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The Secret in the Wings: A Play by Mary Zimmerman
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.03Mary Zimmerman's The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humour. The framing story... -
Music and More: Essays, 1968-1991 by Samuel Lipman 9780810110762
Booksplease Price: $25.29Samuel Lipman's bold essays passionately defend high culture against what he sees as its growing banalization and politicization. Samuel Lipman is the publisher of ""The New Criterion"", the music... -
The First Lady of Olympic Track: The Life and Times of Betty Robinson by Joe Gergen 9780810129580
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.33The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to... -
The Weight of a World of Feeling: Reviews and Essays by Elizabeth Bowen by Allan Hepburn
RRP: $72.20Booksplease Price: $60.90Elizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short-story collections and four novels to her credit. Her fifth novel, The... -
The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'Arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival by Antonio Fava
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $44.10Nobody says Shakespeare is dead. Antonio Fava tells us, but Commedia, they say, is dead. Why? Because clearly, he goes on, we have Shakespeare's texts, but nobody knows what to do with the... -
Argonautika: The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts by Mary Zimmerman 9780810126060
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.44As in her Tony Award-winning Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman transforms Greek mythology-here the story of Jason and the Argonauts-into a mesmerising piece of theatre. Encountering an array of... -
The Authentic Death & Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film by Paul Seydor
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $39.25Long before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor... -
Venus in Fur: A Play by David Ives
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $22.82A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive... -
The White Snake: A Play by Mary Zimmerman
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.44In her latest theatrical production inspired by a classic story, Mary Zimmerman reimagines The White Snake, an ancient Chinese legend in which a snake spirit transforms herself into a beautiful woman... -
Life and Acting by Jack Garfein 9780810126732
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40Arriving in America as a teenage Holocaust refugee, Jack Garfein would soon rise to the top of his field. Life and Acting is the product of more than sixty years in the world of theatre and film,... -
Marayrasu: Stories by Edgardo Rivera Martínez 9780810149434
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $29.79The first English-language collection of short stories by award-winning Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera MartInez The stories in Marayrasu stage fantastical, mysterious encounters that belie the... -
Sons of the Prophet: A Play by Stephen Karam
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play's centre is... -
Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Annette Insdorf 9780810129481
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects... -
Mother Tongues: Poems by Tsitsi Ella Jaji 9780810141353
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.44Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we... -
The Letters and Journals by Paula Modersohn-Becker 9780810116443
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $42.67Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume... -
Journey to the West: A Play by Zimmerman 9780810120921
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.78This adaptation of a 16th-century Chinese comic novel is based on the true story of a 7th-century monk and his fabled 16-year pilgrimage from China to India in search of sacred texts. Mixing whimsy... -
Man from Nebraska: A Play by Tracy Letts 9780810123472
Booksplease Price: $27.27A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter... -
Rakes of the Old Court: A Novel by Mateiu I. Caragiale
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.90Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) follows four characters through the bars and brothels of... -
All Things Tending towards the Eternal: A Novel by Kathleen Lee 9780810130616
Booksplease Price: $26.81Traveling through China in 1989, not long after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Fanny hopes to make sense of her brother Bruno's death in a motorcycle accident by finding a woman with whom he had... -
You Got Older: A Play by Clare Barron 9780810135284
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34Winner of a 2015 Obie Award for PlaywritingMae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment for cancer. But she needs a little help herself. She's just lost her boyfriend and her... -
The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte by Jean-Pierre Pauty 9780810160675
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.41This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies of a celebrated writer, one whose work often challenged others because of his... -
Hir: A Play by Taylor Mac 9780810133587
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac's father, who once ruled the family with an iron fist,... -
The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression by Michael Balint 9780810110250
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.22When it was first published in 1968, Michael Balint's The Basic Fault laid the groundwork for a far-ranging reformation in psychoanalytic theory. This reformation is still incomplete, for it remains... -
Excavation: A Memoir Wendy C Ortiz 9780810148604
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148604Author Wendy C OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
Slut Lullabies: Stories Gina Frangello 9780810149755
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $29.79The collection that cemented Frangello's reputation as a writer on the power dynamics of sexuality, gender, and the body Through beauty, horror, humor, and chaos, Gina Frangello's electric stories... -
Number and Time by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9780810105324
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $41.72C.G. Jung's work in his later years suggested that the seemingly divergent sciences of psychology and modern physics might, in fact, be approaching a unified world model in which the dualism of... -
Sovereignty: A Play by Mary Kathryn Nagle 9780810141407
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.78Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, builds a Supreme Court case with colleague Jim Ross to restore tribal... -
The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power by David R. Spencer 9780810123311
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29When a case containing dismembered human remains surfaced in New York's East River in June of 1897, the publisher of the ""New York Journal"" - a young, devil-may-care millionaire named William... -
Bug: A Play by Tracy Letts
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.74This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces... -
The Diary and Letter of Kaethe Kollwitz by Kollwitz. 9780810107618
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $38.23One of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as... -
Judgment: A Novel by David Bergelson 9780810135918
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.26Never before available in English, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. Set in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, Judgment... -
From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth-Century Dance by Elizabeth Aldrich 9780810109131
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $32.26During the 1800s, dance and etiquette manuals provided ordinary men and women with the keys to becoming gentlemen and ladies--and thus advancing in society. Why dance? To the insecure and... -
Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-century Russia by Barbara Alpern Engel 9780810117402
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.90The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth century diverged from their male counterparts,... -
No Stars in Jefferson Park: A Memoir Maggie Andersen 9780810149519
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $29.79A Chicagoan's coming-of-age memoir finds courage in the face of immense loss In her early twenties, Maggie Andersen was a founding ensemble member of Chicago's storied Gift Theatre with her... -
Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time by Herbert J. Gans 9780810122376
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform... -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $38.80A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and... -
The Essential Fictions by Isaac Babel 9780810135956
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous... -
Hatch: Poems by Jenny Irish 9780810146969
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.90Groundbreaking feminist poems featuring an artificial womb and an apocalyptic future The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must... -
Freud or Jung by Edward Glover 9780810109049
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810109049Author Edward GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint -
Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 9780810111592
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.90These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers...