"Irving Leitner ́s Half & Half adds up to a fascinating whole. It is a wonderful reading trip. Leitner ́s short stories are succinct, taut and startling. I ́d add his name to Poe, O ́Henry and Dahl. His plays are skillfully wrought and dramatically alive. All in all, Half & Half is a cornucopia of riches." -- Eli Wallach, Distinguished stage, screen and TV actor "What a remarkable piece of work! The plays and prose are stunning in their impact. Irving Leitner has a magical eye for capturing significant detail in both dramatic and narrative form. Half & Half is a truly gripping achievement. I cannot recall a more compelling reading experience." -- Fritz Weaver, Distinguished stage, screen and TV actor

Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by leading critics Augustus Pink, Chloë Clifton-Wright, Richard Ayoade, Leslie Francis (director of . . . And?!), and Hughes's final wife, Lady Virginia Lovilocke. Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry collects together, for the first time, the dramas that made Hughes's name adjectival, in all new fonts, and exhaustively punctuated according to the instructions left in his last will and testament. Platform Table Roast Roost Prompt Shunt Flight Dependence See why some people are still calling Hughes 'the loudest playwright of his generation'.

This anthology of Russian erotic writings of 1900 to 1940 consists of texts previously unavailable in English. They all reflect the fascinating, albeit laborious, nature of the "birth of the body" in the Russian literature and culture of the period.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Miscellaneous Writings" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Essays and Articles. Poems. Prose Parody and Humor. Reviews. Public Letters and Statements. Introductions and Blurbs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author well known for his short stories and novels. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers American soil has produced in the 20th century.