Category: Literature & Poetry

The volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000). Making use of contemporary critical and feminist theory, the study offers close dramatic and theatrical readings of the plays highlighting Churchill's concerns with feminism, socialism and theatrical style. A key chapter on 'The Woman Writer' examines those plays, including Cloud Nine and Top Girls, which brought Churchill to the attention of the international feminist theatre acade...
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The Chivalry of Crime: A Novel

By: Barry, Desmond

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books : March 2001

Seller ID: 46516

ISBN-13: 9780316120845

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Chivalry of Crime, is the story of one of America's most compelling figures, the outlaw gunslinger Jesse James. Bringing real and invented characters together in a dramatic and moving story, The Chivalry of Crime mingles the life of an imaginary boy with a factually faithful account of the lives of Jesse James and Robert Ford, the man who killed James, in the days when shootists were legends. Joshua, a young, idealistic friend of Ford's, is determined to get a gun of his own -- a desire that puts his own life in jeopardy and reveals the painful realities masked by some of America's most ch...
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Take Each Day One Step at a Time : Poems to Inspire and Encourage the Journey to Recovery

By: BLUE MOPUNTAIN ATRS COLLECTIONS (EDT)

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Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts : 1994-10-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 17679

ISBN-13: 9780883963951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As a source of comfort and reassurance, this collection offers positive support and encouragement to those in search of a happier and healthier life.
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The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

By: Brook, Peter

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Scribner : December 1995

Seller ID: 53817

ISBN-13: 9780684829579

Binding: Trade Paperback

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From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century. As relevant as when it was first published in 1968, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing a theatrical performance--of any scale. He describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting...
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The Good Earth

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : June 2001

Seller ID: 59869

ISBN-13: 9780671510121

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
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A Clockwork Orange

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 1995

Seller ID: 63033

ISBN-13: 9780393312836

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition...
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Interzone

By: Burroughs, William S.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Books : February 1990

Seller ID: 60779

ISBN-13: 9780140094510

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history.Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the ext...
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Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Modern Library : June 2006

Seller ID: 51786

ISBN-13: 9780812975932

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Witness the coming together of Truman Capote's voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature."--The Washington Post Book World "A great breezy read . . . with Capote's trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York."--New York A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil,...
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The Battlefield Photographer

By: Carmine Sarracino

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Orchises Press : 2008-01-27 00:00:00

Seller ID: 20740

ISBN-13: 9781932535167

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Don Quixote De La Mancha

By: Cervantes, Miguel de

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : February 1986

Seller ID: 58865

ISBN-13: 9780374519438

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics)

By: Charles Dickens

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks : September 2000

Seller ID: 7509

ISBN-13: 9780439101332

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Scrooge learns a thing or two about Christmas, with the help of a few ghosts.
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The Woman in White

By: collins, wilkie

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Madison Park Press : January 2001

Seller ID: 62847

ISBN-13: 9781582882079

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Barnes Noble Books : January 1995

Seller ID: 19576

ISBN-13: 9781566197588

Binding: Hardcover

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The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

By: Daley-Ward, Yrsa

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : June 2018

Seller ID: 49531

ISBN-13: 9780143132622

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize - Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award "Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times "Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding redemption Through her signature sharp, searing poems, this is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward and all the things that happened. "Even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things." It's about her childhood in the northwest of England with her bea...
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Moll Flanders (Signet Classics)

By: Daniel Defoe

Price: $2.98

Publisher: Signet Classics : 1996-04-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 9870

ISBN-13: 9780451526335

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Red Sphinx

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Pegasus Books : January 2018

Seller ID: 60562

ISBN-13: 9781681776156

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes.Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII-and introducing ...
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