2363 results for '"Skilling, Harold Gordon'

"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon...

America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his...

The author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and two critical works, Caroline Gordon produced an impressive--though unjustly neglected--body of work. Her considerable contributions...

Una noche, Harold decide dar un paseo a la luz de la luna. Pero hay un pequeÑo problema: ¡La luna no esta fuera! Por suerte, Harold lleva consigo su lapiz color morado y en un abrir y cerrar de ojos,...

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the...

Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most important playwrights of our day," Harold Pinter is the author of The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker--just a few of his plays that...

The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary classic On Food and CookingHarold McGee is our foremost expert on the science of cooking,...

Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most important playwrights of our day", Harold Pinter is the author of The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker -- just a few of his plays...

Product DescriptionThe second British application to join the European Communities (EC) was made during Harold Wilson's second Labour government. It ended in failure with French President Charles de...

Throughout his life, playwright and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of conformist truths in pure and simple terms. Awarded the Wilfred Owen Prize in 2004...

This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theatre. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait...

Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the...

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. "An impressive work...deeply, rightly...

**Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award****Winner of the Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement**From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of...

Book by Gordon, Ida L.

A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired “Terrific from first to last.”―Dwight Garner, New York...

An award-winning illustrated detective story set in a friendly forest and first in the acclaimed series for beginning readers. Detective Gordon—a mystery-solving toad who loves cake—has his very...

A scholarly edition of The Works of Thomas Southerne by Robert Jordan and Harold Love. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly...

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart"[A] fascinating book."--Martin Wolf,...

The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, and everything in between – from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good...