Fantasy

William Saroyan Flexible cast. Simple sets. Mr. Saroyan has shown with considerable beauty, humor, and dramatic effect the dreams of some of the people who ride in a metropolitan subway.

First published to international acclaim in 1940, 'My Name is Aram' is a collection of semi-autobiographical stories about a boy of Armenian descent called Aram Garoghlanian set in Fresno, California.

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

Gathered in The Man with the Heart in the Highlands are sixteen stories from William Saroyan's most celebrated literary period, culled from several long out-of-print collections from the 1930s and '40s, While achieving meteoric success with The Human Comedy and The Time of Your Life, the young Saroyan set the pace with characters as fresh and compassionate as himself. His voice here is exhilarating, luminous, and completely distinctive--ready to let go with a lusty brash laugh on every page. These stories amply bear out Elizabeth Bowen's opinion that "probably since O. Henry nobody has done more to endear and stabilize the short story."

OF ALL THE THINGS I LOVE I love to see the sun come smiling to the world I love to hear the wind go singing through a field I love to hear a love-bird singing in a tree, And I love to see a lovely face light up with love for me. CHORUS Of all the things I love, 1 love the most Sleeping in the shade of love. Sleeping in the shade of love, I love the most, my love. Of all the things I love to taste, Sweetest is the kiss of love. Dreaming in the shade of love, The kiss of love I love the most, my love. My love, of all the lovely things, Loveliest of all is you, Dreaming in the shade of love. Sleeping in the shade of love, my love, I love the most, my love. I love to breathe the scent of earth and new-mown hay I love to taste the peach and berry ripe in May I love to feel the spray as I walk beside the sea, And I love to see a lovely face light up with love for me. vii THE YEARS The years, the years, they come and go, And go and go, and oh, my heart The years have gone with my heart. The days, the days still come and go, And I still breathe, But oh, my heart The years have gone with my heart The years, the days, the nights Still come and go, And I still dream, But oh, my heart is gone, My heart is gone with the years. The hours, the hours, the long, dreaming hours Still come and go, And I still dream. But the light is gone from my dream, And the love is gone from my heart The two foregoing songs have been published by Chappell Music by Paul Bowles, words by William Saroyan. PREFACE Loves Old Sweet Song in addition to being a theatrical entertainment, intended primarily to delight the eye and ear and the heart and mind of the beholder, is literally a song. The singers of the song are the fewpeople in the play selected from the many in the world, but any who see the play are likely to be the singers of the song also, inasmuch as the song is living itself. It is an old song, but the time is our time, the people are our people, and the environment is our environment. All the sources of the song are contemporary, but still the song is the oldest song in the world, as love is the most basic emotion of life. There could be no mor tality without love, and no dimension to living without song. Love is an inevitable part of the bargain of the living in the inexplicable exchange of nothingness for mortality, and poetry is mans defense against being swindled in that bargain. Any man who is an alien to poetry, no matter who he is, is swindled in that bargain...

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The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin  Valley. The time is World War II. The family is  the Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and three  brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of  America's second-generation immigrants.. In  particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become  one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the  West, finds himself caught between reality and  illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death,  love, and money brings him face-to-face with human  emotion at its most naked and raw.

Gentle,  poignant and richly autobiographical, this  delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a  world that even in the midst of war, appears  sweeter, safer and more livable than out own.

A novel of an American family in wartime.

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.

This book was first published October 15, 1934, William Saroyan writes in the 1940 preface to The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze: You will have to take my word for it that I believed the world would never be the same. Certainly, it never was. Saroyan's first published collection of stories made a tremendous splash in the literary world, adding an author in love with his own madcap sincerity to a pantheon full of serious-minded modernists. A novel is a novelist, he writes, and a short story is a short story writer. Saroyan always wrote about humanity, and always on a human scale. He was also one of the first American writers in this century to focus so much attention on immigrant communities. The protagonists in The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze are often Armenian, Jewish, Chinese, Polish, African, or Irish; and all are treated with what The San Francisco Chronicle called the old Saroyan luminousness, which is to say with an insight as fresh as that of an unusually perceptive child.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision--the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California.

A programme text edition published in conjunction with the Finborough Theatre to coincide with the centenary of the birth of William Saroyan, "The Time of Your Life" runs from 26 November - 20 December.
'In the time of our life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it'

"The Time of Your Life," a rich tapestry of human life, peopled by a profusion of wistful dreamers, pining lonely hearts, and beer-hall-philosophers, is a twentieth century American masterpiece.

"The Time of Your Life" was first presented at The Shubert Theatre, New Haven, USA, on 7 October 1939. It was the first play to win both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize. . It has been revived three times on Broadway; was filmed in 1948, starring James Cagney; and twice filmed for TV. It was last seen in the UK in a star-studded Royal Shakespeare Company production in Stratford and London in 1983, and received the following review:

'A remarkable play which blazes forth like a brave beacon: warming and full of fire' "Daily Mail"