Best of
Canon

1976

Complete Works: Volume 1


Harold Pinter - 1976
    This, the first of four volumes, contains his first five plays, including The Birthday Party (1958), his first full-length drama; as well as two short stories—The Black and White and The Examination—both written before Pinter turned to the theatre. Pinter's exacting and complex use of language and the features that mark his "comedies of menace" are clearly realized in these plays and stories. His speech Writing for the Theatre introduces the volume and establishes the context for these early years.

The Best of Robert Silverberg


Robert Silverberg - 1976
    Malzberg · in · Road to Nightfall · nv Fantastic Universe Jul ’58 · Warm Man · ss F&SF May ’57 · To See the Invisible Man · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Apr ’63 · The Sixth Palace · ss Galaxy Feb ’65 · Flies · ss Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 · Hawksbill Station · na Galaxy Aug ’67 · Passengers · ss Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1968 · Nightwings [Watcher] · na Galaxy Sep ’68 · Sundance · ss F&SF Jun ’69 · Good News from the Vatican · ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet


Tom Stoppard - 1976
    The miraculous feat is followed by an encore which consists of a two-minute version of the play! The vast multitude of characters is played by six actors with hectic doubling, and the action takes place at a shortened version of Elsinore Castle.

The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians


Jerome Rothenberg - 1976
    poetry, tr Norman, w/scholarly essay

James Beard's New Fish Cookery


James Beard - 1976
    A healthful, dramatically simplified book on cooking techniques for preparinglow cholesterol, low calorie seafood, with over 500 recipes.

People of Kau


Leni Riefenstahl - 1976
    A wild and passionate people, they are diametrically opposed to the Mesakin in character and temperament. Their knife-fights, dances of love and elaborately painted faces and bodies, which resemble "living Picassos," are unequalled by any surviving primitive race on earth. Leni Riefenstahl does not claim to have captured their entire way of life in this book. Rather, she has concentrated on photographing what distinguishes the South East Nuba from other tribes of her acquaintance. Leni Riefenstahl's unforgettable photographic impressions of the life of the People of Kau bear final witness to a primitive tribe which is menaced by the advance of industrial civilization and slowly subsiding into the mists of time.

The Book of Sharks


Richard Ellis - 1976
    Descriptive accounts of common and rare species and of encounters between sharks and humans are accompanied by photographs, drawings, and paintings by the author.

Summoned by Bells


John Betjeman - 1976
    Summoned by Bells

The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man


Ernest Becker - 1976
    

The Rimas of Gustavo Becquer


Jules Renard - 1976