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Too Clever By Half or The Diary of a Scoundrel (Paperback): Alexander Ostrovsky Too Clever By Half or The Diary of a Scoundrel (Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky
R209 R190 Discovery Miles 1 900 Save R19 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gloumov, (the protagonist) has not only become an eduring character on the Russian stage, but the abstract noun derived from his name, gloumovshchina (or gloumovism), has entered the language. As long as ambitious young men with brains and talent can most readily achieve success by selling themselves and betraying their better natures, gloumovism will thrive. Transitional societies have a special need of Gloumov to keep things moving - as well as to maintain equilibrium - since the actor-opportunist will further any cause, switch positions overnight, defend opposite sides of the same issue, and turn his coat with every wind until he almost becomes the coat. from the Afterword by Daniel Gerould

The Storm - Translated by Constance Garnett (Paperback, Main): Alexander Ostrovsky The Storm - Translated by Constance Garnett (Paperback, Main)
Alexander Ostrovsky; Translated by Constance Garnett
R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of Ostrovsky's most poetical works, The Storm is set in Kalinov, a provincial town on the banks of the Upper Volga. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Katerina is tormented by her widowed mother-in-law, Marfa Kabanova. Katerina seeks solace in an affair with a similarly toermented young lover, and the confession of this affair to her husband leads ultimately to tragedy.

The Storm was a great success on its first performance the Maly Theatre, Moscow, in November 1859, and continues to be critically regarded as one of Ostrovsky's best plays. It inspired Janacek's opera "Katia Kabanova."

Ostrovsky: Plays Two - The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness (Paperback):... Ostrovsky: Plays Two - The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness (Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky; Translated by Stephen Mulrine
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Four of Ostrovsky's finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue. In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy of theatre life, a dedicated young actress renounces both love and fortune in order to pursue her sacred calling. In the comedy Wolves and Sheep (1875) Ostrovsky returns to a favourite theme, the double-dealing and hypocrisy of the Russian landowning classes, while the melodrama Sin and Sorrow (1863) explores the tragic consequences of a bored provincial wife's brief affair.

Plays (Paperback): George Rapall Noyes Plays (Paperback)
George Rapall Noyes; Alexander Ostrovsky
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Plays - A Protegee of the Mistress, Poverty Is No Crime, Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All, and It's a Family... Plays - A Protegee of the Mistress, Poverty Is No Crime, Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All, and It's a Family Affair--We'll Settle It Ourselves (Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was a Russian playwright. His works include "The Poor Bride," "Poverty Is No Crime," and "Don't Put Yourself In Another Man's Sledge."

Ostrovsky: Four Plays - Too Clever by Half; Crazy Money; Innocent as Charged; the Storm (Paperback): Alexander Ostrovsky Ostrovsky: Four Plays - Too Clever by Half; Crazy Money; Innocent as Charged; the Storm (Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky; Translated by Stephen Mulrine
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Includes three comedies - Too Clever by Half, Crazy Money, Innocent as Charged - and a tragedy The Storm from the father of Russian drama. Ostrovsky (1823-86) paved the way for twentieth-century stage realism in Russia. These plays are populated by characters that reveal Ostrovsky's talent for well-turned idiomatic phrases and his acute observation of behaviour and conditioning."

Bespridannica. Izbrannye P'Esy (Russian, Paperback): Alexander Ostrovsky Bespridannica. Izbrannye P'Esy (Russian, Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bespridannica. Izbrannye P'Esy (Russian, Paperback): Alexander Ostrovsky Bespridannica. Izbrannye P'Esy (Russian, Paperback)
Alexander Ostrovsky
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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