William Inge
1) Bus Stop
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English
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Cherie was a chanteuse. She said, "I call m'self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need - like Hidegarde. I won a amateur contest down in Joplin, Missouri, and that got me a job in a night club in Kanz City. But working in a night club ain't all roses..."
Bo Decker had his picture taken by Life magazine because he was a champion professional rodeo rider. Bo had heard about women only he'd hardly ever seen one. Bo was a large, beautiful hunk of man -...
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Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
To Bobolink, for Her Spirit: A short play about autograph hunters lying in wait for celebrities outside a New York restaurant.
People in the Wind: Midnight at a bus station in rural Kansas and a mixed bag of passengers - all victims of differing fates.
A Social Event: A brief, but revealing, study of two young Hollywood hopefuls.
The Boy in the Basement: A gripping play about a middle-aged man, still living with his parents, who suffers from a...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
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A three-act play, set in two adjoining backyards in a small Kansas town, about the emotional reactions elicited in the neighborhood widows, spinsters, and teenagers by the handsome but maladjusted stranger who attends their annual Labor Day picnic.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
Three-act play, "Summer brave", and eleven one-act plays. Some of the plays are early versions which the author later developed into full-length plays.
Summer brave: Set in a small town in Kansas, the play reaches similar conclusions to those of the earlier 'Picnic' about the impetuosity of youth; the animal attractiveness of the unpolished young stranger who sets small-town tongues wagging; and the sudden realization by the older characters that...
7) 4 plays
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
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"A collection of four plays by one of the most important American playwrights of the mid-century era." --
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Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[1963]
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English
Description
A play about an unwed middle-age mother, her new live-in younger boyfriend and her fresh-from-reform-school teenage son sank without much of a trace after its inaugural performances. But in the hands of director John Mossman and a splendid ensemble at the tiny Artistic Home, it's a revelation. This isn't a great play, but it's one that is so far removed from Inge's usual milieu of dusty prairie towns ("Picnic," "Bus Stop") and so startling in its...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1971]
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English
Description
In his latest novel, My Son Is a Splendid Driver, Inge tells the story of a most respectable 62-year old woman, living in small town Kansas during the Depression, who has to her complete consternation, caught a sexually transmitted disease from her husband.
11) A loss of roses
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
During the dust and heat of a long Kansas summer, William Inge's A Loss of Roses is a tale set in a Depression both economic and emotional. Lila Green, a tent show actress who' traveling troupe has folded, finds refuge with old friends in a small town. Helen Baird, a respectable widowed nurse and former neighbor, looks on her with motherly affection, and son Kenny has fond memories of the "Aunt Lila"who used to babysit him. But Kenny is now a full-grown...
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English
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In this 1910 philosophical work, the author argues that religious faith is part of human nature, that faith takes over the entire human mind and body, and that all defects in religion result from the premature arresting of the development of faith. He criticizes appeal to the authority of Scripture and other ideas.
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English
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First delivered as a series of eight lectures at Oxford University, this 1899 volume in defense of the Christian faith, "to confute all heretics and schismatics," is based on nature and reason rather than signs and wonders. Mysticism is defined here as the realization-both mental and physical-of the presence of God. Included here are chapters, "The Mystical Element in the Bible," "Practical and Devotional Mysticism," "Nature-Mysticism and Symbolism,"...
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English
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Addressing an audience of both Christians and Nonconformists, the author, a distinguished scholar and theologian, takes on the subjects of "Development of the Religious Consciousness," "Falsehood in Religion," "The Religion of Christ," and more. Inge seems to be wavering between whether it is best to be someone who consistently keeps the balance of his nature or one who is abnormal and strives, in relation to religion.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1950]
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English
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"William Inge's famous story of marital frustration which erupts in violence. Doc and Lola had an indiscreet affair, she became pregnant and, compelled to marry her, he gave up his medical studies, forfeited his future and settled down to a life of quiet desperation with the simple, homey Lola, who lost the child but has remained Doc's steadfast if slatternly wife. Now a chiropractor and recovering alcoholic, Doc's sobriety is tested when Marie, a...
16) Bus stop
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English
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When Bo, a naive rodeo rider, meets saloon performer Cherie, he falls head over boots in love. After he lassoes Cherie onto a bus headed for his home state, Montana, she escapes in the middle of a snowstorm. But if Bo can learn to reign in his emotions, he might convince Cherie to warm up to him.
20) Bus stop
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
A brash young man meets the girl of his dreams and decides to make her his wife, but she has no interest in his proposal. When their bus is stalled by a blocked road in a bad storm, they must spend the night in a diner where their plight is revealed to all. At the same time, the owner of the diner and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-aged scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works...
