Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Ser - Sinclair Lewis [241]
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Popular magazines of the time that specialized in literature and the fine arts.
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Adelina Patti (1843-1919), operatic coloratura soprano.
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Illustrated French newspaper.
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Large, expensive automobile.
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Young girl (German slang).
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Thin, diaphanous fabric.
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The science of improving the human race through selective breeding.
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A Doll’s House (1879) was a shocking and influential play by Henrik Ibsen, in which the heroine walks out on her comfortable marriage and her “doll’s house” to learn to be a full human being.
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman who served as prime minister four times; the dominant Liberal of the Victorian era. ‡Affordable old-master prints.
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Wass willst du?: what do you want?; morgen: good morning; die Frau istja: the wife is indeed; wie lang. how long; so spät—warum: so late—why; Nun aber. Well now (German).
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Das Schmertz—die Weh: the pain—the hurt; und so weiter. et cetera; sie weint immer. she cries all the time; haben: have (German).
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Greek form of Khufu, an Egyptian pharaoh from the twenty-sixth century B.C. who built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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Rutabagas.
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Certificate of Confirmation.
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“Has the drugstore sent my black bag here? OK—good. What time is it? Seven? All right, let’s have a little supper first. Got any of that good beer left—is there any beer left?” (German).
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“Quiet now! Soon you’ll be sleeping like a baby. There! There! Soon it will feel better” (German).
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“Here, and hold this—this lamp—like this!” (German).
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“Just a bit more” (German).
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A play on the name of Mack Sennett (1880-1960), American director of slapstick films.
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The dialect of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece that the Athenians considered barbaric.
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From Tennyson’s 1836 poem “St. Agnes’ Eve.”
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Of the Abbey Theatre, established in 1904 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory.
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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), English actor, producer, and influential scenic and lighting designer.
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Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany (1878-1957).
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One-act farce (1914) by Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
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One-act drama (1894) by Irish playwright and poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
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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.