Verlag: The griffin classics
Content : Unhappiness The Judgment Before the Law The Metamorphosis A Report to an Academy Jackals and Arabs A Country Doctor In the Penal Colony A Hunger Artist The Trial The Castle Amerika A Little Fable The Great Wall of China The Hunter Gracchus The Burrow
The only play by famed Scottish author Muriel Spark takes on the dilemmas of two intellectually ambitious women in 1960s EnglandIn a home overlooking London’s Regent’s Canal in the 1960s, two scholars debate the choices they have made with their lives. Catherine Delfont was one of the most promising minds of her generation, but after earning her PhD she gave up her research to marry a well-regarded economist and raise a family. Her cousin Leonora stayed in academia and became a successful classicist, able to observe both the breadth of history and the lives of others with brilliant, cool detachment. Together, they face the sacrifices they have made as women and intellectuals. First performed in London in 1962 and later in Scandinavia, where it was produced by Ingmar Bergman, Doctors of Philosophy is a fascinating artifact of early second-wave feminism. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.Zum Buch
Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. Across genders and generations love is both the glue and the accelerant of our lives. Yet once gained we sometimes let it go without recognition of its value or fail to nourish it spiritually. Love needs feeding, needs tending. Love needs love. In today’s easy, ‘always on’ society we wail, whine and weep and forget that accomplishment will involve work, will involve sacrifice but it brings rewards. Rewards larger than our rational understanding but instinctively safe within our souls. And that can make us better people. To ourselves and each other. First love can be electric and consuming. But love matures, passions turn to bonds, amour to armour, to soulmates. A parents’ love is infinite and merciful but always streaked with protection. The march of time makes love dependable despite squabbles and bumps of heartache. But love can be unrequited, love can break, can fail. Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and in many combinations, for an instant and forever. When we speak with our hearts we speak with a rarer truth that the brain can make light of, can reduce to the ephemeral, but love is our greatest ally, our surest need that we are of value to each other and our common humanity. Sometimes love requires many things of us. To bear loss, to retreat, to compromise, to surrender but in every way, it enriches us. Sometimes not even for now but some future gain. Our classic poets did not surrender to the logic of the group or seek advice from others quick to blame but slow to embrace. Their legacy remains because it is true, because in that look, that touch, that thought, that display of words the heart remembers us and treasures us. Here are words and verse of love. For your ears, your loved one’s ears and hearts everywhere. 1 - The Poetry of Love. Speaking from the Heart - An introduction 2 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 4 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 5 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (from The Princess) by Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 7 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 8 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 9 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 10 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 11 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare 12 - Bright Star by John Keats 13 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron 14 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 15 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 16 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 17 - In the Safety of Your Mouth by Daniel Sheehan 18 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 19 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 20 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi 21 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 22 - The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear 23 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 24 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 25 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 26 - Remember by Christina Rossetti 27 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 28 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand by Edmund Spenser 29 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats 30 - Unending Love by TagoreZum Buch
“The only Vietnam plays to appear on Broadway while the war was raging” from the Tony Award–winning playwright of Hurlyburly (Observer). David Rabe has been a major voice and crucial force in American drama since 1971 when, in the midst of the Vietnam War, he startled the nation with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. The story of a native recruit’s initiation into war, it is by turns brutal and hilarious. It won the young playwright an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as “rich humor, irony, and insight.” More than four decades later, Rabe continues to be one of our most compelling dramatists. In this, the first of two volumes of The Vietnam Plays, Pavlo Hummel is paired with the equally intense Sticks and Bones, in which a blinded Vietnam veteran returns home numbed by the war and is astonished by his family’s inability to comprehend their country’s politics and his rage. “Pavlo won Al Pacino a Tony, and Sticks and Bones won one for its Harriet, Elizabeth Wilson—plus a nomination for its Oz, Tom Aldredge. It also won the Best Play Tony” (Observer). “Defies a million slogans to become a contemporary masterpiece.” —The Harvard Crimson on The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel “Sticks and Bones is still a searing critique of America’s willful ignorance in the face of an ultra-violent international war machine operating in our name.” —TheaterMania “This scalding work scores direct hits on the stubborn obliviousness of the folks back home to the realities of that dirtiest of 20th century wars.” —The Hollywood Reporter on Sticks and BonesZum Buch
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Briefless Barrister by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 18th, 2010.Zum Buch
A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny? Mark O'Rowe's fluid yet faithful adaptation of Ibsen's masterpiece premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in April.Zum Buch
A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy. The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Ballyturk premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in 2014. It subsequently toured Ireland before opening at the National Theatre, London. 'a richly theatrical experience' combines manic physical comedy with a meditation on the brevity of our earthly existence' imagine Under Milk Wood interpreted by Buster Keaton and you get the picture' Guardian 'delirious and captivating' this is thrilling theatre, visceral and cerebral, hilarious and sad' Irish Examiner 'ferocious physical slapstick comedy is interspersed with heartbreakingly tender and delicately poetic explorations of the soul... it throbs with searing poignancy at times, is riotously funny at others' a remarkable achievement' Irish IndependentZum Buch
