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Telling Tales | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Alan Bennett | ||||
| BBC 2000 142 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1846072603 | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| 'To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere...' In this collection of ten reminiscences, by turns moving and hilarious, Alan Bennett reflects on a childhood and youth that was relentlessly ordinary, in which even the Second World War 'turns out to be quite dull'. | ||||
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Virginia Woolf | |||
| The Will to Create as a Woman | Literature | |||
| Ruth Gruber | ||||
| Carroll & Graf 2005 180 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0786715340 | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| In 1931, 20-year-old American student Ruth Gruber's thesis on the work of Virginia Woolf made her the youngest person ever to receive a doctorate. This ground-breaking study, the first to consider Woolf's writing from a feminist perspective, has now been reissued with a new introduction. Looking back over 70 years, Gruber reprints her correspondence with the novelist, and recalls their memorable encounter at the Woolfs' Bloomsbury house, as the writer lay by the fire smoking cigarettes from a silver holder. | ||||
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The Essential Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |||
| Including the Complete Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson | Literature | |||
| Leonard Wolf (Edited by) | ||||
| ibooks 2005 298 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1596871059 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Stevenson's chilling tale delves into the darkest corners of the psyche to create a compelling archetype of the fragility of human identity. This annotated edition, with atmospheric new illustrations, tells you all you need to know about fiction's most famous split personality. Leading contemporary writers including Brian Aldiss and Joyce Carol Oates comment on the tale's enduring power, while a selection of Stevenson's short fiction and a translation of Gautier's Le Chevalier Double shed light on its literary background. | ||||
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland | |||
| His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life | Literature | |||
| Robin Wilson | ||||
| Allen Lane 2008 238 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0713997575 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| As well as writing children's books and pioneering the art of photography, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was for 26 years Christ Church Mathematical Lecturer at Oxford, publishing extensively on algebra, geometry and logic. Robin Wilson, an eminent modern-day Oxonian mathematician, takes the reader into Dodgson's inner world through the puzzles and allusions of his Alice books and all manner of problems to which he turned his prodigious mind, from the design of tennis tournaments to the study of voting patterns. | ||||
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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing | |||
| on the Arctic and the Antarctic (Two volumes) | Literature | |||
| Elizabeth Kolbert; Francis Spufford (Edited by) | ||||
| Granta 2007 558 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1862079773 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| The North and South Poles remain the most mysterious and dangerous places on a shrinking globe, as inaccessible to most of us as another planet. These twin volumes contain some of the most vivid and evocative writing about the Polar regions, from travelogues by literary writers such as Jack London, Jules Verne and HP Lovecraft to the first-person accounts of the great explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic, including John Franklin, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen and Robert Peary. | ||||
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CS Lewis | |||
| A Companion and Guide | Literature | |||
| Walter Hooper | ||||
| HarperCollins 2005 940 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0006278000 | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| The definitive CS Lewis handbook by the foremost scholar of his work, this companion covers every type of publication - the Chronicles of Narnia, science fiction, literary criticism and religion. It comprises a brief biography and a chronology of Lewis's life; detailed descriptions of the background and content of each of his books and notes on their critical reception; a discussion of Lewis's key ideas; a 'who's who' of people in his life; and an exhaustive bibliography of his writings. | ||||
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