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The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington's «The Magnificent Ambersons» is the second book in his Growth trilogy, which depicts Mid-Western life from the post-Civil War era to the early twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this novel follows the decline of the Ambersons, an aristocratic family that loses their wealth and social prominence to tycoons and land developers. Considered a realistic portrayal of the rise of industrialization, the Ambersons represent the fall of old money and family...

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Booth Tarkington

Tin Bucket Drum

Neil Coppen

Tin Bucket Drum

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Neil Coppen

Cathleen Ni Houlihan

W. B. Yeats

Cathleen Ni Houlihan

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the «Irish Literary Revival» of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and received honorary degrees from Queen's University (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It can be difficult to characterize Yeats. He was a complicated man whose work reflected the internal struggle he felt between art and life. In 1899 Yeats helped...

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W. B. Yeats

Трамвай «Желание» (сборник)

Теннесси Уильямс

Трамвай «Желание» (сборник)

В этот сборник вошли две известнейшие пьесы Теннесси Уильямса – «Трамвай “Желание”» и «Татуированная роза», – положенные в основу одноименных фильмов – фильмов, которые, в свою очередь, стали классикой мирового кино. И в обеих пьесах речь идет о женщинах и о любви. Любовью к покойному мужу Розарио годами живет и дышит затворившаяся от мира в своем непрерывном переживании трагедии Серафина Делла Роза. Любви страстно ищет мятущаяся, надломленная, заплутавшая в мире воспоминаний и фантазий...

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Теннесси Уильямс

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Renaissance England. His range is broad, as his work successfully covers comedy, tragedy, and history. Praised during his life as well as today, Middleton remains relevant and influential. This edition collects five of his most treasured dramas, demonstrating the breadth of his abilities. «A Trick...

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Thomas Middleton

Madame Bovary: A Play in Three Acts

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary: A Play in Three Acts

Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads. When she moves to a rural town in France, she finds herself utterly bored by country and small-town life. Although her husband is a good man, Emma has no respect for him. Eventually she takes a lover, and wants him to give up everything for her, so they can run away together–but he fails...

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Gustave Flaubert

Somewhere on the Border

Anthony Akerman

Somewhere on the Border

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Anthony Akerman

Принцесса Греза

Эдмон Ростан

Принцесса Греза

«Сцена представляет палубу корабля, очевидно, пострадавшего от долгого и мучительного плавания. Следы бури: изорванные паруса, разбитые реи, растрепанные канаты, мачта накренилась набок. Следы сражения: пятна крови, разбросанное оружие. Ночь близится к концу. Серые прозрачные тени. Бледнеющее небо. Редеющие звезды. Море фиолетовое с полосами серебристого пара. Густой туман на горизонте. Освещение в течение акта незаметно меняется…»

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Эдмон Ростан

Секта Эгоистов (сборник)

Эрик-Эмманюэль Шмитт

Секта Эгоистов (сборник)

Эрик-Эмманюэль Шмитт – мировая знаменитость, один из самых популярных и играемых на сцене французских авторов и вместе с тем глубокий писатель, которого волнуют фундаментальные вопросы морали и смысла жизни, темы смерти, религии. «Секта Эгоистов» – первый роман, созданный Э.-Э. Шмиттом, роман, «который рассказывает о том, как его не было, ускользает, обманывает и творит себя из обмана». Герой книги Гаспар Лангенхаэрт считает реальность плодом собственного воображения. А что, если жизнь – это...

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Эрик-Эмманюэль Шмитт

Our Lady of Benoni

Zakes Mda

Our Lady of Benoni

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Zakes Mda

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's «Lysistrata» is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between Athens and Sparta. A hilarious and...

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Aristophanes

The Princess Casamassima

Frank J. Morlock

The Princess Casamassima

Based on the 1885 novel by Henry James, this play tells the story of Hyacinth Robinson, the bastard son of a French woman and an English lord. Robinson has become a bookbinder in the London working-class slums. He embraces radicalism, and joins a conspiracy of anarchists plotting to assassinate high-ranking members of the establishment. But when he's actually given a terrorist mission to carry out, Hyacinth suddenly finds himself conflicted–he no longer sympathizes with radical politics,...

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Frank J. Morlock

Chmury

Arystofanes

Chmury

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Arystofanes

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya

Originally published in 1899, «Uncle Vanya» is widely considered one of Chekhov's most important plays. Essentially a reworking of an earlier Chekhov play, «The Wood Demon», the mood of Uncle Vanya is chiefly melancholic as the characters examine their respective miseries and failures in their lives to accomplish that which they might have hoped to. A classic tragicomedy, «Uncle Vanya» saw its first major performance in 1900 and has been praised as one of Chekhov's most important...

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Anton Chekhov

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

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Aristophanes

Chmury

Arystofanes

Chmury

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Arystofanes

The School for Scandal and The Riva...

Ричард Шеридан

The School for Scandal and The Rivals

Combined in this volume are two of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's most loved works, «The School for Scandal» and «The Rivals». «The School for Scandal» is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a «comedy of manners», «The School for Scandal» is one Sheridan's most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. «The Rivals» was Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play and while at...

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Ричард Шеридан

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

"Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (translated by C. J. Hogarth). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...

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Ivan Turgenev

Catiline, His Conspiracy

Ben Jonson

Catiline, His Conspiracy

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. His career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in the «Admiral's Men», and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson's work was primarily in comedies for the public theatres, and although none of his earliest tragedies survived, «Catiline, His Conspiracy» was one...

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Ben Jonson

At the Hawk's Well

W. B. Yeats

At the Hawk's Well

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little regard for Christianity. His close friend, Ezra Pound, exposed Yeats to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama, prompting him to write «At the Hawk's Well» in...

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W. B. Yeats

The Supine Cobbler

Jill Connell

The Supine Cobbler

Abortion is of course a highly contentious issue. This play deftly wields feminist, pro-choice politics without hitting one over the head with it, using complex characterizations, smart dialogue, emotional nuance and audience implication.Produced in Toronto in September 2015 and in Edmonton in April 2016 to rave reviews, the written script is just as delightful to read, and we love that it is, in some ways, a different thing than the performed play. 5 character play.Connell is a graduate of the...

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Jill Connell

Eternal Hydra

Anton Piatigorsky

Eternal Hydra

When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international audience for the book. But Vivian's obsession with the dead author, who has materialized in her life, is challenged by the work of a contemporary historical novelist, and she's forced to face confounding questions about authorship, racism, and ethical behavior. Weaving between...

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Anton Piatigorsky

Press Cuttings and The Dark Lady of...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Press Cuttings and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot,...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya

Originally published in 1898 and performed for the first time in Moscow in 1899, “Uncle Vanya” is widely considered one of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s most important dramas. It is the tale of the visit of Serebryakov, a retired professor and his new, young wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that had belonged to Serebyrakov’s late first wife and that supports the couple in their urban lifestyle. The estate is run by Serebryakov’s adult unmarried daughter, Sonia, and her Uncle Vanya, brother...

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Anton Chekhov

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