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Orlan | |||
| Millennial Female | Literature | |||
| Kate Ince | ||||
| Berg 2000 162 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1859733344 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £31.00 | |||
| Orlan is a French multimedia and performance artist whose 1990s work, The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan consisted of a series of operations, photographed and filmed by the (conscious) artist as her face, her body and her identity were surgically remodelled. This study of Orlan's 35-year career, looks at this project in particular as it discusses issues of materials and dress, gender, identity, and the critical reception of Orlan's performance art. Off-mint with no jacket. | ||||
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Modernism and Democracy | |||
| Literary Culture 1900-1930 | Literature | |||
| Rachel Potter | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 198 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199273936 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| The emergence of Anglo-American modernist literature coincided with that of the mass democratic state, yet writers such as Yeats, Eliot and Pound were notoriously hostile towards modern democracy. Focusing on poetry, Potter reassesses the relationship between modernism and democracy by analysing the reactions of a wide range by writers, including women such as Gertrude Stein, HD and Mina Loy, and argues that the widespread scepticism about mass democracy was central to the work of modernist women writers. | ||||
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Possible Lives | |||
| Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy | Literature | |||
| Alison Knowles Frazier | ||||
| Columbia University Press 2005 528 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0231129769 | ||||
| Published Price £33.50 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| The lives of saints were the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. During the century before the Reformation, these narratives of impossible goodness fell into the hands of classicizing, humanist intellectuals. In a study of the intertwining of classical and religious culture on the eve of the Reformation, Frazier examines how the humanists received, criticized and rewrote the traditional stories. Includes an annotated list of authors and their Latin works on saints. | ||||
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Frank McCourt | |||
| Angela's Ashes. 'Tis. Teacher Man (Three volumes) | Literature | |||
| Frank McCourt | ||||
| Fourth Estate 2005 1012 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0007759894 | ||||
| Published Price £54.99 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| A bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner when it was published in 1997, Angela's Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt's own impoverished childhood in Limerick and the struggle of his mother, Angela, to cope with a drunken husband, four children and no money. In 'Tis (1999) he continues his story as a new immigrant in America; and Teacher Man (2005) describes how he became a teacher, a storyteller and, ultimately, a writer. Frank McCourt died in July, aged 78. Set of three. Slipcase. | ||||
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Lassie | |||
| The Extraordinary Story of Eric Knight and 'The World's Favourite Dog' | Literature | |||
| Peter Haining (Edited by) | ||||
| Peter Owen 2006 120 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0720612675 160x160mm | ||||
| Published Price £11.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| A native of Yorkshire, Eric Knight (1897-1943) was living in America in 1938 when he wrote the short story Lassie Come Home. The courageous journey home of the rough collie sold to a Scottish landowner by an impoverished Yorkshire family became one of the most beloved stories of the 20th century. This little book traces the story of Knight and his canine heroine, from short story to novel, movie and TV series, and it describes the rough collie breed and the dogs (all male) that played Lassie through the years. | ||||
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Illustrated Letters | |||
| Artists and Writers Correspond | Literature | |||
| Roselyne de Ayala; Jean-Pierre Gueno (Edited by) | ||||
| Abrams 1999 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0810906538 310x250mm | ||||
| Published Price £38.00 | Our Price £8.99 | |||
| This engaging volume presents the artistic correspondence of more than 60 French and European artists and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the witty doodles of Rimbaud and Baudelaire to the fine architectural marginalia of Le Corbusier, the letters and postcards reproduced here - along with biographical notes on the writers and recipients, portraits and transcriptions of the manuscripts - evoke an age when written correspondence was the rule for communication, rather than the exception. | ||||
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Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Ian Ousby | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 1996 436 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521436273 | ||||
| Published Price £23.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| A compact version of the authoritative Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, this A-Z contains over 4,000 entries and provides quick and easy reference to writers and works from both classic and contemporary English literature; literature in English from around the world; literary terms, concepts and movements; and genres, including crime writing, science fiction and children's literature. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. | ||||
