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Sleeping Beauty by Ross Macdonald | |
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Kenneth Millar | | Variant Name: |
John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, Ross Macdonald | | Birth Date: |
December 13, 1915 | | Death Date: |
July 11, 1983 | | Place of Birth: |
Los Gatos, California | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Kenneth Millar
10552 words, approx. 35.2 pages
 Kenneth Millar, who wrote as Ross Macdonald, was the successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in the development of the hard-boiled detective story into serious literature. Millar wrote two dozen novels between 1944 and 1976, eighteen of them f... summary from source:
Biography of Kenneth Millar
2812 words, approx. 9.4 pages
Kenneth Millar, who has written under the pseudonyms John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, and Ross Macdonald, was born in Los Gatos, California, on 13 December 1915, but was raised in Ontario, Canada. When Millar was three years old, his father abandoned...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sleeping Beauty Information
4,410 words, approx. 15 pages
 Sleeping Beauty ("La Belle au Bois dormant" (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)) is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose Tales").[1] While Perrault's version is better...
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 The Boston Globe Sleeping beauties
01/04/1995: 1,074 words, approx. 4 pages It happens every day, and it breaks the hearts of wine retailers every time. A breathless customer wanting to impress a boss, a friend or a relative asks a merchant to recommend a wonderful, expensive wine. After plunking down big dollars for the bottle,... summary from source:
The Boston Globe In The Repertory, No Rest For `sleeping Beauty'
05/01/2005: 714 words, approx. 2 pages Most people think of "The Sleeping Beauty" as a romantic fairy tale, with its lilting Tchaikovsky score and plot centered on a beautiful princess coming of age. But it's also one of a long line of propaganda ballets, a genre that goes all the... summary from source:
 The New York Observer A New Sleeping Beauty, Brought to Life by Cojocaru
7/16/2006: 1,465 words, approx. 5 pagesA new Giselle? A new Swan Lake? Another day, another dollar. But a new Sleeping Beauty is always an event, and for many reasons. Its score is Tchaikovsky’s greatest, which means ballet’s greatest. Its demands on a ballet company are enormous: huge cast, opulent sets... summary from source:
The New York Observer A New Sleeping Beauty, Brought to Life by Cojocaru
7/16/2006: 1,468 words, approx. 5 pages A new Giselle? A new Swan Lake? Another day, another dollar. But a new Sleeping Beauty is always an event, and for many reasons. Its score is Tchaikovsky’s greatest, which means ballet’s greatest. Its demands on a ballet company are enormous: huge cast, opulent...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Lucy Hughes-hallett
492 words, approx. 2 pages
[In a] passage from The Sleeping Beauty, first published in 1953 and now reissued …, Elizabeth Taylor refers to two of the dreams dearest to the English middle class's collective unconscious. One is the fantasy of unbridled passion. The other is the vision of bourgeois bliss…. Miss Taylor is both realist and romantic. She writes, with a precision which leaves no space in which sentimentality could be accommodated, about the squalid, silly, intermittently charming lives and personalities... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Adrienne Foulke
317 words, approx. 1 pages
The concern in [The Sleeping Beauty] (which the reader instantly shares) is with people in transition, moving from one pattern of life to another: Isabella drifts from a conventionally settled marriage through bereavement into the frivolities of the Turkish baths; her son, Lawrence, escapes from the servitude of his inarticulate adolescence and a deep-bitten inferiority toward some capacity for independence, pleasure and happiness which, with unerring instinct, he looks for through a simple servant girl; Vi... summary from source:
Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
221 words, approx. 1 pages
The sleeping beauty of Miss Taylor's title is Emily, terribly injured in a car accident, who does not recognize the beauty of the new face created for her by plastic surgery and lives in nunnish seclusion, looking after the mentally defective daughter of her sister Rose. Emily is warmed to life again by a middle-aged Jamesian figure named Vinny who has already a wife living, but makes a bigamous alliance with Emily which is enduring happily at the end of the book. The plot of The Sleeping Beauty is g... Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 83%"Sleeping Beauty": The Context of Charles Perrault
666 words, approx. 2 pages
An analysis of the context of Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty." First derived as a part of Indo-European storytelling, this piece of traditional peasant folklore was believed to be altered by Perrault to appeal to the opulent court and aristocracy of Louis XIV of France.
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