Fiction Literature

International Emmys to honor David Frost (AP)

AP - British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews...

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1. Big Little Nyonya

By ELIZABETH TAI starmag-feedback@thestar.com.my The current Singaporean drama series The Little Nyonya has received an awesome reception from both sides of the Causeway. We speak to its two main stars, Jeanette Aw and Qi Yuwu....

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Opera Synopsis - Mozart's Don Giovanni

Plot Synopsis and Character Description of Italian Drama Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: plot summary, character list, and other Mozart opera information. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote some 20 operas. Like Le Nozze di...

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Indigenous Theatre Arts in Canada

Storytellers and Performances since Ancient Times Long before European contact, Canada's indigenous peoples' rituals and dramatic storytelling were as theatrical as those of minstrels and churchmen. Ancient Theatrical Dramas in...

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Luigi Pirandello Biography

Italian Playwright, Novelist, Poet, Admired for His Henry IV Play Brief biography of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You, Are If You Think You Are. He was...

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Christmas list starters: These books make great gifts, including for yourself

Rose is the moonshiner whom Horace Kephart featured in his 1913 classic "Our Southern Highlanders." In Don's novel, we first burst in on a Cades Cove cabin scene, 1841, with Rebecca Rose about to give birth to Quill, her sixth...

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Jean Rhys Biography

British Novelist and Short-Story Writer Famous for Wide Sargasso Sea Brief biography of Dominican-born British novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys, whose fiction echoes her childhood, best known for Wide Sargasso Sea....

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A flood of holiday movies on the way

By Robert Horton, Herald movie critic Time for that beloved annual question: Which comes earlier, holiday decorations at the department stores or Hollywood’s declaration that the Christmas movie season has begun? All I know is...

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Baaah.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Imperial Majesty Xenacryst the Feline of Happy Bottomshire Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title I am:James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and...

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Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam?

Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but are the authors of sci-fi stories finally running out of steam? PC Pro has traced the history of sci-fi’s influence on real-world technology, from Jules Verne to Snow...

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