{"product_id":"the-cocktail-party-9780156182898","title":"The Cocktail Party","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An authentic modern masterpiece\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e)--this is T.S. Eliot's verse play about the search for meaning, in which a mysterious psychiatrist is the catalyst for a shift in a couple's relationship after appearing at a cocktail party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEliot, T. S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTHOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565441782034,"sku":"9780156182898","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd28d288-c6c0-4146-90b5-5dae4bf7606d.jpg?v=1737239218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cocktail-party-9780156182898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}