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First Plays
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Though today he's best remembered as the creator of the Winnie the Pooh series of children's books, British writer A.A. Milne was actually a much more prolific playwright than he was a juvenile literature scribe, penning over 30 plays in his lifetime. This collection of Milne's early works for the stage will please Pooh fans curious to... more...
The Changeling
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Alonzo but in love with Alsemero. She convinces De Flores, who is in love with her, to help her be free of Alonzo - by murdering... more...
Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Basho Revival
BRILL 2007; US$ 121.00Uses the haikai verse and paintings of the brilliant, innovative artist Yosa Buson as a focal point from which to explore how early modern Japanese writers competed for artistic authority and social prestige. This book concludes with a discussion of Buson's reception in the modern period, and includes translations of his principal works. more...
A String of Flowers, Untied . . .
Stone Bridge Press 2001; US$ 18.95The love poetry of the Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki comes alive in an all-new translation. more...
The River of Heaven
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 15.95Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of Haiku, one of the most delicate and interpretive poetic forms in the world. The haiku verse form,... more...
Japanese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95The newest edition to the Visual Bilingual Dictionary series, this title will help the international visitor-whether for business or recreational-adsorb essential vocabulary in Japanese. Contents PRELIMS (5PP) ABOUT THE DICTIONARY (2PP) PEOPLE (18PP) Body Face Muscles and skeleton Internal organs Reproduction Family Relationships & Emotions Life... more...
A Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 16.95A Hundred Verses from Old Japan , being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu , was originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular anthologies of Japanese classical poetry, this collection comprises love poems and "picture poems" describing scenes from nature in tanka form, thumbnail sketches compressed into thirty-one syllables.... more...
Australian Languages
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 87.00Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. more...
A History of South African Literature
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 35.00This book is a critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions. In Christopher Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world. more...
Black Mind
University of Minnesota Press 1974; US$ 90.00The comprehensive account of the development of African literature from its beginnings in oral tradition to its contemporary expression in the writings of Africans in various African and European languages provides insight, both broad and deep, into the B more...









