Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata

10 best books like Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata (August Strindberg): Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, Copenhagen, The School for Scandal and Other Plays, Complete Plays and Prose, The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter, Confessions of a Barbarian, The Miser and Other Plays, The Birthday Party & The Room, The Third Wave, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

Author

Henrik Ibsen

In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of...

Copenhagen

Author	Michael Frayn
ISBN	0385720793

For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning...

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

Author	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN	0192825674

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for...

Complete Plays and Prose

Author	Georg Büchner
ISBN	0809007274

The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic—and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, were greatly ahead of their time in their penetrating dramatic and psychological treatment. They served as...

The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter

Author

Harold Pinter

Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in...

Confessions of a Barbarian

Author	Edward Abbey
ISBN	1555662870

Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His...

The Miser and Other Plays

Author	Molière
ISBN	0140440364

This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors...

The Birthday Party & The Room

Author	Harold Pinter
ISBN	0802151140

In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past.In The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation from the past when a blind man...

The Third Wave

Author	Alvin Toffler
ISBN	0688035973

The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally likely meant to be a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Author	Hilda D. Spear
ISBN	0333372867

I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...