A Methuen paperback

A poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I. A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in English, it was backed up by strong biographical research on the poets included. Those were mainly British and Irish combatants of World War I; but there are also Australian, Canadian and American poets. The poems are arranged roughly in chronological order, from the start of the war to the end. Some contemporary poems by major poets not involved in the fighting are also given. The title of the anthology comes from the Siegfried Sassoon poem Base Details.

Contains: Вишнёвый сад Дядя Ваня Лебединая песня Медведь О вреде табака Предложение Три сестры Чайка

"In the history of theatrical revue in Britain the night of 10th May, 1961, when Beyond the Fringe opened at the Fortune Theatre in London, represents a landmark. The show played for several years to packed and delighted houses and later transferred to Broadway. Not only did it introduce four brilliantly gifted, likable, and immensely funny writer-performers, whose careers have burgeoned diversely since then. It also changed the face of revue and re-established social and political satire in England as recognised and powerful weapons in the armoury of the comedian. The original script of the show itself, out of print for many years, contains some of the funniest writing in England since the war. From Alan Bennett's cleric to Peter Cook's miner, from Dudley Moore's parody of Britten to Jonathan Miller's saga of the blue trousers, it sparkles with classic gems of wit and nonsense. This volume also contains the music of Dudley Moore's songs, the texts of a number of the sketches included in the subsequent Broadway production, and account of the performance history of the show by Roger Wilmut and new postscripts, written 25 years later, by three of the authors"--Back cover.

Karlsson, the little man with a propeller on his back, returns.

Autobiographie de ce dramaturge Juif libéral new-yorkais, combattant pour la liberté (il est président du PEN international) et ex-mari de Marilyn Monroe. Pour Anthony Burgess ce livre propose "une allégorie des épreuves et des triomphes limités de l'intellectualité américaine."

'Neaptide', first performed in 1986 at the Cottesloe National Theatre, London, is a modern story framed around the ancient myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Claire is a history teacher at a local school where two teenage girls have come out and their principal is aiming to have them expelled. Claire, who had been hiding the fact that she is homosexual, speaks up on their behalf, despite fighting her ex-husband for custody of their precocious and happy daughter.

An essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems, political diatribes, short stories, character portraits. Some are intimately connected with the plays; others are intriguingly allusive; and all of them share Pinter's lean, taut, and sometimes jarringly original use of language.