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The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
Joseph Conrad
¥7.93
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
X-ing a Paragrab
X-ing a Paragrab
Edgar Allan Poe
¥7.93
X-ing a Paragrab
The Classic Fairytales: Retold for the Stage
The Classic Fairytales: Retold for the Stage
Charles Way
¥40.79
Three timeless tales retold for the stage by one of the UK’s most renowned writers of plays for children, Charles Way. Winner of the Writers Guild Best Children’s Play Award, his plays appeal to audiences of all ages and are translated into several languages and performed internationally. Each of the three plays explores the journey from childhood to adulthood, but each takes a specific angle. Sleeping Beauty is driven by the notion of duality. Everyone and everything in the play has a complimentary aspect; King and Queen, Castle and forest, bright witch and dark witch, etc. Gryff, half-dragon, half-human is the physical embodiment of the idea of duality and is at war with himself. This is both dramatic, since it provides the conflict needed for the drama, and thematically rich, since it explores what all of us, but more precisely children, feel as they grow up. Cinderella is a play about a journey from darkness to light, from sickness to health. Everyone in the play is under the influence of some kind of loss, and the play explores these feelings and the sometimes painful route one must take to accommodate them and move on in life. It’s a moving and beautiful play, that also manages to be tremendously funny and the introduction of Mozart as a character, whose music charts the whole journey toward light and joy, is a theatrical coup. Where Cinderella has music at its core, Beauty and the Beast has dance. This is a play about overcoming fear, and the subconscious world is represented through imagery and movement. The play begins with a startling dream sequence and then segues into the drawing-room world of a Jane Austen novel, before moving to the wilds of Dartmoor. Throughout this journey one is never sure if the play is in dreamtime or not, and Way connects this feeling to the very act of theatre itself. As ever, the themes are explored through dramatic action, and the result in Beauty and the Beast is a script of rare brevity that allows actors and directors room to explore the profound nature of the story.
Spacehounds of IPC
Spacehounds of IPC
Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith
¥7.93
Spacehounds of IPC
The Scream
The Scream
Laurent Graff
¥40.79
The story of a solitary soul living at the end of the world, continuing his daily routine of going to work in a toll booth on the highway. A terrible, mysterious sound that seems to come from nowhere is wiping out the population, and every day fewer and fewer people come by in their cars. But not everyone can hear the sound, and very soon the only survivors will be those few ‘silent ones’ left unharmed. What peculiar power does a stolen painting of Munch's The Scream exert? Why does reality become stranger and indeed crueller than fiction? The Scream begins in the twilight zone of science fiction, taking the reader on a hallucinatory road trip like no other.? Reviews "...?one of his most successful books.?It must be approached like the other books of Graff: do not ask too many question at first reading, be content with being carried away by the style and adventures of the protagonist.?In the end, you will discover that the depth of the book is inversely proportional to its number of pages.?As usual." ***** Goodreads “There is no doubt about it, the writer of?The Scream?is an extravagant and profound story teller.” -- Le Monde des Livres "Laurent Graff's books are crazy, weird, outlandish, which makes them totally indispensable." --www.event.fr "...blends together reality with fiction... what the narrator is really looking for is himself." -- Le Progres ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laurent Graff?is highly-acclaimed French author who ‘cultivates discretion and self-effacement’ and hopes to live as long as he can. His novel?Happy Days?has been translated into 15 languages and Johnny Depp has been trying (and failing) to make it into a film for many years.
Looking Backward
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
¥7.93
Looking Backward
The World Set Free
The World Set Free
H. G. Wells
¥7.93
The World Set Free
Ada
Ada
Emily Holyoake
¥40.79
Play about Ada Lovelace, the first computer and Artificial Intelligence today. Suitable for schools, colleges and youth groups.Offers good roles for girls/women to perform relating to STEM subjects.“You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!”Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada’s future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.ADA is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
The Girl in the Golden Atom
Raymond King Cummings
¥7.93
The Girl in the Golden Atom
The Fox
The Fox
David Herbert Lawrence
¥7.93
The Fox
The White Invaders
The White Invaders
Raymond King Cummings
¥7.93
The White Invaders
The Demon Queen
The Demon Queen
Brandi Elledge
¥40.79
Ruling demons has never been easy. But it’s about to get a lot harder. Carmen is finally free from years of torture. And with her evil daddy—the Demon King—dead, she’s also wearing the crown and ruling with sass, even if she still doesn’t have her own body back. But being a Queen isn’t as easy as she thought it would be. Not when she has a weakness. One she must keep secret. Because unlike her demon subjects, Carmen isn’t completely evil. And that tiny spot of goodness in her heart might just be her undoing. Demons don’t take kindly to their ruler being nice, you see. When rumours of her weakness begin to circulate, the mutiny is on. And Carmen will have to look for help from an unexpected source. From someone she has every right to be wary of. Someone she really?shouldn’t?be developing feelings for. But a certain soothsayer has been guiding events behind the scenes—for the most part behind the scenes, anyway. And if those plans include Carmen getting her body back, she might just have the power to keep her crown
Dracula
Dracula
Bram Stoker
¥7.93
Dracula
The Thames Valley Catastrophe
The Thames Valley Catastrophe
Grant Allen
¥7.93
The Thames Valley Catastrophe
Olanda
Olanda
Edmondo De Amicis
¥7.93
Olanda
Hop Frog
Hop Frog
Edgar Allan Poe
¥7.93
Hop Frog
La saga di G?sta Berling
La saga di G?sta Berling
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
¥7.93
La saga di G?sta Berling
Il sorbetto della regina
Il sorbetto della regina
Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina
¥7.93
Il sorbetto della regina
Abrakadabra - Storia dell'avvenire
Abrakadabra - Storia dell'avvenire
Antonio Ghislanzoni
¥7.93
Abrakadabra - Storia dell'avvenire
Nel paese dei dollari: tre anni in America
Nel paese dei dollari: tre anni in America
Adolfo Rossi
¥7.93
Nel paese dei dollari: tre anni in America
Una sfida al Polo
Una sfida al Polo
Emilio Salgari
¥7.93
Una sfida al Polo