Stage Door imprint: 22 books

For Love Of The King

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With...

The Aran Islands

"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."

by J. M. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. After abandoning a career in music he began to write. A crushing rejection in love caused him to abandon Ireland for much of his life but...

The Silver Box

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” 

by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...

The Fight For Barbara

“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. ” 

by D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....

Strife

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...

The Skin Game

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."

by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...

The Fugitive

"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."

by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...

Touch and Go

"People always make war when they say they love peace."

by D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....

The Merry-Go-Round

“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.” 

by D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....

The Tinker's Wedding

"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

by J.M. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015

Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the...

Leo Tolstoy - The Live Corpse

“Music is the shorthand of emotion”

by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...

Leo Tolstoy - Fruits of Culture A Comedy in Four Acts

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.” 

by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...

Leo Tolstoy - The Light Shines in Darkness

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” 

by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...

Leo Tolstoy - The Cause of it All

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.” 

by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
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