Fruits of the Earth
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During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his...
The Funniest Thing You Never Said: The Ultimate Collection of Humorous Quotations
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Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The...
Mr Foote's Other Leg
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In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous...
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents the...
Stephen Fry in His Own Words
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In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and...
English Humour for Beginners
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If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims...
Salomé
Oscar Wilde and Kimberly Stern
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Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental-and controversial-play. In its own time, the play, written...
Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature,...
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson: The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife
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Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward...
Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama: 2016
R. Barton Palmer and Marc C. Conner
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This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish...