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E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition) by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAt the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression... -
![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
![The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde]()
The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work consists of the plays "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "A Woman of No Importance". Both the plays deal with the theme of a guilty secret. The wit of the dialogue softens the serious criticism of English manners and morals that lie behind the settings and frivolity of his plays... -
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![The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett]()
The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention...Categorized as:
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![Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan]()
Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHer şeye "karşı" duran, "karşı" çıkan, "karşı" olan bir adam... Aylak Adam... Bir adı bile yok. "C." diyor Yusuf Atılgan kısaca.İnsan her şeye bunca "karşı"yken kendine de "karşı" olmadan nasıl sürdürebilir bir "karşı" yaşamı?C., sıradanlığa, tekdüzeliğe, alışılmışın kolaycılığına hiç mi hiç katlanamıyor. Hem farklıyı hem doğru olanı arıyor. Çabasının boşuna olduğunun da farkında üstelik... -
![What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski]()
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s... -
![Noises Off by Michael Frayn]()
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNoises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour... -
![Trilce by César Vallejo]()
Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
![Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra]()
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... -
![Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett]()
Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity... -
![Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams]()
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOpening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order... -
![The Occasions by Eugenio Montale]()
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov]()
The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBecause Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago... -
![The Gypsy Ballads of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca, Robert G. Harvard]()
The Gypsy Ballads of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca, Robert G. Harvard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTranslations of "Preciosa and the Wind""Walking Asleep," "The Moon, The Moon" "Fracas," "The Gypsy Nun" "Black Trouble" "St. Michael (Granada)""St. Gabriel (Seville)""Dead of Love""The Man Who Was Given a Summons""The Comical History of Pedro, Knight""Walking Asleep""The Unfaithful Married Woman""The Martyrdom of St... -
![Los árboles mueren de pie by Alejandro Casona]()
Los árboles mueren de pie by Alejandro Casona
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlejandro Casona plays with fantasy and reality in his plays. Here we are in play within the play, not in the Pirandellian way but as orchestrating elements of the vaudeville. This work offers a world of fantasy and characters who exemplify a moral idea. They intended to show the viewer the good, beautiful life in its most genuine, kind and wonderful expression... -
![Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης]()
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
![The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank]()
The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity... -
![Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]()
Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Valencia, a poverty stricken city on the coast of Spain, this novel portrays the struggle of the common man against his environment. Based on the author's first hand experience in this area, the story centres around three generations of a poor Valencian family (circa 1900) who are as divided in their views on how to get along in this hostile world as any three individuals can be... -
![Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee]()
Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son... -
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![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
![No Exit and the Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre]()
No Exit and the Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn these two plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of drama. NO EXIT is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. THE FLIES is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story...Categorized as:
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![Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu by Peyami Safa, Erdem Akakçe]()
Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu by Peyami Safa, Erdem Akakçe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPeyami Safa'nın şaheserlerinden Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu, Türk edebiyatında “insan ruhunun derinliklerinde ve labirentlerinde dolaşan ilk roman” olması ve hasta bir insanı ve onun psikolojisini ele alması bakımından önemli bir yere sahiptir... -
![The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound... -
![A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill]()
A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, as Jim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight... -
![The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee]()
The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis volume of plays contains Edward Albee's four most famous one-act works. They are "Death of Bessie Smith", "Zoo Story", "American Dream", and "Sand Box"... -
![Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Rhinoceros, as in his early plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddely apears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the "movement" is universal: a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to "move with the times... -
![A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen]()
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDelivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style... -
![The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard]()
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire... -
![Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates... -
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![Betrayal by Harold Pinter]()
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended... -
![Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson]()
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHerald Loomis turns up at a boardinghouse to look for his missing wife... -
![Campos de Castilla by Antonio Machado]()
Campos de Castilla by Antonio Machado
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith this collection of poems, Antonio Machado y Ruiz became the primary voice of the Spanish artists known as the Generation of 1898. This compilation features an unabridged edition of Machado's landmark work, plus other poems and essays. Introduction, new English translations, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum... -
![Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello]()
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre...Categorized as:
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![Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet]()
Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe him... -
![Enigma Variations by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Jeremy Sams]()
Enigma Variations by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Jeremy Sams
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNobel Prize-winning author Abel Znorko lives as a recluse on a remote island in the Norwegian Seas. For fifteen years, his one friend and soulmate has been Helen, from whom he has been physically separated for the majority of their affair. Journalist Erik Larsen arrives to interview Znorko about his latest book, which is, in fact, a transcript of correspondence between the author and Helen... -
![The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun, 魯迅]()
The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun, 魯迅
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written... -
![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 Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet]()
The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer... -
![Noce i dnie t. III-IV by Maria Dąbrowska]()
Noce i dnie t. III-IV by Maria Dąbrowska
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNiechcicowie wiodą spokojne, jednostajne życie. Mijają kolejne noce i dnie. Dzieci Barbary i Bogumiła - Agnieszka, Emilka i Tomaszek - dorastają. Teraz one przeżywają pierwsze zawody miłosne, rozterki i kłopoty. Niechcicowie cierpliwie im towarzyszą. Ich życie wypełnia praca, troska o dom i głęboka wzajemna miłość... -
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![Manon Lescaut by Vítězslav Nezval]()
Manon Lescaut by Vítězslav Nezval
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdition of the playForeword A. HoffmeisterPhoto M. Hák a J. LukasCaricatures A. Hoffmeister, V. Holub a F... -
![تمت اللعبة by Jean-Paul Sartre]()
تمت اللعبة by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA penetrating introductory discussion of Sartre's philosophy as it is illustrated in his plays and novels... -
![We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker]()
We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires. Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar.. -
![The Illusion by Tony Kushner, Pierre Corneille]()
The Illusion by Tony Kushner, Pierre Corneille
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFreely adapted by playwright Tony Kushner, The Illusion triumphs as a thoroughly modern rendering of Pierre Corneille's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique. This adaptation offers readers the exquisite wordplay, beguiling comedy and fierce intelligence found in all of Kushner's work... -
![La coscienza di Zeno. Senilità. Una vita by Italo Svevo]()
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![The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee]()
The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as "unique ... brilliant ... a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order...
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