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| "Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath&39;s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963 The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive The Colossus as well as from posthumous collections Ariel Crossing the Water and Winter TreesThe text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath&39;s juveniliaThis collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry&39;For me the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication eighteen years after her death of Sylvia Plath&39;s Collected Poems confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time&39; A Alvarez in the Observer"
Price: 13.49 |
| "Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath (Paperback, 1985)" |
| "Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry This classic selection of her work made by her former husband Ted Hughes provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel The Colossus Crossing the Water and Winter Trees and include many of her most celebrated works such as 'Daddy' 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters barely making ends meet their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty The two male members of the household are brother Jack a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister In depicting two days in the life of this menage Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape interior and exterior Christian and pagan of which they are a partIt won the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Play of the Year and the Evening Standard Award for Best Play the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play and New York Drama Critics' Circle award for Best Play"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Lord of the Flies: adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams by Nigel Williams, William Golding (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams's stage adaptation of William Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995 'Remarkably true to the novel in spirit the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting dancing marching forming a circle round the victim stamping out a fire You end up feeling you have seen a fable of infinite implications enacted in a little room' Sunday TelegraphThis special acting edition particularly suitable for schools and amateur groups contains the full playtext as well as notes on staging a full properties list and lighting and sound cues"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers Goldberg and McCann An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmareThe Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic produced and studied throughout the world"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century dramaThe obsessive caretaker Davies whose papers are in Sidcup is a classic comic creation and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick established the author's individuality with an international audience"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Venice by Jan Morris (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written Venice is neither a guide nor a history book but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character set against the background of the city's past Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians as well as its waterways its architecture its bridges its tourists its curiosities its smells sounds lights and colours there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris during World War II As she writes in the introduction 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that responsive above all to the stimuli of youth' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney Coronation Everest Hong Kong Spain and Manhattan '45 Since its first publication Venice has appeared in many editions won the WH Heinemann award and become an international bestseller 'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times 'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it Venice stands alone as the essential introduction and as a work of literature in its own right' Observer"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly aged thirteen and her tutor Septimus Hodge Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style 'everything but vampires' as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years laterBernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley ParkTom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction' as Hannah says 'which Newton left out'"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Smoke and Blue in the Face by Paul Auster (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Two stories which have been made into films In Smoke a novelist suffering from writer's block and the violent death of his wife is inspired by a young black boy to write again The action of Blue in the Face partly takes place in the cigar shop which was the focal point of Smoke"
Price: 18.99 |
| "Art by Yasmina Reza (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work Yvan attempts unsuccessfully to placate both sides with hilarious consequences The question is Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes, Ovid (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995 Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person Tales from Ovid which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry continued the project of recreation with 24 passages including the stories of Phaeton Actaeon Echo and Narcissus Procne Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe In them Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands alongside his Crow and Gaudete as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed with just two exceptions to Sylvia Plath the American poet to whom he was married They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years the first a few years after her suicide in 1963 and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year 'To read Birthday Letters is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping' Seamus Heaney 'Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value its linguistic technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book' Andrew Motion"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg (Paperback, 1982)" |
| "Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition On the one hand it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion"
Price: 11.99 |
| "The History Boys by Alan Bennett (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "An unruly bunch of bright funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex sport and a place at university A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a foolIn Alan Bennett's classic play staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purposeThe History Boys premiered at the National in May 2004"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Poet dramatist critic and editor T S Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays published for the first time in paperback includes all of his verse and work for the stage from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943) and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Murder in the Cathedral'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened more astonished more humble' Ted Hughes"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Faber & Faber (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time Heaney and Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures In effect this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry and it will continue to do so for years to come Including writers from Shakespeare and Blake to Sylvia Plath and T S Eliot The Rattle Bag is eclectic instructive and inspiring at the same time"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Courtiers : The Secret History of the Georgian Court" |
| "In the eighteenth century the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield This was a world of skulduggery politicking wigs and beauty-spots where fans whistled open like flick-knivesAmbitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe Among them a Vice Chamberlain with many vices a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage a pushy painter an alcoholic equerry a Wild Boy a penniless poet a dwarf comedian two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Remains of the Day" |
