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William Shakespeare - 1972

Rediscover Shakespeare -- the working man of the theater, not the universal bard -- and rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized.

Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions, this contemporary Shakespeare enables readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh.

Catch Me a Colobus

Gerald Durrell - 1972

A pot-pourri of animal anecdotes, based on hectic days at the author's Jersey zoo and his forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction.

First published in 1972.

The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories

William Trevor - 1972

The Pickering manuscript

William Blake - 1972

Her Fairy skipp'd out and her Fairy skipp'd in; He laugh'd at the Devil, saying 'Love is a sin.' The Devil he raged, and the Devil he was wroth, And the Devil enter'd into the young man's broth..