Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not...(展开全部)

Look Back in Anger has its unarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man". ----John Russel Taylor When the play was first produced by the English Stage Company London's Royal Court Theatre, Kenneth Tynan wrote in the Observer:...(展开全部)

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects lef...(展开全部)

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of the most brilliant art historians of our time, cl...(展开全部)

自分の才能に絶対の自信を持つ藤野と、引きこもりの京本。田舎町に住む2人の少女を引き合わせ、結びつけたのは漫画を描くことへのひたむきな思いだった。月日は流れても、背中を支えてくれたのはいつだって──。唯一無二の筆致で放つ青春長編読切。

自分の才能に絶対の自信を持つ藤野と、引きこもりの京本。田舎町に住む2人の少女を引き合わせ、結びつけたのは漫画を描くことへのひたむきな思いだった。月日は流れても、背中を支えてくれたのはいつだって──。唯一無二の筆致で放つ青春長編読切。

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political par...(展开全部)