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		Three Courses and a Dessert
				Literature
		William Clarke
		Nonsuch 2005 448 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880722
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	William Clarke (1800-1838) is best known for The Boys' Own Book, but he also published collections of humorous short stories, of which this is the most successful, due in part to its illustrator - George Cruikshank. The 'three courses' are West Country, Irish and legal stories; the 'festal afterpiece' a miscellany of shorter pieces and verses.
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		'Ask Mamma'
		or, The Richest Commoner in England		Literature
		Robert S Surtees
		Nonsuch 2005 544 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880021
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	Famous for his writings on horses and hunting, Robert Surtees here offers a narrative that revels in the absudities of life as it follows the romantic exploits of Emma Wilding ('Mamma'), a seamstress made good, and her son Fine Billy, whose adventures in polite country society culminate in the Hit-im and Hold-im shire hunt ball. Illustrated by John Leech. First published in 1858.
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		Hamlet in Pieces
		Shakespeare Reworked: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson		Literature
		Andy Lavender
		Continuum 2001 260 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0826414613
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	Theatre critic Andy Lavender focuses on Hamlet, 'Shakespeare's biggest, best, most evidently Shakespearean play' and examines in depth three unorthodox versions of it that were presented, on arthouse stages, during the 1990s. Lavender explores each play's relation to Hamlet and how it was created for the theatre by one of three great modern theatre directors: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage and Hamlet: a monologue, directed by Robert Wilson.
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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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		The Overlook Film Encyclopedia
		The Gangster Film		Literature
		Phil Hardy (Edited by)
		Overlook 1998 512 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0879518812 300x235mm
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	The fourth volume in a series hailed for the breadth and depth of its reviews, The Gangster Film is devoted to crime in the movies, or more precisely, public crime by organized groups of people, whether mobsters, rogue cops or corrupt officials. Starting with early racketeer and bootlegger films of the '20s, the book traces the progress of the gangster through reviews of 1,500 films - both fringe cinema and blockbusters - up to Nil by Mouth, Palookaville and Antapan Krong Muang (Thailand) in 1997.
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		The Green Cabinet
		Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric		Literature
		Thomas G Rosenmeyer
		Bristol Classical 2004 351 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1853996645
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	First published in 1969, this learned and wide-ranging study of the pastoral tradition starts out from 'the special qualities of Theocritus' pastoral poetry'. However, the bulk of the book traces the development of these qualities, themes and tropes (such as simplicity and tranquillity, music and humour, Pan and Arcadia) across the work of his many distinguished successors in a remarkably persistent genre - Virgil and Calpurnius Siculus, Dante and Boccaccio, Ronsard, Drayton, Milton and Marvell.
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		A Theatregoer's Guide to Shakespeare
				Literature
		Robert Thomas Fallon
		Duckworth 2003 480 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0715632264
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	In this volume of 'surveys' of Shakespeare's plays, Professor Fallon aims to enhance the theatregoer's enjoyment of a performance by demystifying the 'daunting surface' of Shakespeare's text - its language, poetry and allusion - and sketching the essential shape of each play. The most frequently staged plays, such as Hamlet, Othello and The Merchant of Venice, receive the fullest treatment, with more detailed, scene by scene appraisals of the dialogue and characters, but all the plays are covered, with outlines of their plot, characters and setting.
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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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		Oliver Stone
				Literature
		Stephen Lavington
		Virgin 2004 300 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 075350975X
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	Oliver Stone is now one of the most controversial and well-known of contemporary American directors, but he began his career as a screen writer, responsible for the scripts of Midnight Express and Scarface. This guide covers both his writing and directorial features, discussed in chronological order from Seizure (1974) to Alexander (2004).
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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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