Results for: books tagged ‘Community’
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Siegfried Sassoon
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Strength of the Hills: George Ewart Evans
Dancing at Lughnasa: Brian Friel
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging ... More
The Crooked Scythe: George Ewart Evans
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about ... More
Frank McGuinness Plays 1: Frank McGuinness
This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and ... More
Blood Wedding: Federico Garcia Lorca and Ted Hughes
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with ... More
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An Enemy of the People: Henrik Ibsen and Christopher Hampton
'The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.' Dr StockmannDr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to ... More
The Dragon Can't Dance: Earl Lovelace
Described as 'a landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel' by C.L.R. James, Earl Lovelace's Caribbean classic tells the story of Calvary Hill - poverty stricken, ... More
Two Plays for Young People: Philip Ridley
This book contains two wonderful plays for young people by award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist Philip Ridley. In Fairytaleheart, two fifteen-year-olds confront their loneliness by exploring the language of theatre ... More
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