e. e. cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of cummings's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which...

This book is an introduction into the understanding of symbolic language, including a discussion on the less difficult concepts of Freud's theory on the level of his "Interpretation of Dreams."

Clarifies the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine by explicating the original Pali text of the Tipitaka.

History of Buddhism -- Short historical sketch of Zen -- Is Buddhism a philosophy? -- Is Buddhism a religion? -- The notion of God in Buddhism -- The illusory character of aid, of salvation, of all systems -- The nature of things -- Complementarity of physics and psychology -- The force of habit -- The action of the force of habit on the mind according to psychological types -- Memory-habits and the birth of the "I-process" -- Tanha, or the thirst...

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...

Harold Pinter's latest full-length play is set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath. Two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate charade of recognition? The ambiguity--and the comedy--intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered,...