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Conversations with Sam Shepard by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor,... -
Conversations with Neil Simon by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.95Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day-including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis-and he wrote for fabled television programs... -
Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Jackson R. Bryer 9780878052943
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her... -
Conversations with Neil Simon by Jackson R. Bryer 9781496822895
Booksplease Price: £88.60Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day-including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis-and he wrote for fabled television programs... -
Conversations with August Wilson by Jackson R. Bryer 9781578068319
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American life in the twentieth century, with each play taking place in a different... -
Conversations with Beth Henley by Jackson R. Bryer 9781496844309
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far... -
Conversations with Thornton Wilder by Jackson R. Bryer 9780878055142
Booksplease Price: £24.63Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.33Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
Conversations with Sam Shepard by Jackson R. Bryer 9781496836601
Booksplease Price: £88.90A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor,... -
Conversations with Beth Henley by Jackson R. Bryer 9781496844293
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer 9781640142145
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories... -
The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industry it has become on Broadway today. What is it... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered Jackson R. Bryer 9781640140905
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £110.07Personal reminiscences of Fitzgerald - many previously unpublished - by those who knew him, allowing the reader to construct a composite biography. Fitzgerald once wrote: "There never was a good... -
Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Jackson R. Bryer 9781603290210
Booksplease Price: £31.33Who is this Gatsby anyhow?" Answering that question, voiced by one of the book's characters, is fundamental to teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Although there is no simple answer,... -
The Facts on File Companion to American Drama by Jackson R. Bryer 9780816077489
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £66.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJackson R. Bryer is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the editor of The... -
William Inge: Essays on the Plays and the Man by Jackson R. Bryer 9780786476473
Booksplease Price: £29.44William Inge's popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop, 1956, and Dark at the Top of the Stairs, 1958) and won a Pulitzer Prize (Picnic, 1953). As a screenwriter, he won an... -
American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays by Jackson R. Bryer 9780313221163
Booksplease Price: £61.93Product information not available.These bibliographical essays are geared for scholars and discuss 24 writers... Excellent, readable, [and] useful. ... -
F Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives by Jackson R. Bryer 9780820323756
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.02Years after his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to captivate both the popular and the critical imagination. This collection of essays presents fresh insights into his writing, discussing... -
The Actor's Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers by Jackson R. Bryer
Booksplease Price: £37.76Biographies are so much more than lists of teachers, roles, and awards. The Actor's Art conveys stories about numerous productions, insight about becoming and being an actor, and opinions about... -
Sixteen Modern American Authors: A survey of research and criticism by Jackson R. Bryer 9780393005691
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393005691Author Jackson R. BryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922 (LOA #117) by Jackson R. Bryer 9781883011840
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011840Author Jackson R. BryerFormat HardbackPage Count 1075Imprint The Library of... -
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Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1972 by Jackson R. Bryer 9780822310181 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £3.80Praise for the earlier edition:"Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has... -
Selected Letters of Eugene O`Neill by Travis Bogard 9780300043747
Booksplease Price: £96.91This book--published on the centenary of Eugene O’Neill’s birth--contains the only comprehensive collection of his letters. Providing a representative selection of O’Neill’s voluminous correspondence... -
Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives by Lincoln Konkle 9780810129214
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94The essays in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives constitute a comprehensive critical reassessment at a time of renewed interest in the writer. Wilder is best known for Our Town and The Bridge of San... -
Jason Robards Remembered: Essays and Recollections by Stephen A. Black 9780786413560
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Jason Robards is particularly remembered for having created on Broadway central roles in the later plays of Eugene O'Neill. He also won consecutive Oscars as best supporting actor for the films All... -
Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator by David A. Crespy 9789004394704
Booksplease Price: £110.15Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright's... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F Scott Fitzgerald 9781982117122
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982117122Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-first Century by Milton Stern 9780817356620
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.62This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature. As the author of some of the most compelling short stories ever written, two... -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days by Scott Donaldson 9780231148177
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the... -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days by Scott Donaldson 9780231148160
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the... -
Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in Twentieth-Century America by Christopher J. Wheatley
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Thornton Wilder, the only author to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both drama and fiction, frequently portrays characters struggling with religious and theological issues. His work has been examined... -
Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties by Robert F. Garratt 9781496223715
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees' first dynasty was taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New York... -
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence" by John T. Irwin 9781421412306
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £26.71"Fitzgerald's work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions...