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Home truths: a play
Par David Lodge. 1999
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path.…
His university friend Sam Sharp, a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a dreadful profile of him in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most - his privacy. 1999.The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English
Par Margaret Atwood, Robert Weaver. 1995
A collection of 47 short stories by Canadian authors. Contributors include established writers like Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Timothy Findley,…
and Mavis Gallant, as well as the new generation of writers like Rohinton Mistry and Caroline Adderson.The hollow: a play : from The mousetrap and selected plays
Par Agatha Christie. 1993
L'ombre du mur: chroniques du mur de Berlin
Par Norman Manea, Velibor Colic, Bessa Myftiu. 2009
Lettres à la jeunesse: dix poètes parlent de l'espoir (Librio. 571)
Par Collectif. 2003
Dix poètes de dix pays différents (Liban, France, Italie, Israël, Portugal, etc.) adressent à la jeunesse une lettre et un…
poème sur le thème de l'espoir et sur le rôle de la poésie dans notre monde. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2003.Writing home: a PEN Canada anthology
Par Constance Rooke. 1997
A collection of stories about the highly personal subject of home by forty-four celebrated Canadian authors and personalities. Includes such…
authors as Carol Shields, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Atwood. Sequel to "Writing Away". 1997.With the power of each breath: a disabled women's anthology
Par Susan E Browne, Debra Connors, Nanci Stern. 1985
Without feathers
Par Woody Allen. 1975
Wilhelm Tell (German literary classics in translation)
Par Friedrich Schiller, William Faulkner Mainland. 1972
This classic in German literature, first published in 1805, became popular after Rossini used it as a libretto for an…
opera. The legend is based on the Swiss liberation movement. The hero is a quiet man, who is respected for his ability with a bow and arrow by the more militant elements of the politically active rebels. 1972. Uniform title: Wilhelm Tell.Whirligig: selected prose and poetry
Par Ernest Buckler. 1977
Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts
Par Samuel Beckett. 1965
In this version of the play, the character's names are read out each time they speak. The play is a…
comment on the absurdity of man's hope and importance. Two old tramps sit by the side of the road, waiting for their friend Godot, only to be repeatedly told that Godot will not come today, he will come tomorrow, and so they engage in endless conversation as they wait patiently. 1965. Uniform title: En attendant Godot.Un assassin blanc comme neige
Par Christian Bobin. 2011
" L'encre fraîche de Rimbaud tache mes doigts. Ses proses font trembler l'air au-dessus de la page comme sur une…
route fondue au soleil d'été. Je vais chercher mon pain, mes nuages et mes étoiles dans l'unique librairie du Creusot. L'acacia au bas de la rue du Guide surgit comme un donateur fou. Son haleine sent le miel et l'or. Toutes les fleurs se ruent vers nous en nous léguant de leur vivant leur couleur et leur innocence. Les contempler mène à la vie parfaite. Les anémones sont si crédules que même l'enfer leur donne raison. " -- 4e de couv.Two plays for voices
Par Neil Gaiman. 2002
Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and Seeing Ear Theatre, these two plays are adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from…
two of his short stories. 2002. Snow glass apples -- Murder mysteries.Twelfth night (SmartPass)
Par William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2006
The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The…
Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia. Olivia becomes smitten with the young man Viola impersonates, and all careens to a happy resolution by the play's end. For senior high readers. 2006.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.Three plays: The white devil, The Duchess of Malfi [and] The devil's law-case (English Library)
Par John Webster, D. C Gunby. 1972
In his introduction to the first of these early-seventeenth-century dramas, The White Devil, Webster predicted his tragedy would endure through…
the ages. In the late twentieth century, it is still performed, together with The Duchess of Malfi. The Devil's Law-Case, a tragicomedy, may be based on Webster's flirtation with law before he took up literature. 1972.Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird Of Youth; The Rose Tattoo; The Night Of The Iguana
Par Tennessee Williams. 1976
Three classic plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. In "Sweet Bird of Youth" a gigolo returns to his southern hometown.…
"The Night of the Iguana" is set in a run-down Mexican tourist hotel. In "The Rose Tattoo" a Sicilian widow finds love. Some violence and some strong language. 1976. Uniform title: Plays.This is war
Par Hannah Moscovitch. 2013
In this play, Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through…
an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As each of them is interviewed by an unseen broadcasting organization, they recount their version of events leading up to the horrific incident with painful, relenting replies. What begins to form is a picture of the effects of guilt and the psychological toll of violence in a war where the enemy is sometimes indiscernible. c2013.The winter's tale
Par William Shakespeare. 1996
King Leontes of Sicilia becomes unjustifiably jealous of his wife, Hermione. The disgraced queen is banished for her attention towards…
Leontes' honourable friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes' lack of trust creates disaster in both households, and costs him sixteen years of mourning before things are resolved happily for all. 1996. Written circa 1611.The vagina monologues
Par Eve Ensler. 2001
These monologues are a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a…
new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a grassroots movement, V-Day, to stop violence against women. Descriptions of sex. 2001.