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This selection of plays contains four titles of like styles. Elihu's Folly is a light comedy that asks if life is as dark and inscrutable as some say. One of the Family involves the Armenian world of Church and young romance. The Widower is an existential play involving a misanthrope eventually caring for a waif. And A Charmed Life speculates upon the circumstances that justify a man's playing God. In all they entertain with a language that im...

We are Hemingway heretics" begins this first prose work of the author. No Man and Everyman follows the trials of its reluctant hero, James Grealey, and is a study in how the fates of many are summarized in the welfare of a few. Specters is a mystical tale of apocalyptic aspect that proposes a dialogue with famous departed greats. Peers of Poland is an invention of comical political foul play of remote but accessible life behind the liberated I...

The Poets' Corner is a serialized drama involving four Yale freshmen. They are iconic and archetypal and embody much of the human experience in their actions. Each episode finds three seeming godfathers tending to the frailty of their vulnerable roommate. And they often counteract and undo each other's plans. It is notable both for the momentum of its stories and its lovely language. Like the stirring melodrama it is it earns its title both in...

The Existentialist is the existential novel of anticipation and heartbreak. It is an exaggerated rendering of the tides that govern all man's lives. In it a disaffected scholar chides an indifferent world. And it shows the inevitable balance of good for good and bad for bad that heaven tries unyieldingly to approximate on earth. It is a grand theme based on a mythic scale. And it is shrouded in stark imagery. It is the chrystallization of many...

Iron Curtain Calls contains two titles that lead back to Russia of the last century. In the surrealist novel Iron Curtain Calls, an author and his friends are among the many repatriated Armenians in the Caucasus. They arrive at a time when antagonisms begin anew between Armenia and its neighboring rival. This shock is exceeded only by the culture shock of finding that local Armenians are not the adorable, charming people familiar to them in th...

This is an advanced but very readable introduction to high school algebra for honors students, including as many Cartesian topics as can be presented without use of Euclidean geometry. These will include standard treatments of sets, numbers, equations in one variable, factoring, and functions, as well as more specialized topics such as linear programming that are considered interesting to the student. It is meant to offer an "understandable an...