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  • Dead At Last, At Last No More Air

    by Werner Schwab ...
    Translated by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Foreword by Diana Damian MartinWerner Schwab’s final work, also known as a theatre-extinction comedy, is a brutal, irreverent and bizarrely comical piece about what happens when an emerging stage production is sabotaged by outsiders. Following a dispute with the cast, the director replaces all the actors with pensioners from a nearby home for the elderly. At first compliant and polite, the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Campo Santo

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
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  • Bauhaus

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    by Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schöbe ...
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  • Delphi Complete Works of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

    by Caspar David Friedrich, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 30 - Delphi Masters of Art
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  • Egon Schiele

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