"Sweat"

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	1406914835

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".  The Student Edition contains these exclusive...

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Kate Chopin

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of women. From the famous proto-feminist tale "The Story of an Hour" to the subtly sexy "A Respectable Woman," Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations...

Author	August Wilson
ISBN	0452264014

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning...

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Ernest Hemingway

A couple. A bar. A health condition of some sort. And a small research done by a reader to understand what was going on, exactly. Mere descriptions of actions and dialogue were not enough. But the reader doesn't blame the author for her lack of perception. A detached author that seems to barely know them....

Author	Sophie Treadwell
ISBN	1854592114

Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair. Out of this came MACHINAL, a powerful expressionist drama about...

Author	Clifford Odets
ISBN	0827440197

This was an ok play, but not really my cup of tea. This is a Depression-era worker's activist play, inciting the workers to strike for better conditions and so on. The problem I have with a lot of political texts is that they frequently sacrifice art for direct political commentary, which doesn't appeal...

Author	William Faulkner
ISBN	1563127881

Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later...

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Kate Chopin

"The Storm" by Kate Chopin is a sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball". We encounter married couples Bobint and Calixta, with four year old son Bibi in tow, and Alcee and Clarisse, five years after the ball. A torrential rain. Bobint and Bibi wait out the storm. They worry about Calixta at home alone. They need...