It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.

Every good boy deserves favor and Professional foul : two plays

Literature & Fiction

Stoppard, Tom.

Dramas & Plays

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The Jew as pariah: Jewish identity and politics in the modern age

Trade paperback published by Grove Press, Inc., first Evergreen edition, 1978.

The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age

History

ARENDT, HANNAH

World

The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.â

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations: two plays

MAMET, David

Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic. Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality. Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty, menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's finest writers.

The complete food handbook (A Black cat book ; B-412)

Madison Smartt Bell

World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867

English language edition, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company of Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan.

World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867

KEENE, Donald

Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the top of the Stairs (Paperback) by William Inge

Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the top of the Stairs

Inge, William

Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal are nearing completion of a project that will unlock the secret of immortality. Project Amphora is run by the Consortium, twelve of the planet’s most influential movers and shakers. They aren’t the only ones after immortality: Commander Jockey Oldcastle, a wise-cracking space pirate, has heard about the Amphora Project from a banished scientist who is convinced it will lead to the end of the world. Oldcastle sets off to find the project with Adrian Link, a timid botanist who wants only to tend to his plants on the Agricultural Plain, yet Oldcastle finds himself trying to unravel a strange mystery: It seems the Amphora Project is turning the citizens of Planet Immortal into crystal. As time runs out, it is up to Oldcastle and Link -- and Link’s exotic, unlikely love interest -- to stop their mysterious extradimensional enemy before their world is lost forever. Hilarious, wildly inventive, and featuring a fantastical cast of mutants, quasihuman robots, intergalactic mercenaries, and two-thousand-year-old immortals, The Amphora Project is a novel that combines elements of science fiction and fantasy and transcends the boundaries of both.

Six plays of Clifford Odets (A Black cat book ; B-429)

ODETS, Clifford

Contemporary

This is Henry James' first novel. A tale of a Bostonian, Roger Lawrence, who adopts a little girl and brings her up in the hope that she will marry him when she comes age. New York: Black Cat 1979. 4.25"x7.25" tall; 238pp. 0394170970 US

Watch and ward (A Black cat book)

JAMES,HENRY

Improvisation examines how this vital element of the theater can be understood, harnessed, and developed, not only in theater, but in therapy and education as well. It illustrates the way in which improvised drama helps people draw upon their imaginative resources and extend their awareness of themselves and others.

Improvisation

Arts & Photography

Hodgson, John Reed

Performing Arts

The complete food handbook (A Black cat book)

Doyle, Rodger Pirnie

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