Creator: Emily Anderson
Publication date: 1989-05-30
Dewey code: 780
Price: $48.07
Review The Letters of Mozart and His Family / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $100.00
Price: $1,895.53
Review Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell : The Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe / Seventy Four Ten, Incorporated:
Publication date: 1919
Review The Story of My Life / D. Wyllie & Son:7. 5" * 5. 1". Cloth hardcover.
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 822.50809287
List Price: $875.00
Price: $968.00
Review Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists in succession to Aphra Benn. Containing a representative selection of newly edited and annotated texts by leading woman dramatists of the period from 1696 to 1800, the anthology reflects the changes in Britain's global realignment in class models and perception of other peoples. If women's drama quickly ceases to express the raw rage at the oppression of female sexuality that is evident in Behn and Manley, it continues to show women controlling their lives through manipulation of an increasingly complex and intellectually diverse society. In the 1690s, dramatists were meditating on the 1688 revolution (and its implications for the man's authority within marriage) and Britain's international horizons were defined by its war with France and by its transatlantic colonial possessions. At the end of the period Britain was the dominant world power, ruling India, apprehensively contemplating the aftermath of another revolution, in France. From 1670 until her death in 1689, Aphra Benn had established herself as one of the leading dramatists of her time, having far more new plays performed during these years than any competitor, and paving the way for the surge in women's playwriting towards the end of the century: between 1695 and 1700, six new women dramatists had plays premiered, and from then on women consistently made an important and diverse contribution to the stage. Those included in this collection include Catherine Trotter (1679-1749), Mary Pix (1666-c. 1720), Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1736), Susanna Centlivre (c. 1670-1723), Elizabeth Griffith (c. [+]1720-93), Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Hannah Cowley (1743-1809). Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix and Delarivier Manley formed an important trio of women dramatists at the end of the 17th centuiry. Catherine Trotter was the first woman to adapt a work of Behn's for stage (the novel "Agnes de Castro"). Manley, who like Trotter has never appeared in a complete scholarly edition, was probably the most talented of the trio and also an important writer of fiction. Her best play, "The Royal Mischief", portrays the patriarchal suppression of female desire with a frankness unique in the 1690s. Eliza Haywood - a disciple of Manley in the writing of scandalous prose fiction - wrote two original plays, of which "A Wife to be Lett" (1723) is particularly notable for its harsh portrayal of the commodification and near-prostitution of women. Writing about Susanna Centlivre, in his "Lectures on the English Comic Writers", William Hazlitt remarked: "Her plays have a provoking spirit and volatile salt in them which still preserves them from decay". Elizabeth Inchbald and Hannah Cowley were perhaps the most successful female dramatists of the late 18th century. Both were admired by Sheridan for their original work and adaptations.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1939
Review Call to Adventure! / Robert McBride:
Publication date: 1996
Review MUHAMMAD ALI. His Life and Times. Signed limited edition / Easton Press:Book Description: Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1996. Leather. Book Condition: Very good condition. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). 543 pages of text including an index. Maroon hardcover leather binding with gilt and black decoration and lettering; color photographic inlay of Ali on front cover; binding protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Number 560 of 3500 copies signed by both Muhammad Ali and Thomas Hauser. Illustrated with numerous historic black & white photographs. A clean, tight and attractive copy of this publication.
Creator: Mark Goldie
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 941.066
List Price: $950.00
Price: $940.76
Review The Entring Book of Roger Morrice 1677-1691 / Boydell & Brewer Inc:Compiled between the years 1677 and 1691, the Entring Book is 900,000 words long, with many sensitive passages written in a secret shorthand that has only recently been decoded. This remarkable chronicle of public affairs has remained for nearly three centuries, secure but little known, in Dr Williams's Library, London. The Entring Book fits no simple definition. It is not just a political diary, nor is it only the newsletter it sometimes resembles. It's possible that it could have been the material for a history of Morrice's own times, or it may have been a letterbook, recording correspondence to an unnamed recipient. Writing in great detail, with meticulous regularity, Morrice may have been passing on all he knew to senior figures in the opposition to Charles II and James II. The Entring Book's enormous scope means it also covers publishing, plays, business, military and religious matters, foreign affairs, public opinion and London life, making it an essential resource. Through it we can trace the transformation of puritanism into Whiggery and Dissent.
