The Children's Hour
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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
 List Price: Price: $19.40 You Save: $10.60 (35%) DescriptionLillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012.
Pentimento (Back Bay Books)
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Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
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The Children's Hour Summary & Study Guide | Lillian Hellman
 List Price: $9.99 DescriptionThe Children's Hour Study Guide consists of approx. 44 pages of summaries and analysis on The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion. The Children's Hour Study Guide consists of approx. 44 pages of summaries and analysis on The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman. This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
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DescriptionCaustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world -- and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own. Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement.Hellman Lillian News
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.comTaming Hellman's shrewby Peter Filichia/The Star-Ledger ANDREW MURADKathryn Meisle plays the iconic Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The Little Foxes. Where: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, FM Kirby Shakespeare
Playbill.comPlaying Birdie in 'Little Foxes' is dream role for 'Newhart' star Julia Duffy and Kelly McGillis star in a revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play “The Little Foxes,” which opens tonight and will run through June 28 at the Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Performances are at 8 pm Tuesdays through Duffy holds her own in `Little Foxes' McGillis, Duffy, Lee, Pierson Are Greedy Brood in Pasadena Little