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ean: 9780802142429, isbn: 0802142427,

Upon its premiere, The Deputy stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into the Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII — the "...

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ean: 9780802130419, isbn: 0802130410,

"The Elephant Man" is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, who has been a freak attraction in traveling side shows, is found abandoned and helpless and...

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mpn: illustrations, ean: 9780802130983, isbn: 0802130984,

In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are t...

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mpn: 27318008, ean: 9780802144263, isbn: 0802144268,

Friedrich Dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. In this ALTA National Translati...

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sku: 9780802141903, mpn: 21103236, ean: 9780802141903, isbn: 0802141900,

"Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues guitarist around.What many may not know is that after this tragic deal in Mississippi, Johnson ended up ...

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ean: 9780802127365, isbn: 0802127363,

Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim, The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful stories, written over ...

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mpn: 9780802140142, ean: 9780802140142, isbn: 0802140149,

The end is nigh and the Prince of Darkness has just been offered one hell of a deal: reentry into Heaven for eternity—if he can live out a well-behaved life in a human body on earth. It’s the ultimate case of trying without buying and, despite the...

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ean: 9780802121998, isbn: 0802121993,

“Alexie’s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts.”—The Boston Globe“Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The ...

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ean: 9780802144423, isbn: 080214442X,

From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a corn...

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mpn: 43854024, ean: 9780802124944, isbn: 0802124941,

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as six other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sym...

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ean: 9780802122353, isbn: 0802122353,

This classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit.It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle’s flight from London to join her husban...

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Early and quite controversial (for the time) novel about the gay scene in the America of between World War II and the creation of the interstate road system.Homosexual Fiction. Male Prostitution. S&M. John Rechy. ...