The Viking Portable library

Dorothy Parker was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker--a private life, set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts. In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the dark side of Parker and her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S.J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lilian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. Read more at

Includes "The Divine Comedy," "The New Life," and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.

Contains: Old Woman's Tale My Kinsman, Major Molineux Gray Champion [Young Goodman Brown]( Golden Touch Feathertop Wakefield Egotism [Birth-Mark]( Earth's Holocaust Artist of the Beautiful Ethan Brand Scarlet Letter American Notebooks English Notebooks French and Italian Notebooks Bundle of Letters

This selection of Arnold's verse includes, besides his tributes to Wordsworth and the Brontes, such well-known poems as 'Dover Beach', 'The Scholar Gipsy', 'Mycerinus', and 'Empedocles on Etna'. The poems are provided with full notes and a useful introduction to Arnold's life and poetry.

Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.

Contains: [Dubliners]( Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Exiles -- Collected Poems -- From Ulysses -- From Finnegans Wake.

Contains: - Chamber Music - Ecce Puer - Pomes Penyeach

A collection of the most notable writings of Jonathan Swift. Includes a biography and a chronology.

Contains: [Death of a salesman]( [Crucible]( Incident at Vichy. The price. The misfits I (the original story) From The misfits II (a cinema novel) Fame (a story) Fitter's night (a story) From In Russia. Lines from California (a poem)

The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire capitalism. This volume brings together the era's classic works, with more than a hundred selections from a broad range of sources—including works by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine—that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions. Included are seminal discourses on science and religion, on the social contract, on the equality (and inequality)...

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli's contribution to Western political theory. The Portable Machiavelli brings together the complete texts of The Prince, Belfagor, and Castruccio Castracani, newly translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa especially for this volume. In addition, the editors include an abridged version of The Discourses; a play, The Mandrake Root, in its entirety; seven private letters; and selections from The Art of War and The History of Florence.

Twelfth Night, or, What You Will The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark Macbeth The Tempest Selections from the Other Plays The Taming of the Shrew Love's Labor's Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It The History of Troilus and Cressida Measure for Measure The Winter's Tale The Third Part of Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of King Richard the Third The Tragedy of King Richard the Second The First Part of King Henry the Fourth The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth The Life of King Henry the Fifth The Life of King Henry the Eighth Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice King Lear Antony and Cleopatra Selections from the Sonnets

The old people : A justice. Wedding in the rain (from Absalom! Absalom!) [Red leaves]( Was. ; The unvanguished : Raid. [Wash]( An odor of Verbena ; The last wilderness : The bear ; The peasants : Spotted horses (from the hamlet) ; The end of an order : [That evening sun]( Ad astra. [A rose for Emily]( Disley (from the sound and the fury) ; Mississipi flood : Old man (from the wild palms) ; Modern times : Death drag. Oncle Bud and the three Madams (from Sanctuary). Percy Grimm. Delta autumors.

Five plays complete: Devil's Disciple [Pygmalion]( In the Beginning Heartbreak House Shakes versus shav The celebrated "Don Juan in Hell" scene from Man and Superman Bernard Shaw's major prose work, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God Letters, articles, reviews, and speeches--all representing the entire spectrum of Shaws long career

Collection of Parker's stories, poems, essays. It's a small size, but wow, is it full of her great writing! Someone stole my copy, and I'm missing her humor and instinct for saying it like it is, or was, during her days with the Algonquin Round Table. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews. - Back cover.

A large selection of Chaucer's works, translated into modern English.

"The Portable Chekhov presents twenty-eight of Chekhov's best stories, chosen as particularly representative of his many-sided portrayal of the human comedy - including "The Kiss", "The Darling", and "In theTavine" - as well as two complete plays: The Boor, an example of Chekhov's earlier dramatic work, and The Cherry Orchard, his last and finest play. In addition, this volume includes a selection of letters, candidly revealing of Chekhov's impassioned convictions on life and art, his high aspirations, his marriage, and his omnipresent compassion" -- publisher website (August 2007).

Contains: From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums -- From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's -- From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans -- From In dubious battle. A future we can't foresee -- [Of mice and men]( (the complete novel) -- The red pony. The gift ; The great mountains ; The promise ; The leader of the people -- From The long valley. Breakfast -- From The grapes of wrath. The turtle ; "The last clear definite function of man" ; Migrant people ; Life and death ; Breakfast and work ; Ma and Tom ; The flood -- From Sea of Cortez. "Is" thinking and "living into" ; The pearl of La Paz ; Parable of laziness ; Differences ; "It might be so" -- From "About Ed Ricketts." "Knowing Ed Ricketts ..." ; "Speculative metaphysics" -- From Cannery Row. Frog hunt -- From East of Eden. Adam and his sons ; Choice and responsibility ; Technology and a technocrat ; Timshel -- Two uncollected stories. The affair at 7, rue de M -- ; How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank -- From Travels with Charley in search of America. People ; Texan ostentation ; Southern troubles ; Last leg -- The language of awareness. From East of Eden ; Nobel prize acceptance speech.

Contains 23 short stories; one complete novel, A woman's life; a collection of letters including the correspondence with Marie Bashkirtseff; and his Essay on the novel.

An impressive assembly of prose and poems from the first truly American poetWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America.

This book features an overview of Alcott's work—novels, novellas, children's stories, gothic tales, and more.

Two Complete Novels - Typee and [Billy Budd]( Self-contained excerpts of four other novels Stories, including "[Bartleby, the Scrivener]( Selections from travel journals Letters, poems, marginalia, and other writings specially arranged with editiorial comments that tell the story of Herman Melville's life in relation to his work.

"The collections of Darwin's writings includes five chapters from The Origin of the Species; excerpts from The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, and The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication; scientific papers, travel writings, and letters.

Includes material by Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Southey, Macaulay, James Fenimore Cooper, Benjamin Disraeli, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Henry Adams, Paul Elmer More, Freya Stark, and others.

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The collection includes excerpts, chronologically arranged, from novels which make up the Legend of Duluoz. Kerouac appears as a child in Doctor Sax, as a teenager in Maggie Cassidy, as a young man in On the Road, as a road-wary traveler in Tristessa, as a committed seeker of truth in the Dharma Bums, and as a man at the end of the road in Satori in Paris.

"She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day - Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America, where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting reflections on the agonizing issues of the day - totalitarianism in both Nazi and Stalinist garb; Zionism and the legacy of the Holocaust; federally mandated school desegregation and civil rights in the United States; and the nature of evil.". "The Portable Hannah Arendt offers substantial excerpts from the three works that ensured her international and enduring stature: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Additionally, this volume includes several other provocative essays, as well as her correspondence with other influential figures of the time. These thoughtfully chosen pieces form an eloquent testament to a fearless thinker who argued for justice and hope in the middle of an anguished century."--BOOK JACKET.

During the pivotal period of America?s international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to ?Apaint? life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation,? Realism is best represented by this volume?s masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.