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屬於盛夏裡，青春、寂寞與祕密的故事 ? 我是最不會交朋友的人。 ? 但認識妳，給了我一個全新的啟示。 ? 不管是多麼不一樣的人，只要分享了祕密，就能夠成為朋友。 ? 一如往常的上學日，不尋常的意外改變了命運。謎……続きを見る

"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new transl……続きを見る

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Polski poeta, prozaik, dramatopisarz, eseista, tworzył także prace plastyczne. Jego edukacja miała charakter niesystematyczny, można więc powiedzieć, że we wszystkich uprawianyc……続きを見る

Tokyo Butei High School--- A special school where armed detectives, also known as "Butei", receive education as well as training. Kinji Tohyama, a sophomore, has a unique body that can initiate an a……続きを見る

Aleksander Fredro Polski komediopisarz i poeta żyjący i tworzący w okresie romantyzmu, lecz niezależny od stylu epoki; uczestnik kampanii Napoleona I w Rosji (1812), hrabia (od 1822). Pisał komedie ……続きを見る

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Polski poeta, prozaik, dramatopisarz, eseista, tworzył także prace plastyczne. Jego edukacja miała charakter niesystematyczny, można więc powiedzieć, że we wszystkich uprawianyc……続きを見る

This is the comedy of the ancient Greek comedian Aristophanes, the earliest of his plays that have survived to this day. Together with „Mir” and „Lysistrata” refers to the „anti-war” comedies of the……続きを見る

Eliza Orzeszkowa Polska pisarka nurtu pozytywizmu znana pod nazwiskiem męża, Piotra Orzeszko, nazwisko rodowe: Korwin-Pawłowska. Publikowała pod pseudonimami: E.O., Bąk, Wa-Lit-No, Li...ka, Gabriela……続きを見る

"A Doll's House" is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her father……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of dist……続きを見る

HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic ca……続きを見る

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588–1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First……続きを見る

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time. Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a……続きを見る

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was publis……続きを見る

At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People……続きを見る

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends……続きを見る

The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, l……続きを見る

Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performances. ……続きを見る

In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully c……続きを見る

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open-space Learning offers a unique resource to educators wishin……続きを見る

From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The co……続きを見る

A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis describes Active Analysis, the innovative rehearsal method Stanislavsky formulated in his final years. By uniting 'mental analysis' and 'études',……続きを見る

Written originally in French in 1892, this sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest ……続きを見る

Buying the Farm captures a newsworthy topic of the day: the fight for survival by America’s family farmers against the power and influence of corporate farming. While written as a novel, it is roote……続きを見る

Echoing the international "dolce vita" scandals of mid-20th century, the novel follows New York socialite Kirsten de Furia's flight from celebrated American husband and brilliant son to the arms of ……続きを見る

A Spanish civil war veteran lives with a piece of shrapnel embedded under his skull. His disconnected reality sees apples, cider, and flashes of old memories that to him, seem to belong to strangers……続きを見る

World famous cognitive scientist John Paulus, inspired by a Spanish short story, practices magical conjurations in order to bring about the death of his wife, Claire. After Claire dies in a house fi……続きを見る

Are they tourists, or are they smugglers and spies? Roger and Sandra Brownwell, American expatriates on an around-the-world vacation with their two preschool children, are scheduled for two weeks ac……続きを見る

Terry Pratchett's infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen. Defending Ank-Morpork against this threa……続きを見る

For Memorial Day weekend, an electrical engineer, who suffers from allergies, visits his troubled brother to help him sort through his life. When he leaves, he carries with him in a cooler one of hi……続きを見る