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Midnights Children
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Rushdie
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for this novel, which follows the lives of children born on August 15, 1947, the day India became an independent nation. The book is simultaneously the story of one boy's coming of age, a chronicle of the growing pains of the new nation, and a family drama, all told in a magical-realist style that manages to be ...
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Clockwork Orange
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Anthony Burgess (Introduction by)
In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until ...
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Waiting for Godot
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Samuel Beckett
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times.
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Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work.
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His dark materials
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Philip Pullman
This dramatic version of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series was adapted by award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright for the National Theatre.
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.
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Tom Stoppard
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to ...
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Salman Rushdie
In Rushdie's humorous and tender novel, Haroun is the 12-year-old son of a famous storyteller. When his father loses his powers of invention, Haroun takes charge, and sets out on a series of adventures that, against all odds, will bring his skills back.
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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Robert Bolt (Preface by)
Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time.
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I Capture the Castle
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Dodie Smith
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal during six turbulent months of 1934, filling three notebooks with sharply funny, yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric, penniless family. By the time the last diary is finished, great changes have occurred within the Mortmain household, and Cassandra is ...
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
An elegant, one-volume collection in the authoritative and prestigious Cambridge University text. Contains all 37 plays in folio order, the long poems, and all 154 exquisite love sonnets.
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Finnegans Wake
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James Joyce
Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his next book -- the night. "A nocturnal state.... That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty ...
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Murder in the Cathedral
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Professor T S Eliot
Eliot's most famous play, a poetic religious drama based on the murder of Thomas à Becket, was commissioned for the 1935 Canterbury Festival. It used ritualistic devices to dramatize the murder, among them a chorus and a long set-piece sermon delivered by Becket at the climax of the play.
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Murder at the Vicarage
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Agatha Christie
Miss Jane Marple's first outing, as she investigates the murder of Colonel Protheroe, a man whom no one was fond of, maybe not even his mother.
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Equus
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Peter Shaffer
An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, "Equus" is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the ...
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Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw
The story that became the basis for the hit musical My Fair Lady.
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Our Country's Good
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Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Master Harold&the Boys
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Athol Fugard
Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.
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Writing Home
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Alan Bennett
This collection of clever writings from the ever-witty screenwriter of "The Madness of King George" includes work from his entire career: memoirs, diaries from the 1980s, book reviews, musings on the world, and thoughts on the theater. With 32 pages of b&w photos.
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Les liaisons dangereuses
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Choderlos de Laclos
First published in 1782, "Les Liasons Dangereuses" was then a best-seller despite the scandal it incurred upon members of the French aristocracy, exposing as it did the endless debauchery and degeneracy that went on behind the facade of manners and mores. The Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, a cynical pair of ex-lovers, take on the ...
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Arcadia
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Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's play primarily concerns Thomasina Croom, a brilliant 13-year-old who is searching for the proof to Fermat's theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the rudiments of what we now know as chaos theory. All the while, her mother is pursuing Lord Byron, a guest at their estate, while her tutor is pursuing the wife of another ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's mad, witty farce that parodies Victorian earnestness is considered by many critics the greatest comedy of modern times. Other works by Wilde included in the same volume are "Lady Windermere's Fan" (created for the actress Lillie Langtry), "A Woman of No Importance", "Salome" (banned from the English stage and produced in Paris by ...
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Truth
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Terry Pratchett
This Discworld fantasy is a humorous look at the rise of new technologies and the power of the press. William de Worde, an industrious scribe using a newfangled invention from the dwarf community called a "printing press," starts Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, kicking off a media war with the Guild of Engravers and becoming vital to uncovering ...
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Appointment with Death
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Agatha Christie
A thoroughly hateful old woman torments her family and everyone around them during a visit to the Middle East.
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Waste Land and Other Poems
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Professor T S Eliot
Eliot's major work, "The Wasteland", was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, ...
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Mousetrap and Other Plays
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Agatha Christie
On an isolated island, ten people find themselves at the mercy of a killer. A woman has a rendezvous with death in the desert heat of Jerusalem. A scheming wife testifies against her husband in a shocking murder trial. And a homicidal maniac terrorizes a group of snowbound guests to the refrain of "Three Blind Mice". Eight plays of murder and ...
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