Books with author Robert E. Sherwood

This comedy has parts for 17 men and 10 women. A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the inscrutable Irene, and the vulgar but lovable American Harry Van are thrown together in a small winter resort in the Alps. For a short time they are forced to depend upon their own resources under threat of an air-raid, which at the last descends upon the few who are left. The play throws into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he has set in action

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First Printing, with "A" on copyright page, in original unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded burgundy cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight with slight lean; hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean, with some browning to endpapers; tiny previous owner name written at top edge of front free endpaper. 178 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap). Chips at top and bottom spine edges, some edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. First edition of an impressive play, the story of Dr. Kaarlo Valkonen, an eminent Finnish scientist, his wife and son, and what befell them in their desperately embattled country leading up to World War II.

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Excerpt from There Shall Be No NightAfter the first performance of There Shall Be NO Night in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 29, 19450, a young man, a stranger, came up to me and said, You certainly have changed your point of view since 'idiot's Delight.' There was a distinct note of accusation in his voice. This was the first of many similar and many less tem perate accusations which this play has provoked. Having identified myself time and again in the past as a pacifist, I had now become a War monger.It is a strange fact that many people who can bear with equanimity all sorts of assaults upon their moral character or their personal habits are goaded' to indignant counter - attack when they are charged with inconsistency. I don't mind being called a black-hearted villain, an enemy of society. In fact, I might even be flattered by such dis tinction. But - by God - I'll fight any man who dares to imply that I have been untrue to myself.Therefore, I wish to preface this play with a review Of the development of my own point of view, as it has been expressed in other plays. I want to say that There Shall Be NO Night is not a denial of Idiot's Delight: it is a sequel. I realize that there is an appreciable difference be'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.