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A beloved actor and famous man-on-the-scene, Alan Cumming takes the reader on a wild journey of pithy and cheeky fun, presenting his real-life stories of debauchery during late night Hollywood parties, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and hilarious yet poignant memories of his life, family, and friends.

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This is a collection of Terry Eagleton's best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton, in his inimitable style, always paints a vivid theorectical fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.

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A highly acclaimed novelist on the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.

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This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.

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During eight years of aerial warfare over the skies of Vietnam, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) produced 13 MiG-21 aces and five Hero pilots who achieved four victories.

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The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .

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A photographic facsimile of the quarto held by the British Library, printed in 1601. The play combines a plot based on a real-life London murder case of 1594 with one deriving from an Italian tale of an evil father and his son.

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An account English weather, which is at the very heart of English life and culture, as it is experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually. It catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: 'Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the 'slobbery' January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one.

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Melvyn Bragg explores a controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on history

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This book maps the development of autofictional modes from the 18th century to the 21st, setting them against socio-historical changes, cultural trends and philosophical-psychological discussions around self and the mind.

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Filled with the remarkable wit and humor of America's favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain's life through little known stories about how he and his family celebrated this treasured holiday.

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When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in England. In this book, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp.

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An illustrated tour of the landscapes of Mississippi that have inspired the states many lauded writers, from Faulkner and Welty to Morris and Ward.

An indispensable reference collection focusing on the most important contributions in the field of adaptation studies.

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Introduction by Olga Broumas Winner of the 1990 Barnard New Women Poets Prize

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A vital analysis of world literature through history

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Lampooning the myriad mistakes that crop up in the everyday use of the English langauge, this collection presents faux pas from students' essays, newspaper headlines, accident reports, and everyday grammar mistakes.