Results for: books tagged ‘Aristocracy’
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Christopher Hampton
‘Christopher Hampton’s brilliant adaptation ... gives a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of aristocrats in putrescent pre-revolutionary France.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Hampton’s achievement is to have preserved the ... More
The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov and Trevor Griffiths
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Boughton House: Tessa Murdoch
Shipwreck: Tom Stoppard
Shipwreck is the second part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. It continues the story of the anarchist Michael Bakunin, the critic Vissarion Belinsky, the writer Ivan Turgenev, ... More
Salvage: Tom Stoppard
Salvage is the final part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. It is 1852. Alexander Herzen, who left Russia five years earlier, has arrived in London in retreat ... More
Voyage: Tom Stoppard
Voyage is the first part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia, an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors.Beginning in 1833, ... More
Blood & Roses: Helen Castor
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their ... More
Last Curtsey: Fiona MacCarthy
Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to ... More
The Underground Man: Mick Jackson
One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, Mick Jackson’s debut is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English aristocrat.The duke has just completed a network of tunnels ... More
The Coast of Utopia Trilogy: Tom Stoppard
The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage ... More
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