Complete Works: Four
Volume Four of the Collected Works of Harold Pinter
By the same author
PLAYS
Ashes to Ashes · Betrayal · The Birthday Party · The Caretaker · Celebration and the Room · The Collection and the Lover · The Homecoming · The Hothouse · Landscape and Silence · Mountain Language · Moonlight · No Man’s Land · Old Times · One For The Road · Other Places (A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Family Voices) · Party Time · Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis) · The Room and the Dumb Waiter · A Slight Ache and Other Plays · Tea Party and Other Plays
Plays One
(The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, “The Black and White,” “The Examination”)
Plays Two
(The Caretaker, The Dwarfs, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, Request Stop, Last to Go, Special Offer)
Plays Three
(The Homecoming, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Night, That’s Your Trouble, That’s All, Applicant, Interview, Dialogue for Three, “Tea Party,” Old Times, No Man’s Land)
Plays Four
(Betrayal, Monologue, One for the Road, Mountain Language, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Precisely, The New World Order, Party Time, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes, Celebration, Umbrellas, God’s District, Apart from That)
SCREENPLAYS
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays One
(The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Last Tycoon, Langrishe, Go Down)
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays Two
(The Go-Between, The Proust Screenplay, Victory, Turtle Diary, Reunion)
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays Three
(The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Heat of the Day, The Comfort of Strangers, The Trial, The Dreaming Child)
PROSE, POETRY AND POLITICS
The Dwarfs (a novel)
100 Poems by 100 Poets (an anthology)
99 Poems in Translation (an anthology)
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2005
War
HAROLD PINTER
Complete Works: Four
OLD TIMES
NO MAN’S LAND
BETRAYAL
MONOLOGUE
FAMILY VOICES
With an introduction by the author
Grove Press
New York
This collection copyright © 1981 by Neabar Investments Ltd.
Old Times copyright © 1971 by FPinter Limited
No Man’s Land copyright © 1975 by FPinter Limited
Betrayal copyright © 1978, 1980 by FPinter Limited
Monologue copyright © 1973 by Fraser52 Limited
Family Voices copyright © 1981 by Neabar Investments Ltd.
“Speech at Hamburg” (Introduction) copyright © 1970 by FPinter Limited
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CONTENTS
Chronology
Introduction
Old Times
No Man’s Land
Betrayal
Monologue
Family Voices
HAROLD PINTER: A CHRONOLOGY
| Year of writing | First performance | |
| 1949 | Kullus | (short story) |
| 1952–6 | The Dwarfs | (novel) |
| 1953 | Latest Reports From the Stock Exchange | (short story) |
| 1954–5 | The Black and White | (short story) |
| 1955 | The Examination | (short story) |
| 1957 | The Room | May 15, 1957 |
| 1957 | The Birthday Party | April 28, 1958 |
| 1957 | The Dumb Waiter | January 21, 1960 |
| 1958 | A Slight Ache | July 29, 1959 |
| 1958 | The Hothouse | April 24, 1980 |
| 1959 | Revue sketches— | |
| Trouble in the Works; The Black and White | July 15, 1959 | |
| Request Stop; Last to Go; Special Offer | September 23, 1959 | |
| That’s Your Trouble; That’s All; Applicant; Interview; Dialogue for Three | ||
| 1959 | A Night Out | March 1, 1960 |
| 1959 | The Caretaker | April, 27, 1960 |
| 1960 | Night School | July 21, 1960 |
| 1960 | The Dwarfs | December 2, 1960 |
| 1961 | The Collection | May 11, 1961 |
| 1962 | The Lover | March 28, 1963 |
| 1963 | The Pumpkin Eater | (screenplay) |
| 1963 | The Caretaker | (screenplay) |
| 1963 | The Servant | (screenplay) |
| 1963 | Tea Party | (short story) |
| 1964 | Tea Party | March 25, 1965 |
| 1964 | The Homecoming | June
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