Results for: books tagged ‘Rebellion’
Murder in the Cathedral: T. S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of ... More
Look Back in Anger: John Osborne
In 1956 John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.‘Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all ... More
Fassbinder: The Life and Work of a Genius: Christian Braad Thomsen
It was Rainer Werner Fassbinder who helped put New German Cinema on the international map in the 1970s. He was an artist who achieved that rare synthesis of radical subjectivity ... More
Ride with the Devil: James Schamus
This is the tale of a group of young 'Bushwhackers' - Missouri guerrilla fighters who waged a desperate and bloody battle against Union occupiers during the American Civil War. As ... More
Madame Melville: Richard Nelson
Set in 1966 in a soon-to-be-exploding Paris, Madame Melville is the intimate story of Carl, a fifteen-year-old American and his teacher, the beautiful Claudie Melville. Over a night and a ... More
The Children of Men: P. D. James
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are ... More
Cuba & Dog House: Liz Lochhead and Gina Moxley
Two more plays for young people in Faber's Connections series. Cuba by Liz Lochhead is set at the time of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. As events unfold and people ... More
Fratricides: Nikos Kazantzakis
The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of ... More
Crucible of War: Fred Anderson
This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the British decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet also managed to ignite the ... More
Wintering Out: Seamus Heaney
'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this ... More
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