Cover of Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

A collection of four plays by one of the most important American playwrights of the mid-century era.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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