Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merryviolence of slapstick and farce. When two sets of twins, separatedand apparently lost to each other, all end up in the rowdy,rollicking city of Ephesus, the stage is set for mix-ups, mayhem,and mistaken identity—plus the timeless puns, jokes, gags, andsuspense that makes this play a wonderful theatrical frolic and abrilliant tour de force of language and laughter. From the Paperback edition.
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Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture theimagination and emotions of millions. Jonathan LivingstonSeagull was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision againshines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all itslimitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written amasterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is thesky.
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The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet TomasTranstromer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990.Translated by Michael McGriff, Transtromer's great work isavailable in its first single-volume English edition.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1951, the second year of the KoreanWar, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark,New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on thepastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And whyis he there and not at a local college in Newark where heoriginally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworkingneighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad-mad with fear andapprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of theworld, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Farfrom Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs andconstrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth'stwenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the hauntednarratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and apowerful exploration of a remarkable moment in Americanhistory.
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From the author who gave us THE SCARLET LETTER and THE HOUSEOF THE SEVEN GABLES, here is a comprehensive selection of hisbest short stories, including: Endicott and the Red Cross Young Goodman Brown Earth's Holocaust Ethan Brand My Kinsman, Major Molineux And more!
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