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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Plays (Androcles and the Lion / Overruled / Pygmalion)	George Bernard Shaw	Contains: - Androcles and the Lion - Overruled - [Pygmalion][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion	OL1065884W
American Indian stories, legends, and other writings	Zitkala-Sa	Short stories, essays, speeches and other writings by the American Indian author Zitkala-Sa.	OL12051637W
Alexander's bridge	Willa Cather	Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had…	OL12781W
Problems of the playwright	Clayton Meeker Hamilton	A discussion of contemporary drama from the point of view of the critic, the dramatist, the stage director, the scenic artist, the manager, and the theater-going public. — A.L.A. Catalog 1926	OL128375W
Amusing Ourselves to Death	Neil Postman,Neil Postman	Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for rega…	OL137916W
Le cosmicomiche	Italo Calvino	Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where…	OL15344W
Silas Marner	George Eliot	Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the to…	OL20874W
The lifted veil	George Eliot	George Eliot's Gothic story, published the same year as her staunchly realist novel, Adam Bede, continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic …	OL20923W
The enormous despair	Judith Malina	The Enormous Despair is a record, in diary form, of the year 1968, when, after an extended tour of Europe, The Living Theatre returned to tour the United States.	OL24162423W
Hostages to fortune	William Humphrey	227 p. ; 23 cm	OL2455769W
Baksheesh & Brahman	Joseph Campbell	"Joseph Campbell was one of the foremost interpreters of myth in our time. Yet when he traveled to Asia for the first time he was nearly fifty and at the crossroads of his life and career. This journ…	OL2497158W
Kitchen	Yoshimoto Banana	A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious an…	OL2637599W
A sounding of storytellers	John Rowe Townsend	Essays on Nina Bawden, Vera and Bill Cleaver, Peter Dickinson, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Virginia Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, Penelope Lively, William Mayne, Jill Paton Walsh, K.M. Peyton…	OL2789497W
Victoria	Stanley Weintraub	Biography of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).	OL2914758W
Winter's Tale	Mark Helprin	Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinaire--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000.	OL2952075W
Generation of vipers	Philip Wylie	"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the…	OL31045W
Poplollies and bellibones	Susan Kelz Sperling	Defines old, obsolete, and unfamiliar words, describing their histories and derivations, and calls for the revival of particularly interesting names and expressions.	OL4276350W
A. Woollcott, his life and his world	Samuel Hopkins Adams	388 p. 23 cm	OL4636847W
Contemporary portraits	Frank Harris	A collection of pen-portraits of authors and artists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Whistler, Rodin, Verlaine, and Oscar Wilde.	OL80080W
Gringo viejo	Carlos Fuentes	Un fulgurante éxito de ventas mexicano en Estados Unidos, Gringo viejo (1985) es una de las novelas más famosas de Carlos Fuentes, figura central de la narrativa y la ensayística mexicana. En *Grin…	OL872226W