John Osborne: 32 books
John Osborne Plays 2
The Entertainer; The Hotel in Amsterdam; West of Suez; Time Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present.
'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching...
Before Anger - Two Early Plays: The Devil Inside Him & Personal Enemy
Two Early Plays by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
The first performance of Look Back in Anger in 1956 ushered in a new period of British theatre, and its success established the previously unknown John Osborne as a new playwright of the first rank. Contrary to popular perception, Look Back was not Osborne's first play to be performed, and two of...
'Dearest Squirrel…'
The Intimate Letters of John Osborne and Pamela Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK’s greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.
As these letters reveal, soon after...
John Osborne Plays 1
Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his career along its startling trajectory, as well as his much later play, Dejavu, which brings us Look Back in Anger's Jimmy Porter thirty-five years on, older and wiser, but no less indignantly eloquent.
John Osborne Plays 3
A Patriot for Me; Luther; Inadmissible Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century.
A Patriot for Me
'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosexuality and in the breadth...
by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre. It led to the coining of the phrase 'angry young man', which applied not only to Osborne...
by John Osborne, Henry Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Tom Jones was Henry Fielding’s greatest work. The first piece of English prose to be considered a novel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge praised it as ‘one of the most perfect plots ever planned’. A hero, a heroine, dead parents, adversity, misadventure, mistakes and then resolution, happy ever after....
by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities...
An Ordinary Fairy
The Willow Brown Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
For thirty years, Willow Brown has lived in the woods on her deceased parent’s estate, where she follows a reclusive lifestyle caring for the wild-life and avoiding human contact. Then Willow’s quiet world turns up-side down when nature photographer Noah Phelps crosses her path and discovers she...
by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a weekend to escape his clutches.
Safely ensconced in a hotel in Amsterdam, the uneasy equilibrium that has existed between them is joyously exposed as the alcohol starts to flow.
John...
Willow Brown, American Fairy
The Willow Brown Stories, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Book Two of the Willow Brown stories.Noah Phelps looks forward to a quiet visit at his parents’ Wisconsin home, accompanied by his lover and fairy friend, Willow Brown, but a late night phone call shatters their serenity. Tragedy has struck in the life of Willow’s best friend and fellow fairy,...
Willow Brown, Plain Fairy
The Willow Brown Stories, #3
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Book Three of the Willow Brown Stories.Noah Phelps is living a dream when he moves into a woodland mansion with a rich, beautiful woman, his fairy friend and lover, Willow Brown. The only downside is the guests: Willow has opened her home to twenty-one wayward fairies. Old and young, friendly...
Willow Brown, Someday Fairy
The Willow Brown Stories, #4
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Noah Phelps has grown used to having life disrupted since meeting his fairy friend and soon-to-be wife, Willow Brown. After all, when you live in a houseful of fairies, you come to expect unending chaos. But he didn’t anticipate falling in love with one of the residents, mysterious Claire Greene. A...
by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries?
These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama...