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		Oscar Wilde
		His Life and Confessions		Literature
		Frank Harris
		Wordsworth 2007 368 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1840225548
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	Written in 1910, and first published privately in New York in 1916, Harris's book gained instant notoriety, was attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions and taken to court for libel by Lord Alfred Douglas; it was eventually published in England in 1938. Despite being famously inaccurate, the study offers a well-paced and highly evocative portrait of a compelling personality - and of Harris's own role as Wilde's defender, adviser and sometime friend.
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		Secret Lives
		of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber		Literature
		James ThurberIllus Marc Simont
		Collins Design 2006 48 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0060847883
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	Now an American archetype, Walter Mitty, the hen-pecked fantasist, is the most famous creation of the humorist James Thurber (1894-1961). The original story first appeared in the New Yorker in 1932. It is joined here by an autobiographical reflection inspired by The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, although 'Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb'. Both pieces are illustrated by Marc Simont.
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		VS Pritchett
		A Working Life		Literature
		Jeremy Treglown
		Chatto & Windus 2004 308 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 070117322X
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	Pritchett's long and productive life (1900-1997) saw him travel widely, working as a journalist in Paris, in Ireland and in Spain before the Civil War, in the cinema industry in England and America, and, most famously, as the writer dubbed the 'English Chekhov'. This new biography analyses the art of his writing and uses previously unpublished letters and diaries to offer an intimate glimpse into his daily balancing of work with family life. Off-mint.
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		Mary Poppins She Wrote
		The Life of PL Travers		Literature
		Valerie Lawson
		Aurum 1999 380 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1845131266
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	Pamela Lyndon Travers (1899-1996), was born in Queensland and came to London in 1924 as a budding journalist, poet and actress, but found international fame with her children's classic, Mary Poppins, in 1934. In a long and busy life, Travers had a deep interest in theosophy and mysticism, and was an enthusiastic follower of Gurdjieff and Yeats. This highly readable account is the first full biography of a secretive woman who famously declared 'I don't like personal publicity'.
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		Cyril Connolly
		A Life		Literature
		Jeremy Lewis
		Pimlico 1997 653 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0712666354 230x150mm
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	While he was notoriously slothful and spent much of his life haunted by feelings of failure, Cyril Connolly produced, in The Unquiet Grave and Enemies of Promise, two classics of English prose. This sizeable biography covers the facts of his life, including his three marriages, but also quotes extensively from his work, explaining his thought and celebrating his wit and romanticism.
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		The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology
		by BMW Shrapnel PhD		Literature
		Richard McKee
		Alabama 1997 183 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0817308814
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	In his regular columns for the literary magazine Oasis, the pseudonymous Shrapnel satirized topics including murgatroyd and tiddlywinks, the Cajun proctologist Toulouse Mars, and what to give an etymologist for Christmas. Plus letters to the editor.
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		Better a Shrew than a Sheep
		Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England		Literature
		Pamela Allen Brown
		Cornell University Press 2003 263 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0801488362
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	In this study, Pamela Allen Brown focuses on early modern jesting literature - a genre generally thought of as a discourse closed to women - and considers how the culture of jest shaped women's experience of both everyday life and stage dramas. Using many kinds of popular and documentary sources, Brown shows that ordinary women were not always, as commonly supposed, the butt of men's jokes, but often appear as bawdy storytellers, with a ready wit, and keen satirists, infused with a 'spirit of artful ridicule'.
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		A Midsummer Night's Dream
		Second edition		Literature
		Jay L Halio
		Manchester University Press 2003 208 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0719062217
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	Halio's study of the Dream's history begins with a survey of performance from Shakespeare's time to the 19th century, then looks in depth at 20th century productions, including those of Peter Brook, Adrian Noble and Michael Hoffman.
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		Dwelling Places
		Postwar Black British Writing		Literature
		James Procter
		Manchester University Press 2003 224 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0719060540
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	Exploring some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production since the early 1950s, Procter provides fresh readings of works by writers such as George Lamming, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Farrukh Dhondy and Hanif Kureishi. No jacket
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		Towards a Cultural Philology
		Phedre and the Construction of 'Racine'		Literature
		Amy Wygant
		Legenda 1999 158 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1900755149
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	Amy Wygant reads Racine's "Phedre" (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construction of Racinian language as "musical", the poetics of the Racinian gaze, and Racine's labyrinthine eros of memory and forgetting. Wygant's interdisciplinary study draws on the music history, as well as on emblematics, the history of the formal garden and the arts of memory.
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		Priviledged Anonymity
		The Writings of Madame de Lafayette		Literature
		Anne Green
		Legenda 1997 93 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1900755009
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	This lucid study of the works of Madame de Lafayette explores the ambiguities and tensions discernible in her writing. Anne Green shows Madame de Lafayette working out conflicting attitudes to her status as woman and author, and, by tracing the patterns of reticence and self-revelation, and the problems of communication between the sexes which run through all Madame de Lafayette's writing, she arrives at a persuasive new evaluation of her work.
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		Scott on Zelide
		The Portrait of Zelide by Geoffrey Scott		Literature
		Richard Holmes (Edited by)
		HarperPerennial 2004 192 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0007111738
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	This biography of Isabelle de Tuyll ('Zelide' was her pen-name), by the Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott, was first published in 1925. Piecing together her letters and essays, it tells the story of the clever and sexy young Dutch woman with whom James Boswell fell in love in 1764. In this Classic Biographies edition of Scott's text, Richard Holmes provides an introduction to both Zelide and her biographer.
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		Negotiating with the Dead
		A Writer on Writing		Literature
		Margaret Atwood
		Cambridge University Press 2002 220 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0521662605
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	Based on the six Empson Lectures which the author delivered in 2000, this book is about 'the position the writer finds himself in; or herself, which is always a little different'. Atwood examines the metaphors writers use to describe their work, as she reflects on her own experience across several decades of reading and writing; the pressures of commercial interests and the shadow of the Romantics; the relationship between writers, books and readers; and the narrative journey's connection with a fear of mortality. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
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		Hamlet in Purgatory
				Literature
		Stephen Greenblatt
		Princeton University Press 2001 322 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0691058733
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	Originally focused on the ghost of Hamlet's father and how Shakespeare achieved the magical intensity of this ghost 'like none other', Greenblatt's study expanded into an exploration of the notion of Purgatory that Shakespeare inherited and transformed. The result is a wide-ranging investigation of the cultural poetics of medieval beliefs about the relationship of the living and the dead and how doctrines of Purgatory and the elaborate practices surrounding it came under Protestant attack in the mid 16th century.
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		Look at Me Now and Here I Am
		Selected Works, 1911-1945		Literature
		Gertrude Stein
		Peter Owen 2004 432 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0720612012
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	During the inter-war years Gertrude Stein established herself as one of the most colourful and radical personalities on the literary scene. This anthology of Stein's writing provides the opportunity to view her work from several standpoints: it includes seven of her lectures on philosophy, portraits of Matisse, Lipschitz, Picasso and Henry James, her poetry, the novel Ida and her last work, Brewsie and Willie.
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