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The great escape
By Paul Brickhill. 2000
The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner of war camp worked together to…
achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan... 2000.King Lear
By William Shakespeare. 2002
A tragedy concerning a petulant king and his three daughters. Amid the political action, Lear is taken in by false…
avowals of love from two of his daughters, and disinherits his third because of her refusal to flatter him. This is a fully dramatised version. Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. 2002.Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer. 1981
A play inspired by music and death revolves around the bitter jealousy of Antonio Salieri, the court composer who played…
second fiddle to the more brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Some strong language. c1981. Uniform title: AmadeusMuch ado about nothing
By William Shakespeare. 1996
The proud would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick circle each other warily, and as they draw closer and closer to their…
inevitable union, their scathing witticisms and sly innuendoes reach a feverish intensity that befits the passionate longing they both vainly seek to deny. First publicly acted prior to 1600. c1996.Much ado about nothing (New Folger Library Shakespeare Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, Barbara A Mowat, Paul Werstine. 1995
First performed in 1598, this comedy in five acts concerns two pairs of lovers. Before Hero and Claudio can find…
happiness together, they must sort out the complications of Don John's false accusations. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick match wits and fall in love. Includes notes and explanatory essays. 1995.Measure for measure (The new Penguin Shakespeare Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, James Mansfield Nosworthy. 1968
When Vincentio leaves the city government in the hands of Judge Angelo, the laws against fornication, which had been loosely…
enforced, are now more strictly observed. When a young couple is caught expecting a child out of wedlock the man is sentenced to death. Vincentio is disguised as a friar to spy on the doings in his city and aids in a plan to stop Angelo. 1973, c1604.Le Pacifique: de l'autre côté de l'océan,l'enfer
By Hugh Ambrose. 2011
Novembre 1941, les troupes américaines quittent la Chine. Août 1945, l'avion du général MacArthur se pose sur le territoire japonais.…
Entre ces deux événements, cinq recrues inexpérimentées, cinq soldats venant d'horizons différents sont plongés dans une guerre violente sur le front asiatique. Débâcle de Bataan, tumulte de Guadalcanal, implacables forteresses de corail de Peleliu, terribles charniers d'Okinawa ; puis retour au pays, triomphal mais douloureux. Chacun joue son rôle dans ce conflit, et tous doivent puiser dans leurs ultimes ressources physiques et mentales pour venir à bout d'un ennemi qui préfère mourir plutôt que de se rendre. Descriptions régulières de violence, beaucoup de langage grossier, et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 2011. Titre uniforme: The Pacific.La trêve (Le livre de poche #15438)
By Primo Levi. 2003
A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un groupe d'Italiens, rescapés des camps nazis, entame une marche de plusieurs…
mois : « accompagnés » par l'Armée Rouge, ils cherchent à rejoindre leur terre natale. Héros et traîtres, paysans et voleurs, savants et nomades se retrouvent pêle-mêle dans une réjouissante pagaille : autant d'hommes qui redécouvrent, émerveillés, la vie, le monde, la forêt, les filles, sans oublier l'art du trafic pour subsister... La Trêve est le récit picaresque et authentique de leurs tribulations extravagantes sur les routes d'Europe centrale. A travers la confrontation de deux peuples, Primo Levi révèle les ressources merveilleuses d'hommes qui se montrèrent à la hauteur de leur destin.Henry V: the life of Henry the Fifth (Plays (Nick Hern Books))
By William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi. 2001
Historical drama. The newly ascended king of England first deals with three suspected traitors. Then, on a pretext, Henry invades…
France to claim the throne. After his victory in the battle of Agincourt, there is a huge celebration, and Henry turns his attention to his courtship of Catherine of France, as two knaves and a braggart provide comic relief. 2001, c1599.Kiss of the spider woman (Arena Bks.)
By Manuel Puig, Thomas Colchie. 1984
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig, who died in…
1990. The centrepiece of the volume is Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman", made into an acclaimed film starring William Hurt. Also included are the compelling works "Under a mantle of stars" and "Mystery of the rose bouquet". 1984. Uniform title: Beso de la mujer araña.Julius Caesar (New Penguin Shakespeare Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. 1967
Loved by the Roman crowd but more and more feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire…
to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the most famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. 1967, c1599.I think you're totally wrong: a quarrel
By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.Doubt: a parable
By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.Defiance: the Bielski partisans
By Nechama Tec. 2008
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but many Jews struggled against the…
terrors of the Third Reich. This is the history of one such group, a forest community numbering more than 1,200 Jews, that carried out the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. These men and women of all ages - hungry, largely unarmed, and exposed to harsh winter weather - smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, led retaliatory raids against Nazi collaborators, and offered protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.As you like it (Shakespeare, Penguin Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, H. J Oliver. 1968
A pastoral comedy set primarily in the forest of Arden. A duke is exiled by his cruel brother, who later…
banishes his daughter as well. The action switches from the count to the forest where the exiles and friends wander in a maze of romances and mixed identities. For Senior High readers. 1968, c1599.An inspector calls (SmartPass)
By Phil Viner, Jools Viner, J. B Priestley, Gil Maine, Jonathan Lomas. 2006
Peel away the layers of Priestley's complex drama to appreciate this powerful warning play, wrapped up in the genre of…
a gripping detective story, to truly understand that "We don't live alone. We are members of one body". For senior high readers. 2006, c1945.A streetcar named Desire
By Tennessee Williams. 2008
In this play, a recently widowed, faded southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law in the French Quarter…
of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a mental breakdown because of the insensitivity of those around her. First published in 1947, c2008.Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history
By Bret Witter, Robert M Edsel. 2010
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from 13 Allied nations served in the Monuments, Fine Arts…
and Archives section of the Allied armed forces. This was the most ambitious effort in history to preserve the world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as 'Monuments Men'. This is their story. 2010.The zookeeper's wife
By Diane Ackerman. 2007
When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers…
Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her. Bestseller. 2007.The tattooed girl: the enigma of Stieg Larsson and the secrets behind the most compelling thrillers of our time
By John-Henri Holmberg, Daniel Burstein, Arne J De Keijzer. 2011
The stories behind the Steig Larsson books “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, and…
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. Enter the unique world of Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, and of Larsson himself, discovering the experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of these works. A look into the author’s life, and his ideas for future books - including the mysterious “fourth book” in the series, which Larsson had started but not finished at the time of his death. Incudes strong language and violence. 2011.