This collection of plays by Oscar Wilde includes three of his most famous plays including The Importance of Being Earnest, a three-act play that highlights the double standards prevalent in British society at the time. In the second play, Lady Windermere's fan, a four-act comedy, Wilde introduces us to a modernist take on the proper behavior expected of women in the Victorian times. The play c…
Oscar Wilde was a writer and playwright who contributed to literature and the annals of history in various forms. This volume of poems ranges from some of his earliest works to newer ones, including "E Tenebris", and possibly the most popular of his poems, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". This range of poems depicts Wilde's growth as an artist and person, as sees in his choice of subjects from fo…
Why are novels so popular? What makes a novel different from other types of writing? How can you find the right novel for you? Delve into literature and discover exactly what a novel is. What makes a great novel? How are characters important? What is a setting? Using great examples from past and present, this book explains clearly what is meant by a novel, before prompting you to write your own!
Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them. Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular "By the Book" feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book R…
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in …
A collection of classic theatrical whodunnits includes Ten Little Indians, Witness for the Prosecution, and The Mousetrap, the longest running play in history.
Steaming is set in the Turkish Room of a run-down Public Baths in the East End of London, where five women regularly meet, to bathe, relax, and share their troubles. A plan to close the baths down brings them even closer together to oppose it. Winner of The Society of West End Theatre Award for The Comedy of the Year, 1981 and The Standard Drama Award for The Most Promising New Playwright, 1981…
A critical analysis of the major trends in contemporary American theater examines the works of a wide range of playwrights, including Neil Simon, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and Amiri Baraka
Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.
Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to ériture féminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic sup…
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to ériture féminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic sup…
Realizing Reason pursues three interrelated themes. First, it traces the essential moments in the historical unfolding--from the ancient Greeks, through Descartes, Kant, and developments in the nineteenth century, to the present--that culminates in the realization of pure reason as a power of knowing. Second, it provides a cogent account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into object…
Macbeth is Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume the throne of Scotland. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on ""Macbeth"". Students will also benefit from the additional features included in this volume, such as an introduction…