Michael Frayn, geb. 1933 in einer Londoner Vorstadt, arbeitete von 1957 bis 1968 als Journalist für große englische Tageszeitungen, erst für den ›Guardian‹, dann für den ›Observer‹; seine Serie über Kuba wurde mit dem ›National Press Award‹ ausgezeichnet. 1970 schrieb Michael Frayn sein erstes Bühnenstück ›The Two of Us‹.Für seinen Roman ›Zwei Briten in Moskau‹ erhielt Frayn nach Evelyn Waugh und Graham Greene den prominenten englischen Hawthornden-Preis.
71 Ebooks by Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn: Headlong
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its …
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Michael Frayn: Spies
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that …
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Michael Frayn: The Human Touch
'Imaginative, funny and dazzlingly clever.' John Carey, Sunday Times Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what …
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Michael Frayn: Stage Directions
Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into …
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Michael Frayn: Landing on the Sun
Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a …
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Michael Frayn: Travels with a Typewriter
In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to …
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Michael Frayn: My Father’s Fortune
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My …
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Michael Frayn: Skios
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.'On the sunlit Greek …
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Michael Frayn: Trick of It
He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels that she does herself. He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them and yet he is four times as clever as she is. …
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Michael Frayn: Constructions
First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, The Human Touch, Constructions is a dazzling, thought-provoking and fascinating book which …
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Michael Frayn: Now You Know
Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Got a spot of form, eye for the ladies, a real rough diamond some might say. Not without his virtues, though, as his campaign for open government shows. No secrets, …
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Michael Frayn: Matchbox Theatre
Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world – the theatre of your own imagination. Sir …
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Michael Frayn: Collected Columns
One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the ‘Guardian’ and ‘Observer’, and originally came to prominence …
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Michael Frayn: Tin Men
Why not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do – such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automaton Research they are doing …
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Michael Frayn: Very Private Life
'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done . . . written with elegant simplicity.' New Statesman Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two – the …
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Michael Frayn: Sweet Dreams
Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12, 000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. That was 1, 900 years ago, and Heaven today has changed out of …
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Michael Frayn: Russian Interpreter
'A love affair through an interpreter, ' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking …
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Michael Frayn: Towards the End of the Morning
Michael Frayn's classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, John Dyson, a mid-level editor, …
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Michael Frayn: Pocket Playhouse
Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. …
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Michael Frayn: Spies
Designed to meet the requirements for students at IGCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of Spies with a comprehensive study guide. Highlights of Andrew …
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Michael Frayn: Zwei Briten in Moskau
Der Eine – Mr. Proctor-Gould – ist ein findiger Wanderer zwischen den Welten: er unterhält – im Dienste der Völkerverständigung, versteht sich – in Moskau einen gut florierenden Servicebetrieb, indem …
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Michael Frayn: Willkommen auf Skios
Eine schwindelerregende Verwechslungskomödie: Auf einer Ferieninsel in Griechenland bereiten sich die Gäste einer amerikanischen Stiftung auf die Ankunft des diesjährigen Gastredners vor. Dr. Norman …
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Michael Frayn: Das Spionagespiel
Mitten im Krieg spielen zwei Kinder Krieg: Im harmlosen Nachbarn erkennen Keith und Stephen einen Mörder, im Boden unter ihnen vermuten sie Geheimgänge, und ein leer stehendes Haus kommt ihnen höchst …
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Michael Frayn: Streichholzschachteltheater
Ein Mitarbeiter des Nobelpreiskomitees versucht verzweifelt, die frohe Botschaft zu überbringen. Ein Kontraphonspieler will im hintersten Orchestergraben seinen Einsatz bei Takt 973 keineswegs …
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Michael Frayn: Magic Mobile
A mobile phone is something that gives you the whole world at the touch of your finger – but this book is even better. Magic Mobile is a collection of thirty 'pre-loaded' new text files in …
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Michael Frayn: Afterlife
Afterlife is Michael Frayn”s first new play for the National Theatre since
Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers.
Afterlife opens in the NT …
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Michael Frayn: Democracy
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breakin …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
Noises Off is not one play but two – simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On”s final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to i …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 2
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic …
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Michael Frayn: Al final de la mañana
John Dyson trabaja en un periódico londinense que parece estar sumido en el letargo y en el que los periodistas se aburren soberanamente, alternando largas visitas al pub con siestas que duran toda …
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Michael Frayn: Among Others
It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his ninetieth year, about a few of the people who …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alarms And Excursions
"Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Guardian)Four old friends sit down for …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alarms And Excursions
"Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Guardian)Four old friends sit down for …
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Michael Frayn: Afterlife
Afterlife is Michael Frayn”s first new play for the National Theatre since
Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers.
Afterlife opens in the NT …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alphabetical Order
Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Alphabetical Order
Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where …
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Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
‘Michael Frayn’s tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session’ Sunday Times ‘A profound and haunting meditation …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
‘Michael Frayn’s tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session’ Sunday Times ‘A profound and haunting meditation …
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Michael Frayn: Democracy
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breakin …
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€13.48
Frayn Michael Frayn: Donkeys’ Years
Michael Frayn’s ‘gorgeous farce’ about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy. …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Donkeys’ Years
Michael Frayn’s ‘gorgeous farce’ about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy. …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: First & Last
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land’s End to walk the length of his native land. He has …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: First & Last
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land’s End to walk the length of his native land. He has …
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Michael Frayn: Noises Off
Noises Off is not one play but two – simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On”s final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to i …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Now You Know
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Now You Know: "Frayn’s light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Now You Know
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Now You Know: "Frayn’s light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov & Frayn Michael Frayn: Sneeze
Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov & Frayn Michael Frayn: Sneeze
Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Cherry Orchard
‘Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again’ New Statesman In Chekhov’s tragi-comedy – perhaps his most popular play – the Gayev family is …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Cherry Orchard
‘Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again’ New Statesman In Chekhov’s tragi-comedy – perhaps his most popular play – the Gayev family is …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Crimson Hotel and Audience
In this absurdist comedy two lovers – a playwright and his leadactress – escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Crimson Hotel and Audience
In this absurdist comedy two lovers – a playwright and his leadactress – escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 1
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman… a very intelligent comedy because of its classic …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 1
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman… a very intelligent comedy because of its classic …
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€24.73
Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 2
"One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic …
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€24.79
Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 3
The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 3
The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant …
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€24.71
Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 4
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: Copenhagen, Democracy …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Frayn Plays: 4
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: Copenhagen, Democracy …
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€24.68
Michael Frayn: Copenhagen
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised …
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€12.37
Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Wild Honey
Oh, Misha, it’s terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something … …
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Chekhov Anton Chekhov: Wild Honey
Oh, Misha, it’s terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something … …
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€16.83
Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on – getting off…that’s farce. That’s the theatre. That’s …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on – getting off…that’s farce. That’s the theatre. That’s …
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€13.51
Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits … the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of …
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Frayn Michael Frayn: Noises Off
As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits … the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of …
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