1985, ISBN: 9780525243304

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1973 (1965)* Publisher: Penguin Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers, showin… More...

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1973 (1965)* Publisher: Penguin Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers, showing a detail from a Roman sarcophagus in the Louvre. Slight bump to top front corner, minor rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Very light creases to spine & hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, owners name to inside front cover. No marks to text, seems lightly used. Slight general colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations:- None.* Pages: 268 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values..* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear but is reduced by tanning to VG*, Penguin Classics, New York: E. P. Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree F/Fine 1stEd; not written-in, underlined, clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours. ; 314 pages; From Library Jour: This collection consists of the 21 stories published in Spark's Collected Stories: I (Knopf, 1968) plus six new ones. Several of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. The short story is a form well suited to Spark's gifts as a writera delicate touch, a quiet sense of irony, and a vision of existence as a conflict between the temporal and the timeless. Frequently, her characters are involved in slightly sinister experiences that have unnerving effects (``The Twins, ''``The Executor, ''``Another Pair of Hands'') . The situtations range from the development of a shrewd marriage of convenience (``The Fathers' Daughters'') to the depiction of a baby's view of World War I (``The First Year of My Life'') . Crafted with impressive skill, the stories reflect a keen perception of human weakness and the possibility of its redemption. Sherrie Tuck, Episcopal Div. Sch. /Weston Sch. Of Theology Libs. , Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1985 Reed. From AudioFile: These stories, set before and after WWII, give a real feel for the range of Spark's fiction. They include ghost stories, love stories and politics, all shot through with the author's skeptical view of human worth. Here are jealous lovers, brutish colonials, spoiled middle-class women, curious children and, frequently, the outsider, the young woman who observes and holds her own counsel, the writer's alter ego... ., E. P. Dutton, 1985<

1990, ISBN: 9780525243304

Hardcover

Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1990. Later Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. A. M. Calder. Later reprint; originally published 1968. G+, edges rubbed, corner of back cover crease… More...

Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1990. Later Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. A. M. Calder. Later reprint; originally published 1968. G+, edges rubbed, corner of back cover creased, pages a bit darkened. Twin sisters Jane and Elizabeth discover a small doll in an antique store, and strange things begin to happen. As they trace the history of the doll, they also solve a strange and tantalizing family mystery. An interesting read from noted children's author Janet Lunn, suitable for older children and of interest to doll- and history-loving adults. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Clarke Irwin, 1990, New York: E. P. Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree F/Fine 1stEd; not written-in, underlined, clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours. ; 314 pages; From Library Jour: This collection consists of the 21 stories published in Spark's Collected Stories: I (Knopf, 1968) plus six new ones. Several of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. The short story is a form well suited to Spark's gifts as a writera delicate touch, a quiet sense of irony, and a vision of existence as a conflict between the temporal and the timeless. Frequently, her characters are involved in slightly sinister experiences that have unnerving effects (``The Twins, ''``The Executor, ''``Another Pair of Hands'') . The situtations range from the development of a shrewd marriage of convenience (``The Fathers' Daughters'') to the depiction of a baby's view of World War I (``The First Year of My Life'') . Crafted with impressive skill, the stories reflect a keen perception of human weakness and the possibility of its redemption. Sherrie Tuck, Episcopal Div. Sch. /Weston Sch. Of Theology Libs. , Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1985 Reed. From AudioFile: These stories, set before and after WWII, give a real feel for the range of Spark's fiction. They include ghost stories, love stories and politics, all shot through with the author's skeptical view of human worth. Here are jealous lovers, brutish colonials, spoiled middle-class women, curious children and, frequently, the outsider, the young woman who observes and holds her own counsel, the writer's alter ego... ., E. P. Dutton, 1985<

1985, ISBN: 9780525243304

Hardcover book. 314 pages. Published by Penguin Publishing Group (1985) Media > Book, [PU: E. P. Dutton]