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A young man leaves a potato farm to fight for the freedom and dignity of his people during the apartheid regime. Zakes Mda wrote this play in 1979 when he was in his early twenties. The play is intended for Grade 12 Second Additional Language learners. It includes • a foreword and notes on the key features of a drama. • biographical information on the playwright. • notes on the play itself. • annotations explaining difficult words. • a glossary of literary terms. • pre-reading and...

Athens County, Ohio, USA. When Rachel Boucher and Jason de Klerk meet again – five years after high school – they immediately renew their friendship. But for Jason their friendship is just a stepping stone to something more – a romantic union that seems to have the blessing of the whole community. That is until Rachel becomes involved with Skye Riley. As Skye and Rachel grow ever closer, Jason’s anger at the relationship boils over into violence, violence that turns the community on its head,...

"A Doll's House and Other Plays" is a collection of eight of the most popular dramas by Henrik Ibsen. In «A Doll's House» we have the story of Nora Helmer, the wife of the prideful bank manager Torvald. Nora finds herself the victim of a blackmail scheme by Nils Krogstad, a man whom she has borrowed money from in order to save her husband's life. Probably Ibsen's most famous work, «A Doll's House» is accompanied by the following and equally dramatic works: «The...

Collected together here is a selection of six plays by Norway’s most famous playwright, arguably one the greatest playwrights of all-time, Henrik Ibsen. In the first play of the volume, “Pillars of Society”, Ibsen relates the story of Karsten Bernick, whose ambitious plan to connect his small coastal town by railway is jeopardized when his past comes back to haunt him. In the second play, “A Doll’s House”, we have the story of Nora Helmer, who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help...

Менахем-Мендл, неунывающий местечковый еврей, приключениям которого Шолом-Алейхем посвятил отдельный цикл новелл-писем, всё так же беден и ищет любого заработка. На этот раз ему подвернулось место страхового агента – «штрафовать людей от смерти». Он не уверен, что понимает, на что подписался, но весел, витален и готов к любым оплачиваемым начинаниям. Начать практиковаться можно прямо в поезде, по дороге к первому месту назначения. Одна беда – пассажиры ему попадаются все сплошь такие же...