Toward the Radical Center

Toward the Radical Center
Author: Karel Čapek
Publisher: Catbird Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1990
Genre: Czech drama
ISBN: 9780945774075

Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors
Author: Donna Olendorf
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1993-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810319714

Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).

European Writers

European Writers
Author: William Thomas Hobdell Jackson
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1983
Genre: European literature
ISBN: 9780684179162

This reference work is comprised of two volumes treating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, three volumes on the Romantics, and four volumes dealing with twentieth century authors. Scholar's new to literary history and criticism should find the balanced, well written essays on included authors a solid introduction.