WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TOM STOPPARD
Our most esteemed living playwright adapts the most famous love story ever written in the screenplay for the new Focus Features film Anna Karenina, directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law.
Tolstoy’s brilliant novel, tracing the tragic love affair between Count Vronsky and the unhappily married Anna, has moved readers for generations. Now, award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard re-imagines what Vladimir Nabokov called “one of the greatest love stories in world literature” for the screen. In an impeccable match of talent between source and adaptation, Stoppard projects Tolstoy’s powerful contrasts between city and country, love and death, happiness and unhappiness. The result is beautiful, stirring, and at once old and new. A special introduction by Stoppard offers a glimpse into the process behind his remarkable interpretation.

Anna Karenina: The Screenplay: Based on the Novel by Leo Tolstoy

Humor & Entertainment

Stoppard, Tom.

Movies

Vintage

It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.

Every good boy deserves favor and Professional foul : two plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Grove Press; [Distributed by Random House

The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper rich African nation. Dick Wagner of The Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner. Soon they are competing for the use of their host's telex, the attentions of his wife and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe.

Night and Day: A Play

GROVE PRESS

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic. "One of the most original and engaging of post-war plays". ("Daily Telegraph").

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Two one-act comedies. Hound is about two theater critics watching a who-dun-it who become involved in the action. "A looking-glass comedy of great suspense and intrigue" says the back cover. Cast 5 men, 3 women. Magritte is "a surrealist comedy in detective form." Cast: Harris 40, Thelma his wife, mother, Detective, Police Constable

Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte (Two Plays)

Enter a free man (Evergreen original, E-586)

99p paperback, cover yellowed otherwise fresh and clean

Travesties: A Play

Grove Press, Inc.

1976 Grove press hardcover, Tom. Stoppard (Arcadia: A Play). A Select Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom meets to discuss a ridiculous scandal on which the tabloid press has begun focusing. The papers allege that some mystery woman has accused 119 members of the House of sexual harassment.

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

The celebrated British playwright's recent one-act works deal with an investigation of the sexual indiscretions of members of Parliament and an American seeking British naturalization

Grove Pr

An apparently healthy man insists on being admitted to a nursing home for the sick and an aged artist is found dead under mysterious circumstances in two of five plays by the celebrated British playwright published for the first time

Albert's Bridge and Other Plays

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Books by Stoppard, Tom.

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Anna Karenina: The Screenplay: Based on the Novel by Leo Tolstoy

Every good boy deserves favor and Professional foul : two plays

Night and Day: A Play

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte (Two Plays)

Enter a free man (Evergreen original, E-586)

Travesties: A Play

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Albert's Bridge and Other Plays