Murchison's Fragment
Title | Murchison's Fragment PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Curtis |
Publisher | Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2015-05-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1784622362 |
“You’re mine in the next world, right?” “Might come sooner than you think.” Murchison’s Fragment brings together nineteen plays – mostly for stage but with three for radio – that range from a deceptively frivolous, if macabre, 10-minute monologue to an uncompromising 45-minute study of imprisonment and torture based upon a real-life situation. In between are tales of ambition, greed and human frailty, here and there touching upon horror and the supernatural. Throughout, we encounter flawed individuals getting their comeuppance or – just as likely (and unjustly) – escaping it; elsewhere, others less deserving succumb to forces beyond their control. Some of the plays are unambiguously and intentionally serious: one, for example, follows the adventures of a boy within the autistic spectrum, determined to do a good deed but failing to realise the cost of his actions; another concerns reparations to Kenyans who suffered under the colonial administration during the Mau Mau insurgency; a third offers a challenging and doubtless contentious interpretation of a New Testament episode – the resurrection of Jesus. Other plays may appear lighter, even humorous, although darker threads almost always run through them. ‘Murchison’s Fragment’, which lends its title to the collection, is a story of lost opportunity set in London and east Africa; here the protagonist unwisely allows lust to overcome reason, with far-reaching consequences. The collection ends with a romantic love story in which a formidable barrier to a fulfilling relationship unexpectedly falls away. For each play a synopsis is provided, with additional notes where there is background interest.
Opinions and Declarations Rendered
Title | Opinions and Declarations Rendered PDF eBook |
Author | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Title | Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature PDF eBook |
Author | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
Vol. 2 contains opinions beginning with no. 134.
Fragments of Science
Title | Fragments of Science PDF eBook |
Author | John Tyndall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood
Title | Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Platte |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199371113 |
This book tells the fascinating story of the evolution of David O. Selznick's style through the many artists whose work defined Hollywood sound.
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Title | The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature PDF eBook |
Author | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 524 |
Release | |
Genre | Zoology |
ISBN |
Description of the plates of the Fauna antiqua Sivalensis, from notes and memoranda by H. Falconer, compiled and ed. by C. Murchison
Title | Description of the plates of the Fauna antiqua Sivalensis, from notes and memoranda by H. Falconer, compiled and ed. by C. Murchison PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Falconer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | |
ISBN |