Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt.
Tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Vol. 6 of 10
This is a vast collection of great Arthurian literature: poetry, drama and essays, written after the main canon, principally in the 18th through to the early 20th centuries.
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The Unfinished Clue
It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate guest-list is enough to exasperate a saint, and the host, Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, is an abusive wretch hated by everyone from his disinherited son to his wife's stoic would-be lover. When SirArthur is found stabbed to death, no one is particularly grieved—and no one has an alibi.
Age of the Five plays in a universe where there is a pantheon of five gods (the 'Five'), the only apparent survivors of a war of the gods. These drive the destiny of the Northern half of the world through a priesthood led by the White, their five representatives in the human world. Pitted against them is the Southern half of the world, claiming in turn to worship five different gods. Both factions vie and eventually war for control over their opponents.
Geralt de Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. The international hit that inspired the video game: The Witcher.