 | The Collected Plays of Edward Albee: 1966 - 1977
Release Date: April 29, 2008Edward Albee's many awards and recognitions--including three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (a number exceeded only by Eugene O'Neill's four), three Tony Awards, the Gold Medal in Drama by the Academy if Arts and Letters, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the National Medal of the Arts--only confirm his tremendous talents and stature in the arts community.Albee's oeuvre consists of more than twenty-six plays, the earliest of which were collected in Volume One of his Collected Plays. Volume Two contains the nine plays written by Albee in the period between 1966 and 1977, r...
 |  | Ride a Cockhorse (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: June 19, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics A revolution is under way at a once sleepy New England bank. Forty-five-year-old Frances Fitzgibbons has gone from sweet-tempered loan officer to insatiable force of nature almost overnight. Suddenly she’s brazenly seducing the high-school drum major, taking over her boss’s office, firing anyone who crosses her, inspiring populist fervor, and publicly announcing plans to crush her local rivals en route to dominating the entire banking industry in the northeast. The terrifying new order instituted by Frankie and h...
|  | The Quotable Lewis
Publication Date: February 23, 1990This book presents more than 1,500 quotes from Lewis's writings, providing ready access to his thoughts on a variety of topics. An exhaustive index references key words and concepts, allowing readers to easily find quotes on any subject of interest. Also included are many photographs of Lewis and his close circle of friends.Quick summary: More than 1,500 quotes from Lewis's writings. Sixteen pages of photographs. Extensive index and numbering system. ...
|  | The Book of Love: A Novel (Magdalene Line)
Release Date: February 9, 2010| Series: Magdalene Line (Book 2) Journalist Maureen Pascal receives a mysterious package from an anonymous source. It appears to be an ancient document written in Latin and signed in code by a ? famous woman in the eleventh century, Matilda of Tuscany. .History has overlooked—or covered up—Matilda, but Maureen realizes the significance of the document and a new search begins. Matilda’s long-hidden scrolls demand the return of her “most precious books and documents” to the Abbey of Orval—the same Abbey from which the prophecy ...
|  | A Second Chance
Publication Date: May 24, 2012This is the story of Ben David, a young man who was a very gifted athlete in high school. In 1959 he signs a professional baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds, as a catcher, and is sent to play in the minor leagues after high school. He is expected to be a major league ballplayer by all who saw him play, including two of his teammates who share his playing adventures in the minors. However, early in his career misfortune occurs and he has to give up baseball. Several years later as a 65 year old man fate gives him and his old teammates a second chance.Ben ...
|  | Texas Vendetta (Texas Rangers)
Release Date: February 1, 2005| Series: Texas Rangers In this fifth volume of his Texas Rangers series, Elmer Kelton takes the young ranger Andy Pickard, once a Comanche captive called Badger Boy, into the midst of a bloody vendetta between hate-filled families. Pickard and ranger Farley Brackett, a former Confederate soldier, are assigned to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to the sheriff of a neighboring county to stand trial for killing a man named Ned Hopper but from the outset the seemingly simple assignment gets complicated. The Landon and Hopper families are in a blood feud; the Landons ...
|  | Aztecs (Peoples of America)
Publication Date: February 25, 1997| ISBN-10: 1557864969 | ISBN-13: 978-1557864963This is a history of one of the best known peoples of pre-Columbian America. The Aztecs were the upstarts of Meso-America. Until the thirteenth century they were a little-known people practising subsistence agriculture in the north of what is now Mexico. At that time they migrated to the Valley of Mexico, and having first learnt military arts by hiring themselves as mercenaries to the Oaxacans and other established societies, promptly used these skills to subjugate their former masters, and to swallow up a ...
|  | King Henry VI Part 2 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) (Pt. 2)
Release Date: December 9, 1999This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theater, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in ...
|  | The Witlings and The Woman-Hater (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: September 19, 2002| ISBN-10: 1551113783 | ISBN-13: 978-1551113784| Edition: 1 This Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney's linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a "femme savante" whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the "elle" figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney's fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century...
|  | Urfaust
Publication Date: December 31, 1998This version is based on Brecht's irreverent and daring re-interpretation of the German classic. ...
|  | Moira: Fate, good, and evil, in Greek thought
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|  | Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000
Publication Date: November 2002| ISBN-10: 1575252481 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252483I have chosen the plays in this book because I think they represent well the incredible quality and variety of new playwriting by women. -D.L. Lepidus, Foreword ...
|  | On the Wings of Eros: Nightly Readings for Passion & Romance
Publication Date: October 1995This luscious collection of romantic readings and amorous suggestions indulges couples' hearts, bodies, and souls. From Pablo Neruda's contemplation of the curves of a woman's body to Diane Ackerman's rumination on the eroticism of a kiss, On the Wings of Eros will help bring readers to a more passionate state of mind. Line drawings. Ribbon marker. ...
|  | Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Brigge (German Edition)
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|  | The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore 1887-1929
Publication Date: March 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0702234850 | ISBN-13: 978-0702234859I shall go as my mother went/ The ink still wet on the page Though probably the only Dame of the British Empire to write a regular column for a Communist newspaper, it was as a poet that Mary Gilmore wanted to be remembered when she died in 1962. She had been publishing poems since the 1880s.But changing tastes as well as newcomers eager for attention have consigned her to a quiet corner in anthologies of Australian poetry.This fully annotated variorum edition will make Gilmore’s remarkable achievement v...
|  | The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Publication Date: May 15, 2007The business of making an American literary iconThe Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical study of Hemingway's professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952 and provides a fascinating look into the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century.This ...
|  | Among My Books: Second Series
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| | Advances in Argumentation Theory and Research
Publication Date: November 1, 1982| ISBN-10: 0809310503 | ISBN-13: 978-0809310500| Edition: 1st For this volume the editors commissioned the top theorists in argumentation and human communication to submit essays in their areas of specialization. Because there are sixteen essays contributed by twenty-one specialists, many points of view are represented in this volume; all of the essayists, however, look upon argumentation as a process of human communication, not a species of formal logic. These essayists see the function of argument as a method of attaining social ...
| | FLESHLY SCH OF POETRY (Victorian Muse Series)
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|  | To the Power of Three
Release Date: June 27, 2006 Josie, Perri, and Kat have been best friends since third grade—the athlete, the drama queen, and the popular beauty. Growing up in an affluent suburb of Baltimore, they enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the high school girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded, one of them critically . . . and the third girl is dead. From multiple-award winner Laura Lippman, one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fict...
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