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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays, Daniel Mendelsohn
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- Summary
- A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 456 pages
- Contents
-
- Victims on Broadway I (The Glass Menagerie)
- 29
- Victims on Broadway II (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- 41
- Women of Pedro Almodovar (Volver)
- 53
- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette)
- 66
- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met)
- 79
- Introduction: How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
- Not an Ideal Husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis)
- 93
- Part 2
- Heroics
- A Little Iliad (Troy)
- 111
- Alexander, the Movie! (Alexander)
- 124
- Duty (300)
- 138
- xiii
- It's Only a Movie (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
- 150
- Nailed! (Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs)
- 161
- Way Out (Everyman)
- 176
- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex)
- 188
- Part 3
- Closets
- Part 1
- Passion of Henry James (The Master)
- 203
- Two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of Being Earnest)
- 213
- Tale of Two Housmans (The Invention of Love)
- 228
- Truman Show (the Stories and Letters of Truman Capote)
- 248
- Winged Messages (Angels in America)
- 263
- Heroines
- An Affair to Remember (Brokeback Mountain)
- 281
- Man Behind the Curtain (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe)
- 289
- Part 4
- Theater
- Greek Way (Greek tragedies in New York)
- 325
- Bitter-Sweet (Private Lives)
- 347
- Novel of the Year (The Lovely Bones)
- Double Take (The Producers)
- 358
- Harold Pinter's Celebration (Pinter Retrospective at Lincoln Center)
- 369
- Part 5
- War
- Theaters of War (Thucydides' History)
- 387
- Bad Boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway)
- 409
- 3
- For the Birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs)
- 426
- September 11 at the Movies (World Trade Center and United 93)
- 442
- Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
- 14
- Isbn
- 9780061456435
- Label
- How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays
- Title
- How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Title variation
- How beautiful it is & how easily it can be broken
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Dewey number
-
- 809
- 801/.95
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN1995
- LC item number
- .M432 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- reviews
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Motion pictures
- Books
- Theater
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Victims on Broadway I (The Glass Menagerie)
- 29
- Victims on Broadway II (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- 41
- Women of Pedro Almodovar (Volver)
- 53
- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette)
- 66
- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met)
- 79
- Introduction: How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
- Not an Ideal Husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis)
- 93
- Part 2
- Heroics
- A Little Iliad (Troy)
- 111
- Alexander, the Movie! (Alexander)
- 124
- Duty (300)
- 138
- xiii
- It's Only a Movie (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
- 150
- Nailed! (Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs)
- 161
- Way Out (Everyman)
- 176
- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex)
- 188
- Part 3
- Closets
- Part 1
- Passion of Henry James (The Master)
- 203
- Two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of Being Earnest)
- 213
- Tale of Two Housmans (The Invention of Love)
- 228
- Truman Show (the Stories and Letters of Truman Capote)
- 248
- Winged Messages (Angels in America)
- 263
- Heroines
- An Affair to Remember (Brokeback Mountain)
- 281
- Man Behind the Curtain (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe)
- 289
- Part 4
- Theater
- Greek Way (Greek tragedies in New York)
- 325
- Bitter-Sweet (Private Lives)
- 347
- Novel of the Year (The Lovely Bones)
- Double Take (The Producers)
- 358
- Harold Pinter's Celebration (Pinter Retrospective at Lincoln Center)
- 369
- Part 5
- War
- Theaters of War (Thucydides' History)
- 387
- Bad Boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway)
- 409
- 3
- For the Birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs)
- 426
- September 11 at the Movies (World Trade Center and United 93)
- 442
- Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
- 14
- Control code
- ocn182621503
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 456 pages
- Isbn
- 9780061456435
- Lccn
- 2007048282
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 809 M522 ; P ; XX-N ; C-BN ; C0809BT8.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 182621503
- (Sirsi) 182621503
- (OCoLC)182621503
- Label
- How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Victims on Broadway I (The Glass Menagerie)
- 29
- Victims on Broadway II (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- 41
- Women of Pedro Almodovar (Volver)
- 53
- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette)
- 66
- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met)
- 79
- Introduction: How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
- Not an Ideal Husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis)
- 93
- Part 2
- Heroics
- A Little Iliad (Troy)
- 111
- Alexander, the Movie! (Alexander)
- 124
- Duty (300)
- 138
- xiii
- It's Only a Movie (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
- 150
- Nailed! (Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs)
- 161
- Way Out (Everyman)
- 176
- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex)
- 188
- Part 3
- Closets
- Part 1
- Passion of Henry James (The Master)
- 203
- Two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of Being Earnest)
- 213
- Tale of Two Housmans (The Invention of Love)
- 228
- Truman Show (the Stories and Letters of Truman Capote)
- 248
- Winged Messages (Angels in America)
- 263
- Heroines
- An Affair to Remember (Brokeback Mountain)
- 281
- Man Behind the Curtain (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe)
- 289
- Part 4
- Theater
- Greek Way (Greek tragedies in New York)
- 325
- Bitter-Sweet (Private Lives)
- 347
- Novel of the Year (The Lovely Bones)
- Double Take (The Producers)
- 358
- Harold Pinter's Celebration (Pinter Retrospective at Lincoln Center)
- 369
- Part 5
- War
- Theaters of War (Thucydides' History)
- 387
- Bad Boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway)
- 409
- 3
- For the Birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs)
- 426
- September 11 at the Movies (World Trade Center and United 93)
- 442
- Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
- 14
- Control code
- ocn182621503
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 456 pages
- Isbn
- 9780061456435
- Lccn
- 2007048282
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 809 M522 ; P ; XX-N ; C-BN ; C0809BT8.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 182621503
- (Sirsi) 182621503
- (OCoLC)182621503
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