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  • Ibsen's Women

    The first comprehensive study of the women in Ibsen’s life and work, this landmark book provides a close reading of actual and fictional women as it re-examines the biographical and critical record. In clear, much praised writing, Templeton traces patterns of gender throughout Ibsen’s plays, from the portrayals of women in the little known early dramas to the famous protagonists of A Doll House, ... Read more

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  • Shaw’s Ibsen

    A Re-Appraisal

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre. Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw’s initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw’s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that ... Read more

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  • Four Major Plays, Volume I

    Series Book 1 - Four Plays by Ibsen
    Four Major Plays: Volume IA Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master BuilderAmong the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his realistic dialogue, probing of social problems, and depiction of characters’ inner lives as well as their actions. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each of ... Read more

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  • Reflections on Love, Humanity and Bliss Through Jesus

    In the present day this book will help one who is confused about our problems both political and social to understand that the problems have existed throughout mankind’s existance and that the only solutions is to believe in heaven and God. To show love and kindness to all humanity is the most important idea of the book. ... Read more

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  • Four Major Plays, Volume II

    Translated by Rolf Fjelde ...
    Series Book 2 - Four Plays by Ibsen
    Definitive versions of four classic works from the father of modern dramaThe foremost dramatist of his age, Henrik Ibsen changed theater forever with his realistic dialogue, his depiction of contemporary social problems, and his probing of characters' inner lives. The four plays collected here—Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman—are charged with Ibsen's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Girls & Sex

    Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Time Top 10 Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the YearThe author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it.A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

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  • Look Back in Anger

    by John Osborne ...
    Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Salammbo

    Salammbo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. It was not a particularly well-studied period of history and required a great deal of work from the author, who enthusiastically left ... Read more

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

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  • The Captive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu(Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. Born in the first ... Read more

    $6.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Necessary Dreams

    Ambition in Women's Changing Lives

    by Anna Fels ...
    In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes why, for women but not for men, ambition still remains fraught with often painful conflict. Fels draws ... Read more

    $4.99 USD