A coming of age story about Arjun Chelvaratnam, who struggles with his homosexuality, entering into an affair with a schoolmate and breaking not only sexual taboos, but also social structures that separate the Tamil and Sinhalese.
A series of stories by Italian author Italo Calvino in which explorer Marco Polo diverts the aging Kublai Kahn from thoughts about the impending demise of his empire by describing the many amazing cities he has seen on his travels--diverse places that are, in the end, all the same.
Young Italian nobelman, Cosimo, rebels against the authority of his parents in the late eighteenth century by climbing into the trees where he proceeds to make a very full life for himself.
Chronicles the life of Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas who offered shelter and assistance to Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife for nine months in 1963.
a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts [including the annotations of Ezra Pound
Eliot, T. S
1994
Presents a reproduction of T.S. Eliot's original drafts of "The Waste Land," and includes clear transcipts of the document, explanatory notes and cross-references, and biographical study.
A translation of pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung's classic text on dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, the relationship between psychology and religion, and the differences between his theories and those of Freud.
Presents Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's translation of ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles' three Oedipus tragedies--"Oedipus Rex, " "Oedipus at Colonus, " and "Antigone"--and includes an index of names.
Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".
