THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greaterknowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest ...

The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists. The Cambridge Guide To Asian Theatre explores some of the most vibrant and exciting theatrical traditions in Asia-Oceania today.

The ninth play of Wilson's 10-play masterwork

America in the 1840s. This impressive novel is today one of the most important novels in the history of American literature. It is not without reason that Tolstoy and Heine were enthusiastic about Beecher Stowe's storytelling.

THE STORY: As outlined in Variety: ...the conflict, the basic jealousy and the lifetime of, if not hatred, at least corrosive, though unacknowledged anger, is between two brothers, as well as resentment against a selfish, child-devouring ...

Sacrificing physical love for fantasy, Cyrano hands his words of love to Christian to speak for them both. Will Roxane fall for the 'perfect' man? Can Cyrano exist with only half her heart? Is true love more than skin deep?

To make Medea more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be ...

Describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katherine and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katherine's legendary temper and win her dowry.

Lavishly illustrated, the articles come to startling conclusions about what we have really been reading under the covers with flashlights for generations. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).