LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jajlouny

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jajlouny

  • The Red Poppy
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    Mention the name Josef Stalin and all you will hear are epithets like “brutal dictator” or “mass murderer” or “Communist reactionary.” And these are not untrue descriptions. But they don’t tell the whole story. Every terrible person in history was also just an ordinary person too. In The Red Poppy, we behold the man and not the monster. In these seven scenes, we see the human s...
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    10,41 €

  • Meet William Shakespeare
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    Much has been explored about Shakespeare and his life, but little is known about how this small-town boy with a grammar-school education came to pen masterworks like Hamlet and King Lear. In Meet William Shakespeare, playwright J. Ajlouny creates authentic and plausible explanations that answer centuries-old questions about the man and his work. The result is an educational and...
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    9,94 €

  • Adventures in Leninland
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    Prior to the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Eastern-bloc empire of the U.S.S.R., a humorist and fledgling Kremlinologist was invited to tour the vast Red Landscape. Along the rails and roads traveled, he met a cast of colorful characters and faced a host of bizarre situations that only such a world can produce. These stories and essays portray a few of the fascin...
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    15,93 €

  • The Trial of William Shakespeare
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    Few men have endured the indignity of having their very existence challenged as thoroughly as William Shakespeare, late of Stratford-upon-Avon. From scholars to amateur enthusiasts, many cannot bring themselves to believe he wrote his own body of work. Playwright J. Ajlouny presents the arguments for and against, all statements and proofs drawn from the historical record. Every...
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    10,07 €

  • Marilyn, Norma Jean and Me
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    In this boisterous but sensitive drama, playwright J. Ajlouny looks beyond public image to find the heart of this young woman thrust wildly into fame as a sex symbol. Presented as a play-in-the-making within a play, Marilyn, Norma Jean and Me weaves biography with humor to explore the movie star’s widely speculated plan to leave Hollywood for Broadway. The author imagines her i...
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    10,00 €

  • Figuratively Speaking
    J. Ajlouny / JAjlouny
    A figure of speech is an expression in which the words are used, but not in their literal sense, to create a more forceful or dramatic meaning. They are often in the form of metaphors, similes and hyperbole “A fountain of knowledge,” is a good example. “Stretching the truth,” is another.With Figuratively Speaking, we finally have a thesaurus to discover these phrases’ origins a...
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    14,42 €