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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Eight short plays: Triangle, Gladly Otherwise, The Black and White,
Trouble in the Works, Cleaning Up Justice, Collector's Piece,
Conference and Can You Hear Me?
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father
could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial
Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by
an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon
allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so
comical as at first glance.7 women, 12 men
A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand
defense. He is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused
of murdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he
simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking and laughing. The
trial ends and the verdict is a foregone conclusion. The lawyer
begs his client to let him appeal. Ironically the man is reprieved
because of the ineptitude of his defense.2 men
A young man and woman meet in a wayside hotel during lunch hour to
express their love. In order to be discreet, he has fabricated a
story of marriage, children, distant home, to satisfy the
concierge.The woman is confused when confronted with this
fabrication, and as she unravels the matter in her mind the
enchantment of love begins to fade. In brilliant dialogue by one of
England's best writers.2 women, 1 man
Adapted by John Mortimer from the story by Charles Dickens Large
cast. Simple sets. Dramatized with flair and wit in a version first
performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this adaptation of the
ageless story captures Dickens' ironic point of view while it
creates a panoramic view of Victorian London. All of the much loved
characters are in place. Cast and staging requirements are
extremely flexible; there is ample opportunity for creative
doubling.
Sir Fennimore Truscott, a retired Judge, sits under his mulberry
tree and 'tries' his next-door-neighbour Tom Marjoriebanks for -
allegedly - seducing Truscott's wife Margaret many years earlier.1
woman, 2 men
The translator of a popular version of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear
scored another success with this acclaimed farce at the National
Theatre of Great Britain. More slam bang experiences in mistaken
identities and sexual peccadillos, this hilarious story begins with
M. Pinglet's efforts to have a fling with Mme. Paillardin, who is
terminally bored with her husband. The lovers book a room in a very
out of the way hotel which quickly becomes a destination for
practically everyone they know.Large cast
In a hospital housed in an old palazzo, two Englishmen recovering
consciousness both see the ward ceiling, covered by a huge painting
of Heaven, and imagine they have 'passed on'. In conversation it
transpires that Fletcher, a rather rough type, has led the sort of
Byronic life that scholarly Luby has only written about.2 women, 5
men
Collaborators is a comedy about marriage set in a dingy, infested
flat in Belsize Park in the late 1950s. Henry Winter, a struggling
young barrister, is also struggling to cultivate his writing
career. At the invitation of Sam Brown, an American film producer
of somewhat hazy credentials, he starts work on a film strip about
marriage.2 women, 2 men
Francesca brings her lover, Henry, to her mother's flat to announce
their intention to get married. While waiting for Mrs Stokes,
Francesca answers a mysterious phone call. From what he overhears,
Henry concludes that Mrs Stokes is a member of the oldest
profession. It is later revealed that Mrs Stokes deals in nothing
more erotic than antique furniture.2 women, 2 men
The characters in all four plays are in their twenties to forties
and can either be played by the same four artists or by separate
casts. The first, Mill Hill, calls for 2 men and 1 woman, the
remainder, Bermondsey, Gloucester Road and Marble Arch, call for 2
men and 2 women each. These four plays are linked by their themes
of sexual entanglements and by their central or suburban London
settings.Large flexible cast
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A Flea in Her Ear (Paperback)
Georges Feydeau; Translated by John Mortimer
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Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and
she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof.
They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the
Hotel Coq d'Or in Montretout.5 women, 9 men
Like many other new technologies which have since been seized and
exploited by others, the industrial robot is a British invention.
In 1957, a patent was produced by a British inventor, Cyril Walter
Kenward, and later it became crucial to the future of robotics. For
across the Atlantic two robot builders, Unimation and AMF, both
infringed this patent and ultimately a cash settlement was made to
Kenward. The owner of Unimation Inc. was Joseph Engelberger, an
entrepreneur and avid reader of Isaac Asimov, the writer who helped
to create the image of the benevolent robot. It is claimed that
Engelberger's journey of fame down the road which led to him being
hailed as the 'father of robotics' can be traced to the day that he
met George C. Devol at a cocktail party. Devol was an inventor with
an impressive list of patents to his name in the electronics field.
