Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world -- and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own. Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement.

An Unfinished Woman

Biographies & Memoirs

LILLIAN HELLMAN

Arts & Literature

BANTAM BOOKS

In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, a slew of famous friends and colleagues, and a pack of "scoundrels" -- ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands.

Scoundrel Time

History

Back Bay Books

Portraits and recollections, marked by the playwright's characteristic wit, candor, and intelligence, are presented exactly as first published

Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time

Community & Culture

Little,Brown & Company

The distinguished playwright and memoirist recounts the intrusion of congressional and other witch-hunters, Red-baiters, and ideologues into her and Dashiell Hammett's lives in the 1950s and the losses and discomforts suffered. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Humor & Entertainment

Little,Brown

Good condition, Has wear from age. No dust jacket.

The collected plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Macmillan

Introduction by James Cameron. Commentary by Garry Wills. McCarthy era witch hunting in America and her involvement.

Macmillan Company

Includes The Tenth Man, A Raisin in the Sun, Toys in the Attic, and The Andersonville Trial

Four Contemporary American Plays

Bennett Cerf

Lorraine Hansberry

Paddy Chayefsky

Saul Levitt

Vintage

Quartet Books

Pygmalion/George Bernard Shaw, The Green Pastures/Marc Connelly, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden/Thornton Wilder, Ways and Means/Noel Coward, Hello Out There/William Saroyan, Antigone/Jean Anouilh, The Glass Menagerie/Tennessee Williams, The Madwoman of Chaillot/Jean Giradoux, Another Part of the Forest/Lillian Hellman, Death of a Salesman/Arthur Miller, Venus Observed/Christopher Fry.

Contemporary Drama

Jean Giraudoux

ARTHUR MILLER

Thornton Wilder

Jean Anouilh

Noël Coward

Christopher Fry

tennessee-williams

William, Saroyan

george-bernard-shaw

Marc Connelly

E. Bradlee Watson

Benfield Pressey

Charles Scribner`s Sons

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