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  • Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley

    by Nick Dear ...
    Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw

    by Nick Dear ...
    This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Hogarth Plays

    The Art of Success & The Taste of the Town

    by Nick Dear ...
    The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.In The Art of Success the events of ten tumultuous years are compressed into a single night, as newlywed William Hogarth makes his way through eighteenth-century London's high society and its debauched underworld. The play was first performed by the Royal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dedication

    by Nick Dear ...
    Patron? Collaborator? Employer? Voyeur? Lover?Questioned about the nature of his relationship with the 3rd Earl of Southampton, William Shakespeare is on trial.The evidence: tender poems, financial dependency, attempted revolution.A compelling new drama set in Elizabethan England - a powder keg of sex, politics and power - Dedication by Nick Dear premiered at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Zenobia

    by Nick Dear ...
    The Syrian desert. Third century AD. Zenobia, warrior Queen of Palmyra, moves her forces into battle with Aurelian, Emperor of Rome. Meanwhile, her son is engaged in bizarre chemical experiments with Porphyry, a philosophy student with his own secret.A story of love and adventure at the time of the decline of Imperial Rome as Zenobia makes a stand for independence against the Empire.Zenobia was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Power

    by Nick Dear ...
    Some say power's an illusion. But Louis is the master of illusion. He has turned government into a spectacle, politics into a circus.Nick Dear's new play on the origins of the Sun King is a dark and dazzling tale of ambition, corruption and illusion. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London, in June 2003. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Dark Earth and the Light Sky

    by Nick Dear ...
    Deep in the Hampshire countryside Edward Thomas, disaffected husband, exhausted father and tormented writer, scrapes a living. In 1913 he meets American poet Robert Frost and everything changes. As their friendship blossoms Edward writes, emerging from his cocoon of self-doubt into one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. But he makes the drastic decision to enlist, confounding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    When your teachers drone on about the Romans, I bet they don't tell you how REALLY ROTTEN they were. Find out in a bloodthirsty book with the nasty bits left in! ... Read more

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  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    by Theodora Goss ...
    Series series The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club
    Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this “tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."First published in 1844, Alexandre ... Read more

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