Levels of the Game
John McPhee and William Fiennes
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Described by Robert Lipsyte as 'the high point of American sports journalism', John McPhee's Levels...
King John
William Shakespeare and Eugene Giddens
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King John - today remembered as the villainous opponent of Robin Hood and the Magna Carta - was for...
Seventyseven Clocks
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'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at...
On The Road with Janis Joplin
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One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads As a road manager and filmmaker, John Byrne Cooke helped...
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare and Dympna Callaghan
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It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and...
The Locked-Room Mysteries
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The purest kind of detective story involves a crime solved by observation and deduction, rather than...
The Misfits: Story of a Shoot
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Serge Toubiana and Eve Arnold
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This book tells the story of the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961), directed by John...
A History of Children's Books in 100 Books
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While the modern children's book, intended specifically for the enjoyment of children, did not...
Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide
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He's been depicted as a serious thinker, a master of deduction, a hopeless addict, a bare-knuckle...
Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain
Christopher Breward, John Potvin and Bill Sherman
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The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in...