Romulus Linney

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1) Six plays

Author

Linney, Romulus

Language

English

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Uniquely adept at capturing the idiomatic poetry of his native South, Linney maneuvers with equal grace through the vernacular of New York's contemporary intelligentsia and the voices of a wide range of historical figures.

2) A lesson before dying

Author

Linney, Romulus

Language

English

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Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned...

3) The sorrows of Frederick and Holy ghosts

Author

Linney, Romulus

Series

Original Harvest book volume HB355

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Pub. Date

1977

Language

English

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Sorrows of Frederick is a psychological drama that portrays Frederick the Great as a man of immense intellectual gifts who succombs to the perversion of power. Holy ghosts is a comic southern folk drama focusing on an anguished husband, his runaway wife and a snake-handling religious cult.