Plays & Playwrights 14

Eye of the Storm is a short story documenting the last memories of a man lost at sea. It relates his struggle to understand the events of his last few days and his resolve about what will happen in ……続きを見る

With all of Charles Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, Women, the 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum, is an uncompromising account of life on the edge. Low-life writer and ……続きを見る

In a retelling of a traditional tale, Danni Moyo is on a quest while his wife and unborn child are in the care of a mysterious stranger. What could go wrong? 続きを見る

A woman begins to fall in love with her rescue dog. (Short Fiction) 続きを見る

They say life isn’t a fairy tale, and I never expected my life to be any exception. I expected to have a normal, boring job with a normal, boring husband, and not a bit more. But, life has a way of ……続きを見る

E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Der goldene Topf" (1814) erzählt vom Studenten Anselmus, der sich zwischen Fantasie und Realität hin- und herschwankend gegen eine Vernunftehe mit einer Beamtentochter entscheidet ……続きを見る

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet wi……続きを見る

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figure……続きを見る

Henry Willeford III was a quiet man. He was tidy, neat and thorough. If anything about Henry suggested vanity, it was his carefully trimmed mustache which rested like a light brown shadow beneath hi……続きを見る

Sitting on her porch in the dark one warm summer night, observing her neighbors, convinces Ardelia Smith that it's time for a change. Short story based on the author's own experiences. 続きを見る

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’……続きを見る

Even though he has another woman in his life, Jurian's ex is determined to prove that his new girlfriend may have the lease to his arms but she has the title deed to his heart. 続きを見る

Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbr……続きを見る

"Please God, No Wedding or Shooting at the End has Chekhov and Masha on stage while he writes The Seagull under the influence of Hamlet … Sunde imagines Chekhov returning from a production of which ……続きを見る

In his second short-story installment Matthew Farrington again tackles issues of family, abuse, madness and the inherent competing human desires of surrender and survival. Part of the bulk of a larg……続きを見る

An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordina……続きを見る

Do you have an itch to see your stories unfold on stage? Want to cast your lot with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Miller, Mamet, and other renowned playwrights? If so, How to Write a Play is a great ……続きを見る

In the gold-rush era of the 1850s, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this “wilderness” into an English country garden comple……続きを見る

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launche……続きを見る

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. T……続きを見る

Este é um texto de autoconhecimento, aceitação e superação daquilo que oprime as personagens. Cada personagem, a seu modo, tem um ponto a se questionar e ser questionada. É o existencialismo daquele……続きを見る

"There are echoes of John Steinbeck in this beautiful and haunting debut novel. . . . Coplin depicts the frontier landscape and the plainspoken characters who inhabit it with dazzling clarity." ー E……続きを見る

Would you flee from the life you live in if you could? Connie, Suzy, and Karen did. Through their desperate attempts to reclaim themselves, the paths of these three women become intertwined. They de……続きを見る

'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other' A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets ar……続きを見る

Adam Sheldon has an insatiable love that he would follow anywhere, even through the depths of hell. Some things aren*’t what they seem as Adam learns that in hell, all things must be paid…*in flesh. 続きを見る

A story of marriage, divorce, a piano, and a different, yet justified, kind of emotional catharsis. No pianos were harmed in writing this story. Originally appeared in the collection, Special Editio……続きを見る

Abra, an intellectually gifted woman from a family with mentally retarded parents and siblings, is the family caretaker until she goes away to college severing all family ties. Her high school teach……続きを見る

This book is packed with practical advice, specific examples, and tons of free resources to help you become a published author. You will learn: - What makes a marketable book concept, why yours prob……続きを見る

After a tough night of undercover work, Kellin finds himself far from home and without a ride. It’s early in the morning and a car with a plastic dummy just pulled into a nearby gas station. Join Ke……続きを見る

‘Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart’ Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most cele……続きを見る