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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Dante Alighieri, Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Gaston Leroux, Jack London, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sun Tzu, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.M. Barrie, B.M. Bower, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert William Chambers, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Deland, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strunk Jr., Vatsyayana, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Love Under The Cross: Chinese Fiction 小说: 十字架下的禁恋

    by Hongyang（Canada）/ 红洋（加拿大） ...
    玫玫是一名在德国留学的中国学生，一位汉学系的中国教授把他的儿子小飞介绍给玫玫认识，小飞七岁时就跟着父母从北京来到德国，大学毕业后在德国银行工作。初次见面时，小飞对玫玫非常冷漠而且很不客气，玫玫一气之下和他吵了起来，后来小飞向玫玫坦诚他反感父母给他介绍对象，因为他是同性恋。小飞对玫玫非常好，他俩从此以兄妹相称。小飞组建了有名的黑皮乐队，常在各个酒吧巡回表演，他同性恋的男友迈克是乐队的歌手，乐队的另一名女歌手海伦也深深爱着小飞。一天，罗马教皇约翰保罗二世来德国柏林访问，他们同性恋俱乐部和其它几个什么激进组织要去柏林裸奔，向教皇表示抗议和不满。在小飞和迈克的说服下，玫玫跟着去了柏林帮他们看衣服。一次偶然机会，玫玫认识了上门传道的神学系学生约翰，他俩从相识到相爱。在约翰生日的那天，玫玫带着约翰到了黑皮乐队所在的酒吧，因为担心朋友们知道约翰是学神学而会对他不礼遇，玫玫编了慌说他俩是在大学认识的 ... Read more

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  • The Fragrant Companions

    A Play About Love Between Women

    by Li Yu ...
    Translated by Stephen Roddy, Ying Wang ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou, where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry and recognize each other’s literary talents, their emotional bond deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the two women ... Read more

    S$ 25.17 SGD

  • Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing

    by Gladys Yang ...
    Volume of eight plays by Guan Hanqing, the "Shakespeare of China." Includes Snow in Midsummer, a work which appears on International Baccalaureate Curricula. ... Read more

    S$ 10.94 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Potong: To Care/Cut

    by Johnny Jon Jon ...
    Series Book 5 - Orbit
    In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the individual’s sense of self comes under scrutiny.In Hawa, a new Muslim convert finds herself tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her partner.In Potong, a son is sent away by a mother to return to Singapore to undergo the coming-of-age rites of passage that await him: ... Read more

    S$ 14.99 SGD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (Guardian™ Classics)

    by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M Forster, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker ...
    This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, D. ... Read more

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  • 14 Days in Beijing: The Short Story Part I

    by Chancellor Jackson ...
    It's April 4th, 2019. My name is Lucky Chance, and the Beijing Police showed up to my apartment unannounced and arrested me for drug-related charges. I don't know how the law works, nor can I speak the language to even ask. The officers escorting me from precinct to precinct aren't sharing any information with me either. After 14 hours of sitting handcuffed in a holding cell, my next destination ... Read more

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  • 李江电影剧本选

    by Li, Jiang ...
    本书是李江的电影剧本选，包括《弃狗》、《流浪猫》、《忠犬丢丢》及诗电影《在那遥远的草原》共4部电影剧本。 ... Read more

    S$ 12.77 SGD

  • The Wanderers

    by Kawa Ada ...
    As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war.A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself working in a pizzeria just to get by. Their fresh start continues to prove difficult as they navigate the trauma and displacement that follows them at every turn, and when their son Roshan is ... Read more

    S$ 14.92 SGD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

    Edited by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Primarily comprising works from the People's Republic of China, though including representative plays from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this ... Read more

    S$ 181.91 SGD

  • სიძველეთმცოდნე

    Drama, #337

    by irakli chediya ...
    Series Book 337 - Drama
    მოკლე ანოტაცია რომანისა„ ს ი ძ ვ ე ლ ე თ მ ც ო დ ნ ე“გამომცემლობა „ჯალი“ ISBN-23-12-7სამუზეუმო ექსპონატების შემყურე ახალგაზრდა არქეოლოგი სახელდახელოდ თხზავს მოთხრობებს და ამ საშუალებით ყველას გასაკვირვად ვირტუალურად „მოგზაურობს“ ამა თუ იმ ეპოქაში, რის შემდგომ მას აღარ ძალუძს წარმოსახვისა და სინამდვილის ერთმანეთი-საგან გარჩევა.Краткая аннотация к роману«Знаток древностей - Археолог»Издательство ... Read more

    S$ 12.79 SGD

  • The Reincarnate

    by Gareth Davies ...
    A baby boy nearly dies due to mystery welts on his neck. He has a recurring nightmare 7 years later. A psychiatrist provides temporary cure. Now a man his nightmare returns. The psychiatrist's report hints he was murdered in a previous life. He learns that the murderer still lives! Can he get evidence to expose the murderer, get justice for himself and obtain peace of mind? Who will believe him? ... Read more

