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Orlan | |||
| Millennial Female | Literature | |||
| Kate Ince | ||||
| Berg 2000 162 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1859733344 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £29.00 | |||
| 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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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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Modern Novel Writing | |||
| or The Elegant Enthusiast | Literature | |||
| William Beckford | ||||
| Nonsuch 2008 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1845886089 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The controversial and eccentric Beckford published this satirical 'Rhapsodical Romance, interspersed with Poetry' under a pseudonym in 1796. The 'divine authoress' launches a two-pronged attack on the sentimental novels popular at the time (in particular those of Beckford's own half-sister) and on the Tory party under Pitt the Younger. Beckford expert Robert J Gemmett has furnished this first critical edition of the text with explanatory notes and an introduction. | ||||
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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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Great Dream of Heaven | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Sam Shepard | ||||
| Secker & Warburg 2002 146 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0436205947 | ||||
| Published Price £10.00 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| A boy watches a grim scuffle between an ill-tempered stallion and a horse 'remedy man'; a woman has an oracular run-in with an injured hawk; two old companions are brought to grief by a waitress at Denny's... These and 14 other stories in this collection by Sam Shepard demonstrate the themes and qualities that have made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights. | ||||
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Stan Laurel and Other Stars of Panopticon | |||
| The Story of the Britannia Music Hall | Literature | |||
| Judith Bowers | ||||
| Birlinn 2007 180 pages | ||||
| Paperback 184158617X | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The Britannia Music Hall opened in the late 1850s, became the Grand Panopticon in 1906, and the building - in Glasgow's Trongate - survives to this day. With stories of performers such as Marie Loftus, Harry Lauder and a teenage Stan Laurel, and the noisome menagerie and sensational attractions of AE Pickard's Panopticon, this lively history traces the hall's fortunes up to its closure in 1938 and describes its current restoration. | ||||
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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 £1.99 | |||
| 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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Walt Disney and Europe | |||
| European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt | Literature | |||
| Robin Allan | ||||
| Indiana University Press 1999 304 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0253213533 | ||||
| Published Price $14.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| In many of their feature films, Walt Disney and his artists were hugely influenced by Europe: Pinocchio's Alpine town and the England of 101 Dalmatians were inspired by transatlantic visits; the music of Fantasia demonstrates deep European influence; even individual characters have distinct European roots - the Queen in Snow White bears a striking resemblance to Naumberg Cathedral's statue of Lady Uta. This wide-ranging study investigates the role of European art and culture in creating the Disney legend. | ||||
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Ten Bad Dates with De Niro | |||
| A Book of Alternative Movie Lists | Literature | |||
| Richard T Kelly (Edited by) | ||||
| Faber 2007 500 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0571237665 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This collection of alternative top-tens takes its title from Demetrios Matheou's list of De Niro's demonstrations of how not to treat a lady. Contributors including Steven Soderbergh, the Coen brothers, DBC Pierre and Mike Figgis give their personal reflections on each film in their list, venting passions and prejudices on topics as varied as memorable uses of nail polish, Paul Verhoeven's most gratuitous uses of sex and nudity and (from David Hare) great films which defy genre categorization. Slightly off-mint. | ||||
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Robert Browning | |||
| A Life After Death | Literature | |||
| Pamela Neville-Sington | ||||
| Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 340 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0297643967 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| When his beloved wife died in 1861, Robert Browning's world collapsed and his future looked bleak indeed. Knowing that he needed to move on, but with an overwhelming desire to cling to Elizabeth's memory, he left Italy and returned to London after 15 years away, to bring up his son alone and endeavour to rebuild his life and his career. Pamela Neville-Sington's biography is moving story of love, loss, death and redemption at the heart of the Victorian literary establishment. | ||||
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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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