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Naked Masks Naked Masks Luigi Pirandello Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist. OL100417W
Il fu Mattia Pascal Il fu Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, and arrives in Monaco, where he wins thousands of pounds. So much money and a news s… OL100434W
Journal du voleur Journal du voleur Jean Genet The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur, published in 1949) is a novel by Jean Genet. It is a part-fact, part-fiction autobiography that charts the author's progress through Europe in a depoliticized … OL1281888W
Die Weber Die Weber Gerhart Hauptmann The Weavers (German: Die Weber, Silesian German: De Waber) is a play in five acts written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1892. The play, probably Hauptmann's most important drama, symp… OL1375598W
10 plays 10 plays Euripides The Greek playwright Euripedes was misunderstood in his own time, but the topics he chose to write about--women's role in society, war, religion, and the human condition--are still relevant today. Th… OL15006210W
Four Major Plays Four Major Plays Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen's famous Victorian-Era plays 'A Doll's House', 'Ghosts', 'Hedda Gabler', and 'The Master Builder' are translated from Norwegian to English by James McFarlane and Jens Arup. This edition … OL15086279W
Mesi͡a︡t͡s︡ v derevne Mesi͡a︡t͡s︡ v derevne Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev A psychological comedy and social satire set in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. OL16235055W
Complete plays Complete plays Aristophanes With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collecte… OL20220W
Le bourgeois gentilhomme Le bourgeois gentilhomme Molière Le texte intégral suivi de "portraits du Grand Siècle" : La Bruyère, Molière, Madame de Sévigné, Saint-Simon et le Cardinal de Retz. OL24656357W
Coriolanus Coriolanus William Shakespeare "This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play … OL362166W
A doll's house and other plays A doll's house and other plays Henrik Ibsen Different stages in the Norwegian playwright's literary and philosophical development are represented in three dramas. OL382354W
The Odyssey The Odyssey Joanne Mattern A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. OL501568W
Иванов Иванов Антон Павлович Чехов,Tom Stoppard "In Ivanov, Anton Chekhov's first full-length play, Chekhov created a portrait of a man plagued with self-doubt and despair. Considered one of Chekhov's most elusive characters, he seeks more in life… OL55513W
The Adventures Of Odysseus The Adventures Of Odysseus Neil Phillip,Peter Malone,Neil Philip Retells the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. OL5961469W
Evgeniĭ Onegin Evgeniĭ Onegin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has serv… OL623499W
Ion Ion Euripides he Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work su… OL66496W
Hippolytus Hippolytus Euripides,Euripides Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as i… OL66497W
He, the one who gets slapped He, the one who gets slapped Leonid Andreyev Paul Beaumont is a scientist who labored for years alone to prove his radical theories on the origin of mankind. Baron Regnard becomes his patron, enabling him to do research while living in his mans… OL721925W
Plays Plays Ann MacLaren,Federico García Lorca In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico García Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of … OL722549W
Phedre Phedre Jean Racine Hippolyte. Le dessein en est pris : je pars, cher Theramene, et quitte le sejour de l'aimable Trezene. Dans le doute mortel dont je suis agite, je commence a rougir de mon oisivete. Depuis plus de si… OL741411W
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