The Doctor's Dilemma
10 best books like The Doctor's Dilemma (George Bernard Shaw): Athalie, Faith Healer, The Winslow Boy, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Life of God (as Told by Himself), Plutus, The Beaux' Stratagem, Five Plays: The Father / Miss Julie / The Dance of Death / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata, Jumpers
| Author | Jean Racine |
| ISBN | 2253062286 |
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Miraculeusement sauvé du massacre où les siens ont péri, le jeune Joas est secrètement recueilli puis élevé par le grand prêtre Joad et par sa femme. Pour qu’il accède au trône de Juda qui lui était promis, il lui faut échapper à l’infidèle...
| Author | Brian Friel |
| ISBN | 0571214584 |
When I was reading Faith Healer, this script got two distinctions from me: (1) being one of the most depressing things I have ever read, and (2) probably being the first play I've encountered where I actually wondered whether or not it would work on stage as well as it does on the page. I mean, it must work,...
| Author | Terence Rattigan |
| ISBN | 1854594672 |
In 1908, a British boy of about 14, George Archer Shee [a double last name, and pronounced "Shay"], from a respectable but not rich family, was expelled from the Osborne Naval College after being falsely accused of stealing a five-shilling postal money order from a fellow cadet. (The administrators...
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | Franco Ferrucci |
| ISBN | 0226244962 |
At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet,...
| Author | Aristophanes |
| ISBN | 1420927639 |
The story of 'Plutus' concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only...
It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight:
Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress...
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...
| Author | Tom Stoppard |
| ISBN | 0571145698 |
The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the...
| Author | John Buchan |
| ISBN | 1406501298 |
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.” Jack London, Tales of Adventure
This is a quote John Buchan would probably have agreed with, as the need for constant challenge in order to prevent decay of the body, mind and spirit is a common theme in his books. In fact, he would probably take...
| Author | Joe Orton |
| ISBN | 0413567605 |
A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money...
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | W.S. Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0393316882 |
From Trial by Jury to The Pirates of Penzance: the complete librettos of all fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed...
The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Audrey Hepburn: A Biography
| Author | Warren G. Harris |
| ISBN | 1568951566 |
This novel also has one true fault, and the fault is that underneath all of the well-researched facts and trivia and all the information and precision found in this biography, the biographer is simply not a very good writer. Biographies are generally written in a semi-formal tone, and certainly not...
Egmont a Tragedy in Five Acts
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN | 1406811386 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. His Magnum Opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part dramatic poem Faust: A Tragedy. He was one of the key figures of German...
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486280233 |
When Jimmy Skunk curls up to take a nap in an old barrel, the imp of mischief gets the better of Peter Rabbit. Tons of trouble plague the long-eared prankster after he decides it'd be great fun to see the barrel — with Jimmy inside — roll down from its resting point high on a hill.
Reddy Fox gets the...
