The Human Comedy

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

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

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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...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Gene D. PhillipsAuthor: Stanley Kubrick"I might try to make something of an imperfect story with my efforts as a writer, bu...

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

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 ...

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...

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

This book engages students-particularly those who may not be very familiar with many plays-in the theatre experience by focusing on just four plays...

This book develops a theory of comedy by analyzing the television situation comedy Seinfeld and demonstrating how comedy presents a comic vision of...

America's Tony Hoagland is known for his provocative poetry which interrogates human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urge...

In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them w...

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

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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...

DescriptionJedidiah Jenkins is a farmer--but his cash crop isn't corn or soy. Jed grows fast-healing, plug-and-play human organs. Lose a finger? Ne...

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Reducere. The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso--together in one volume. Belonging in the immortal company of the g...

The sequel to the award-winning Shadow Forest, from Haig, who also writes novels for adults. Features a troll who runs away from the forest to be w...

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...

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...

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

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

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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...

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

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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...

In "Purgatorio", Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who ...

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...

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

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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...

A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human natureComic Potential ...

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...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divin...

'John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experi...

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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...

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 gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring t...

Reducere. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring t...

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...

DescriptionCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and...

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life--lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerk...

A mystery, a comedy, and a riveting human drama rolled into one, from the bestselling author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVILPublisher: H...

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One of Britain's best-loved comedy stars gives an infectiously humorous account of his life so far. Ranganathan also writes for }The Guardian{ and ...

Reducere. From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belong...

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

DescriptionTheatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Third Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with...

Reducere. The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely c...

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. 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...

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