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Books narrated by Robert Eddison

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    Frank Wedekind: Spring Awakening & more

    Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    A brand new production of Spring Awakening, alongside three classic plays from the BBC archiveFrank Wedekind is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern drama, whose works influenced later writers such as Brecht and Dürrenmatt. His best-known plays were Spring Awakening and Lulu, both of which transgressed the social norms of his time and still have the power to shock and provoke us ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Frank Wedekind

    The Complete Works of Frank WedekindThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)2 - Pandora's Box3 - The Awakening of Spring4 - Frühlings Erwachen5 - Such is Life6 - Erdgeist ... Read more

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  • Spring Awakening

    A Tragedy of Childhood

    Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The plays performance was threatened with closure when the city's Commissioner of Licenses claimed that the play was pornographic, due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide, but a New York trial court issued an injunction to allow the production ... Read more

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  • The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

    A PROEM FOR PRUDES The playwright has attacked his theme with European frankness; but of plot, in the usual acceptance of the term, there is little. Instead of the coherent drama of conventional type, Wedekind has given us a series of loosely connected scenes illuminative of character—scenes which surely have profound significance for all occupied in the training of the young. He sets before us a ... Read more

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  • Spring Awakening

    Translated by Mr Edward Bond ...
    Series series Student Editions
    A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality.Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today's society, exploring the oppression and rebellion of adolescents among draconian parents and morals. This seminal work looks at the conflict between repressive adulthood and teenage sexual ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity ... Read more

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  • Spring Awakening

    Translated by Jonathan Franzen ...
    From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, Spring Awakening.Featuring an introduction by Franzen.First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better ... Read more

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  • Faust, Part I

    Translated by David Constantine ...
    Series Book 1 - Faust
    Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this ... Read more

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  • Jakob von Gunten

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Christopher Middleton ...
    The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

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  • At the Heart of the White Rose

    Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

    Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn ...
    Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth with youthful and romantic enthusiasm. But as Hitler’s grip throttled Germany and Nazi atrocities mounted, Hans and Sophie emerged from their ... Read more

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