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Harold Pinter

    October 10, 1930 – December 24, 2008

    Harold Pinter stands as one of the most influential playwrights of modern times. His works are distinguished by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace. Pinter's dramas often feature intense conflicts among ambivalent characters vying for verbal and territorial dominance, as well as for their own versions of the past. His thematically ambiguous plays delve into complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and the vicissitudes of memory.

    Harold Pinter
    Various Voices
    Betrayal
    Harold Pinter Plays 2
    Pinter Plays. 3
    Plays. Vol.4. Betrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight; Ashes to Ashes
    Plays: One
    • The first in the collected plays of Harold Pinter, this volume contains his first six plays, spanning the years between 1957-1960, as well as two short stories written before he turned to the theatre.

      Plays: One
    • The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker. The CaretakerIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success.

      Harold Pinter Plays 2
    • Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair, with the play ending in the house of Emma and Robert, her husband, who is Jerry's best friend.The classic dramatic scenario of the love triangle is manifest in a mediation on the themes of marital infidelity, duplicity, and self-deception. Pinter writes a world that simultaneously glorifies and debases love.

      Betrayal
    • Various Voices

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(53)Add rating

      Although best known for his plays, Harold Pinter has also written an extensive and wide-ranging body of other work since 1948; prose, prose fiction, poetry and political writings. In this anthology Pinter presents his own selection, among which are A Note on Shakespeare (1950), a paean to the cricketer Len Hutton (1969), the short stories Kullus (1949) and Girls (1995), the poetry from School Life (1948), and political pieces - including many letters to the press - on the United States, Cuba, Kurdistan and Nicaragua.

      Various Voices
    • The Birthday Party, and The Room

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
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      In "The Birthday Party", a musician becomes the victim of a ritual murder. Everyone implacably plays out the role assigned to them by fate. "The Room" becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Negro suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

      The Birthday Party, and The Room
    • Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Foster. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.

      No Man's Land