The Human Comedy

Reducere. The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from th...

Reducere. A sexy and out-of-this-world alien comedy from the creator of Yokai Girls! Yoshitake, your average company drone, is out for a drive one night when...

DescriptionAfter a SWAT team smashed down stock-market millionaire Shaun Attwood's door, he found himself inside of Arizona's deadliest jail and lo...

Reducere. Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patrick McDonnellMUTTSA is impossibly large. Its subject is the world, all living beings in it, and their relationship with...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knew--a side teeming with real-life surrealism and hi...

Reducere. Teresa, a powerful Claymore, saves a young girl from her bandit captors and leaves the child in the care of some villagers. But triumph quickly giv...

Reducere. Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 3 female Interior set Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best. It's a humorous confection divided...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Albert GilmanThe Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedic play about two endurin...

Reducere. Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's hum...

Reducere. How have the media, government, technology, and history deceived us? Have fake and real become indistinguishable? Were we ever unburdened of disinf...

Reducere. DescriptionOn his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blin...

According to tradition, Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From ...

Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and...

After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of 'The Re...

This perfectly revolting --- and perfectly timely! --- introduction to germs from award-winning comedy writer Edward Kay will turn any kid into a m...

Reducere. Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and e...

DescriptionThis collection of scenes offers drama teachers a wide range of topics to explore through characterisation of the moment. There are scen...

Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of th...

Reducere. "One of the most technically focused on-camera manuals on the market... Morris looks at the neuroscience behind human emotions and what the camera ...

A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot "Powerful and electric...

DescriptionWhat fools these mortals be ?--Puck, Act III, Scene 2, 115Join Bottom the Weaver, Oberon and Titania, and the confused lovers in a serie...

Reducere. -Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today... There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the wa...

DescriptionThe hilarious new comic based on THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, the award-winning animated comedy from ILLUMINATION Ever wonder what your pets...

Reducere. DescriptionThey never expected her to fight back... Eighteen-year old Charlotte Reyes ran away from an abusive home only to end up tricked, kidnapp...

Reducere. Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cy...

Reducere. Lisette Model captures a grotesque vision of postwar American society with her bold and ironic street photographyPublished alongside a double solo ...

Reducere. A contemporary debut novel full of warmth, comedy, character and anarchic radicalism. Peterdown is an epic tale about community - our streets and h...

Photography and pop-culture buffs, get out your crayons and colored pencilsMartin Parr's colorful and tongue-in-cheek photographs--his comedy of co...

Reducere. In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, humanity's only hope is a new breed of warrior known as Claym...

Reducere. Previously published as Diary of a Mad Brownie. Introducing The Enchanted Files--a new magical, modern-day comedy series by the master of funny fan...

Reducere. Years ago, Jane Weatherby had a torrid affair with John Pomfret, the husband of her best friend. Divorces ensued. World War II happened. Prewar par...

Reducere. Sexy, sword-swinging ladies in an epic medieval mo Reads R to L (Japanese Style). In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live amo...

Reducere. Description"These Characters are people we know--they're our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophra...

Reducere. In common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually pe...

Reducere. DescriptionWith compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warri...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside ...

When studious Nariyuki tutors two supergeniuses who are total dunces in their favorite subjects, he'll get a crash course in love Nariyuki Yuiga co...

Reducere. The Ultimate Guide to Help You Master Interpersonal Communication and Build High-Quality Relationships Communication Skills Training is a collectio...

Reducere. This is the untold true story of one citizen's pointless torture and month-long captivity. The story, formerly mistold if not utterly overlooked, h...

Presenting the complete TMNT stories in recommended reading order, including one-shots, crossovers, and event series. Everything a beginner could n...

Reducere. Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy...

This is the story of three former soldiers who meet when serving lengthy prison sentences in a high security prison. Billy, Sam and Toby's friendsh...

DescriptionFor Readers of Jonathan Tropper and Philip Roth, the Darkly Comic, Poignant Story of a Man Caught Between the Aspirations of Youth and t...

Reducere. "A ravenous read." --Kirkus Reviews Shaun of the Dead meets Clueless in this hilarious YA horror comedy set at a local zombie convention--featuring...

Reducere. A ravenous read. --Kirkus Reviews Shaun of the Dead meets Clueless in this hilarious YA horror comedy set at a local zombie convention--featuring a...

Reducere. As a crime wave breaks in the quiet Cotswold streets, Andy Caplet, a failed reporter, is reluctantly immersed in Inspector Hobbes's investigation. ...

Reducere. In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of ...

Reducere. For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. ...

Another brilliant example of Evan Connell's art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his ...

"By page twenty, it was already one of the best graphic novels I'd read in years. By the end, it was one of my favorites ever. Of all time. For God...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contai...

Reducere. "My name is Lancelot Blue Dunkquist, and the best thing about me is, when you doll me up right, I look just like the movie star, James Jansen." Mee...

Reducere. AN IRREVERENT, LIBERAL, TWISTY, TIME TRAVEL COMEDY What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, America...

Reducere. Evening Plays, three new dramas by award-winning playwright Richard Maxwell are a response to Dante's Divine Comedy. The Evening centers around thr...

Reducere. CAROL BURNETT: Danny Kaye's show went off the air in 1967 and The Carol Burnett Show was premiering that fall. All I could think about was, We need...

Action-packed CIA spy thriller, part family dramedy, and full of action, quirky comedy, and all too human characters. Gib Alexander is a divorced s...

DescriptionOn New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year...

Reducere. Not-So-Kosher Stories is a fiction collection of four short romantic comedy and human-interest stories. "My-Not-So Kosher Wedding" is about a Jewis...

Reducere. The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from charabancs on morning or evening or circular driv...

Description"This brilliant little book is clear, lucid, and easy to read. It is packed with fascinating information that I didn't know, and I suspe...