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The Complete Aeschylus
Volume I: The Oresteia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
The Astaires
Fred & Adele
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in London, their impact culturally, and the essence of their partnership on and off the stage.
The Complete Euripides
Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke...
Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War
Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also...
Show and Tell
The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Jerome Robbins never choreographed the famous "Dance at the Gym" in West Side Story? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for texting during a...
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And yet, they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous opinions. Like its...
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language....
Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives...
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric...
How Literature Works
50 Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his...
by Paul Fussell
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1975
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark...
by Hannah W. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 1987
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her....
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest...