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  • Shylock, the Merchant of Venice
    Alfred de Vigny / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    As with many of his French contemporaries, Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) enjoyed the challenge of reworking William Shakespeare’s classic plays for a modern audience. 'Shylock' (1830) eliminates many of the comic elements of the master’s original and focuses on the darker themes of racial prejudice and the relationship between Jew and gentile. The result is another stunning resur...
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    13,38 €

  • The Musketeers--Twenty Years Later
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the intrepid quartet--Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan--return in an attempt to save King Charles I from the axe of General Oliver Cromwell. But Cromwell is being helped by Mordaunt, son of Milady de Winter (whom the Musketeers had executed twenty years before), and he uses his position as the General’s secretary to g...
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    18,47 €

  • Anna Karenina
    Edmond Guiraud / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This dramatic adaptation of Anna Karenina transforms Tolstoy’s masterpiece into an intense five-act play, capturing the emotional depth and tragic grandeur of Anna’s doomed love. As she struggles against the rigid expectations of Russian high society, her pursuit of happiness leads her down a path of isolation and heartbreak. A powerful exploration of passion, morality, and fat...
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    16,66 €

  • The Village Coquette; Or, The Supposed Lottery
    Charles Rivière Dufresny / Frank J. Morlock
    The Village Coquette; Or, The Supposed Lottery, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this again in a modern format book for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These...
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    14,90 €

  • The Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Based on the riveting novel by Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years After, this is the bestselling author’s final account of The Three Musketeers and their young recruit, D’Artagnan. In 1661 young Louis XIV is King of France. The Musketeers find themselves divided: Aramis (now secret head of the Jesuit Order) wants to replace Louis with his hidden twin brother, The Man in the Iron Mask. ...
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    17,40 €

  • The Marquis de Sade
    Charles Mere / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The Marquis de Sade has become a byword for sexual sadism against women. In this historical play set in 1801, de Sade entices a beautiful young girl into his house, and then, in front of his female followers, deliberately and brutally tortures her into insanity. In Act II, set seven years later in an insane asylum, de Sade begins organizing his fellow inmates into a theatre gro...
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    14,42 €

  • Mathias Sandorf
    Jules Verne / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Set in Trieste, Sicily, and Morocco, this play tells the story of Mathias Sandorf, a Hungarian patriot who is betrayed to the Austrians by one of his comrades-in-arms. Thought to be dead, Sandorf returns after many years of wandering to seek his revenge. This is one of the first modern depictions in drama of a gay couple. ...
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    16,53 €

  • The Children of Captain Grant
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This race-against-the-clock adventure features a mutiny, castaways on a remote island, earthquakes, whale hunting, dastardly villains, man against the elements, a rescue mission, and offbeat humor. There’s never a dull moment as 'The Children of Captain Grant' search the globe for their long-lost father and brother. ...
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    15,53 €

  • Michael Strogoff
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Michael Strogoff, a courier of the Russian Czar, is sent on a perilous mission to deliver a vital message to the Grand Duke, defending Siberia against a Tartar attack. But when Michael is captured and blinded, all appears to be lost. French playwright Adolphe d’Ennery has adapted Jules Verne’s classic novel of suspense, and Frank J. Morlock has once again translated this wonder...
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    17,91 €

  • William Shakespeare
    Ferdinand Dugue / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The man we encounter in Ferdinand Dugue’s 1857 play is not the bland Shakespeare of history, about whose personal life we know so little. No, this is the playwright we would liked to have known: poet, romantic, hero . . . a larger-than-life figure cutting a swath through sixteenth-century England. Building on the few known facts of Shakespeare’s life -- his unhappy marriage, hi...
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    16,74 €

  • The Unforseen Return
    Jean-François Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    The Unforseen Return, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned cop...
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    14,34 €

  • The Voyage Through the Impossible
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This lesser-known tale by Jules Verne explores a fantastical journey that combines elements from several of his famous novels. It follows the daring adventures of characters who travel through the Earth, sea, and space, encountering extraordinary sights and challenges. The play delves into the themes of exploration, imagination, and the quest for the unknown, offering a theatri...
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    14,38 €

  • The McNaughtens
    Jean-François Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    The McNaughtens, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies. ...
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    13,89 €

  • Dangerous Liaisons
    Noziere Ferdinand / Frank J. Morlock
    Ferdinand Noziere (Ferdinand Weyl) (1874-1931) was a French playwright who, in addition to many original plays, adapted novels such as Tolstoi’s Kreutzer Sonata (1910, translated by Morlock and published by Borgo/Wildside) and The Eternal Husband (1911) based on Dostoevski’s novel. Noziere’s adaptations are notable for their no-holds-barred power and their fidelity to the orig...
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    16,69 €

  • Tiberius Caesar
    Ferdinand Dugue / Frank J. Morlock
    Frank J. Morlock’s English-language translation and adaptation of Ferdinand Dugue’s 1881 play 'Tibere: drame en cinq actes (huit tableaux)' chronicles the events in the life of Roman emperor Tiberius Caesar (42 B.C. - 37 A.D.). 3 ...
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    16,61 €

  • The Three Musketeers
    Paul De Kock / Frank J. Morlock
    Paul de Kock and Adolphe Guénée present a humorous dramatic prequel to the well-known Alexandre Dumas tale of The Three Musketeers. The four would-be adventurers--D’Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos--serendipitously encounter each other at an inn outside of Paris, the city where they’re heading to escape their present situations and find their fortunes. They also meet there ...
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    17,65 €

