This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in l...(展开全部)

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in l...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 劳伦·格罗夫（Lauren Groff） 美国小说家和短篇作家，生于纽约古柏镇，毕业于威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校，获艺术硕士学位。2008年，她的小说处女作《坦波顿暗影》一经出版便荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并受到史蒂芬·金大加赞赏。本书是她的第二本小说，同样收获无数好评，被《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《柯克斯评论》《时尚》和美国国家公共电台评为年度好书。其作品另有长篇小说《命运女神与复仇女神》、短篇小说集《精美可口的鸟儿》。 ··· 【译者简介】 邓晓菁 北京大学和德国法兰克福大学法学硕士，译作另有《当知识分子遇到政治》《宪政爱国主义》《危险的心灵：战后欧洲思潮中的卡尔•施米特》等。

【作者简介】 劳伦·格罗夫（Lauren Groff） 美国小说家和短篇作家，生于纽约古柏镇，毕业于威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校，获艺术硕士学位。2008年，她的小说处女作《坦波顿暗影》一经出版便荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并受到史蒂芬·金大加赞赏。本书是她的第二本小说，同样收获无数好评，被《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《柯克斯评论》《时尚》和美国国家公共电台评为年度好书。其作品另有长篇小说《命运女神与复仇女神》、短篇小说集《精美可口的鸟儿》。 ··· 【译者简介】 邓晓菁 北京大学和德国法兰克福大学法学硕士，译作另有《当知识分子遇到政治》《宪政爱国主义》《危险的心灵：战后欧洲思潮中的卡尔•施米特》等。

【作者简介】 劳伦·格罗夫（Lauren Groff） 美国小说家和短篇作家，生于纽约古柏镇，毕业于威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校，获艺术硕士学位。2008年，她的小说处女作《坦波顿暗影》一经出版便荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并受到史蒂芬·金大加赞赏。本书是她的第二本小说，同样收获无数好评，被《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《柯克斯评论》《时尚》和美国国家公共电台评为年度好书。其作品另有长篇小说《命运女神与复仇女神》、短篇小说集《精美可口的鸟儿》。 ··· 【译者简介】 邓晓菁 北京大学和德国法兰克福大学法学硕士，译作另有《当知识分子遇到政治》《宪政爱国主义》《危险的心灵：战后欧洲思潮中的卡尔•施米特》等。

From the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream. In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic, rollicking, ...(展开全部)

Yes, Minister, and the equally successful sequel Yes, Prime Minister captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. First broadcast thirty years ago, the original writers of these classic series have reunited to create a bang up to date Yes, Prime Minister for the stage. Spin, blackberries, sexed-up dossiers, sleaze, global warming and a country on the brink of ...(展开全部)

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the eff...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences--mortality--while she also probes...(展开全部)

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pup...(展开全部)