    S$ 1.27 SGD

  • The New Master Key System (Library of Hidden Knowledge)

    by Charles F. Haanel ...
    The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949) that was originally published as a 24-week correspondence course in 1912, and then in book form in 1916. The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy. It was one of the main sources of inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's film and book The Secret (2006). ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chitra

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Play. According to Wikipedia: "Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first non-European who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation ... Read more

    S$ 1.38 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dishonoured

    by Aamina Ahmad ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Surrounded by lies and deceit how do you work out who is telling the truth? When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts.As the two nations negotiate, angry mobs take to the streets and he is caught up in a national scandal. ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • A Secreto Agravio Secreta Venganza

    by Pedro Calderón De La Barca ...
    Un caballero se ve arrastrado por la sospecha de una deshonra que debe limpiar en la más absoluta clandestinidad para evitar el escándalo público. La tensión aumenta en cada escena mientras el protagonista planea una venganza que es, al mismo tiempo, un acto de preservación social y una tragedia personal. Este oscuro drama del Siglo de Oro disecciona con crueldad la vigencia de los códigos de ... Read more

    S$ 2.56 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy is a classic play from Japan's golden age of puppet theater. Written in the eighteenth century, it tells the tale of Sugawara no Michizane, a wronged scholar-official who, in death, joins the Shinto pantheon as a nurturer of scholarship and calligraphy. The story recounts Sugawara's entanglement with the powerful Fujiwara family, who accuse Sugawara of ... Read more

    S$ 40.21 SGD

  • The King of the Dark Chamber

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    I[A street. A few wayfarers, and a CITY GUARD]First Man. Ho, Sir!City Guard. What do you want?Second Man. Which way should we go? We are strangers here. Please tell us which street we should take.City Guard. Where do you want to go?Third Man. To where those big festivities are going to be held, you know. Which way do we go?City Guard. One street is quite as good as another here. Any street will ... Read more

    S$ 4.40 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Better Life

    by Isobel Scharen ...
    Ada, a young Englishwoman in early-1940s Singapore, is about to be married to Michael, a well-educated Anglo-Indian from a wealthy family. She dreams of a life of security and fulfilment. Instead, when the Japanese invade, her family struggle to cope under occupation, while she is interned in Changi gaol. Separated from her baby daughter and her beloved Michael, who is torn between loyalty to his ... Read more

    S$ 7.66 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Centre Stage

    The Dramatist and the Play

    by Poile Sengupta ...
    This selection of six contemporary plays explores a wide range of issues — familial, social, mythological, political — with women centre stage. The plays are distinct from each other in structure, theme and style, but are bound together by a common thread — the position and role of women in family, social and political systems. Issues such as sexual abuse, in-law relationships, the trauma of ... Read more

    S$ 80.82 SGD

  • 中國戲曲美學史：關漢卿×湯顯祖×王國維……重構戲曲藝術，書寫千年文化與美學的演進

    by 梁曉萍 ...
    承古典之韻，啟當代之思探戲曲之源，究美學之理不只論戲說藝，更論人間悲喜與審美理想⚑　研究架構本書聚焦於中國戲曲藝術的美學思想與理論演變。全書以元、明、清三代為主要時代背景，採用縱向歷史與橫向門類交織的結構，從戲曲理論家的思想出發，結合理論文本與具體劇作，系統梳理了中國古典戲曲美學的發展軌跡與思想特徵。該書不僅關注戲曲藝術的美感表現，更強調戲曲與社會、文化、哲學之間的互動與融合，為中國傳統藝術美學的研究提供了堅實的理論支撐。⚑　代表人物本書以胡祗遹、湯顯祖、李漁、金聖歎、王國維等戲曲理論家為代表，深入分析其戲曲理論與美學思想。例如，胡祗遹的「九美說」強調戲曲演員在外貌、才藝、理解、表現等多方面的綜合素養，揭示了戲曲審美的實踐基礎與教化功能；湯顯祖則以其戲曲作品與理論推動了「情至」的戲劇審美理想；王國維以中西美學視野探討戲曲意境與悲劇觀，顯示出現代美學融合古典戲曲的深層思考。⚑ ... Read more

    S$ 14.56 SGD

  • Chakra

    Translated by Vijaya Bapat ...
    by Vidyadhar Pundlik ...
    Chakra is a one-act play inspired by the classic Indian epic Mahabharata. Told from the unique point of view of its heroine, Draupadi -- it is the tale of duty, love, revenge and healing of Draupadi -- a Queen, a wife and mother. Universal and timeless, the existential questions Draupadi grapples with are equally relevant to our time as they were to hers. This play lingers in your heart long after ... Read more

    S$ 12.31 SGD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

    Edited by C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li, George Kao ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama ... Read more

    S$ 52.75 SGD