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Paperback. Zustand: Good. This lively courtroom drama dives into the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, where a young Tennessee teacher, John Scopes, was tried for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Two persuasive attorneys argue the case to determine the balance of church and state. In this fictionalized account, the smart Chicagoan, Henry Drummond, is the libertarian lawyer who volunteers his services for the defense. Opposing him is Matthew Harrison Brady, a demagogue who takes the words he has read in the bible absolutely literally. Denied the right to summon expert witnesses of his own, the defense lawyer decides to call Brady himself to the stand. While cross-examining him on his bible expertise, he exposes the ludicrous incoherence of fundamentalist's beliefs.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives with his wife Beatrice and their orphaned niece Catherine in a tight-knit Italian neighborhood near the waterfront. As Catherine grows into a woman, Eddie struggles with unspoken feelings that twist into jealousy when Beatrice's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, arrive from Italy seeking refuge. When Catherine and Rodolpho fall in love, Eddie's mistrust deepens into an obsession, driving him towards a devastating act of betrayal that shatters his community.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Traveling salesman Willy Loman cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Several tragic soul-searching revelations - concerning his wife, his sons and his business associates - underscore how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. Arthur Miller's thrilling play - a work of deep and revealing beauty - remains one of the most profound achievements in the American theatre.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. A celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. It seems her life is nearing its final chapter. As she submits herself to an experimental treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with the same uncompromising rigor she brings to bear on the sonnets of John Donne. Through it all she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and a moving wry humor.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. A celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. It seems her life is nearing its final chapter. As she submits herself to an experimental treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with the same uncompromising rigor she brings to bear on the sonnets of John Donne. Through it all she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and a moving wry humor.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. A celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. It seems her life is nearing its final chapter. As she submits herself to an experimental treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with the same uncompromising rigor she brings to bear on the sonnets of John Donne. Through it all she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and a moving wry humor.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man, How I Learned to Drive is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. Paula Vogel adds another masterpiece to her collection in this tender and Pulitzer-winning piece about childhood trauma that impacts but doesn't define. Deftly handling sensitive themes with humor and honesty, How I Learned to Drive commands the wheel and takes audiences on an emotional rewarding journey.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man, How I Learned to Drive is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. Paula Vogel adds another masterpiece to her collection in this tender and Pulitzer-winning piece about childhood trauma that impacts but doesn't define. Deftly handling sensitive themes with humor and honesty, How I Learned to Drive commands the wheel and takes audiences on an emotional rewarding journey.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard family - Ben, possessive and scheming; Oscar, cruel and arrogant; Oscar's son Leo, weak and unprincipled; Regina, wickedly clever - each trying to outwit the other. In contrast, meet lonely intimidated Birdie, whom Oscar wed for her father's cotton fields; wistful Alexandra, Regina's daughter; and Horace, ailing husband of Regina, between whom a breach has existed for years. The conflict in these lives has been caused by Ben's ambition to erect a cotton mill. The brothers still lack $75,000 to complete the transaction. This, they hope, will come from Horace, who has been in a hospital with a heart ailment. Horace is beset by his relatives the first hour of his homecoming, but refuses to commit himself. Desperate, Leo and Oscar plan for Leo to take $80,000 worth of bonds from Horace's safe-deposit box. Horace, discovering the theft, informs his wife that he has willed the bonds to her, calling it a loan. Cruelly, Regina recalls their unhappy married life, causing Horace to be stricken with a severe attack. Then Regina blackmails her brothers into giving her 75% of the business instead of their planned 33 1/3%, or she will reveal their theft.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. When this gleefully malicious comedy about New York society matrons premiered on Broadway, audiences were shocked, outraged and delighted. Featuring an all-female cast and some of the funniest dialogue ever written for the American stage, The Women offers a fascinating inside look at the catty world of Park Avenue society. This deliciously nasty tale of a woman whose happy marriage is destroyed by the gossip of her friends has been called one of the great American plays of the 20th century.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Respected, self-made businessman Joe Keller prides himself on providing for his wife and their two sons. During the war, Joe and his business partner, Steve Deever, made airplane parts, but Deever went to prison for selling cracked cylinder heads to the Air Force, causing the deaths of 21 pilots.Now, years later, Joe's true culpability begins to surface, and he suddenly faces the consequences of his actions. His son Larry went missing during the war, and his other son, Chris, is engaged to Ann Deever, Steve's daughter. When Ann's brother George returns from the service, accusations and revelations threaten the safety and happiness of the Keller family, raising questions of ethics, patriotism and personal responsibility.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Respected, self-made businessman Joe Keller prides himself on providing for his wife and their two sons. During the war, Joe and his business partner, Steve Deever, made airplane parts, but Deever went to prison for selling cracked cylinder heads to the Air Force, causing the deaths of 21 pilots.Now, years later, Joe's true culpability begins to surface, and he suddenly faces the consequences of his actions. His son Larry went missing during the war, and his other son, Chris, is engaged to Ann Deever, Steve's daughter. When Ann's brother George returns from the service, accusations and revelations threaten the safety and happiness of the Keller family, raising questions of ethics, patriotism and personal responsibility.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. As The New York Times describes, "The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely, but amid the intrigue, gossip and violence of a hot-tempered town.Orpheus Descending is one of Mr. Williams' pleasant plays, with characters determined to free themselves from corruption, with some sensitive philosophical comments in passing about the loneliness of the human being condemned in his world to solitary confinement for the whole of his life. Mr. Williams is in a more humane state of mind than he has been in several years.The introduction of the musical vagabond to the friendless woman who keeps the store, their humorous talk, their serious talk, the simplicity of their liaison after they have come to know each other--all this Mr. Williams has written in his best style of mood, lyricism and tenderness.".…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. When this gleefully malicious comedy about New York society matrons premiered on Broadway, audiences were shocked, outraged and delighted. Featuring an all-female cast and some of the funniest dialogue ever written for the American stage, The Women offers a fascinating inside look at the catty world of Park Avenue society. This deliciously nasty tale of a woman whose happy marriage is destroyed by the gossip of her friends has been called one of the great American plays of the 20th century.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the three Magrath sisters gather to await news of their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at 30 and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast, and Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave yet somehow hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by Babe's awkward young lawyer, who has clearly fallen in love with her.Honest, touching and consistently hilarious, Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play teems with humanity and humor.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Few more poignant true stories emerged from World War II than the diary of young Anne Frank. Adapted by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, this eternally moving production shows in harrowing detail the twenty-five months that two Jewish families spent hiding from the Gestapo in an Amsterdam warehouse.During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday and twenty-two days before going into hiding with her parents, sister and three other people. Hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam, Anne and the others cope with the day-to-day struggles of life in cramped quarters, as the specter of tragedy looms ever-present over their every move.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. "A delicious field manual on the creation of the Golden State going back a few hundred million years." --Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "A delicious field manual on the creation of the Golden State going back a few hundred million years." --Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "A delicious field manual on the creation of the Golden State going back a few hundred million years." --Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. One of the great successes of distinguished writer Lillian Hellman, this serious play about two women who run a school for girls highlights the real-life consequences of a lie told by a disgruntled student. After the malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, it soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for both women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been done. …