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Pulitzer Prize Plays: The First Fifty Years : A

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Firestone, Paul A., PUBLISHER: Limelight Editions, Insightful and inspiring analysis of the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize during the first 50 years of its existence (). In a series of accessible and straightforward essays, Paul Firestone provides insight into how these dramas reflect America's cultural values and mores, organizing them by their major themes: family life, social protest, political heroes, the spiritual condition of man, and morality in a materialistic society.

Lost River: A Chapbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tate, James, PUBLISHER: Sarabande Books, "Tate's originality was confirmed almost thirty years ago... testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry."-John Ashbery James Tate's "Selected Poems" was published in , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. His collection, "Worshipful Company of Fletchers," published in , was awarded the National Book Award. In , the Academy of American Poets presented him with the Tanning Prize. "Shroud of the Gnome" was published by Ecco Press in . Tate teaches at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst.

Fifty Years of Coronation Street

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Randall, Tim, PUBLISHER: Headline Book Publishing, Coronation Street first hit British screens at the end of , a groundbreaking show based on real life and using accents that had never been heard on British television before. It was an instant hit, and has remained consistently one of the UK's most popular shows ever since. The joy of Coronation Street is in the quality and humor of its writing, and the wonderful characters that have been created over the years. For the first time, here is a book that not only reminds readers of all the storylines over the last fifty years, but also celebrates these two very special things. The book includes profiles of fifty Coronation Street icons--from Ena Sharples to David Platt--and the author has had unprecedented access in order to include interviews with all of those still with us. There are also hilarious extracts from the script and classic lines remembered.

The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim, PUBLISHER: Presidio Press, "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.

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Beth Henley Collected Plays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Henley, Beth, PUBLISHER: Smith & Kraus, Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart, which was the co-winner in of the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Henley's screenplay for the film version of Crimes of the Heart won her an Academy Award Nomination. The film was directcd by Bruce Beresford and starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. She wrote the screenplay for Miss Firecracker starring Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen and Tim Robbins, the screenplay for Nobody's Fool starring Rosanna Arquette and Eric Roberts, a teleplay for the PBS series, Trying Times, and co-wrote David Byrne's True Stories. Beth Henley was born and raised in Mississippi, is a graduate from Southern Methodist University and lives in Los Angeles with her son Patrick. Acquista Ora

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Fifty Years of English Song Selections from the Poets of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Henry F Randolph, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Fifty Years of Good Reading:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: University, Of Texas Press / University of Texas Press, PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press, The fifty years since the founding of the University of Texas Press have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing. Computer technology has changed how we do everything, from corresponding with authors by e-mail to editing and designing books on-screen to selling them in cyberspace. University presses are pondering the future of scholarly books in a market increasingly dominated by chain bookstores, large wholesalers, and bookselling websites, while the very nature of the book itself is up for debate. Will electronic texts replace printed words on paper by ? One thing that has not changed in the last fifty years is our desire to publish the most outstanding books in our areas of expertise. This three-volume set presents a "best of the best" selection from the University of Texas Press' first half-century. The illustrated anniversary volume contains over 175 excerpts from classic, award-winning titles spanning all fifty years and all of our major discipline areas, along with a brief history of the press and a complete list of our books and journals. Accompanying the anniversary volume are T. H. White's The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, a New York Times bestseller at its publication in , and 100 Love Sonnets / Cien sonetos de amor, one of Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda's most-loved works and a perennial bestseller for the Press. These three volumes, elegantly bound and slipcased, will be a distinguished keepsake for all the many friends of the University of Texas Press.

Samuel Beckett

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bloom, Harold, PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publications, Irish dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his highly acclaimed body of work, including the play Waiting for Godot, his best-known work and a staple of the modern stage. Half a century after it was first published, the play is considered the forerunner of the plays of Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, and others. Harold Bloom introduces this volume of new critical essays about Beckett and his works, which is complete with a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography of his works, and an index.

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The Bounty

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walcott, Derek, PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux, "The Bounty" was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves," Walcott's great contemporary Joseph Brodsky once observed. "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language."

Love in the Time of Cholera

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel / Grossman, Edith, PUBLISHER: Vintage Books USA, In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

The Second Four Books of Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Merwin, W. S., PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press, W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii. W.S. Merwin's "Second Four Books of Poems" includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy." Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium: "East Window" (Copper Canyon Press), "The First Four Books of Poems" (Copper Canyon Press), -X "Flower & Hand" (Copper Canyon Press),

New York Yankee Openers: An Opening Day History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spatz, Lyle / Alvarez, Mark, PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company, On April , a crowd of filled Washingtons American League Park to watch the New York Highlanders (renamed the Yankees three years later) play their first American League game. Once the pregame festivities ended, the team that was to become baseballs most storied got off to a rather inauspicious beginning, losing to the hometown Senators 3-1. From through , the New York Yankees opening game for each season is fully covered in this book. The game descriptions are nearly inning-by-inning, highlighting the big plays and the top performances. The comprehensive game accounts are augmented by rich looks at the pageantry of opening day, from the parades on the streets to who threw out the seasons first pitch. Each account concludes with a brief overview of the Yankees entire season.

Big Breath of a Wish

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harrison, Richard, PUBLISHER: Wolsak and Wynn, Richard Harrison's fourth book of poetry delves deeply into the linguistic discoveries children make in their first two years of life.This is a fasciniating read. With Big Breath of a Wish, this popular poet has made a significant addition to his oeuvre. Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.

An Anthology of Plays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schwab, Werner / Sanford, Gerlinde U. / Mitchell, Michael, PUBLISHER: Ariadne Press (CA), Schwab's first play was performed in ; in German critics elected him playwright of the year; he died in , leaving behind a total of some fifteen plays. Many of his plays created a furore when produced, but their stage effectiveness made them very successful with theater audiences. His disrupted language constantly breaks the roles of syntax and ignores the conventions of expression. Yet it still works. Indeed, it is a very effective instrument for revealing the violence which lies not so far below the surface of "respectable" society, which is Schwab's major theme.

Kant: A Biography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kuehn, Manfred, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemporary philosophy. Taking account of the most recent scholarship, Manfred Kuehn allows the reader to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure in modern philosophy. Manfred Kuehn was formerly Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. A specialist on German philosophy of the period, he is the author of numerous articles and papers on Immanuel Kant.

My Life in France

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Child, Julia / Prud'homme, Alex, PUBLISHER: Anchor Books, Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of "good "cooking with her cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking "and her television show "The French Chef," but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed, when she first arrived in with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia's unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.

Dance, Monster!: Fifty Selected Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rogal, Stan / Rogal, Stanley Wm, PUBLISHER: Insomniac Press, Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong, philosophy, linguistics, chaos theory, theatre and sexuality, Stan Rogal's poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogal's best poems from the last thirty years; it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

The First Four Years

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Laura Ingalls Wilder, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, NA

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