Candide, the quintessential innocent, has been taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Gradually, Candide and his beloved, Cunegonde, learn--as they travel through a world peopled with evil characters and various cruelties--the limits of Pangloss's philosophy. Voltaire's great comic masterpiece...more
A caroler’s delight: complete lyrics for over 50 of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs: "Away in a Manger," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Joy to the World," "O Come, All Ye Faithful," "O Holy Night," "Silent Night," "The Twelve Days of Christmas," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," and many more. Compact, inexpensive and easy to read, t...more
Over 150 familiar works: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and many more.
Sixteen captivating stories by one of America’s most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Voice of the City" and "The Cop and the Anthem." Publisher’s Note.
Over 100 works by Beckmann, Feininger, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Nolde, Marc, others. Distorted, stylized forms embody revolutionary mood of the early 20th-century. Introduction. Captions. Notes on artists.
Samuel Beckett is a challenging giant of 20th century literature, and Beckett Studies increasingly focusses on the interwar period for evidence of Beckett's subsequent embrace of an 'art of failure'. This monograph is based on close analysis of the newly-released notebooks and transcriptions compiled by Beckett from 1929-1940, which shed important ...more
If there is one trait common to almost all post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and makes possible a post-metaphysical ethics. Beckett's oeuvre in particular has repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an af...more
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