The Funniest People in Music, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes

The Funniest People in Music, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-07-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780557050529

Print edition. This book contains 250 anecdotes about music, including this one: Woody Guthrie taught fellow folksinger Pete Seeger the art of busking-getting money for playing music in a bar. Here is what you do: Go into a bar with your guitar strapped ostentatiously on your back. Buy a beer for a nickel and sip it slowly. Soon, someone will ask about the guitar, "Can you play that thing?" Say, not too eagerly, "Maybe, a little." A little later, someone will say, "Kid, I've got a quarter for you if you pick us a tune." "Then," Mr. Guthrie would conclude, "you play your best song." Mr. Seeger did a lot of busking during his traveling days.

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1435701119

This book collects 250 stories about good deeds, including this one: When the great 19th-century actor Sir Henry Irving discovered an old woman who needed money to survive but who couldn't work, he would hire her to take care of the cats in his theater. Later, he was going to hire an old woman to take care of the cats, but then he discovered that he had already hired three old women to take care of the cats. Therefore, he hired this old woman to take care of the three old women who took care of the cats.

From the "Iliad" to the "Odyssey": A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s "Posthomerica"

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Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 131213979X

Homer created the epic poems ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey."" The "Iliad" tells only a small part of the story of the Trojan War. For example, the "Iliad" does not tell the story of the Trojan Horse although Homer knew about the Trojan Horse and assumed that his audience knew its story. Other, shorter epic poems that made up the Epic Cycle told the rest of the story of the Trojan War. The ""Iliad"" and the ""Odyssey"" have survived to the present time, but the other epic poems of the Epic Cycle have been lost since ancient times. Fortunately, Quintus of Smyrna wrote an epic poem that retold the tales recounted in the lost epic poems of the Epic Cycle. He told the story of the Trojan War from the end of the ""Iliad ""to when Odysseus sets sail for home in the "Odyssey" after Troy has fallen. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried to make the work of literature accessible to modern readers.

John Ford's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore": A Retelling

John Ford's
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-01-29
Genre:
ISBN: 1387445138

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's tragedy "'Tis Pity She's a Whore." In this tragedy, a brother and sister fall in love and commit incest.

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 1

The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 1
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1430314303

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If you do good deeds, you will become good. If you do bad deeds, you will become bad. To become the person you want to be, act as if you already are that kind of person. Each of us chooses what kind of person we will become. To become a hero, do the things a hero does. To become a coward, do the things a coward does. The opportunity to take action to become the kind of person you want to be is yours. ; ;This book collects 250 stories of good deeds from the arts, from religion, and from life.

The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling

The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2018-02
Genre:
ISBN: 1387509292

This is an easy-to-retelling of "The Famous Victories of Henry V," which is an important source for William Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Henry V" plays.

John Ford's "The Broken Heart": A Retelling

John Ford's
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-03-02
Genre:
ISBN: 1387559982

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's THE BROKEN HEART. According to Charles Lamb, ""Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.""