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The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.53In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in... -
Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144263Author Friedrich DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
The Pledge by Freidrich Durrenmatt
Booksplease Price: £21.99Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man... -
The Visit by Durrenmatt 9780573617546
Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573617546Author DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel... -
Selected Essays by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.35Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific... -
The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780573013409
Booksplease Price: £10.99The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates who are nuclear physicists. One thinks he is Newton and another, Einstein. The third has visitations from Solomon. They appear to be nice,... -
The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.72A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear... -
Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780802144270
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144270Author Friedrich DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach forgoes... -
Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £26.65The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the... -
Der Besuch Der Alten Dame by F. Durrenmatt 9783257230451
Booksplease Price: £13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783257230451Author F. DurrenmattFormat PaperbackImprint Diogenes Verlag AG,SwitzerlandPublisher... -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 1, Plays: Volume 1 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 9780226836683
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt's plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures... -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions: Volume 2 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 9780226836690
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt's fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary... -
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Volume 2: Selected Writings: Fictions [LP 16 Pt Edition] by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 9780369370860
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369370860Author Friedrich DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher... -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays: Volume 3 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 9780226838328
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.07These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures... -
Friedrich D?rrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780226174266
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.45The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett,... -
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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: "The Judge and His Hangman" and "Suspicion" by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Booksplease Price: £15.82This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and... -
Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Besuch der alten Dame: Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level German by Paul Elliott
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £14.73Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas & CCEALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in... -
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Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's "Stoffe" by Olivia Gabor-Peirce 9781433135262
RRP: £85.25Booksplease Price: £75.42Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Durrenmatt's Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Durrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed... -
Biedermann und die Brandstifter by Max Frisch
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorMax Frisch,... -
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3: Expressionism and Epic Theatre by J. L. Styan 9780521227391
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09Buchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are... -
The Pledge by Joel Agee 9781782273394
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31"'It's a promise, Frau Moser,' the inspector said, impelled solely by the desire to leave this place. "'On your eternal salvation?' "The inspector hesitated. 'On my eternal salvation,' he finally... -
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3: Expressionism and Epic Theatre by J. L. Styan 9780521296304
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Buchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are... -
The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call by Friedrich Du rrenmatt
Booksplease Price: £9.27In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten. Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The... -
The Dance of Death by August Strindberg 9780393008203
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.35During the past two decades, The Dance of Death, Strindberg's long and taxing family drama, has come to be considered his masterpiece. Produced by major companies in New York and London, filmed once... -
Powers, Possessions and Freedom: Essays in Honour of C.B. MacPherson by Alkis Kontos
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive... -
Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction by Margaret Scanlan 9780813920351
Booksplease Price: £25.14Is literature dangerous? By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, this work raises the possibility that the writer's relationship to actual politics may be considerably reduced in the age of... -
Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook by Peter Yang 9781433126390
RRP: £34.85Booksplease Price: £32.02Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook utilizes some of the most famous modern plays written in German as vehicles to teach German language, literature, and culture. The featured works are... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Der Besuch der alten Dame by Rene Koglbauer
RRP: £11.25Booksplease Price: £10.35Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and... -
Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Theodore Ziolkowski 9780195336917
Booksplease Price: £64.00Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the... -
The Steel Spring by Per Wahloo 9780099554752
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'The godfather of Scandinavian crime fiction' Jo NesboChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalised being drunk, even in private at home,... -
Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature by Elisabeth Herrmann
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Transnationalism has become a key term in debates in the social sciences... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
Booksplease Price: £14.24Reissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new productionThe republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and... -
Widows by Ariel Dorfman
Booksplease Price: £9.95A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of... -
The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte Peter Jordan 9780415698764
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what... -
Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi by Katharina Hall 9781783168163
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £57.36Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the... -
Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi by Katharina Hall 9781783168170
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the... -
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent by Wendy Law-Yone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for... -
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Frisch Three Plays: "Fire Raisers", "Andorra", "Triptych" by Max Frisch 9780413665607
Booksplease Price: £26.23Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and society Fire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It... -
Trueman and the Arsonists by Simon Stephens 9781350446410
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it. Fires keep...