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- 2007048282 abstract "A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.".
- 2007048282 contributor B10806930.
- 2007048282 created "c2008.".
- 2007048282 date "2008".
- 2007048282 date "c2008.".
- 2007048282 dateCopyrighted "c2008.".
- 2007048282 description "A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.".
- 2007048282 description "Introduction. How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Part one. Heroines. Novel of the year (The lovely bones) -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf (The hours) -- Victims on Broadway I (The glass menagerie) -- Victims on Broadway II (A streetcar named desire) -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver ) -- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette) -- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met) -- Not an ideal husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- Part two. Heroics. A little Iliad (Troy) -- Alexander, the movie!) -- Duty (300) -- It's only a movie (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- Nailed! Dale Peck's hatchet jobs) -- The way out (Everyman) -- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex) -- Part three. Closets. The Passion of Henry James (The Master) -- The Two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of Being earnest) -- The tale of two housmans (The Invention of love) -- The Truman Show (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- Winged messages (Angels in America) -- An affair to remember (Brokeback Mountain) -- The man behind the curtain (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe) -- Part four. Theater. The Greek way (Greek tragedies in New York) -- Bitter-Sweet (Private lives) -- Double Take (The producers) -- Harold Pinter's celebration (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- Part five. War. Theaters of war (Thucydides' history) -- The Bad boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway) -- For the birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- September 11 at the movies (World Trade Center and United 93).".
- 2007048282 extent "xix, 456 p. ;".
- 2007048282 identifier "0061456438 (acid-free paper)".
- 2007048282 identifier "9780061456435 (acid-free paper) :".
- 2007048282 identifier 2007048282.html.
- 2007048282 issued "2008".
- 2007048282 issued "c2008.".
- 2007048282 language "eng".
- 2007048282 publisher "New York : Harper,".
- 2007048282 spatial "United States.".
- 2007048282 subject "801/.95 22".
- 2007048282 subject "809.4 22".
- 2007048282 subject "Books Reviews.".
- 2007048282 subject "Critics United States.".
- 2007048282 subject "Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- 2007048282 subject "Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- Criticism and interpretation History 20th century.".
- 2007048282 subject "Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- Criticism and interpretation History 21st century.".
- 2007048282 subject "Motion pictures Reviews.".
- 2007048282 subject "PN1995 .M432 2008".
- 2007048282 subject "Theater Reviews.".
- 2007048282 tableOfContents "Introduction. How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Part one. Heroines. Novel of the year (The lovely bones) -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf (The hours) -- Victims on Broadway I (The glass menagerie) -- Victims on Broadway II (A streetcar named desire) -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver ) -- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette) -- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met) -- Not an ideal husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- Part two. Heroics. A little Iliad (Troy) -- Alexander, the movie!) -- Duty (300) -- It's only a movie (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- Nailed! Dale Peck's hatchet jobs) -- The way out (Everyman) -- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex) -- Part three. Closets. The Passion of Henry James (The Master) -- The Two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of Being earnest) -- The tale of two housmans (The Invention of love) -- The Truman Show (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- Winged messages (Angels in America) -- An affair to remember (Brokeback Mountain) -- The man behind the curtain (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe) -- Part four. Theater. The Greek way (Greek tragedies in New York) -- Bitter-Sweet (Private lives) -- Double Take (The producers) -- Harold Pinter's celebration (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- Part five. War. Theaters of war (Thucydides' history) -- The Bad boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway) -- For the birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- September 11 at the movies (World Trade Center and United 93).".
- 2007048282 title "How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn.".
- 2007048282 type "text".