The Invention of Love, Paperback - Tom Stoppard

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premi...

Reducere. ``Does anyone date anymore?`` Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and r...

Reducere. During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his li...

Reducere. Young Will Shakespeare has writer's block... the deadline for his new play is fast approaching but he's in desperate need of inspiration. That is, ...

Contains radio plays, which complement the author's work for the stage. The volume includes "In the Native State", which became the stage play "Ind...

This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur...

Reducere. A fifth volume of Stoppard's work, with an introduction by the author. The five plays included are "Arcadia", "The Real Thing", "Night & Day", "Ind...

The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of t...

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Reducere. Tom Stoppard s magnificent trilogy, ``The Coast of Utopia, `` was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now Stoppard s crowning ach...

Reducere. Stoppard's masterful adaptation of Chekhov's best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play...

Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, int...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

Reducere. ``It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.``--Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large co...

The Real Inspector Hound, Paperback

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng

Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...

Identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions in Samantha Hastings' Victo...

Reducere. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Characters: 8 male, 4 female Unit set. This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly famil...

The classicism of Lady Croom's grounds are being turned into a romantic chaos. In a room overlooking the work, her daughter and tutor are disturbed...

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the vo...

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from e...

I can't remember which side I'm supposed to be working for, and it is not in fact necessary for me to know. The Cold War is approaching its endgame...

It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave, and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not t...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to t...

A new account of innovative French poet, novelist, essayist and film writer Blaise Cendrars.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Eric RobertsonIllus...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): G BlancNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

A tie-in edition to the upcoming Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's extraordinary play about love and marriage--the work that has been called "the ...

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science in...

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some...

Reducere. Caldecott Honor artist Brian Selznick's lavishly illustrated debut novel is a cinematic tour de force not to be missed! ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND T...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...