Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Friedrich Durrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. In this ALTA National Translation Award-winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater. Durrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be...
Author
Series
Evergreen original ; E344
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
A millionairess returns to her home town to seek revenge on a man who wronged her in her youth.
16) The pledge
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
A detective, unsatisfied with a suspect's confession to the murder of a little girl, tries to use another girl as bait to catch the killer.
17) Plays and essays
Author
Series
German library ; 89
Publisher
Continuum Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
19) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
20) The Physicists
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Johann Mobius, the world's greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists. Why? Because he is haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon, and the other two are convinced they are Einstein and Newton. But are these three actually mad? Or are they playing a murdererous game with the world at stake? This darkly comic satire probes the cost of sanity among men of science and whether it is the mad who are the truly
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