One of Devol's patent applications referred to a Programmed
Transfer Article. Devol's patent was issued in 1961 as US Patent
2,988,237, and this formed the basis of the Unimate robot which
first saw the light of day in 1960. The first Unimate was sold to
Ford Motor Company which used it to tend a die-casting machine. It
is perhaps ironic that the first robot was used by a company which
refused to recognise the machine as a robot, preferring instead to
call it a Universal Transfer Device.
Eccentric and hillarious, Georges Feydeau's much loved comedy mixes
madness, mayhem, fun and frivolity. When the beautiful wife of
Victor Chandebise suspects of having an affair, she enlists the
help of her dearest friend to entrap him. Their plan to entice him
to a rendezvous at the Hotel Coq D'or spectacularly misfires and
chaos ensues. Set in the decadent surroundings of Belle Epoque
Paris, Feydeau's quintessential farce promises to be an
exhilerating even of mistaken identities and comic disaster.
Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best
Rumpole stories by John Mortimer Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr
Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters
in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary
allusions, his disdain for personal ambition and his lack of
pomposity, he has, in the words of the Daily Telegraph, 'ascended
to the pantheon of literary immortals'. Forever Rumpole contains
seven stories originally chosen by the author himself as his
favourites, together with a further seven from the later period and
the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working
on when he died in 2009. The book also includes a fascinating
introduction by Ann Mallalieu, fellow lawyer and for many years Sir
John's colleague in practice. 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock
Holmes, is immortal' P. D James, Mail on Sunday 'I thank heaven for
small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James, Observer
Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His
fictional trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP
in the Thatcher years (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The
Sound of Trumpets) has recently been republished in Penguin
Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A
Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister
Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short
stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of
Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole
Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge
Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the
Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at
Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus;
Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly and Summer's Lease.
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole - a delightful novel
starring John Mortimer's iconic character 'One of the great comic
creations of modern times' Evening Standard ASBOs may be the pride
and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace
Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going
to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form
of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda
agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to
dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson
children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And
pretty soon he realizes something fishy is going on. Why are the
residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so
strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on
their street? John Mortimer's hilarious Rumpole novel, which fans
of Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse will love, sees the magician
of the Old Bailey at his unpredictable and brilliant best. Sir John
Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional
trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP in the
Thatcher years (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound
of Trumpets) has recently been republished in Penguin Classics,
together with his autobiography Clinging to the Wreckage and his
play A Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the
barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around
eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social
Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The
First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and
the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole
and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation;
Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole
Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly and
Summer's Lease.
Summer's Lease - the classic, international bestselling novel by
John Mortimer 'Amusing, entertaining ... and a cracking good read'
Sunday Express 'And summer's lease hath all too short a date' -
Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare It's high summer when Molly Pargeter
drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the
holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for
their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the
lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong
... 'With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane
tangle of clues' Mail on Sunday Summer's Lease, which was made into
popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful
novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate,
humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable. It will be
adored by readers of P.G Wodehouse and P.D. James. Sir John
Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional
political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The
Sound of Trumpets has recently been republished in Penguin
Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A
Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister
Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short
stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of
Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole
Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge
Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the
Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at
Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus;
Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly and Summer's Lease.
Epic adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. During World War
Two, Charles Rider (Jeremy Irons) is stationed at the now deserted
stately home, Brideshead Manor, formerly the residence of the Flyte
family. He recalls how, as a Cambridge undergraduate, he first
visited Brideshead after befriending Lord Sebastian Flyte (Anthony
Andrews). Charles then became caught up with the Flytes and their
problems, most notably Sebastian's burgeoning alcoholism.
The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord.
'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James
Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret
and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal
defender of the underdog - is one of the greatest English comic
characters ever created. This is the original volume of Rumpole
stories, introducing us to the legal triumphs that first made the
Old Bailey Hack's name, along with a host of choice villains,
frequent forays to Pommeroy's wine bar and, of course, his
formidable, magisterial wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. 'I
thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole'
Clive James 'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting
faith in mankind' Sunday Times
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