Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts (Hulick Betsy)(Paperback)

Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts (Hulick Betsy)(Paperback)

Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander

The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that 'there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role.' In The Cherry Orchard, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that

The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. Their estate

Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges (Harvey James)(Paperback)

In 1934 four movies--It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee--ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ('screwball') comedy. Slangy, playful, and 'powerfully, glamorously in love with love,' the films that followed were unique in their combination of

THE CREDIT - A COMEDY OF EMPEIRIA IN THREE ACTS (Young Augustus)(Paperback / softback)

Poetry. Illustrations are by John Parsons. THE CREDIT was first published as two books in 1980/85 by Menard Press/Advent Books. This second edition has been heavily revised. THE CREDIT is an opera with word music. The prosody is syllabically based ottava rima, gradually segueing into rhyming free

Crucible - A Play in Four Acts (Miller Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of

The Fantastic Elastic Brain: How to Empower Your Child's Mind (Schooley Betsy)(Paperback)

Betsy Schooley retired from the classroom--but her own education didn't end there. In the years that followed, she became fascinated with the study of brain plasticity--a pursuit partly inspired by her own diagnosis with ADHD. The brain, she learned, was an organ that had the capacity to adapt;

Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (Rostand Edmond)(Paperback)

Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This

Love Hypothesis (Steven Laura)(Paperback / softback)

An LGBT romantic comedy with a twist from the Comedy Women in Print prize winner Laura Steven, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay. A hilarious love story with bite, for fans of Sex Education, Booksmart, Becky Albertalli's Love, Simon and Jenny Han's To All The Boys I've Loved

Overflow: Learning from the Inspirational Resource Church of Antioch in the Book of Acts (Porter Matthew)(Paperback)

Jackpot (Woods Stuart)(Paperback)

Teddy Fay hedges his bets in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to

On the Prowl (Briggs Patricia)(Paperback)

Four stories of inhuman passions from four of the hottest authors in paranormal romance...'Alpha and Omega' by Patricia Briggs The werewolf Anna finds a new sense of self when the son of the werewolf king comes to town to quell unrest in the Chicago pack--and inspires a power in Anna she's never

Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot (Christie Agatha)(Paperback)

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, four mystifying criminal conundrums test the detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting

Swan Lake, Ballet in Four Acts, Op.20: Study score (Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich)(Paperback)

Newly edited and engraved study score for the original 1877 version of Tchaikovsky's first ballet masterpiece. Includes Preface, Synopsis, and Cast of Characters. This is the complete orchestral score, not a piano reduction, based upon the composer's autograph, the first edition issued by P

Solo (Mansell Jill)(Paperback / softback)

In this enthralling romantic comedy from bestselling author Jill Mansell, the question has to be asked: are there times when it's best to go

Swing (Alexander Kwame)(Paperback)

In this YA novel in verse from bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo), which Kirkus called 'lively, moving, and heartfelt' in a starred review, Noah and Walt just want to leave their geek days behind and find 'cool,' but in the process discover a lot about first loves,

Remember Me? (Kinsella Sophie)(Paperback / softback)

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie KinsellaLexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love

Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks (Weekes Karen)(Paperback)

Wit and wisdom from A to Z--a super-sized collection of inspirational quotes from bad*ss women in history and today, including Oprah Winfrey, Marilyn Monroe, and Toni Morrison. With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history,

The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 (Kiyama)(Paperback)

A -documentary comic book- from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in

Dragon Keeper (Hobb Robin)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in a four part series from one of the greatest writers in the fantasy genre. DRAGON KEEPER returns fans to Hobb's best-loved world, full of dragons, magical ships and unforgettable characters.Dragons have returned to the world . . .Guided by the dragon Tintaglia, the serpents came

The Malevolent Comedy (Marston Edward)(Paperback)

Westfield's men are in dire straights, and their playwright appears to be suffering from a lack of creative inspiration. Thankfully, the company is offered a new play, The Malevolent Comedy, which they believe will drag them out of their rut and put on a spectacle enough to rival Banbury's Men,

Bananas in My Ears (Rosen Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A comic collection of verse from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's

Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to

Paradise: Dual Language and New Verse Translation - Dante Alighieri

In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining,