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Author
Publisher
Boni & Liveright
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
In the Grip of Life is about a former variety singer named Juliane Gihle. She betrays her rich but old husband with the young Alexander Blumenschøn, who is not sympathetically portrayed. She in turn is betrayed, finally ending in the arms of a black, 18 year old servant, "Boy".
6) Two plays
Author
Series
Mermaid dramabook ; MD29
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Tchin-tchin: Pamela and Cesario's respective spouses are having an affair. When they discover this they meet. The initially priggish English lady is slowly seduced by the vibrant Italian. Unfortunately his joie-de-vivre is mainly due to alcohol and she too becomes dependent on it starting a decline and fall.
Chez Torpe: Tallies the suicides in an inn whose owner insists on breaking down her guests' defenses.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
To clothe the naked: A suicide attempt by a young woman fails, but her misfortune earns the sympathy of the press, and she attracts a writer in search of a topic for a novel. No sooner can Ersilia cash in on her unexpected fame that she is trapped by her own lies. The more the writing process goes on, the more her confusion mounts; she is afraid of losing herself and becoming a nobody amidst the journalistic and writerly fictions inspired by her persona.
The...
Author
Publisher
Brentano's
Pub. Date
1907.
Language
English
Description
John Bull's other island: The play deals with Larry Doyle, originally from Ireland, but who has adopted English cultural customs and manners to fit in in England and Tom Broadbent, his English business partner. They are civil engineers who run a firm in London. They go to Roscullen, where Doyle was born, to develop some land. Doyle has no illusions about Ireland while Broadbent is taken with the romance of the place. Broadbent, a lively man who is...
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