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Teddy, a philosophy professor in America, brings his wife Ruth home to meet his father and brothers in their all-male house in North London.
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The Caretaker
Aston brings Davies, an old tramp, home to his cluttered room in West London, and Davies starts playing Aston off against his brother Mick to keep his place.
The Birthday Party
Stanley, a former pianist lodging in a seaside boarding house, is visited by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann, who insist on throwing him a birthday party.
Mrs. Warren's Profession
A play: Vivie Warren, a brilliant young Cambridge graduate, gets to know her mother properly for the first time and learns where the money for her education came from.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
Major Barbara
A play: Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army, is shaken when her estranged father, Andrew, a millionaire arms manufacturer, offers her shelter a donation.
The Iceman Cometh
A play: in Harry Hope's dive saloon in 1912, a roomful of drunks living on pipe dreams wait for Hickey, the salesman whose yearly binge they love, and this time he arrives sober.
The Slap
At a suburban barbecue in Melbourne a man slaps a badly behaved child who isn't his, and eight people who were there tell what happened next.
Desire Under the Elms
A play: on a stony New England farm in 1850, Ephraim Cabot, seventy-five, brings home a young third wife, Abbie, to the fury of his son Eben, who believes the farm is his.
Crash
A London advertising man and a scarred crash researcher share an erotics of car accidents, and Ballard works out, with clinical patience, where that desire goes.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.