Books written by Lillian Hellman

  • The Children's Hour

    THE STORY: One of the great successes of this distinguished writer.

  • Six Plays

    These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the...

  • Conversations with Lillian Hellman

    Twenty-six interviews with the outspoken writer range over six decades of her life and career

  • Pentimento

    In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound ...

  • Scoundrel Time

    In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial.

  • An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

    Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement.

  • Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts

    THE STORY: The play takes place in the 1880s.

  • Watch on the Rhine

    THE STORY: Concerns an idealistic German who, with his American wife and two children, flees Hitler's Germany and finds sanctuary with his wife's family in the United States.

  • The Children's Hour

    This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.

  • Tiempo de canallas

    Tiempo de canallas es el testimonio de una personalidad admirable en medio de una época de oscurantismo.

  • Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts

    Set in New Orleans following the Great Depression, the play focuses on the Berniers sisters, two middle-aged spinsters who have sacrificed their own ambitions to look after their ne'er-do-well younger...

  • Tiempo de canallas

    Tiempo de canallas

  • The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts

    THE STORY: In the words of New York Post : Miss Hellman is contemplating the meaning of middle age to an assorted group of people gathered together in a summer home.

  • The Little Foxes

    Theatre program.

  • Pentimento: A Book of Portraits

    In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who,...

  • An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

    An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

  • Three

    Portraits and recollections, marked by the playwright's characteristic wit, candor, and intelligence, are presented exactly as first published

  • Six Plays by Lillian Hellman

    Children's Hour, the Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Days to Come, Another Part of the Forest and the Autumn Garden

  • Three

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