Designed for GCSE and A-level students of English literature, this book provides notes on three of Pinter's most frequently set plays: "The Caretaker", "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party".[...]
A collection of five Pinter plays which also contains five revue sketches written during the same period.[...]
Published to celebrate Harold Pinter becoming Nobel Laureate in 2005, this box set contains four of Pinter's plays: The Birthday Party, No Man's Land, Mountain Language and Celebration.[...]
This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming "Of all Harold Pinter's maj[...]
Harold Pinter is one of our most profound poers and playwrights, with work ranging from his plays The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal to such poems as "The Bombs" and "Death." A writer known for his searing exploration of power, Pinter gives us an electrifying look into the often uncomfortab[...]
"Julen är räddad". Nils Schwarz i Expressen, 24 november
Kontroversiell och älskad - Harold Pinter, en av 1900-talets största dramatiker, lämnar ingen oberörd. I mästerverk som Födelsedagsfesten, Älskaren, Svek och Ingenmansland har han skildrat spelet mellan man och kvinna[...]
Kontroversiell och älskad - Harold Pinter, en av 1900-talets största dramatiker, lämnar ingen oberörd. I mästerverk som Födelsedagsfesten, Älskaren, Svek och Ingenmansland har han skildrat spelet mellan man och kvinna och det anonyma hotet i människors vardag. Här finns även en skarp kriti[...]
Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are [...]
This new volume in the Author Chronologies series traces the daily activities of the Nobel Prize winning author and playwright Harold Pinter [1930-2008]. It is based upon published and unpublished materials and discussion with his close friends, and is the most detailed chronological account of Pint[...]
A moving and exquisite testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
Based on Fraser's recollections and the diaries she has kept since Octob[...]
Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. S[...]
Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. S[...]
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".[...]
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 Fraser. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.[...]
Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of four young Londoners whose energy and humour lift them above the routine austerity of the time.[...]
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 the playwright presents a selection that traces his own literary development.[...]
One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Harold Pinter. It also places it in the context of modern theatre, and includes a select bibliography.[...]
A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. "Celebration" is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest for life. In "The Room", Pinter's first play, he reveals himself in full control of his ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech.[...]
This volume of Pinter's collected screenplays contains: "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Heat of the Day", "The Comfort of Strangers", "The Trial" and "The Dreaming Child".[...]
Harold Pinter's plays are lauded the world over but, until now, little has been gathered together of his other writings. Various Voices presents a wealth of material and a multiplicity of form in which to enjoy the crystal clarity of language and style which marks out Pinter as a true original.[...]