Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: desire, named, streetcar
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-09
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0811216020
ISBN-13: 9780811216029

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley K

Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: reading, abc
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1960-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811201511
ISBN-13: 9780811201513

Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: memoir, paradox, vienna
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0811215717
ISBN-13: 9780811215718

A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America’s eminent literary critics. The Vienna Paradox is Marjorie Perloff’s memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family, and her self-transformation from the German-speaking Gabriele Mintz to the English-speaking Marjorie—who also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schüller, the Austrian foreign minister under Chancellor Dollfuss and a special delegate to t

Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: omon
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 1998-02
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811213641
ISBN-13: 9780811213646

black comic Russian novel, tr Andrew Bromfield

Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: spirit, autochthonic, herald
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1981-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811208087
ISBN-13: 9780811208086

Corso, Herald of Autoc. Spirit. Poetry heralding "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values"

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: baudelaire
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1972-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811201899
ISBN-13: 9780811201896

Sartre’s study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. He turned abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature, into a theory of psychoanalysis, grounded in man’s creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. Then he put the theory into practice in this book on Baudelaire.

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: life, books
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1969-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811201082
ISBN-13: 9780811201087

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