A new, revised edition for the London transfer of Mike Poulton's expertly adapted two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's hugely acclaimed novels, featuring a substantial set of character notes by Hilary Mantel.
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWritten from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris Lessing's characteristic passion and incisiveness.
Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption.
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris.
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
Friedrich Schillers Drama Wallenstein entführt die Leser in die turbulente Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges und beleuchtet den Aufstieg und Fall des historischen Feldherrn Albrecht von Wallenstein.
The events of the novel revolve around the "Rima" of the Muslim girl, who loses her parents, and her mother recommends before her death to the Jews "Jacob" to raise her daughter to a Muslim education and the girl becomes a girl, so she invites him to enter Islam, and she deals with him as a stranger about her, and when she wears the Islamic veil, his Jewish wife revolts.
Drei Freitage, zwei alte Freunde, ein Gasthaus - wo Realität auf Zukunftsängste und Geister der Vergangenheit trifftÜber die Angst vorm Vergessenwerden18 Uhr – um diese Zeit treffen sich Werner, Dozent, und Richard, Buchhändler, an drei aufeinanderfolgenden Freitagen im Gasthaus "Zur tschechischen Botschaft".
Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships.
A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business.
Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism.
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.
