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  • Sang-Thong A Dance-Drama from Thailand

    A Dance-Drama From Thailand

    by King Rama II ...
    Translated by Fern S. Ingersoll ...
    Sang Thong: A Dance-Drama from Thailand, a beloved treasure of Thailand's classical theater is now available for the first time in English.Composed by King Rama II and his court poets early in the 19th century, this captivating dance-drama blends ribald humor, sharp observation, and graceful poetry. Its incidents are based on age-old Asian legends and on vigorous folk-traditions of the Thai ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Father and the Assassin (NHB Modern Plays)

    Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered him. Anupama Chandrasekhar's play The Father and the Assassin traces Godse's life over thirty years during India's fight for independence: from a devout follower of Gandhi, through to his radicalisation and their tragic final encounter in Delhi in 1948. An essential ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rakugo

    Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

    by Lorie Brau ...
    An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • M. Butterfly

    With an Afterword by the Playwright

    David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer PrizeBased on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

    The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death...

    This edition includes all the Poe's Works of Poetry & Fiction that are included in the Poe Canon: - Poems (Alone, The Raven, etc.) - Tales (The Fall of The House of Usher, etc.) You can move quickly back and forth among Poems and Tales by simply clicking a link in the Table of Contents. The Logical TOC (NCX) allows you to jump back and forth between topics with a simple press of the Kindle 5-way ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

    Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple

    The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (Guardian™ Classics)

    This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, D. ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • M. Butterfly

    Broadway Revival Edition

    **Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen"A brilliant play of ideas… a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."—Frank Rich, New York Times**Based on a true story that stunned the world, and inspired by Giacomo Puccini's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anunnaki: The Greatest Story Never Told, Book 2, Challenge, Change and Conquest

    by Chris Deggs ...
    Series Book 2 - Anunnaki
    Over one hundred thousand years ago they ruled in Edin, Now Iran and Iraq, setting up magnificent cities that have long since crumbled to dust. The mining colony had expanded hugely to become the Anunnaki civilisation, which had spread to Africa and India - to quench Nibiru's seemingly never ending lust for gold. Rivalry between the brothers reached fever pitch, once EnKi made his human worker. ... Read more

    $2.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Recognition of Sakuntala

    A Play In Seven Acts

    by Kalidasa ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    KING Yes. I shall release you - SAKUNTALA When? KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar. Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their separation by a curse, and eventual reunion, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The No plays Of Japan

    by Arthur Waley ...
    The Nō Plays of Japanby Arthur WaleyTranslations of a selection of Nō dramas, which have deep connections with Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and Japanese folklore.Part prose, part verse, the visually stunning No plays of Japan deal with such subjects as insanity, obsession and historical characters, and frequently have as their focal points demons, gods, and beautiful women. Among the 19 works and 15 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bollywood Extras: A Novel From Mumbai

    "Bollywood Extras" is a bold exercise in literary post-modernism and has been described as being like Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) meets Nathanael West's "Day of the Locust" (1939). Unlike those two classics, however, this novel by Dr D. Bruno Starrs is set in 21st Century India's Hindi-language film industry epicenter otherwise known as 'Bollywood', Mumbai's answer to America's 'Hollywood' ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skivvy Girl: The Love of a Post WWII Japanese Pleasure Girl

    Skivvy Girl SynopsisAmerican military occupation of Japan had just begun when seventeen-year-old Matsuyama Yoshiko finished high school. Her father had been killed on Iwo Jima, leaving Yoshiko and her mother without a breadwinner. Neither the mother nor daughter had any workplace skills and hovered on edge of poverty. Yoshiko found work sorting rotting vegetables, but the income was so little they ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southeast Asian Plays

    The first ever comprehensive collection of plays in English from Southeast Asia. Features work by eight playwrights from seven countries in Southeast Asia, a region which is experiencing profound change: Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia. Southeast Asian Plays explores the rich variety of dramatic work that is only beg... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brothers in Blood

    by Amer Anwar ...
    Series series Zaq & Jags
    THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018BOOKS IN THE MEDIA BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2018FEATURED ON CRIME TIME BEST OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER'[A] brilliant debut' Sunday Times Crime Club'A fresh and exciting new voice to the genre' Ann Cl... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Human by Day, Zeta by Night: A Dramatic Account of Greys Incarnating as Humans

    by Judy Carroll ...
    While SETI is busily searching for ET radio signals “out there,” ETs have been with us for millennia, monitoring and mentoring us. But they also live among us, reincarnating as humans and facilitating our development. What paradigm-shattering knowledge can they impart to our limited minds? Who are we? What is our real history? Enter into the two parallel worlds of Ali and Ashka, as they discover ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Koan

    by Matthew Lang ...
    There is a goose in a bottle. So big now it can no longer squeeze through the small narrow glass neck. How then, can you free it from the bottle without damaging the goose or the bottle? ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 周末四重奏

    by 高行健 ...
    Series series 當代名家
    一個慵倦的中年女人、一個遲暮的畫家、一個年輕的風騷小妞、一個江郎才盡的中年作家;四人代表人生不同際遇的生命之聲,在某個共度的周末協奏、織譜、合鳴,組合成一齣人性慾念的劇本。形式上借用音樂的四重奏方式,並透過閱讀文本的口白段落,以分隔主角們的敘述或劇情的交錯演出。高行健特別提供了此戲在演出時,可供朗讀、廣播、舞台的表演形式,亦可將戲、詩、口白敘述、音樂揉合在一起的趣味戲感。 劇情跳接在現實與想像、回憶與夢境、思考與陳述,不斷地轉換中,有如一場高低音階的生之慾望協奏曲。每人各自表述自己的煩惱、被挑起的慾望、道德的擺盪。詼諧中憂傷自現,令人不得不沉吟在這個四重奏的生命旋律裡……… ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Brothel #9

    by Anusree Roy ...
    A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Un-Kings

    There are brothers, princes, sworn enemies and rulers of their own vast lands.But, prophecy and the sanctified scrolls of the king, their late father, state that there must be a king to rule over their entire northern realm, or face reprisals and destruction brought down by the dragons of the heavens.The eldest heir of the sons of their father must occupy the unified throne by the turn of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Melodies in Delirium

    "Melodies in Delirium", a masterpiece by renowned author Takeri Katsuhiro, immerses us in a captivating drama. Takashi, an obsessive young man captivated by an enigmatic rock star, embarks on a journey of self-discovery filled with excesses and emotional challenges. In this labyrinth of the human psyche, Katsuhiro guides us through the deepest recesses of obsession and the desperate search for ... Read more

    $4.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus