Set in Malta, a European island off the coast of Italy, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe follows a rich Jewish merchant, Barabas, who enjoys the privileges that his wealth allows. When the governor of Malta, Ferneze,... Zobraziť viac
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice Cream2. Kung Fu... Zobraziť viac
This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe’s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language. Zobraziť viac
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text—the only authoritative version—with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play... Zobraziť viac
A stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestselling non-fiction thriller, about the investigation of a Victorian country house murder. Zobraziť viac
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might... Zobraziť viac
The fact is that some of us like women and some like men and that’s fine that’s good in fact that’s good, a good thing, but it seems to me that you’ve become confused. John is happy in himself, and with his boyfriend, until one day he meets the woman... Zobraziť viac
"It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass." - The New York TimesWhen Sylvia Gellburg, a young Jewish woman living in Brooklyn, becomes partially paralyzed from... Zobraziť viac
'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original... Zobraziť viac
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Mad – Foolish – Ridiculous – I’ve been called many things. On an uneventful Wednesday in a drab Borough of East London, an ordinary man has a startling revelation: life is an unhappy accident in a meaningless universe. He gets himself a gun. But... Zobraziť viac
New versions of Shakespeare’s history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy. In his three Henry VI plays, Shakespeare tackles the infamous Wars of the Roses and the fall of the House of Lancaster. In this translation of Henry VI,... Zobraziť viac
Widely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), created realistic plays bringing the social problems of his day to center stage. Zobraziť viac
Tennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella ... Zobraziť viac
Dramatic and powerful in its scope, Othello explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions... Zobraziť viac
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim, step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen; the other forges an astonishing... Zobraziť viac
An eye for an eye. It’s very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle... Zobraziť viac
His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More... Zobraziť viac
Faber and Faber - Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh t Zobraziť viac
A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games in a new edition created specially tells the story of high schoolerAgnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger sister Tilly. When Agnes stumbles notebook she finds herself... Zobraziť viac
