By Ibsen, Henrik; Ibsen, Henrik; Shawn, Wallace

ISBN-10: 1559364491

ISBN-13: 9781559364492

ISBN-10: 1559367563

ISBN-13: 9781559367561

"Internationally well known actor-playwright adapts Henrik Ibsen's grasp Builder. Shawn's performs are every little thing you dream of theatre being-really clever, stimulating, unsettling, hilarious, and fair. the standard of his writing locations Shawn within the corporation of heavyweight playwright-thinkers like Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill." -Don Shewey. recognized for his difficult and provocative prose, Wallace Shawn, operating with long-time collaborator André Gregory, has spent approximately fifteen years adapting one in every of Ibsen's maximum works. a movie model, directed by way of Jonathan Demme, is determined for spring 2013. Wallace Shawn is the writer of OBIE Award-winning performs Our overdue evening, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Fever. different works contain Marie and Bruce, The certain Mourner, and the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre, during which he additionally starred"-- Read more...

By Rudyard Kipling

ISBN-10: 1562548689

ISBN-13: 9781562548681

A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxurious liner and falls into success, disguised within the type of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty group train the younger guy to be worthy his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with event and humor.

By Linda Oatman High, Kestutis Kasparavicius

ISBN-10: 1563978040

ISBN-13: 9781563978043

By Julian Pattison (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0333437004

ISBN-13: 9780333437001

ISBN-10: 1349093572

ISBN-13: 9781349093571

By S. Prokofiev, J. Gukova

ISBN-10: 073581189X

ISBN-13: 9780735811898

Written in 1936, Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy story for narrator and orchestra has enchanted generations of youngsters. This inviting photograph publication introduces a brand new new release of kids to the fascinating tale of the hungry wolf, the ill-fated duck, the lucky cat, the fearless little fowl, and the courageous and crafty Peter, who is helping shop his buddies from the wolf's jaws -- and the wolf from the hunters' weapons.

By Marie D’Agoult, Daniel Stern, Lynn Hoggard

ISBN-10: 079145911X

ISBN-13: 9780791459119

ISBN-10: 0791459128

ISBN-13: 9780791459126

ISBN-10: 1417537434

ISBN-13: 9781417537433

First released in 1846 lower than the pen identify Daniel Stern, Nelida tells the tale of an attractive French heiress who surrenders everything—marriage, recognition, and an aristocratic approach of life—for the affection of a skilled younger center classification painter. in accordance with the author’s personal ten-year dating with the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, the radical quick turned the scandalous bestseller of its day. Its writer, Marie d’Agoult, has emerged as probably the most striking ladies of her time. An aristocratic Parisian girl who left her husband and baby to develop into the spouse of Liszt, d’Agoult turned an entire lady of letters whose works incorporated an incredible heritage of the 1848 revolution in Paris. In Nelida, her purely significant novel, she brings to existence the deeply intimate components of her personal tale and the period during which it happened. Written with a willing sensitivity to social mores and mental nuances, the unconventional finds the primal cry of a lady made up our minds to manage her personal future with out betraying her womanhood. showing the following for the 1st time in English, Lynn Hoggard’s translation of Nelida is ripe for rereading through today’s readers.

By Charles Turley

By Merle A. Williams

ISBN-10: 0521104076

ISBN-13: 9780521104074

Henry James and the Philosophical Novel breaks clean flooring via interpreting James's special place as a philosophical novelist, heavily linked to the weather of principles generated through his brother William. It considers storytelling as a style of philosophical enquiry, displaying how a number unique thinkers have trusted fictional narrative as a strategy for formulating and clarifying their rules; and investigates (with shut connection with his novels) the affiliations among James's perform as a novelist and modern epistemological, ethical, and linguistic issues.

By Thomas Hardy

ISBN-10: 1411433262

ISBN-13: 9781411433267

ISBN-10: 1593082282

ISBN-13: 9781593082284

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by means of Thomas Hardy, is a part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which bargains caliber variations at cheap costs to the coed and the final reader, together with new scholarship, considerate layout, and pages of conscientiously crafted extras. listed here are a few of the amazing positive aspects of Barnes & Noble Classics: All variants are superbly designed and are published to enhanced requisites; a few contain illustrations of historic curiosity. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls jointly a constellation of influences—biographical, old, and literary—to enhance each one reader's knowing of those enduring works. Highly arguable as a result of its frank examine the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles was once still an excellent advertisement luck whilst it seemed in 1891. it's now one in every of the best novels in English.Using richly poetic language to border a shattering narrative of affection, seduction, betrayal, and homicide, Hardy tells the tale of Tess Durbeyfield, a gorgeous younger girl residing together with her impoverished kin in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by way of Hardy. After the kinfolk learns in their connection to the rich d’Urbervilles, they ship Tess to assert a section of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by way of the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a baby, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. a truly various guy, Angel Clare, turns out to provide Tess love and salvation, yet he rejects her—on their marriage ceremony night—after studying of her previous. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by way of the self-righteous stress of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of ardour via a terrible, determined act.With its compassionate portrait of a tender rural lady, robust feedback of social conference, and disarming attention of the function of future in human lifestyles, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is without doubt one of the such a lot relocating and noteworthy of Hardy’s novels.David Galef has released 9 books: the novels Flesh and Turning eastern; kid's books, The Little pink Bicycle and Tracks; translations of eastern proverbs, Even Monkeys Fall from bushes or even a Stone Buddha Can speak; a piece of literary feedback, The assisting forged; an edited anthology of essays referred to as moment techniques: a spotlight on Rereading; and, so much lately, the short-story assortment snort tune. additionally, he has written greater than seventy brief tales for magazines starting from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism foreign, and the yank Shenandoah. His essays and experiences have seemed within the ny occasions, Newsday, the Village Voice, 20th Century Literature, The Columbia heritage of the British Novel, and plenty of different areas. he's a professor of English on the college of Mississippi, the place he additionally administers the M.F.A. software in inventive writing.

By R. W. Schambach