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Uncle Vanya, Chekhov Anton
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First produced by the Moscow Art Theater in 1899, Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov’s greatest plays and a staple of the theatrical repertoire. Both structurally and psychologically compact, it is among the most expressive of the Russian playwright’s dramatic works. Set on an estate in nineteenth-century Russia, this deeply emotional tale of misplaced idealism and unrequited love concerns the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and his brother-in-law and daughter from a previous marriage. In deceptively mundane dialogue, the characters reveal their private tragedies — weakness and inability to communicate — the failures that lead them to lives of frustration and despair. Nevertheless, Chekhov’s delineation of human frailties elicits sympathy for even the most irresolute and deluded characters, and the play’s underlying message is one of courage and hope. Essential reading for any course in modern theater, this absorbing play continues to be popular. Students, theatergoers, and all lovers of great drama will appreciate this inexpensive edition of a masterpiece.
 
Jabberwocky and Other Poems, Carroll Lewis
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Mathematician, author, photographer, and artist, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) is best known as the creator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but he was also a prolific poet. Over the course of almost 50 years, he created 150 poems, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, acrostics, inscriptions, and more, many of them hilarious lampoons of some of the more sentimental and moralistic poems of the Victorian era. This carefully chosen collection contains 38 of Carroll’s most appealing verses, including such classics as "The Walrus and the Carpenter, " "The Mock Turtle’s Song, " and "Father William, " plus such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy, " "A Sea Dirge, " "Brother and Sister, " "Hiawatha’s Photographing, " "The Mad Gardener’s Song, " "What Tottles Meant, " "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur, " "The Little Man That Had a Little Gun, " and many others. Filled with Carroll’s special brand of imaginative whimsy and clever wordplay, this original anthology will delight fans of the author as well as other readers who relish a little laughter with their lyrics.
 
Great American Short Stories, Hawthorne Nathaniel, Мелвилл Герман, По Эдгар Аллан
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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 tale Young Goodman Brown and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 classic, The Killers. Other selections include Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, Melville’s Bartleby, Harte’s The Luck of Roaring Camp, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, The Real Thing by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Bernice Bobs Her Hair, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of tales will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.
 
The Gambler, Dostoevsky Fyodor
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A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, it concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers, and other characters. Although not as dark as some of Dostoyevsky’s other works, The Gambler nevertheless offers a grim and psychologically probing picture of the fatal attractions of gambling. Among its strengths are its well-drawn characters — Aunt Antonida, although lightly sketched in, is especially delightful — and its faithful depiction of life among the gambling set in fashionable German watering holes. This edition reprints Constance Garnett’s authoritative translation.
 
Five Comic One-Act Plays, Chekhov Anton
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One of the foremost dramatists of the 19th century, Russian author Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) created a body of work noted for its realistic dialogue and keen insights into human relationships. This collection of five one-act plays — in the celebrated Constance Garnett translations — shows Chekhov at his witty best. The Anniversary takes a lively look behind the frenetic scenes at a bank: a man overburdened with errands from friends and family gives a nearly maddened but ludicrous account of his chores and obligations in An Unwilling Martyr; and The Wedding depicts scenes from a wedding reception in which the mother of the bride assumes affected airs and deals with quarrelsome guests. In The Bear, a virtuous, spirited widow is pressed to repay a debt and ends up receiving an offer of marriage. The Proposal depicts the trauma of a would-be suitor who winds up in a wrangle over property. Theater lovers, students of drama and literature, and other readers, as well as amateur and professional groups performing these popular works, will welcome this convenient, inexpensive collection of comic gems by one of the masters of modern drama.
 
The Double, Dostoevsky Fyodor
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While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece. Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition.
 
Paul’s Case and Other Writings, Cather Willa
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2011, ISBN: 9780486290577
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Increasingly regarded as a major 20th-century writer, Willa Cather celebrated American pioneers and the land they worked. Her strong female characters and the elegiac quality of her writing have combined to earn her high standing with critics and the public alike. According to Maxwell Geismar, she was "an aristocrat in an equalitarian order, an agrarian writer in an industrial order, a defender of the spiritual graces in the midst of an increasingly materialistic culture. Her talents are amply displayed in this collection, which features the touching title story about a young boy locally regarded as a delinquent and social misfit, and «A Wagner Matinee» (both revised by Cather for publication in Youth and the Bright Medusa, 1920); as well as «Lou, the Prophet» (1892), a haunting tale of failure, spiritual rebirth and legendary fame; «Eric Hermannson’s Soul» (1900), an intriguing account of a man who, after years of dissolute living, is lured into the fold of a fanatical sect; and «The Enchanted Bluff» (1909), bittersweet recollections of life in a pioneer river town. Presented in this attractive, inexpensive edition, these timeless tales offer a provocative glimpse into the work of Willa Cather.
 
