The Bibliophile's Compass

1815  Emma by Jane Austen - UK The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage 1823 A Visit from St. Nicholas – Published anonymously in a newspaper, creating the modern Santa myth. 1940  Old Acquaintance by John Van Druten - UK It is a three-act drama, with a small cast and two settings. The story is a conflict between two women, childhood friends from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and now both successful writers.

1915  In Flanders Fields by John McCrae - Canada It is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. 1954  Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson - US Presents a dramatization of March's novel featuring Rhoda Penmark, who uses her strange powers and talent for evil to force others to give her what she wants. 1965  Cactus Flower by Abe Burrows - US A philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife". 1852  The Journalists by Gustav Freytag - Germany Laugh out loud with this witty and incisive satire of the German press in the mid-19th century. Follow the misadventures of a young journalist as he navigates the cutthroat world of newspaper publishing, facing down scheming editors, corrupt polit. 1943  Voice of the Turtle by John Van Druten - UK Co...

1951  I am a Camera by John Van Druten With a stringently photographic eye,  I am a Camera  looks at life in a tawdry Berlin rooming house, circa 1930, and concerns itself with the mercurial and irresponsible moods of Sally Bowles. She is a creature of extravagent attitudes, given to parading her vices and enormously confident that she is going to take life in stride.