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Fifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel-the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an. The book was Tailchaser's Song , the author was Tad Williams. The legend was born.

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura... (more)

Poems.

by Arnold Rampersad, David Roessel, Langston Hughes

This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

Ransom (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay McInerney

Ransom , Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels—a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass. Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of... (more)

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams : 1909-1939

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams : 1909-1939

by William Carlos Williams

The second volume of The Collected Poems contains The Wedge (1944), The Clouds (1948), The Pink Church (1949), The Desert Music (1954), Journey to Love (1955), and the Pulitzer prize-winning Pictures from Brueghel (1962), plus uncollected poems grouped chronologically between the titled works. Appendixes include "A Note on the Text," "Annotations," "Tables of Contents for The Broken Span, Selected Poems, and... (more)

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by William Carlos Williams

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A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.

River of Blue Fire (Otherland, Volume 2)

River of Blue Fire (Otherland, Volume 2)

by Tad Williams

New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams presents... The mass market edition of Volume Two... "A powerful, near-future cyberthriller."-- Booklist "Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is writing fantasy....Fascinating." -- Publishers Weekly "An exciting addition to the growing virtual reality literature."-- Library Journal * A bestselling author-- New York Times , Los... (more)

Otherland Vol. 4: Sea of Silver Light

by Tad Williams

Few science fiction sagas have achieved the level of critical acclaim-and best-selling popularity-as Tad Williams's Otherland novels. A brilliant blend of SF, fantasy, and technothriller, it is a rich, multilayered epic of future possibilities. "The Otherland series concludes triumphantly...The real and virtual plots all come to a spectacular climax...a surprisingly satisfying conclusion to such a... (more)

Otherland: City Of Golden Shadow

by Tad Williams

ANYONE CAN GO THERE... COMING BACK IS ANOTHER STORY. New York Times best-selling author Tad Williams has become a force to be reckoned with in the publishing world, as is evident from the enormous popularity and critical acclaim for his spectacular Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. Now, DAW Books is proud to present Tad Williams' groundbreaking new masterpiece, his most compelling work to date -- ... (more)

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Book 1

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

by Tad Williams

In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.

Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2)

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Book 2

Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2)

by Tad Williams

The second book in the trilogy that launched one of the most important fantasy writers of our time

To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 3)

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Book 3

To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 3)

by Tad Williams

The evil minions of the Sithi Storm King begin their final preparations for the climatic moment of their dark sorceries, as they draw King Elias deeper into their nightmarish world. Reprint.

Shadowmarch: Book 1

Shadowmarch

by Tad Williams

Shadowmarch begins Tad Williams' first epic fantasy trilogy since his best-selling Memory, Sorrow and Thorn . Rich with detail and exotic culture, and filled with a cast of characters both diverse and three-dimensional, Shadowmarch is a true fantasy achievement, an epic of storytelling by a master of the genre.

Shadowmarch: Book 2

Shadowplay

by Tad Williams

NOW,THE EPIC FANTASY CONTINUES WITH SHADOWPLAY ! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TAD WILLIAMS'S SHADOWMARCH WAS HAILED AS...

Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)

Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay McInerney

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

Brightness Falls

by Jay McInerney

he bestselling Brightness Falls--now in trade paper from the author of Bright Lights, Big City. In the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.

Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries)

Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay McInerney

In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel falling in and out of, lust, and abusing other people's credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a... (more)

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