'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times 'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' Sunday Telegraph 'A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in ...
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'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times 'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' Sunday Telegraph 'A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvellously judicious proportions. The text itself is a Joycean web of literary allusions; yet it also radiates sheer intellectual joie de vivre, as if Stoppard were delightedly communicating the fruits of his own researches.' Guardian Travesties was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made by him for a revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in October 2016.?
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Add this copy of Travesties to cart. $14.95, very good condition, Sold by BooksForTheNeedy rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Faber.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x7; Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Very Attractive for its age. Clean cloth cover with minor scuffing, on tight-bound clean age tanned pages. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4: 30 PM M-F.
Add this copy of Travesties to cart. $15.07, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Faber.
Add this copy of Travesties to cart. $23.26, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1976 by Faber & Faber.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN: 057110682X.
Add this copy of Travesties. (Signed) to cart. $61.29, fair condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Faber & Faber.
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Fair. Reprint. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 100. Original publisher's olive green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Play. ISBN: 057110682x Ex Library copy with the usual markings, otherwise very good minus in somewhat used, near very good dust jacket.
Add this copy of Travesties to cart. $100.00, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Faber and Faber.
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Newsletter Text: Tom Stoppard TRAVESTIES London: Faber and Faber, 1975. First UK Edition. From an obscure footnote in Ulysses, Stoppard spins a fantastically elaborate scenario: A minor British consular official named Henry Carr reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce (when he was writing Ulysses), Tristan Tzara (during the rise of Dada), and Lenin (before the Russian Revolution). CONDITION NOTES: Approx. 5" x 8" VG hardcover in VG dustjacket. Rubbing to corners and spine ends of slightly cocked boards. Age-toned dustjacket retains original UK price on unclipped front flap; superficial scuffing and creases with wear along fore-edges; small chips to spine ends and corners and a short tear from top front edge that previous owner repaired with clear tape on the topside. Jacket now protected in clear mylar overlay. Light soiling to edges of text block. Very mild foxing to endpapers. Shelved in under the Front Counter. 1179989. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.