  • The Lucky Man
    Michel Baron / Frank J. Morlock
    THE LUCKY MAN is the story of a handsome, conceited young man who’s the devil with the ladies. Cadwell flits from one woman to another, always in search of more adventures, always deceitful, never getting caught, always promising his love--and never giving anyone what he doesn’t possess himself. This ultimate womanizer goes about blithely wrecking the lives of women (and their ...
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    16,58 €

  • Casper Hauser
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Frank J. Morlock
    In 1828 a young man in rags appeared in the German city of Nurnberg, saying that he’d been kept isolated in a dungeon all of his life. Was he the bastard offshoot of some noble or royal family, secreted away to preserve the honor of the house? Within a few months he was dead under mysterious circumstances, his mystery still unsolved. CASPER HAUSER uses the uproar caused by Haus...
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    16,70 €

  • Bathilda
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who’s raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse’s nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined that if he can’t have her, no one else will either. He plays a cat-and-mouse g...
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    16,69 €

  • Kean
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This Alexandre Dumas drama, penned just three years after the death of the great English Shakespearean actor, Edmund Kean (1787-1833), is filled with an immense joie de vivre, and is perhaps based on the playwright’s own character. Kean, although an acknowledged player of great power and genius, led a very disordered personal life, associating with the lowlifes of the time, goi...
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    16,44 €

  • The Rose Princess and Other Plays
    Frank J. Morlock
    A collection of seven comedies and dramas by an American playwright. THE ROSE PRINCESS, THE GOLDEN GOBLIN, and FROGGY are fairy tales for slightly depraved children. All three have quasi-medieval settings, and are sassy, irreverent, and fun to perform. REHEARSING DON QUIXOTE is a comedy of students being enlisted in a new version of Don Quixote--only to drive their teacher to d...
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    16,41 €

  • Pot Bouille
    Émile Zola / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock
    In POT BOUILLE, the well-known French novelist Émile Zola and dramatist William Busnach combine their talents to unmask the hypocrisy that hides behind the façade of a respectable and fashionable Parisian apartment house. The Josserands are struggling to make ends meet, and at the same time to marry off their two daughters to prosperous businessmen. At the heart of this broken ...
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    16,45 €

  • The Philosophers & The Stumbling Block of Morals
    Charles Palissot / Frank J. Morlock
    Two plays attacking the principles of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and other French philosophers of the eighteenth century. In THE PHILOSOPHERS, the treacherous, self-centered charlatans (as Palissot viewed them) persuade Cydalise that she’s a genius, in order to entice her to marry her well-endowed daughter to one of their number. Actually, they despise the woman and ...
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    18,92 €

  • Agathocles & the Duke of Alencon & the Two Wine Casks
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    These two short plays and an opera libretto were penned by one of the greatest French writers, Voltaire. In AGATHOCLES the two sons of the King of Syracuse (Agathocles) strive for the hand of the same girl, and the elder is killed by the younger. The ruler can only avenge his loss by sacrificing his remaining son--but doing so would mean the end of his dynasty. THE DUKE OF ALEN...
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    16,53 €

  • The Tree of Chastity and Other Plays
    Charles Dufresny / Jean Francois Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    Four French comedies by Jean-François Regnard (with Charles Dufresny), who’s considered to be the best comic playwright of his age after Molière. The sardonic and amusing THE TREE OF CHASTITY has a slight plot, but the double-entendres flying rapidly right and left keep the audience well-entertained. WAIT FOR ME UNDER THE ELM is another farce filled with verve aplenty. THE UNFO...
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    16,56 €

  • Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Plays
    Émile Zola / Frank J. Morlock
    Four short French plays that resurrect tales by authors better known for their fiction. MADEMOISELLE FIFI, adapted by Oscar Méténier from a story by Guy de Maupassant, describes an incident during the German occupation of France after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The officers of an isolated German regiment send to Rouen for prostitutes, but Lt. Wilhelm, better known as Made...
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    16,70 €

  • Straight from the Convent & the Interrupted Wedding
    Charles Dufresny / Florent Dancourt / Frank J. Morlock
    Two French comedies focusing on life and love. In STRAIGHT FROM THE CONVENT, a rich old man would like to marry a girl who’s just emerged from the convent. Her mother wants her to cement the union because she has no money--and would like to see her daughter well-established. Needless to say, the girl thinks otherwise, and 'innocently' manages to collect three other suitors! THE...
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    19,03 €

  • The Village Coquette & The Crazy Wager
    Charles Dufresny / Florent Dancourt / Frank J. Morlock
    Two French comedies of love and life and the relations between men and women. In THE VILLAGE COQUETTE a Widow trains a country girl, Lisette, in the ways of a Parisian coquette, thinking to make her into an image of herself; but finds that her protégée has become too apt a pupil for the Widow’s own comfort, and threatens to steal the older woman’s own lover. THE CRAZY WAGER fea...
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    18,89 €

  • The Play and the Prologue & the Unfortunate Fathers
    Denis Diderot / Frank J. Morlock
    Two plays by the well-known French Enlightenment philosopher and writer, Denis Diderot. THE PLAY AND THE PROLOGUE examines, with a certain amount of skepticism, the motives of people helping other people. The playwright Hardouin, who’s clearly modeled on Diderot himself, manipulates those around him to generate what he believes to be beneficial results for those in need--whatev...
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    18,89 €

  • The Spirit of Contradiction & the Double Widowing
    Charles Dufresny / Frank J. Morlock
    Two comedies by a cousin of French King Louis XIV. THE SPIRIT OF CONTRADICTION is an hilarious play about a woman whose sole aim in life is to prevent others (mostly in her own family) from getting their way. So contrary is she to anything that’s suggested to her that her husband, daughter, and in-laws must conceal, as best they can, their real wishes. But she knows they know--...
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    18,94 €


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