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Arthur Miller Plays 1 : All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
$45.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: World Classics
Reissued with a new jacket to mark the publication of the sixth and final collection of Miller's plays, this volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All five plays were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 2 : The Misfits; After the Fall; Incident at Vichy; The Price; Creation of the World; Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
$45.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: World Classics
This second volume of Arthur Miller's plays contains four stage plays from the sixties and seventies, taking up the theme of individual responsibility from his earlier work. The volume is introduced by the author. The Price (1968) is 'a beautifully intelligent play about two brothers who are pinned in p ...Show more
Capek Four Plays - R. U. R. - The Insect Play - The Makropulos Case - The White Plague by Karel Capek; Peter Majer (Translator); Cathy Porter (Translator)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: World Classics Ser.
'There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surr ealistic humour and hard-edged social satire- a unique combination (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea ...Show more
Castle by Franz Kafka
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the ...Show more
Collected Plays - Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (II) by Noël Coward; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
$45.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The fourth volume in the Coward Collection. Volume Four of Noel Coward''s plays contains a selection of Coward''s plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely th ...Show more
Fasti by Ovid
$18.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the second ...Show more
How I Found Livingstone by Henry Morton Stanley
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Henry Morton Stanley's greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' is to exploration what Holmes's 'Elementary, my dear Watson' is to detective fiction. It took place in a remote African settlement when a travelling correspondent for the New York Herald suc ...Show more
Orton Complete Plays : "Entertaining Mr. Sloane", "Loot", "What the Butler", "Ruffian", "Erpingham Camp", "Funeral Games" "Good and Faithful Servant" by Joe Orton
$70.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics
''I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It incl ...Show more
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher d ...Show more
Strindberg Plays: 1: The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg; tr. Michael Meyer
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics
This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father (1887), which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he c ...Show more
THE TWELVE CHAIRS A NOVEL by ILF ILYA
$46.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Northwestern World Classics Ser.
Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov's Russian classic fully to life. The novel's iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist livin ...Show more