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The Films of Orson Welles | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Robert Garis | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2004 186 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0521649722 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| With sustained, in-depth readings of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and critical accounts of his other major films, Robert Garis offers an insightful account of Welles's complex and fascinating character. Unlike many other biographers, Garis does not focus on the film world's final disappointment with Welles, but treats him throughout as a performative artist, offering a particularly deep reading of Welles's Macbeth as far more complex and multilayered than is usually recognized. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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The Bad Sister | |||
| An Emma Tennant Omnibus | Literature | |||
| Emma Tennant | ||||
| Canongate 2000 385 pages | ||||
| Paperback 184195053X | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| This omnibus edition brings together three of Tennant's most acclaimed works. The Bad Sister and Two Women of London retell two Scottish masterpieces of the macabre - James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - resetting their claustrophobic and terrifying examinations of duality in contemporary London and with female protagonists. The third book, Wild Nights is a powerful tale of old love and family friction. | ||||
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Attila | |||
| Literature | ||||
| William Napier | ||||
| Orion 2006 470 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0752877879 | ||||
| Published Price £6.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| The first volume in Napier's Attila trilogy of novels brings to life the world of the 5th century CE, when the Roman Empire was threatened by the rise of ferocious Hun warriors in the East. We meet two young boys: Attila, who finds himself a hostage of Rome but escapes to plot his revenge, and his friend Aetius, who will become his greatest adversary in adulthood. | ||||
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Eye Rhymes | |||
| Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual | Literature | |||
| Kathleen Connors; Sally Bayley (Edited by) | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2007 274 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 019923387X | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| In this volume, paintings, drawings, diaries, letters and photographs from the Lilly and Mortimer archives are published for the first time, revealing the depth of Sylvia Plath's engagement with the visual arts from childhood through to her years as a professional writer. In six illustrated essays, the book offers fresh perspectives on Plath's creative energy and shows how themes and ideas that first emerged in visual form were reborn later in her greatest poetry. | ||||
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Other Colors | |||
| Essays and a Short Story | Literature | |||
| Orhan Pamuk; Trans. Maureen Freely | ||||
| Knopf 2007 434 pages | ||||
| Hardback 067697970X | ||||
| Published Price $34.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (b.1952) describes this book as a composite of 'ideas, images and fragments of life that have still not found their way into one of my novels'. The pieces are woven into a continuous narrative 'with an autobiographical centre', illuminating the author's life in Istanbul and his thoughts on literature and politics. The book ends with the short story, To Look Out the Window, and Pamuk's Nobel lecture, My Father's Suitcase. American-cut pages. | ||||
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Anna of All the Russians | |||
| The Life of Anna Akhmatova | Literature | |||
| Elaine Feinstein | ||||
| Alfred A. Knopf 2005 332 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1400040892 | ||||
| Published Price $27.50 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| In a country where writing poetry was an almost exclusively male occupation, Anna Akhmatova's (1889-1966) honoured position as a giant of Russian literature is doubly remarkable. Her poetic voice was sufficiently influential for Stalin to hold her husband and son hostage for years to ensure her silence. Prize-winning novelist and biographer, Elaine Feinstein, has written an intimate account of Anna's often troubled life, based on her poetic works, memoirs, letters and journals, and interviews with family and friends. American-cut pages. | ||||
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Anna of All the Russians | |||
| The Life of Anna Akhmatova | Literature | |||
| Elaine Feinstein | ||||
| Alfred A. Knopf 2005 332 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1400040892 | ||||
| Published Price $27.50 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| In a country where writing poetry was an almost exclusively male occupation, Anna Akhmatova's (1889-1966) honoured position as a giant of Russian literature is doubly remarkable. Her poetic voice was sufficiently influential for Stalin to hold her husband and son hostage for years to ensure her silence. Prize-winning novelist and biographer, Elaine Feinstein, has written an intimate account of Anna's often troubled life, based on her poetic works, memoirs, letters and journals, and interviews with family and friends. American-cut pages. | ||||
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The Grounds of English Literature | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Christopher Cannon | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2004 248 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199270821 | ||||
| Published Price £49.00 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| The centuries following the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English literature. | ||||
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