Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for..... More
Bedford/St. Martin's, January 1994. Paper Back. Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary..... More
Yale University Press, July 2004. Trade Paperback. The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist "Burton Raffel is surely one of the profession's top linguists and scholars, and the application here of his vast knowledge of linguistics to Romeo and..... More
Grove Press, August 1997. Trade Paperback. A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around..... More
Vintage, March 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1941. Cloth. {5 & 3/4' x 9'} Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decorations. Mild wear of board edges. Two small tears in cloth at top spine edge. Binding tight at base of spine and somewhat pulled at spine head. Textblock top edge..... More
Theatre Communications Group, November 2015. Trade Paperback. Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us.--The New Yorker Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a...... More
Penguin Classics, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Based on a true story that stunned the world, "M. Butterfly" opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government - and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he..... More
Scribner Book Company, June 2008. Trade Paperback. Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved countless readers and become an American classic. Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent..... More
Theatre Arts Books, 1995. Reprint. Cloth. This classic work on acting is one of the very few that stands beside Stanislavsky as a must-have for all acting students and professionals. Richard Boleslavsky's Acting: The First Six Lessons is a treasure-box of wise observation about the art of acting, all wrapped..... More
Atheneum. First Edition. Cloth. First American edition. Octavo in jacket with edgewear and stray soiling marks. Darkening of jacket edges and folds. Front flap is partially washed out/discolored. Not clipped. Caramel colored cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine edge. Foxing of textblock edges. [293 pages]. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1997. Paper Back. Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the horror..... More
Penguin Classics, March 2003. Trade Paperback. A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction..... More
Anchor Books, January 2002. Trade Paperback. "Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature--from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. "The Hollanders ... act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through..... More
Crown, June 2013. Hardcover. A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization andcontainthe finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
New Directions, April 1979. Trade Paperback. A "melo-melo in seven scenes," Just Wild About Harry is Henry Miller's only excursion into playwriting. Harry is pure Miller, welling up from the same abundant love of life and freedom from convention that made its author the dean of writers dedicated to human..... More
Grove Press, June 1954. Trade Paperback. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 2000. Trade Paperback. This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1959. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Anchor paperback original. Mass market. With darkened spine and margins. [507 pages]. More
Riverhead Books, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata..... More
Random House Inc, September 1995. Hardcover. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically..... More
Mariner Books, October 1962. Trade Paperback. New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index. More
