An Evergreen book ;

White nights; Notes from underground; a Faint heart; A Christmas tree and a wedding; Polzunkov; A Little hero; Mr. Prohartchin.

"Esta selección abarca desde los primeros poemas de los años cuarenta hasta Un homenaje y siete nocturnos (1986) e incluye tres peomas dispersos. El conjunto capta a la perfección los rasgos que definen la poética de Mutis: la convivencia de lo lírico y lo narrativo; la deseperanza que resuman sus personajes errantes y sin centro; una cosmovisión de raigambre expresionista, en la que el espacio se tiñe de dicha desesperanza y se torna asfixiante. Acompaña a esta edición el ensayo de Octavio Paz incluido en Puertas al campo"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."

A series of poems deals with music, life, religion, literature, dreams and mortality.

The Reverend Mr Kelvin Walker, the Queen's chaplain in Scotland,has made no secret of his visit to London as a young atheist in 'the swinging sixties', or the doings which led to his conversion there. Even so, this detailed account of the scandal by Alasdair Gray caused the real Reverend Mr Walker real pain when it was first published in 1985, and roused more antagonism in the Scottish press than any other book. - Blurb of The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray

A highly stylized, ritualistic death tire, in which a once-great king is shown during his last hours of life, surrounded by his two wives, his physician and a few other members of the decayed court.

"One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago. An aging rock star in a world in which entertainment and street warfare go hand in hand, Hoss must defend himself against Crow, a newcomer who battles him for fame. Combining musical styles and intense dialogue in an unconventional musical-fantasy, Tooth of Crime riffs brilliantly on rising stars and fading legends, and rock lived and died for."--Publisher's website.

Two neighborhood punks and the owner of a junk shop plot to burglarize a coin collector's apartment. They fail because of inertia, ineptitude and mutual distrust, but remain bound together by their helpless frustration. 2 acts, 3 men, 1 interior.

A collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that the author considers some of the best writing he has ever done.