Product Description: Young girl orphaned at five years old. Brought up by a doting aunt, beautiful but selfish and spoilt she was ostracized at school, eventually leaving to get a good job, but due to her demeanor she soon lost all jobs that came her way until eventually she found herself out on the streets...read more

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Product Description: For ten years, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been transitioning to economies based on market principals. While there has been some success in this process, most of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) continues to grapple with weak economies, low public confidence, and political instability...read more

Product Description: The legend of Beatrice Cenci has intrigued writers such as Antonin Artaud, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Kathy Acker. In Beatrice Chancy, a verse play set in Nova Scotia in 1819, Clarke boldly reimagines Beatrice as the daughter of a white master and a black slave...read more