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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

Borris's excellent cheese has brought fame and a new prosperity into the life of the village. But Borris is disheartened by his blindness and his solitude, and so begins to think of a wife. As possi……続きを見る

A honeymoon gone bad… The newlyweds, Bill and Caroline Jones are on the perfect honeymoon. Their cottage is in a secluded and romantic spot, far away from the hustle and bustle, that ensures they ar……続きを見る

'"First Steps" is the story of Dave Riggler's first psychotherapy session. He's a handicapped teenager, who uses a wheelchair, in therapy (he thinks) because the school he's going to wants him to wa……続きを見る

Caligula reveals some aspects of the existential notion of 'the absurd' by portraying an emperor so mighty and so desperate in his search for freedom that he inevitably destroys gods, men and himsel……続きを見る

A broken man comes home to find the one thing that can break down the wall he built around his emotions. 続きを見る

Blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience Why do you think I've been locked in this room? I've been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the prese……続きを見る

Opp, Alabama, in 1937, was a boring place in the summer for a ten year old boy. Opp was short for Opportunity, a sad contradiction for a town that never developed beyond a series of small farms and ……続きを見る

John Smith came to Kylemore Abbey, the home of the Benedictine sisters, to watch things grow. He tended the gardens, the flower boxes, the rusty hinges and pathways. He did not share the faith of th……続きを見る

2024 Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score A musical one hundred years in the making, Suffs brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to……続きを見る

This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's pl……続きを見る

Знаковое для творчества Михаила Булгакова произведение. Пьеса «Бег» – это изображение последнего этапа гражданской войны, пронизанного болью поражения белой армии. Перед нами – судьба первых русских……続きを見る

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication. Poor Folk The Double Notes From The Underground Crime and Punishment The Gamble……続きを見る

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a s……続きを見る

Waiting for the Parade is John Murrell’s play, set in Calgary during World War II, in which five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. Waiting for the Parade was first pe……続きを見る

Nominated for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre at the Olivier Awards 2026 The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine ……続きを見る

Den letzten römischen Kaiser interessieren weder Volk noch Staat noch das an den Reichsgrenzen aufziehende germanische Heer, sondern nur seine Hühnerzucht. Er will sein Reich, das er für unmoralisch……続きを見る

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The Stories included are: -The Nameless City -The Festival -The Colour Out of Space……続きを見る

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) This book contains the complete novels of the Brontë Sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë The T……続きを見る

Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to……続きを見る

“Filled with dazzling wordplay, archaic vocabulary, and odd malapropisms, the theatrical worlds of Jordan Harrison lift language off the page and into three-dimensional space, creating a universe th……続きを見る

Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabukiーits history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and musicーto the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki. ……続きを見る

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication. Poor Folk The Double Notes From The Underground Crime and Punishment The Gamble……続きを見る

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its v……続きを見る

Dentro del monumental legado literario de Federico García Lorca (1898- 1936), el mismo que lo consolidó como un prosista de excepción y lo encumbró como uno de los poetas más relevantes del siglo xx……続きを見る

What do you do as Captain Amazing? Fight… baddies and things. Save people… make people go to bed when they're supposed to go to bed… Join the world's most unassuming superhero in Alistair McDowall's……続きを見る

Winner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards 2026 Winner of Best Play at the London Standard Theatre Awards 2026 Winner of Best New Play at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2026 "Another state-of……続きを見る

NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK! "The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel."ーShondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut novel of intergenerational friendship, about how a chance……続きを見る

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productio……続きを見る

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individ……続きを見る