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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, " Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."

Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

The Glass Menagerie is a classic American "memory play" by Tennessee Williams, first performed in 1944, that launched his career. It tells the story of the Wingfield family in St. Louis: the overbearing mother Amanda, her trapped son Tom, and her physically fragile, painfully shy daughter Laura, who collects glass animals. Narrated by Tom, the play explores themes of illusion vs. reality, family duty, and escape, focusing on Amanda's desperate attempts...

Richard of Gloucester crosses and double-crosses friends and foes alike in a no-holds-barred effort to solidify control of the throne once occupied by his brother, Edward IV. His antics prove fruitful until one final battle with Henry, Earl of Richmond.

Fingerprint! Pocket Classics are perfect pocket-sized editions with complete original content. Macbeth, a Scottish General, is enslaved by his passion when a trio of witches prophesy that he would one day become the king of Scotland. Blinded by the lust for power, he succumbs to the evil wishes of lady Macbeth, stabs king Duncan in his sleep, and seizes the throne. But soon enough, Macbeth is tormented by guilt and terror. What will he do to get away...

This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire - an allegorical representation of all life - has become an American classic. It is the simple story of a love affair that asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death. Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover's Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance,...

"Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in this new EXPANDED edition of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter. The expanded sections include: --Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked questions...

Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substanceless,...

A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop...