Empire Writing
1,549円 `The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together...
Picnic Plus 3: 4 Plays
1,399円 “Inge reveals the powerful mysteries in our lives.”ーTennessee Williams Four plays by a quintessential twentieth-century playwrightーCome Back, Little Sheba; Picnic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Bus Stop; and The Dark at the Top of the Stairsーwith a foreword by the author. “This nice, well-bred...
Conversation With A Barn Cat
450円 Drawing on his experiences as a rural Missouri goat farmer, the author has produced a short collection of essays that will bring a smile of recognition to those who love the people, the land, and the culture of the Ozarks. Describing activities as pastoral as a stroll across a newly mowed hay fie...
Isle of Slaves and Other Plays
562円 Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all o...
A Tree Full of Honey
450円 Short fiction by Molly Patterson. A lonely man in an airport bar meets two strangers who turn out to be more than he bargained for.
The Little Book Of Monologues
450円 A selection of five monologues (one male, four female) from the author of The East Lake Series. For auditions, workshops and acting classes.
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
2,022円 In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is...
Salvation in New England
4,091円 The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American lite...
Colonial American Travel Narratives
777円 Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in...
A Moment In Time
1,150円 A Moment In Time is Eric Brook's first novel, almost entirely written on an iPhone. Set in Sydney, the book is set on Thursday 1 April 2010. It follows women working in Sydney from various points of view as they do jobs that many people would not consider doing. Many people's biggest physical pro...
Dearest Creature
2,488円 A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love...
The Birds and Beasts of Mark Twain
2,647円 Long before moving pictures were invented, youngsters from eight to eighty were being charmed by a special kind of animated cartoonーthe word sketches of Mark Twain. His descriptions and episodes involving animals have all the life of a Walt Disney production with the added advantage of the great...
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