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A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke. Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every l ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Anouilh - Plays 2 - The Rehearsal; Becket; Eurydice; the Orchestra by Jean Anouilh; Ned Chaillet (Introduction by); Peter Meyer (Translator); Jeremy Sams (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century''s best-known French playwrights. This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal (''quintessential Anouilh'', Herald Tribune); Becket (''witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence'' Financial Times); The O ...Show more
Anouilh Plays: Bk. 1: Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, Poor Bitos by Jean Anouilh
Category: Performing Arts | Series: World Classics
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a re ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 1 : All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Category: Classics | Series: World Classics
Reissued with a new jacket to mark the publication of the sixth and final collection of Miller's plays, this volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All five plays were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit ...Show more
Beowulf by Marc Hudson
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, in his time of need. He first fights the hellish Grendel, then struggles with Grendel's no less fearsome mother in her hall beneath the cold waters of the mere. More than fifty years later, he must face his final cha ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht; Ralph Manheim (Editor); John Willett (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century (Observer) Brecht''s Lehrstucke or short ''didactic'' pieces written during the years 1929 to 1933, are some of his most experimental work. Rejecting conventional theatre, they are spare and highly formalised, drawing on traditional Japanese and C ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 5 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Education | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
This fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's plays, "The Life of Galileo" and "Mother Courage and her Children". "Galileo" examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology, through the story of the great astronomer and his persecution by the Inquisition ...Show more
Capek Four Plays - R. U. R. - The Insect Play - The Makropulos Case - The White Plague by Karel Capek; Peter Majer (Translator); Cathy Porter (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surr ealistic humour and hard-edged social satire- a unique combination (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea ...Show more
Capital Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Karl Marx
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics of World Literature
This unabridged paperback edition is based on the first translation into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, which was edited by Frederick Engels. The book focuses on capitalist production, and analyses capitalism's workings through detailed research and observation, focusing mainly on Britain, ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more