Authors:Elfriede Jelinek,  Joachim Neugroschel,
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: novel, teacher, piano
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802144616
ISBN-13: 9780802144614

The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce h

Author: Barry Mile
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: corso, paris, burroughs, ginsberg, hotel, beat
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-07-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802138179
ISBN-13: 9780802138170

The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles’s extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition--Ginsberg’s "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso’s The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat H

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: dead, guildenstern, rosencrantz
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1994-01-21
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802132758
ISBN-13: 9780802132758

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of "Waiting for Godot" resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

Authors:D.T. Suzuki,  Carl Jung,
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: buddhism, zen, introduction
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802130550
ISBN-13: 9780802130556

One of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing the teachings of Zen Buddhism to the attention of the Western world. Written in a lively, accessible, and straightforward manner, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is illuminating for the serious student and layperson alike. Suzuki provides a complete vision of Zen, which emphasizes self-understanding and enlightenment through many systems of philosophy, psychology, and ethics. With a foreword by the

Author: Cyril Birch
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: century, present, day, fourteenth, volume, chinese, literature, anthology
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1994-01-10
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 080215090X
ISBN-13: 9780802150905

Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels from the Y’an and Ching Dynasties, as well as the Republican Period. Highlights include Songs from the Y’an Dynasty, The Temptation of Saint Pigsy by Wu Ch’eng-en, a selection from Peony Pavilion, early Ch’ing lyrics, and “Six Chapters” from A Floating Life by Shen Fu.

Author: Cyril Birch
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: fourteenth, century, times, volume, chinese, literature, anthology
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1994-01-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0802150381
ISBN-13: 9780802150387

Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122–221 B.C.) to the Y’an Dynasty (A.D. 1280–1367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature is represented by a crucial work. Highlights include, in addition to the great poems of the T’ang, outstanding examples of Han poetry, Six

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: morning, one, ugly, quite
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01-09
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802138616
ISBN-13: 9780802138613

Quite Ugly One Morning is the book that made Christopher Brookmyre a star in his native Britain, establishing his distinctive, scabrously humorous style and breakneck, hell-for-leather narrative pacing. The novel that won the inaugural First Blood Award for the best debut crime novel in the United Kingdom is now available in America for the first time, and comic crime writing on this side of the Atlantic may never be the same. Quite Ugly One Morning introduces Brookmyre’s signature protagonist, the hard-partying, wisecracking investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, who is not afraid to