Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Ser - Sinclair Lewis [248]
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Heroine of “The Land of Heart’s Desire”; like Carol, a restless wife.
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1916 Shaw comedy.
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1777 comedy by Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Fifth century B.C. tragedy by Greek dramatist Sophocles.
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French drama by Adolphe-Philippe D’Ennery (1811-1899), translated into English by Hart Jackson.
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1906 melodrama by American playwright Owen Gould Davis (1874-1956).
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American actress (1879-1959), member of the Barrymore stage dynasty.
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Curved curtain hung upstage of the scenery to hide the back wall of the theater; often painted.
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Pieces of scenery that hide the back or wings of a stage.
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Edouard Manet (1832-1883), French painter; forerunner of Impressionism.
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Or proscenium, an arch at the front of the stage that separates the stage from the rest of the theater and frames the action.
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Sentimental nineteenth-century ballad by Rose Hartwick.
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The Farmers’ Nonpartisan League was founded in 1915 to protect the economic interests of farmers.
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George A. Henty (1832-1902) was a prolific English author of historical adventure novels for boys.
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Decorative draperies of cloth or leather.
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Fashionable resort on the Mediterranean coast of France.
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Adult education movement founded in Chautauqua, New York, in 1874; sponsored traveling lecturers and shows with educational value.
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The mad scene from the 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor, by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), by American author Lew Wallace; tremendously popular novel, set during the Roman Empire, about the adventures of a Jew who is converted to Christianity.
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Preparation of ammonia, used as smelling salts.
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1858 hymn by English hymnologist John Mason Neale.
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Decorative frill on a bodice or shirt front.
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Great Greek hero of the legendary Trojan War, depicted in Homer’s Iliad.
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Old king of the ancient Greek city of Pylos and wise adviser to the Greek army at Troy.
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Pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844-1924), the sophisticated, cynical French writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
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Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954), Danish proletarian author who wrote about the struggling working classes.
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Ellen Key (1849-1926), Swedish author, feminist, pacifist, and radical.
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Favorite character in pantomime, dressed in a floppy, long-sleeved gown.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, member of the royal Hohenzollern dynasty of Germany, who led Germany into World War I.
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Members of the German military aristocracy, who supported Wilhelm II during World War I.
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The Russian Revolution of November 1917, when the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.
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Home of American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Walking-skirt.
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The Zouaves were nineteenth-century French infantrymen who dressed in brilliantly colored uniforms.
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Eugene Field (1850-1895), popular American newspaper columnist and author of light verse.
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From La Marseillaise (1792), the French revolutionary hymn that later became the national anthem.
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Mythical tree-climbing animal of the North Woods.
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Sixteenth governor of Minnesota, who lived from 1861 to 1909.
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World War I bond; to buy them was considered a patriotic duty.
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In the Bible, one of the descendants of Benjamin; see I Chronicles 8:26.
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The Chaldeans were an ancient Semitic people who became dominant in Babylonia.
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The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919, prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
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Minnesota poet (1877-1908), personally known to Lewis, who accidentally drowned as a young man.
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From the 1820 poem “The Eve of St. Agnes,” by English poet John Keats.
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American playwrights George Cram Cook and his wife Susan Glaspell founded the Provincetown Players in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1915; their satirical play Suppressed Desires (1914) deals with psychoanalysis.