The Inspector General, Gogol Nikolai
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2011, ISBN: 9780486285009
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Considered the high point of Gogol’s writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, The Inspector General skewers the stupidity, greed, and venality of Russian provincial officials. When it is announced that the Inspector General is coming to visit incognito, Anton, the chief of police, hastens to clean up the town before his arrival. Local officials scurry to hide evidence of bribe-taking and other misdeeds, setting the stage for the arrival from St. Petersburg of Ivan, a penurious gambler and rake who is promptly taken by the townspeople to be the dreaded Inspector General. Ivan, and his servant, Osip, soon take advantage of the situation with hilarious results. First performed in 1836, the play transcends regional and national boundaries to offer a biting, highly entertaining glimpse of universal human foibles and failings.
 
Great Horror Stories. Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others, Kipling Rudyard, Стокер Брэм, Hodgson William Hope
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2008, ISBN: 9780486461434
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. --H. P. Lovecraft Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre’s very best. Featuring an international gallery of the world’s great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature’s most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror, including: — Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest — Edgar Allan Poe’s The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar — H. P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space — Arthur Machen’s The White People — Izumi Kyoka’s A Tale of Three Who Were Blind — Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows — Ambrose Bierce’s The Damned Thing and 7 more chilling classics. A truly macabre must-have!
 
Four Great Tragedies. Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare William
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2005, ISBN: 9780486440835
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Among the most studied, most read, and most admired works in world literature, the tragedies of Shakespeare constitute a body of work unrivaled in dramatic brilliance, beauty of language, and profundity of thought. This convenient and affordable volume--ideal for students and all lovers of literature--features four of the playwright’s greatest works: Hamlet, the revenge drama centering on the introspective Prince of Denmark--one of literature’s most discussed and contentious characters, and the role that every actor longs to play; Macbeth, otherwise known as The Scottish Play, concerning a nobleman’s overweening ambition; Othello, in which a gallant soldier and loving husband is undone by jealousy; and Romeo and Juliet, the timeless tale of the young lovers whose names are synonymous with star-crossed romance.
 
Family Happiness and Other Stories, Tolstoy Leo
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2005, ISBN: 9780486440811
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Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of the short story and the long story — the particularly Russian form known as povest’. Each of the tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, vivid narration, and startling truths that characterize Tolstoy’s famous novels. Two unusual, intriguing short stores — Three Deaths and The Three Hermits — appear here, along with four powerful long stories: Family Happiness, The Devil, Father Sergius, and Master and Man. Family Happiness, the first story in this compilation, features a Tolstoyan theme that recurs both here and elsewhere in the author’s writings: The only certain happiness in life is to live for others. Written over a period of 40 years or more, these works display the author’s evolving perspectives on love, marriage, art, politics, and patriotism. They offer an eclectic introduction to the great Russian writer’s fiction as well as a feast for those already acquainted with the pleasures of reading Tolstoy.
 
A Country Scandal, Chekhov Anton
Dover thrift editions, Dover 2016, ISBN: 9780486811161
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A Russian version of Don Juan is the focus of Chekhov’s first play, a farce in which a newly arrived schoolmaster proves irresistible to the bored women of a provincial community. Platonov’s charm lies in his novelty, and his seductions are strictly passive as a libidinous widow, her idealistic stepdaughter, and an earnest student vie for his romantic attentions. Discovered in 1923, two decades after Chekhov’s death, this play was written while the author was still a medical student. Adapted and translated by Alex Szogyi, it offers the trenchant wit and rich characterizations typical of the dramatist’s later works. Woven amid the love affairs, suicide attempts, parties, and shootings are the customary themes of Chekhovian theater: the passions and frailties of human nature, the futility of the search for happiness, and the alternating episodes of comedy and tragedy that shape every life.
 
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