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Product Description: August Wilson counts among America’s greatest playwrights—having garnered commercial success on Broadway and critical acclaim including New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Tony Awards, and two Pulitzer Prizes...read more

Hardcover:

9781570032523 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive view of the plays of August Wilson.

Paperback:

9781570038792 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, August 31, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: August Wilson counts among America’s greatest playwrights—having garnered commercial success on Broadway and critical acclaim including New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Tony Awards, and two Pulitzer Prizes.

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Product Description: August Wilson's group of 10 plays, often referred to as the Pittsburgh Cycle or the Century Cycle, established his reputation as one of the nation's most important, prolific, and honored playwrights. This work features notes on the contributors, a chronology, a bibliography, and an introductory essay...read more

Library:

9781604133936 | Chelsea House Pub, February 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: August Wilson's group of 10 plays, often referred to as the Pittsburgh Cycle or the Century Cycle, established his reputation as one of the nation's most important, prolific, and honored playwrights.
9780791063620 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A research and study guide for four plays by August Wilson includes plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views.

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Product Description: <div><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Fences</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize...read more

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9780826496478 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 6, 2009, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: <div><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ?

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9780826496485 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 6, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: <div><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ?

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When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth

Hardcover:

9781559363006 | Theatre Communications Group, September 1, 2007, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780452265349 | Reprint edition (Plume, October 1, 1990), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth

Reinforced:

9780606162708, titled "Piano Lesson" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $20.30 | About this edition: When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth

Prebinding:

9781439513712 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $21.00
9780613033237 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth

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Product Description: One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community...read more
By Christopher Bigsby (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521866064 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $105.00

Paperback:

9780521685061 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans.

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Product Description: Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a self-educated Pittsburgh ghetto native can grow into a revered conduit for a century of black achievement...read more

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9780786419036 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running.

A passionate polemic from one of America's leading black playwrights. August Wilson makes a controversial call for black cultural separatism. With rhetorical energy, he asks for blacks and whites alike to alter their perception of black culture and black theatre.

Paperback:

9781854596284 | Nick Hern Books, October 26, 2001, cover price $12.55 | About this edition: A passionate polemic from one of America's leading black playwrights.
9781559361873 | Theatre Communications Group, September 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

Hardcover:

9780773479425, titled "An In-Depth Study of the Major Plays of African-American Playwright August Wilson: Vernacularizing the Blues on Stage" | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $139.95
9780889462205 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $89.95

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A critical analysis of Wilson's plays discusses his exploration of African American life in the twentieth century (view table of contents)

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9780805716313 | Twayne Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: A critical analysis of Wilson's plays discusses his exploration of African American life in the twentieth century

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Product Description: When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre. By 1988 he was described as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience and was the most acclaimed playwright of his time by 1990. He is one of only seven American playwrights to win two Pulitzer prizes and one of only three black playwrights to receive that award...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780313292705 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 30, 1998, cover price $109.00 | About this edition: When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre.

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Dramatizes the hopes and struggles of African Americans in 1940s Pittsburgh, as a group of neighbors gathers to talk, play cards, and listen to the blues

Hardcover:

9780525941965 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Dramatizes the hopes and struggles of African Americans in 1940s Pittsburgh, as a group of neighbors gathers to talk, play cards, and listen to the blues
9780030644634, titled "Energetic Healing: The Merging of Ancient and Modern Medical Practices" | Insight Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | also contains Energetic Healing: The Merging of Ancient and Modern Medical Practices

Paperback:

9780452276925 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 1997), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Dramatizes the hopes and struggles of African Americans in 1940s Pittsburgh, as a group of neighbors gathers to talk, play cards, and listen to the blues

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Book by Shannon, Sandra D.

Hardcover:

9780882580692 | Howard Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Shannon, Sandra D.

Paperback:

9780882580708 | Howard Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century...read more

Hardcover:

9780252021374 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.

Paperback:

9780252064296 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.

Product Description: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By Marilyn Elkins (editor)

Hardcover:

9780815309222 | Taylor & Francis, October 1, 1994, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: First Published in 2000.

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Product Description: This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial for the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of drama...read more
By Alan Nadel (editor)

Hardcover:

9780877454281 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial for the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of drama.

Paperback:

9780877454397 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $29.95

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Memphis Lee's restaurant becomes the focal point for a community that must chose between a three hundred-year-old woman and an uncertain future

Hardcover:

9780525935650 | E P Dutton, January 1, 1993, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Memphis Lee's restaurant becomes the focal point for a community that must chose between a three hundred-year-old woman and an uncertain future

Paperback:

9780452269293 | Reprint edition (Plume, January 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Memphis Lee's restaurant becomes the focal point for a community that must chose between a three hundred-year-old woman and an uncertain future

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