| "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me GoWinner of the Booker PrizeA contemporary classic The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English HouseIn the summer of 1956 Stevens the ageing butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The New York Trilogy" |
| "The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America&39;s most consistently astonishing writers The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or BorgesIn each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest a truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader&39;Marks a new departure for the American novel&39; Observer&39;A shatteringly clever piece of work Utterly gripping written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind&39; Sunday Telegraph&39;The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett&39; Guardian"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Constellations by Nick Payne (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "One relationship Infinite possibilities'Let's go for a drink I don't know what I'm doing here anyway One drink And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again'Nick Payne's Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it's about quantum multiverse theory love and honeyConstellations premiered at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre London in January 2012 It transferred to the Duke Of York's Theatre London in November and was awarded the Evening Standard award for Best New Play 2012"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Poetry Please by Various Poets (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world First aired in 1979 the programme a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever it is those poems that this anthology brings together here A showcase in effect for the nation's favourite verse Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about from new readers to old from schools to reading groups this a book for giving a book for cherishing"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Betrayal by Harold Pinter (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "&39;Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic giving an audience the experience of the mind&39;s accelerating momentum as it pieces together the past with a combination of curiosity and regret He shows man betrayed not only by man but by time - a recurring theme which has found its proper scenic correlative Pinter captures the psyche&39;s sly manoeuvres for self-respect with a sardonic forgiveness a master craftsman honouring his talent by setting it new difficult tasks&39; New Society&39;There is hardly a line into which desire pain alarm sorrow rage or some kind of blend of feelings has not been compressed like volatile gas in a cylinder less stable than it looks Pinter&39;s narrative method takes "what&39;s next?" out of the spectator&39;s and replaces it with the rather deeper "how?" and "why?" Why did love pass? How did these people cope with the lies the evasions the sudden dangers panic and the contradictory feelings behind their own deftly engineered masks? The play&39;s subject is not sex not even adultery but the politics of betrayal and the damage it inflicts on all involved&39; The TimesFirst staged at the National Theatre in 1978 Betrayal was revived at the Almeida Theatre London in 1991 Twenty years after its first showing it returned to the National in 1998"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Snow by Walter de la Mare (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "As the day draws to a close a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree hanging stockings by the fire putting out a plate of mince piesOutside the world turns to white'No breath of windNo gleam of sunStill the white snowWhirls softly down'"
Price: 6.49 |
| Holloway |
| "Holloway - a hollow way a sunken path A route that centuries of foot-fall hoof-hit wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock In July 2005 Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin - author of Wildwood - travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone They found their way into a landscape of shadows spectres & great strangeness Six years later after Roger Deakin's early death Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards The book is about those journeys and that landscape Moving in the spaces between social history psychogeography and travel writing Holloway is a beautiful and haunted work of art"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Interstellar : The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards" |
| "n Interstellar a group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyageThe screenplay of Interstellar is written by Christopher Nolan and his frequent collaborator Jonathan Nolan The film stars Matthew McConaughey Jessica Chastain Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine and looks set to surpass the visions of Stanley Kubrick and the technical achievment of Gravity In addition to the screenplay this book also contains over 200 pages of storyboards and an Introduction featuring a conversation about the film with Christopher Nolan and Jonathan NolanChristopher Nolan's other films include Momento Insomnia The Dark Knight Trilogy and most recently Inception which starred Leonardo DiCaprio Tom Hardy Ellen Page Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Remains of the Day : Faber Modern Classics" |
| "The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers David Lodge chairman of the judges in 1989 said it's a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love and an elegy for England at a time of acute change Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwideStevens the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside but also into his own past Reflecting on his years of service he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to himself"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The New York Trilogy : Faber Modern Classics" |
| "The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest a truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader'Marks a new departure for the American novel' Observer'A shatteringly clever piece of work Utterly gripping written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind' Sunday Telegraph'The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett' Guardian"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Art Sex Music" |
| "A SUNDAY TIMES TELEGRAPH ROUGH TRADE PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEMusician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle as one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease her work on the margins has come to reshape the mainstream Shocking wise and life-affirming Art Sex Music is the fascinating memoir of an inspirational woman"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Meaning of Art : Faber Modern Classics" |
| "Since its first appearance in 1931 Herbert Read's introduction to the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its kind It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making A compact survey of the world's art from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock The Meaning of Art explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art and summarizes the essence of such movements as Gothic Baroque Impressionism Expressionism and SurrealismThis new Faber Modern Classics edition features a brand new foreword by Will Gompertz BBC arts editor"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Written for Glasgow Unity in 1947 this extraordinarily moving play of women surviving in the east end of Glasgow of the 1930s was revived by 784 Company to tremendous critical acclaim It finds in the lives of Maggie her family and her neighbours not only all the tragedy that appalling housing massive unemployment and grinding poverty can produce but alo a rich vein of comedy - the sense of the ridiculous the need for a good laugh"
Price: 10.49 |
