3] On the incorporation of Ōgai's experiences into the narrative of "The Dancing Girl", literary scholar Christopher Hill notes that while some scholarly interpretations of the story have argued that the narrative is autobiographical, Ōgai based the story off of ...
Jane of Lantern Hill is a novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. The book was adapted into a 1990 telefilm, Lantern Hill, by Sullivan Films, the producer of the highly popular Anne of Green Gables television miniseries and the television series Road to Avonlea. The book's United States copyright was renewed in 1965. [1]
The Water Dancer is the debut novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published on September 24, 2019, by Random House under its One World imprint. It is a surrealist story set in the pre-Civil War South, concerning a superhuman protagonist named Hiram Walker who possesses a photographic memory, but who cannot remember his mother.
The Lantern Bearers is a historical novel for children by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published by Oxford in 1959 with illustrations by Charles Keeping. Set in Roman Britain during the 5th century, it is the story of a British Roman's life after the final withdrawal of Roman troops (around 410) .