The Playboy of the Western World
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A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves...
Pericles of Athens
Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd and Paul Cartledge
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Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what...
Makers of the Telegraph: Samuel Morse, Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry
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This book focuses on the contribution of Morse's colleagues and employees to the creation of the...
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
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This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a...
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
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Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of...
Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond
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Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known...
The Notebooks of Edward Bond: v. 2
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This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama...
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-Boys
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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the...
A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front: Memoirs from a WWI Camp Hospital
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Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris...
A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations
Oliver Taplin and Marinos Yeroulanos
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'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks,...