Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own—Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction

Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then, in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Acting as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, Sacajawea bravely embarked on an epic journey that altered history forever. Hear her extraordinary story, in the voices of Sacajawea and William Clark in alternating chapters, with selections from Clark’s original diaries

A book that is filled with wisdom, gentle humor, and the practical concerns necessary for a satisfying life. A tender story about the fragile beginnings of a family relationship on its way to permanence

This book contains information about scene styles and sensational scene exercises: Comedies and dramas

Called the most widely read English novel of the twentieth century, D.H.Lawrence`s largely autobiographical Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artisit growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields

Dreiser`s first novel, Sister Carrie (1900) was inspired by the life of one of his own sisters, who had eloped to New York with her disreputable lover. Particularly in the unflinching tragedy of its final chapters, the novel broke new ground in American Fiction for its gritty realism and for the character of Carrie, who begins "a half-equipped little knight" and becomes a truly modern woman

George Eliot`s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man`s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of family

In April 1895, at the age of fifty-one, Joshua Slocum departed Boston in his thirty-six-foot sloopy Spray, a derelict boat he had rebuilt himself. Three years and 46,000 miles later, he returned, and wrote this remarkable account of his voyage. An instant besy-seller, Sailing Alone Around the World is now regarded as one of the literature`s greatest voyage narratives.

This book is a collection of forty-five of O. Henry`s most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is effected by love, jealousy, poverty, gentility, and the all-pervading reality of people conning people - themes that run through the author`s own life

This is a work of fiction. Charasters, institutions and organization in this novel are the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, are used fictitiously without any intent to describe their actual conduct