The Rope and Other Plays

Author	John Fante
ISBN	0060822554

Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is...

Author	Vladimir Propp
ISBN	0292783760

Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century. -- Alan Dundes. Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists...

Author	Victor Shklovsky
ISBN	0916583643

Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English...

Author

Terence

Terence Theatre complete

Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.

His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.

This edition is the collection of...

Author	Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
ISBN	0140441336

“The Barber Of Seville,” translated, and with a panegyric introduction on the life of Beaumarchais and the social import of his plays, by John Wood. This romantic comedy, a very short and predictable light farce, is brilliant; I laughed out loud several times. It’s fast-paced, witty, subtle,...

Author	Menander
ISBN	0192839837

The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors....

Author	Bob Dylan
ISBN	0743230418

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.

Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection...

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0929524101

Two book set: individual Commentary and Text. Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts...