Showing results for "Daisy" in World Literature

Two giants of the theater, five-time Tony Award® winner Angela Lansbury and three-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, star in 1988’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama. Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s tale that follows the complicated friendship between a feisty Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur in mid-century Atlanta over the course of 20 years.

Bloomsbury presents Diva by Daisy Goodwin, read by Lorelei King, Josephine Goddard and Daisy Goodwin. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking...

In this heartwarming Victorian classic by Agnes Giberne, first published in 1885, we follow the story of Daisy Meads—a gentle and resilient young girl navigating life alongside her eccentric and miserly father, Isaac. Set against the rustic backdrop of a traditional English village, "Daisy of...

London, 1916. It's only when her father dies that Louisa and her mother realise just how much debt their once-wealthy family is in. The only way she can save them is by marrying old, rich and leery Mr Mullen - Louisa can't imagine a fate worse than that. So when charming up-and-coming...

Finding Daisies takes the listener through the life stages of a girl who endures untold trauma and ultimately overcomes it. From pre-birth to motherhood, Jessica Jocelyn imparts the listeners with an inside look of navigating the tumultuous process of healing from the mother and father wounds.

Henry James’s classic tale of an American girl abroad, doomed for her wild and unconventional ways.

Conversation with Johnny is very special to me, because it constitutes at least my own dual cultural nature, the writer and the individual of power, the local gangster, most of us experienced in the old neighborhoods. Here, they merge into one. Out of this duo comes, I hope, a kind of closure on the stereotype we also all know, that of the godfather myth. On an exalted plain above all of this, to my great pleasure, is the alluring, elusive woman.