3890 results for '"W. A. Strange'

"The United States is estranged from the world--separate, aloof, more alone than even the most cynical of pessimistic observers might have predicted in the heyday of American postwar power," Sanford...

Matthew Townes, aspiring obstetrician, has hit the glass ceiling. Unable to continue his medical studies in New York City, the young man becomes disillusioned with the reality of racism within the...

This introduction to the basic theory is still highly recommended and still in wide use today as both a text and a reference. 37 figures. 13 tables.

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he...

To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since...

Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska...

A man's thirst for power ends in tragedy in this Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare's most powerful works.When a trio of witches foretell that Macbeth will become King of Scotland,...

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a...

Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to...

The first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint...

A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that,...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen OrgelThe legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with...

Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston,...

One fresh and fair summer day, as soon as his parents go out, Gorky sets up his laboratory by the kitchen sink to have another try at concocting a magic potion. This time he strikes upon the missing...

An investigation of society's attitude toward murder, both in art and in real life, recounts a famous legal case in which a federal court judge had to decide whether a gas-chamber execution would be...

Puzzles and wordplay make reading fun in C D C ? by William Steig, the Caldecott and Newbery Medal-winning creator of Shrek!.C D C ? = See the sea?E-R I M ! = Here I am!U F B-D I-S = You have beady...

Volume 62 of this ground-breaking 100 volume collection is organized into four sections: Psychology as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Its Critics, Research in Gestalt Psychology, and The Iconoclasts...