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Folk Tales from Korea

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Harold Pinter is one of our most profound poets and playwrights, with work ranging from his plays THE CARETAKER, THE HOMECOMING, and BETRAYAL to such poems as "The Bombs" and "Death." A writer known for his searing exploration of power, Pinter gives us an electrifying look into the often uncomfortable relationships between people--whether family members or political opponents. THE ESSENTIAL PINTER, which includes key plays, poetry, essays, and screenplays, is an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to delve into the astonishingly dazzling and frequently ominous world of Harold Pinter. In voyaging in, we not only come to fully appreciate the breadth of a body of work spanning over fifty years, but acquire a better understanding of human interaction.

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Other editions: 1969

Vellos Tempos: A Festa De Aniversario

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El Cuidador: Los Enanos

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The Fever

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Other editions: Softcover - 1962

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Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-1998

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Other editions: 1998

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Celebration and the Room

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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War Is Peace

HaroldHarold Pinter; Noam Chomsky; Tony Simpson; Johan Galtung; Ken Coates; Achin Vanaik; Arundhati Roy; Michael Barratt Brown; Steve Boggin; Pamela White

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Collected Screenplays Three

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The Proust Screenplay: A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu

HaroldHarold Pinter; Barbara Bray; Joseph Losey

In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written. With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in it's way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.

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Other editions: 1978, 1978

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Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

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One of the most important playwrights of the modern age presents his own selections from a prolific body of prose, poetry, and political writings.

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The Hothouse

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Other editions: Softcover - 1981, 1980, 1980

Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic

HaroldHarold Pinter; Amos Oz; Jessica Hagedorn; Saul Friedlander; Jacques Derrida; Nuruddin Farah; Paul Celan; Seydou Keita

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Plays Four

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Ashes to Ashes

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First presented by the Royal Court Theatre in London in September of 1996, Ashes to Ashes is a triumph of power and concision. In the living room of a pleasant house in a university town outside of London, Devlin, threatened by his wife Rebecca's recollections of an abusive ex-lover, questions her relentlessly in his need for a single truth. In her seamless blending of what she knows of violence with the wider violence of the world, Rebecca reveals an eerie communion with the dead victims of unnamed political barbarities.

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Plays Three

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Plays Two

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Conversations With Pinter

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For more than twenty years, Mel Gussow, a drama critic for the New York Times, has been meeting Harold Pinter to talk about work and life, plays and people. At the core of this book is a series of lengthy interviews - some of the most extensive that Pinter has ever given - all published here in full for the first time. Pinter and Gussow first meet in 1971, when Old Times is a new play and Pinter's status as a major writer is still being confirmed. Then come public and private conversations in the eighties, when the voice of Pinter's political commitment is first heard. And finally, over a period of a week in September 1993, the two talk after the London premiere of Pinter's latest play, Moonlight. Here the playwright is in a more mellow mood, happy to contemplate his early life and to admit to a political agenda behind such plays as The Birthday Party. Through these and other revealing insights, he allows us to see the complete arc of his work to date in its true light. The resulting book is one of the most thoughtful and intimate portraits of the writer yet to appear. In fact, it is a kind of self-portrait, since, intentionally, it is Pinter who does most of the talking. Though famously reticent on the subjects of his work and his private life, Pinter opens up for Gussow in a manner both beguilingly frank and refreshingly informative.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

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Collected Poems and Prose: Collected Poems and Prose

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An essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems, political diatribes, short stories, character portraits. Some are intimately connected with the plays; others are intriguingly allusive; and all of them share Pinter's lean, taut, and sometimes jarringly original use of language.

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99 Poems in Translation: An Anthology

HaroldHarold Pinter; Anthony Astbury; Geoffrey Godbert

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In one of the most exciting theatrical events of the nineties, Harold Pinter has written his first full-length play since the internationally acclaimed Betrayal in 1978. Pinter, "one of the most important playwrights of our day" (The New York Times), again proves himself a vital and innovative literary voice. Set in two bedrooms and an indefinite dark space, Moonlight is the story of a father on his deathbed, rehashing his youth, loves, lusts, and betrayals with his wife, while simultaneously his two sons - clinical, conspiratorial, the bloodless, intellectual offspring of a hearty anti-intellectual - sit in the shadows, speaking enigmatically and cyclically, stepping around and around the fact of their estrangement from their father, rationalizing their love-hate relations with him and the distance that they are unable to close even when their mother attempts to call them home. In counterpoint to their uncomprehending isolation between the extremes of the death before life and the death after is their younger sister, Bridget, who lightly bridges the gaps between youth and age, death and life.

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The Trial: Adapted from the Novel by Franz Kafka

HaroldHarold Pinter; Franz Kafka

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Party Time and the New World Order: Two Plays

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Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary playwrights. These two plays, Party Time and The New World Order, work in chilling tandem, each demonstrating the inevitable brutality that comes with a total conviction of right. Party Time is a terrifying portrait of the culpable indifference of a privileged class, of the cruelty engendered in its members by political disruption, and of their merciless extinction of dissent. At an elegant cocktail party, a stylish bourgeoisie discusses country clubs and summer homes, while below in the streets a sinister military presence protects them from the unmentionable horrors of poverty, vulgarity, squalor. In The New World Order, two interrogators harass a man whom they condemn for his questioning of received ideas, and whom we know only as threat to their closed vision of democracy.

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100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology

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With its surprising juxtapositions and gargantuan range of voice and style, '100 Poems by 100 Poets' brings old favorites into a new light and less well-known poems out of the shadows.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1987

The Servant and Other Screenplays

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Plays One

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