Download or read book The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
Download or read book Mixed media Books written by Gabe Cyr and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as New directions in altered books.
Download or read book New Directions in Prose and Poetry 11 written by James Laughlin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1949 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Beat written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poets are presented in ample selections so that each may be heard clearly, and biographical and bibliographical notes invite further investigation. From cover to cover, themes ebb and flow and boundaries blur as verses converse in a harmony unusual for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Samurai written by Shūsaku Endō and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.
Download or read book Final Exam written by Julio Cortázar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda
Download or read book New Directions written by Peter Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings, from a variety of genres, and by having them apply critical thinking skills as a precursor to writing. This emphasis on multiple longer readings gives New Directions its distinctive character.
Download or read book Absent Friends written by Frederick Busch and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set his fiction in a physical territory--the Northeast, upstate New York especially--which he has given literary shape. With the capaciousness of a Dickens and the control of a Hemingway, Busch's novels have come in steady counterpoint, raising and answering by turns insistent questions that worry even the plainest of domestic lives. In this his fifth book of stories, the Absent Friends of the title are the lost characters the author has so compassionately detailed, who long to recover their absent selves. But they are also, as Richard Bausch comments in The Philadelphia Inquirer, "friends we have failed, or who have failed us; it is the emotional cost of that estrangement that interests Frederick Busch."
Download or read book Katschen and the Book of Joseph written by Yoel Hoffmann and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly eye-opening, KATSCHEN & THE BOOK OF JOSEPH makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. THE BOOK OF JOSEPH tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930's Berlin; KATSCHEN gives an astounding child's-eye-view of a boy orphaned in Palestine. These two intensely moving novellas display the poetry of Hoffmann's language, which one reviewer has called "utterly enchanting . . . like nothing else". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book New Directions 19 written by James Laughlin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Directions in Public Opinion written by Adam J. Berinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science. Over the last 60 years, scholars have drawn upon the disciplines of psychology, economics, sociology, and even biology to learn how ordinary people come to understand the complicated business of politics. But much of the path-breaking research in the field of public opinion is published in journals, taking up fairly narrow questions one at a time and often requiring advanced statistical knowledge to understand these findings. As a result, the study of public opinion can seem confusing and incoherent to undergraduates. To engage undergraduate students in this area, a new type of textbook is required. The second edition of New Directions in Public Opinion brings together leading scholars to provide an accessible and coherent overview of the current state of the field of public opinion. Each chapter provides a general overview of topics that are at the cutting edge of study as well as well-established cornerstones of the field. Each contributor has made substantive revisions to their chapters, and three chapters have been added on genetics and biology, immigration, and political extremism and the Tea Party. Suitable for use as a main textbook or in tandem with a lengthier survey, this book comprehensively covers the topics of public opinion research and pushes students further to explore critical topics in contemporary politics.
Download or read book The Club of Angels written by Luis Fernando Verissimo and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary mystery about cooking and gourmands by one of Brazil's most popular authors.
Download or read book New Directions in Chenille written by Nannette Holmberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create the enormously popular look and luxurious feel of chenille in just five fun steps. Expanding on her first book, the best-selling Variations in Chenille, Nannette Holmberg introduces several new "Faux Chenille" techniques, such as incorporating ribbons, trims, and appliques to create one-of-a-kind chenille fabrics. Learn to make raw fabric edges "bloom" into soft, beautiful fabric. Discover a magical world of color and texture. --
Download or read book In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories written by Delmore Schwartz and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930s and 40s, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.
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Download or read book New Directions written by Rolf Färe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The format of this monograph is three essays, which we arrived at after spending a year writing over one hundred pages of what we even tually realized was a tedious reworking of old material. So we started over determined to write something new. At first we thought this approach might not work as a coherent mono graph, which is why we chose the essay format rather than chapters. As it turns out, there is a common thread—namely the directional distance function, which also gave us our title. As you shall see, the directional distance function includes traditional distance functions and efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficiency measures. It is also flexible enough to open up new areas in productivity and efficiency analysis such as environmen tal and aggregation issues. That we did not see this earlier is humbling; a student at a recent conference raised his hand and asked 'Why didn't you start with the directional distance function in the first place? In deed. This manuscript is intended to make up for our earlier oversights. This monograph contains papers coauthored with Wen-Fu Lee and Osman Zaim and one paper written by two former students, Hiroyuki Fukuyama and Bill Weber. We thank them for their contributions. An other former student, Jim Logan (Logi) read and critiqued the manu script for which we are grateful.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's writing that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern throughout this collection. --Publishers Weekly.
