Product Description: Considered by Henry Green to be one of his best novels, "Concluding" tells the story of the strange events events that occur in a single day at a State-run school for girls. Retired scientist Mr. Rock, "an old man in love with his goose," lives in a cottage with his adult granddaughter Elizabeth...read more

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This sympathetic portrayal of adolescence tells how young Cress sets out to change her personality and becomes an individual

"A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience." —Los Angeles TimesHere in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière's satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' Eight Great Tragedies (also available in a Meridian edition). (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The Unnamable is the third novel in Beckett's trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider, and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett...read more

Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .

Product Description: From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend, Mann’s writes about two Indian friends, Shridaman and Nanda, whom together, decide to decapitate themselves...read more

Product Description: The mad MacCullochs live in a heavily barricaded plantation in Barbados. The peasants love them, yet the prosperous white business contingent view them with indignant suspicion—how do they live there and why?

Tells the stories of Theseus, Nessus, Hercules, Orpheus, Adonis, Morpheus, and Aeneas

Surveys the history, economy and social customs of a Mexican village, noting the ways in which peasants have adapted to urbanization and industrialization (view table of contents)

An affluent young man struggles to maintain a healthy balance between his sympathy for less fortunate friends and his instinct for self protection (view table of contents)

In 1925, the arrival of a beautiful mulatto girl named Gabriela from the backlands to become the new cook in a popular local caf‚ transforms the lives of many inhabitants of the provincial Brazilian city of Ilh‚us. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The enthusiasm of Robertson Davies for the spirit of Mr Punch has taken witty form in this entertainment which Dr Davies wrote for the Preparatory School boys of Upper Canada College, Toronto. The incidents associated with the traditional Punch Show are all here, but they are witnessed and criticized by uncomprehending spokesmen for the modern theatre - newspaper critics, television producers, one playwright representing the school of "American Southern Decadence" and a member of the Board of Directors of the Stratford Festival...read more

Product Description: The Beach is set against the background of an Italian resort where a varied group of people are spending the summer. The narrrator probes the relationship of a young, married couple, noting every gesture, phrase, and implication.

Fictionally portrays the private and public lives of the Roman Emperor from 76 to 138 A.D

Product Description: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."―Saul Bellow Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present―what he refers to as his "naked history"―in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy...read more

Diagramed instructions for a wide variety of games tailored to all grade levels for the development of the basic skills and strategies needed for nine standard team sports

Product Description: Born and brought up in Crisfield on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Helen Avalynne Tawes (1898-1989) gained her knowledge of Maryland cookery as most Maryland girls did in those times: at her mother's elbow. As the wife of Maryland Governor J...read more