Results for: books tagged ‘Humanity’
The Cocktail Party: T. S. Eliot
'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot ... More
Darkness Visible: William Golding
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: Frank McGuinness
Lord of the Flies: Nigel Williams
Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams's stage adaptation of William Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995. 'Remarkably true to the novel ... More
Comic Potential: Alan Ayckbourn
Comic Potential is a comedy set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature . . .Alan Ayckbourn's fifty-third full-length play was first presented at the Stephen ... More
Famous Last Words: Timothy Findley
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. ... More
A Long Long Way: Sebastian Barry
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2005.Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious ... More
Family Matters: Rohinton Mistry
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition ... More
Creatures of the Earth: John McGahern
John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern's short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness ... More
Recollection of a Journey: R. C. Hutchinson
Poland, 1939. It is the Russian occupation, not the German invasion, which destroys the aristocratic Kolbeck family. In 1940, they and hundreds of thousands of Poles are driven like cattle ... More
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