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Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century... -
![Incidences by Daniil Kharms]()
Incidences by Daniil Kharms
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments ? many of which the author called ?incidents? ? that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death... -
![Old Hat, New Hat by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
Old Hat, New Hat by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIllus. in full color. "Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. Offers slapstick humor and simple concepts of sizes and shape."--School Library Journal... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
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![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![The Complete Plays by Joe Orton]()
The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward... -
![Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.]()
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it... -
![Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli]()
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity... -
![A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert]()
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair, looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad... -
![The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth]()
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts... -
![Flow Chart by John Ashbery]()
Flow Chart by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's "Poetry Review," "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing... -
![Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan]()
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![Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. This title features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in "Bill the Conqueror" (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in "Summer Lightning" (1929)... -
![Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan]()
Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published 1976, Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork, a collection of ninety-four poems, was Brautigan's seventh collection of poetry; his ninth poetry book publication. This collection was unique in that the poems were grouped in eight titled sections and featured the crow as a dominant figure throughout... -
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![Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]()
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses... -
![Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan]()
Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRommel Drives on Deep into Egypt by Richard Brautigan. a collection of eighty-five poems, was Brautigan's sixth collection of poetry; his eighth poetry book publication. Brautigan visited Roxy and Judy Gordon in Austin, Texas, in August 1970. While there he was issued a Texas fishing license (August 14, 1970). It notes his height (6'4") and weight (165 pounds)... -
![American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes]()
American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax... -
![Like People in History by Felice Picano]()
Like People in History by Felice Picano
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTraces forty years in the life of two gay men who share a madcap but enduring relationship and a passion for a handsome Vietnam veteran, against the backdrop of gay urban culture from the fifties up to the present... -
![Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus]()
Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions... -
![All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark]()
All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpanning her entire career to date, All the Stories of Muriel Spark contains four brand-new tales. Now in hand is every single one of her forty-one marvelous stories. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, never-departing guests, and imaginary chauffers... -
![Distortions by Ann Beattie]()
Distortions by Ann Beattie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor... -
![Forsaking All Others by Emilie Loring]()
Forsaking All Others by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dazzling young star exits stage West. A hasty ceremony, a quick kiss and Jennifer Haydon and Dr. Bradley Maxwell were united for life. Jenny didn’t expect to live happily ever after with her new husband. After all, they didn’t love each other... -
![The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass]()
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Flesh is one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America famous." He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy... -
![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
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![Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler]()
Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novel of adventure, personal disclosure, violence, and finally--a strange redemption... -
![Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante]()
Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U.S. from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography--such as the section entitled "Some Revelations," which consists of several blank pages--this novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau]()
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
![White People by Allan Gurganus]()
White People by Allan Gurganus
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn these eleven stories, Allan Gurganus—author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All—gives heartbreaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires and triumphs of a grand cast of Americans... -
![Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook annotation not available for this title... -
![Titaantjes by Nescio, Joost Swarte]()
Titaantjes by Nescio, Joost Swarte
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovelle over een groepje hooggestemde maar weinig daadkrachtige jongemannen... -
![Girls on the Run by John Ashbery]()
Girls on the Run by John Ashbery
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA book-length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious. Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls... -
![The Prodigious Physician by Jorge de Sena]()
The Prodigious Physician by Jorge de Sena
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis astonishing erotic and ironic novel is set in vaguely medieval times, but the tone is starkly modern. A young gentleman is traveling on horseback when he stops by a river to rest and bathe... -
![The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee]()
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards... -
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![Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe]()
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude... -
![Three Tall Women by Edward Albee]()
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlbee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room... -
![Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann]()
Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn addition to Death in Venice, this volume includes "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "Felix Krull," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Tonio Kröger."These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself... -
![A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]()
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFollowing the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths... -
![All Done by Kindness by Doris Langley Moore, Miguel Ros]()
All Done by Kindness by Doris Langley Moore, Miguel Ros
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“There are some embroidered waistcoats . . . They are very old. A museum might be glad of them. . . . There are some pictures too,” Mrs. Hovenden brought out with a fresh effort, “oil paintings that were in the rector’s family... -
![Karius and Baktus by Thorbjørn Egner]()
Karius and Baktus by Thorbjørn Egner
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKarius and Bactus (original Norwegian title: Karius og Baktus) is a Norwegian children's novel written and illustrated by Thorbjørn Egner... -
![Show and Tell by Robert Munsch]()
Show and Tell by Robert Munsch
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBen wants to take something really neat to school for show and tell. What could be neater than his new baby sister? But his sister doesn’t want to co-operate. She cries in his backpack. She cries at the teacher. She cries at the principal, who decides she must be sick. When they call in a doctor, she cries harder... -
![Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson]()
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKen Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. A bittersweet portrait of the rock n roll generation at the precise moment they realize the fireworks ended yesterday... -
![Master Class. by Terrence McNally]()
Master Class. by Terrence McNally
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaster Class is a pyrotechnical theater-fireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang... -
![The World and Other Places: Stories by Jeanette Winterson]()
The World and Other Places: Stories by Jeanette Winterson
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHer first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made English novelist Jeanette Winterson not just admired but beloved by her many fans. There are the surprising, fresh little phrases minted expressly to convey the delicate realities of the made-up world. There's the humor, fierce and sly but always kind... -
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![The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold]()
The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBasis for the major motion picture from New Line Cinema —starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack—in theaters November 2007When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected—a lot more... -
![Tango: A Play in Three Acts by Sławomir Mrożek]()
Tango: A Play in Three Acts by Sławomir Mrożek
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Tango, as in Mrozek's earlier plays, perfect logic is energetically applied to illogical ends. Arthur lives with his Bohemian family in appalling disorder: His mother sleeps with a vulgar hoodlum; his father looks the other way, meanwhile writing avant-garde plays; and his grandmother plays cards incessantly... -
![Hay Fever by Noël Coward]()
Hay Fever by Noël Coward
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spirited children Simon and Sorel appear with guests of their own. A housefull of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare... -
![Lijmen / Het Been by Willem Elsschot]()
Lijmen / Het Been by Willem Elsschot
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'Nu ja, lijmen. De mensen bepraten en dan doen tekenen. En als zij getekend hebben, krijgen zij het ook werkelijk thuis.' Met deze cryptische zin probeert Boorman, de hoofdpersoon uit Lijmen / Het been, zijn nieuw geworven assistent in het vak in te wijden dat hij bij uitstek beheerst: lijmen... -
![The Head of Kay's: Special Edition by P.G. Wodehouse]()
The Head of Kay's: Special Edition by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe story features practical jokes, fighting between the boys, burglaries, a mugging in the local village, politics amongst the houses of the school, a trip to an army-style camp, and plenty of cricket, rugby, and other school sports. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection... -
![The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames]()
The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere...
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