Product Description: Shakespearean characters from Hamlet to Much Ado about Nothing contrast prose and verse in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons that can be very revealing of certain aspects of their personalities. First published in 1951, this book assesses the use of prose in Shakespeare's plays and, in doing so, asks larger questions about the playwright's technique and aims...read more

Product Description: A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.The Classic StoriesEdgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of BabylonThe Great WritersMelville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullersThe Little-Known MasterpiecesEdith Wharton’s The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr...read more

Accompanied by new critical essays, three of Shakespeare's histories dramatize England's fifteenth-century civil wars, tracing the rise and fall of a British king, from his coronations to his exile and return. Reissue.

Product Description: Da Capo Press, New York, 1968.

A comprehensive anthology gathers classic short stories by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Anton Chekhov, among other notables. Reissue. (view table of contents)