An unsuccessful traveling salesman finally confronts, in his early sixties, his shattered dreams.
Journey to an English village in 1255 where a cast of characters, from millers to maidens, are introduced through colorful...
Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the...
This edition of "The Glass Menagerie" includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The...
This newly revised Signet classic includes an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, a unique introduction to the play, a...
The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, even...
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature...
All her life she has longed for the forbidden things, but will her dreams come at a price too dear to pay? Why would Katie Lapp's...
In a special Christmas story, Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo spins a tale about the tender relationship between a little girl and...
Planning to will the largest portion of his kingdom to the daughter who can arti...
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the...
Dickey's bestselling novel of four men caught in a violent test for manhood was produced as a blockbuster film starring Burt...
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it...
Presents the classic drama of a magician's encounter with the demon Mephistopheles and the exchange of his soul for worldly gains...
A verse translation of Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle, arrives to see her sister Stella in New Orleans. An alcoholic, clinging to the Southern...
During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a...
The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Different stages in the Norwegian playwright's literary and philosophical development are represented in three dramas.
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts...
This is the film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid...