About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Manon Lescaut, Porgy and Bess, Merry Mount, Street Scene, Un ballo in maschera, The Grapes of Wrath, Blue Monday, Treemonisha, Vera of Las Vegas, La fanciulla del West, Regina, Doctor Atomic, Dead Man Walking, The Seven Deadly Sins, A Wedding, Appomattox, Amelia, Trouble in Tahiti, Our American Cousin, Wakonda's Dream, Patience and Sarah, Jackie O, Natoma, O Pioneers!, Moby-Dick, Susannah, The Tender Land, Koanga, Shining Brow, The Mother of Us All, Margaret Garner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Elmer Gantry, The Medium, Bandanna, Willie Stark, The Bonesetter's Daughter, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dreamers, The Crucible, Little Women, Down in the Valley, Arizona Lady, Emmeline, Anna Nicole, A Quiet Place, Shadowboxer, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Cold Sassy Tree, Say It Ain't So, Joe, A Bayou Legend, Paul Bunyan, An American Tragedy, The Scarecrow, The Scarlet Letter, Reuben, Reuben, Last Acts, Cabildo, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Queen of Knives, The Great Gatsby, The Photographer, Of Mice and Men, A Guest of Honor, Carry Nation, X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Our Town, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lizzie Borden, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, Soyazhe, Transatlantic, Dog Days, Shanewis, Giants in the Earth, Blennerhassett. Excerpt: Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward. All three works deal with African-American life in the fictitious Catfish Row (based on the area of Cabbage Row) in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1920s. Originally conceived by George Gershwin as an "American folk opera," Porgy and Bess premi...
