Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay
10 best books like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay (William Goldman): The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime, #14), Dances with Wolves, Ghosts, Shane, An Enemy of the People, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel, Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake), Taxi Driver, The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime, #14)
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0843955856 |
First published in 1965, this is another pulp classic from Lawrence Block, now resurrected by the folks at Hard Case Crime. The main protagonist, Johnny Hayden, is fresh out of the slammer and determined to never go back. He's toiling away at a job in a bowling alley, making peanuts but attempting to save...
| Author | Michael Blake |
| ISBN | 0449000753 |
Dances With Wolves film poster.
I HAD watched Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves in the late ’90s and had loved it. I finally got to read Michael Blake’s novel a few days back and loved it as much. By the way, it is the first Western that I have read after the early seventies when as a schoolboy...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1420927957 |
Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...
| Author | Jack Schaefer |
| ISBN | 0395941164 |
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889.
It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefer’s...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1595406441 |
In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated,...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
| Author | John Truby |
| ISBN | 0865479518 |
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...
Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel
| Author | A.W. Jantha |
| ISBN | 1368020038 |
Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the...
Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as "an open sewer," raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsen's attacks on convention. When We Dead Wake, his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individual's...
| Author | Paul Schrader |
| ISBN | 0571203159 |
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts...
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
| Author | Michael Dylan Foster |
| ISBN | 0520271025 |
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued...
