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  • Henry James Comes Home

    Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age

    by Peter Brooks ...
    In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age.In 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Empty Space

    by Peter Brook ...
    'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guermantes Way

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt, Peter Brooks ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the social kaleidoscope was shifting' The Guermantes Way, the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, infatuation, scandal, prejudice, and intrigue. To the fore is Proust's ear for spoken language and how it ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Grabbed

    An MM Mpreg Romance

    by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown ...
    Narrated by Peter B. Brooke ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Team A.L.P.H.A.

    Unabridged

    3 hours 26 min

    Team: A.L.P.H.A.:Six battle-hardened alphas with one goal—to save any omega in perilPreston Tierney, the omega son of a prominent senator, has been taken by a secret group with an ax to grind. Party boy Preston was just out looking for a good time until he was grabbed—plucked right from a party in the middle of a crowd. When he wakes up, he finds himself caged like an animal in a remote cabin far ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guermantes Way

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt, Peter Brooks ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the social kaleidoscope was shifting' The Guermantes Way, the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, infatuation, scandal, prejudice, and intrigue. To the fore is Proust's ear for spoken language and how it ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Humanities and Public Life

    by Peter Brooks ...
    This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professional training and to public life.What leverage does reading, of the attentive sort practiced in the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Seduced by Story

    The Use and Abuse of Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Understanding the Global Climate Crises:

    Through Liberal Arts

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Dive into a cinematic and gaming exploration of the climate crisis with eco-feminist insights from Paola Merrill, Jonna Jinton, Leena Henningsen, and others. Uncover connections between biking, the industrial revolution, and Tesla's green innovations. This artistically expressed guide, rooted in liberal arts, provides a step-by-step understanding of climate change for a broad audience and offers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams

    by Anthony Rivera, Jonathan Maberry, Ray Garton, John FD Taff, Bracken MacLeod, John Everson, William Meikle, JG Faherty, Rose Blackthorn, Tim Waggoner, Chad McKee, T. Fox Dunham, Edward Morris, Trent Zelazny, John C. Foster, Jonathan Balog, Jane Brooks, Peter Whitley, J. Daniel Stone, Michael Laimo, Martin Rose, Grey Matter Press ...
    There are some nightmares from which you can never wake.Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editoral team of Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is Volume One in the Best of Grey Matter Press series. Selected by readers and horror fans, the twenty short stories contained within the pages of Dread include some of the darkest hallucinatory revelations from the minds ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing by Ear

    Reflections on Sound and Music

    by Peter Brook ...
    'Listen!'In this collection of new essays, the world-renowned director Peter Brook offers unique and personal insights into sound and music – from the surprising impact of Broadway musicals on his famous Midsummer Night's Dream, to the allure of applause, and on to the ultimate empty space: silence.It is studded throughout with episodes from the author's own life and career in opera, theatre and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tip of the Tongue

    Reflections on Language and Meaning

    by Peter Brook ...
    A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker.In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the 'empty space', considering how theatre – and the world – have ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus