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DuBose Heyward (1885–1940)

Autor(a) de The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

32+ Works 2,580 Membros 34 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Obras por DuBose Heyward

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939) — Autor — 2,025 exemplares
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) (1999) 139 exemplares
Porgy (Players Press) (1925) 123 exemplares
Porgy and Bess: Complete [sound recording] (1952) — Lyrics — 47 exemplares
Mamba's Daughters (1929) 43 exemplares
Porgy & Bess / Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (1957) — Lyricist — 37 exemplares
Porgy and Bess (Vocal Score) (1935) — Librettist — 19 exemplares
Porgy and Bess: Selections [sound recording] (1963) — Lyrics — 19 exemplares
Porgy: A Gullah Version (1927) 18 exemplares
Porgy and Bess: Vocal Selection (1935) 13 exemplares
The Half Pint Flask (1928) 9 exemplares
Porgy and Bess [libretto] (1935) 9 exemplares
Peter Ashley (1932) 7 exemplares
Star Spangled Virgin (1939) 4 exemplares
A DUBOSE HEYWARD READER (2003) 4 exemplares
Angel 4 exemplares
Skylines and horizons (2004) 3 exemplares
Lost morning (1936) 3 exemplares
Porgy e Bess Livro 17 (2022) 2 exemplares
Carolina Chansons (2011) 1 exemplar
Mamba's Daughters 1 exemplar
Fort Sumter 1861-1865 (1938) 1 exemplar
Heywood, Du Bose 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 06: Harvest of Holidays (1900) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
Famous American Plays of the 1920s (1959) — Contribuidor — 139 exemplares
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (1973) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Bar the Doors (1972) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
The Theatre Guild Anthology (1936) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
My Favorite Things (1961) — Songwriter — 56 exemplares
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
The Age of Consent [1984 album] (1984) — Songwriter — 19 exemplares
A Swingin' Affair! (1957) — Songwriter — 17 exemplares
Porgy and Bess [1959 film] (1959) — Librettist — 9 exemplares
Columbia Workshop Plays: Fourteen Radio Dramas — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Golden Book Magazine - February 1934 (Volume XIX, No. 110) (1934) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Heyward, DuBose
Nome legal
Heyward, Edwin DuBose
Data de nascimento
1885-08-31
Data de falecimento
1940-06-16
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Local de falecimento
Tryon, North Carolina, USA
Ocupações
novelist
dramatist
poet
Relações
Heyward, Dorothy (wife)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1937)

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Críticas

Published in 1925, Porgy is the novel on which the play Porgy and notable Gershwin folk opera Porgy and Bess is based. Porgy is disabled and begs on the streets in Charleston, South Carolina. He meets drug-addicted Bess, who is involved with a violent man. He becomes a positive influence in her life. They live in Catfish Row, a black waterfront tenement, and are harassed regularly by the authorities. There are several instances of unjust incarceration, attempts at manipulation, and assumption of guilt for crimes not committed.

This story is a moving, empathetic portrayal of poor urban blacks in the American South in the 1920's, an uncommon storyline for its time. The primary characters are fully fleshed out, with hopes and dreams, strengths and flaws. It contains one of the most dramatic and realistic scenes of riding out the storm surge of a hurricane that I have ever read. The story is well-framed, and the writing is beautifully poetic.

“But Porgy best loved the late afternoons, when the street was quiet again, and the sunlight, deep with colour, shot level over the low roof of the apothecary shop to paint the cream stucco on the opposite dwelling a ruddy gold and turn the old rain-washed tiles on the roof to burnished copper. Then the slender, white-clad lady who lived in the house would throw open the deep French windows of the second story drawing room, and sitting at the piano, where Porgy could see her dimly, she would play on through the dusk until old Peter drove by with his wagon to carry him home.”

The only difficulty, at least initially, is the dialogue, which is written in dialect. I thought it was supposed to be southern, but it didn’t seem to fit, so I looked it up and it is Gullah, a creole language that evolved during the slavery years on the Sea Islands, located off the coast of the southeastern U.S. As the novel progressed, I figured out the syntax and it flowed much better.

This book is a full of sensory details, providing a vivid sense of the Gullah culture and community. It is slim, but powerful. I found it poignant and expressive, fully deserving of a place on my list of modern classics.
… (mais)
 
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Castlelass | 2 outras críticas | Oct 30, 2022 |
I really enjoyed reading this book. As the book says on the back cover, it is very ahead of its time in terms of feminism and women empowerment. It also encourages others to never give up even when others are doubting you.
 
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PaytonSiragusa | 21 outras críticas | Aug 26, 2022 |
A (single) mother rabbit with 21 little children teaches them to all work together and help. The little bunnies feel valued as they contribute to the family. They grow up to be sweet, cheerful, and polite. Thereby, the Country Bunny (mother rabbit) proves herself to Grandfather Bunny and becomes one of the Easter Bunnies. This is a wonderful story with quite modern themes and may help enlist the help of the little rabbits at your house.
 
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WiseOwlFactory | 21 outras críticas | Feb 20, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
32
Also by
20
Membros
2,580
Popularidade
#9,962
Avaliação
4.2
Críticas
34
ISBN
70
Línguas
5
Marcado como favorito
2

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