Plays Unpleasant
10 best books like Plays Unpleasant (George Bernard Shaw): Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847, A Soldier's Play, Four Major Plays, Vol. 2: Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Lady from the Sea / John Gabriel Borkman, Naked Masks: Five Plays, Greyhaven, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Five Plays: The Father / Miss Julie / The Dance of Death / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata, Three Plays: Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape, Long Way Home
| Author | Susan Shelby Magoffin |
| ISBN | 0803281161 |
In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was...
| Author | Charles Fuller |
| ISBN | 0374521484 |
A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 0451525159 |
In Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder Ibsen shifted his focus from the pressures exerted on women by society to the pressures individuals exert on other individuals in their urge to dominate and control one another. Hedda Gabler, 'a-crawl with the foulest passions of humanity', as one contemporary...
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 0452010829 |
This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.
Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0751505080 |
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.
Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.
I missed...
Five Plays: The Father / Miss Julie / The Dance of Death / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata
| Author | August Strindberg |
| ISBN | 0520046986 |
Auguste Strindberg is a major playwright with whom I've too long been unfamiliar. He's a significant influence on the development of western theater. This succinct collection of five of his best works, quickly supplies my lack. I'm midway through this little tome--its brisk reading--and immediately...
Three Plays: Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape
| Author | Eugene O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0679763953 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize
This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.
In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 1405226692 |
"Long Way Home" is a story based around a main character called George. George, who is in foster care, is often being sent to different families in the summer to live with them and do various tasks and activities. Every summer George would return home early from the house he was sent to, however this year...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
It was late in November 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people,...
Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
| Author | Tarquin Hall |
| ISBN | 0719565561 |
After 10 years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiancee in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in...
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| ISBN | 0393900401 |
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
� The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
� Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant...
| Author | Alex La Guma |
| ISBN | 0810101394 |
Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months. Continuing to write, he endured...
| Author | Peter Benchley |
| ISBN | 0449219453 |
What sort of book does an author write after his first novel becomes a bestseller and is made into a wildly successful movie (with sequels)? To observe that this is a good kind of problem for an author to have does not answer the question. Peter Benchley (1940-2006) wrote "Jaws" in 1974 and his potential...
The Sphinx Without a Secret
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0061922250 |
The Dead End Exit
The eternal quest for mystery is part of human condition. When it takes to relationships, it seems to have some sort of aphrodisiac effect — like a magnet, it pushes one lover towards the other — there’s a trunk of secrets to be found and slowly uncovered, one by one,...
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides: 001 (Includes a Dance of ... Breed/the Road/the Bacchae of Euripides)
| Author | Wole Soyinka |
| ISBN | 0192811363 |
Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, The StrongBreed, The...
This novel was dark, suspenseful, and thrilling. It delved into the deep recesses of the human mind and weaved a tale both complex and intriguing. It left you wondering about the different motivations and thoughts that go through peoples' minds.There were graphic displays of the otherworldly,...
The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men
| Author | Christie Ridgway |
| ISBN | 0060763507 |
Page Four asks: Which Palm Springs party girl has been caught canoodling with an out-of-town "Adam"?
Eve Caruso keeps her finger on the pulse of Palm Springs and reports every spicy celebrity tidbit to her loyal readers. She knows everyone in this town—except that mysterious hunk who just...
| Author | Wallace Shawn |
| ISBN | 0374525269 |
From Howard: “I mean, you’re putting your energy into praising people or blaming people and saying who is better and worse—and meanwhile your attention is entirely turned away from the human suffering that is going on all around you and from the extremely difficult, hard-to-answer question...
| Author | Russ McDonald |
| ISBN | 0312248806 |
A Review of The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents byRuss McDonald
Rating: Five Stars
Genre: Nonfiction/Informational
Date Published: 2001
I picked up this book for a Shakespeare class that I took in college. I liked it so much that...
| Author | Soheir Khashoggi |
| ISBN | 0812550943 |
Amira Badir, a young woman from a wealthy family in the Middle Eastern country of al-Remal, lives a life of luxury in opulent palaces. But repressive al-Remal discourages intelligence and initiative, so her life is also one of stark contrasts: wearing designer gowns at home, but never stepping outside...
| Author | Christine Amsden |
| ISBN | 1606192833 |
Her voice is enchanting; his soul is black…
Madison Carter has been terrified of Scott Lee since the night he saved her from an evil sorcerer – then melted into a man-eating monster before her eyes. The werewolf is a slave to the moon, but Madison’s nightmares are not.
Despite...
