
C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary
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C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth century's most remarkable individuals. As the author of the...

Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817: Coleridge's Responses to German Philosophy
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Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor...

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw and Nicholas Grene
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"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's...
Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius
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Shakespeare is the true British icon - he is still the most performed, the most translated, the most...

The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870
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All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the...

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
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The twentieth century was a century of idealism and revolution and as never before speeches were...

The World According to Gogglebox
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Channel 4's show Gogglebox has become a true TV phenomenon. Now in its fourth season, it has struck...

A Most Wanted Man
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A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night....

An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories
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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the...

R.K. Narayan Omnibus: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: v. 1
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R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it...