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Can I read Travesties on EtoBox?
Travesties by Tom Stoppard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Travesties about?
__Travesties__ was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
Who reads Travesties?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tom Stoppard
- Publisher
- Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394178844
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Drama, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (2,227 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Travesties: A Play (Evergreen Book; E-661) (1982)
- Travesties: A Play (Evergreen Book; E-661) (1984)
- Travesties: [a Play] (Tom Stoppard) (1975)
- Travesties: [a Play] (Tom Stoppard) (1974)
- Anti-chance: A reply to Monod's chances and necessity (Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies) (2016)
- Travesties (1975)
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