164円 Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate ...

662円 Published and premiered at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1893, Oscar Wilde's play A Woman of No Importance focuses on the attitudes of English high society. It further elicits the problems faced by women in a highly prejudiced and hypocritical society. The poor opinion held by men of th...

421円 For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modernism', with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ibse...

150円 How do the rich perceive the poor and vice versa? In this story, set in Berlin, characters appear and we get a glimpse of their thoughts and actions until they by chance cross paths with someone else, who the reader then goes along with. The rift between the haves and have-nots is seen through th...

1,202円 Ever wondered what Santa gets up to the rest of the year? You’ll wish you hadn’t! For 364 days of the year Santa has bugger all to do. The elves do all the manual labour and these days he orders all the presents online. All he has to do is deliver them. So, for the rest of the time he is bored ou...

661円 The pressures of life in a post 9/11 world are starting to effect suburban dad Mort Williams in a strange way. His wife has left him and the only two people he can relate to are his unscrupulous plastic surgeon and his "tween" next door neighbor. Eventually the fact that Mort is slowly turning in...

0円 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 his inconspicuous nose. He never varied his daily routine...until today!

1,326円 Why would the village of Puddlebridge be so disturbed by the passing of Jo Garrity when he was eighty-eight and had a good life? Why would Rose Brown who worked for Garrity at his garage be so upset? What has been going on behind closed doors in the village? When Lucy Gwyn and Tony Dean appear in...

3,549円 In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and oth...

0円 A short story about the power small gestures have over tragedy and despair. Heartbreak and the hope that can follow, shattered dreams and the possibility of giving birth to new ones, all accompanied by the perfect piece of Cake.

900円 This novel traces the stories of three women as they deal with the past and confront the present: Keota, a woman who runs out on her young daughter and alcoholic husband; Chris, the daughter she abandons; and Rainy, whose childhood friend is killed in front of her on a railroad bridge around the ...

2,652円 The sound of the wind across a Prairie field, the smell of grass on the first day of spring, the vocalization of birds in the early morning woods, the silence of the lake at night interrupted by call of the loon – these are the shapes and sounds of the Prairie landscape. Katherine Koller invokes ...