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Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Other Worksby L. David Allen
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1977; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Other Works, you explore the American author's original three Foundation books, the three Empire novels, The End of Eternity , and The Gods Themselves . The Foundation Trilogy , written between 1951-53 is celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's most famous work. In the three-book series, he portrays the ruin and rebirth of a futuristic interstellar empire. In this study guide, you'll find Life and Background on the Author, Introduction... more...
Lee's To Kill a Mockingbirdby Tammy Castleman
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird, you explore Harper Lee's literary masterpiece — a novel that deals with Civil Rights and racial bigotry in the segregated southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of the memorable Scout Finch, the novel tells the story of her father, Atticus, as he hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through... more...
Topdog/Underdogby Suzan-Lori Parks
Theatre Communications Group 2002; US$ 13.95The piercing work is an extraordinary new departure. more...
Triangular Roadby Paule Marshall
Basic Civitas Books 2009; US$ 14.00In Triangular Road , famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall’s life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent. In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados, and eventually Africa, Marshall comes to comprehend the historical enormity of the African diaspora, an understanding that fortifies her sense of purpose as a writer. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Paule Marshall offers an indelible portrait of a young black woman coming of age as a novelist in a literary world dominated... more...
Of Indigo and Saffronby Michael McClure; Leslie Scalapino
University of California Press 2010; US$ 24.95This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence, Of Indigo and Saffron i s both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's landmark volumes for those already familiar with his boldly inventive work. One of the five poets who heralded the Beat movement in the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, McClure reveals in his poetry a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku. These poems?grounded in imagination... more...
2013by Daniel Pinchbeck; Richard Grossinger
North Atlantic Books 2011; US$ 16.95For the Earth to move to the next vibration, says Richard Grossinger, consciousness must change in profound ways, and these involve core elements of humanity: evil, grief, bliss, and compassion. 2013 locates these elements in often unlikely places and seeks their nature and capacity for change. With playfulness and precision, 2013 tackles the questions of creation and existence in their twenty-first-century incarnation. In these intellectual field notes, the author’s absorbing style combines memoir with scientific deconstruction, metaphysical ontology, and experimental prose that recalls the Black Mountain school to draw transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. Moving with equal ease between matters... more...
Midnight Playsby Leon Katz
Boson Books 2000; US$ 7.50Midnight Plays anthologizes four plays from four different worlds of story-telling: a Victorian tale of vampires ( Dracula/Sabbat ), a story of Jewish mysticism ( The Dybbuk ), a scatological retelling of the Oedipus myth ( Swellfoot's Tears ), and a tale from the Marquis de Sade (Justine). Their common denominator is their Grand Guignol environment that plays into and pays homage to the Grand Guignol spirit of the past century's morality. Each of the four protagonists?Justine, Swellfoot, Dracula, Channan?plays holy fool who whether he shares or is outraged by that morality?it makes little difference?is brutally victimized by it. The plays explore what is left of heroism, possibly meaningless, certainly helpless, but, paradoxically, still uncompromising?... more...
39 Microlecturesby Matthew Goulish
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.9539 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything. more...
McCarthy's All the Pretty Horsesby Jeanne Inness
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. Run away with John and Lacey in CliffsNotes on All the Pretty Horses . McCarthy’s adventure novel brings you along on a journey through Texas and into Mexico . Explore the loss of innocence, mankind’s relationship to nature, and more. With help from this study guide, you won’t be confused by the Spanish terminology or unnamed characters. Clear explanations and summaries will keep you on track with the plot from beginning to end. Other features that help you study include A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Information on the life... more...
Keyes' Flowers For Algernonby Janet Clark
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Flowers For Algernon made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motional picture production. Now, full bodied and richly-peopled, Flowers For Algernon is the daring novel of a starling human experiment! "A tale that is convincing, suspectful and touching..." -- The New York Times "Fascinating, agonizing... Superb." -- Birmingham News "This novel should be on your 'must read' list." -- Palm Beach Post-Times "Strikingly original..." -- Publishers' Weekly "Absorbing... Immensely original... Going to be read for a long time to come." -- Library Journal more...