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2000-06-21
Dewey code: 782.42164092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $950.00
Review Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (Bayou) / Cassell:This classic work is the definitive study of Bob Dylan's 40-year body of songs and recordings. This latest edition offers copious fresh material, including major studies of Dylan's remarkable use of the blues, nursery rhyme, films and the Bible. Unique in its scope and its integration of literature and music, criticism and biography, this highly entertaining and authoritative book has earned exceptional reviews.
Creator: Michael Lang
Publication date: 1997-11
Review One Man in His Time / Book Guild Ltd:
Publication date: 1919
Review The Story of My Life / D. Wyllie & Son:7. 5" * 5. 1". Cloth hardcover.
Creator: Thomas Pinney
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1981-06-30
Dewey code: 820
Price: $105.00
Review The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 6, January 1856-December 1859 / Cambridge University Press:The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest. He had come to terms with his invalid state, and took great satisfaction in the achievement that he had already realised. He continued to work at his History, but without any expectations or anxieties, instead he enjoyed what his labours had already brought him. First among these was his house, Holly Lodge, in Kensington, where he removed early in 1856 after nearly fifteen years in chambers at the Albany. At Holly Lodge, attended by servants, and visited by a steady company of family and friends, Macaulay took pleasure in entertaining, and in supervising the care of his trees, lawn and flowers - novel amusements to an urban bachelor of literary habits.
Creator: David Fells
Publication date: 2003-11
Review Ben Caunt: The Nottinghamshire Bare-knuckle Boxer Who Became Champion of England / David Fells:
Creator: Jerzy Ficowski
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 808
Price: $87.95
Review The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz / Picador:
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $950.00
Price: $950.00
Review John Houston / Lund Humphries Pub Ltd:A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, John Houston remained closely associated with the college through his role as a teacher: he lectured at Edinburgh from 1955 to 1989. Though dedicated to teaching, Houston remained committed to his own work throughout his time at Edinburgh and successfully forged a distinct artistic identity simultaneously. In this study of the artist's varied career, William Packer charts the development of Houston's life as a painter across five decades. Renowned for its intense use of colour, his work developed an underlying consistency from an early stage. Expressionistic, with romantic overtones and gestural brushstrokes, Houston is a master of encapsulating the atmospheric mood of any setting. This is borne out in the 70 colour images reproduced here for both loyal and new-found followers to admire.
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $950.00
Price: $950.00
Review John Houston / Lund Humphries Pub Ltd:A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, John Houston remained closely associated with the college through his role as a teacher: he lectured at Edinburgh from 1955 to 1989. Though dedicated to teaching, Houston remained committed to his own work throughout his time at Edinburgh and successfully forged a distinct artistic identity simultaneously. In this study of the artist's varied career, William Packer charts the development of Houston's life as a painter across five decades. Renowned for its intense use of colour, his work developed an underlying consistency from an early stage. Expressionistic, with romantic overtones and gestural brushstrokes, Houston is a master of encapsulating the atmospheric mood of any setting. This is borne out in the 70 colour images reproduced here for both loyal and new-found followers to admire.
Publication date: 1985-09-10
Dewey code: 730.924
Price: $140.00
Review Alessandro Algardi / Yale University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-16
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,124.99
Review George Eliot: Family History (Rtp Family Histories) / Routledge:This set, the fifth collection in the Family History series, brings together valuable sources, including manuscript material from letters and diaries, which give insights into these crucial influences. A new introduction places the material in its literary and historical context.
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $100.00
Price: $1,895.53
Review Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell : The Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe / Seventy Four Ten, Incorporated:
Creator: Luke Goss
Publication date: 1993-04
Review I Owe You Nothing / Speaking Book Co:
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 711.4092
Price: $99.00
Review Raymond Unwin: Garden Cities and Town Planning / Leicester Univ Pr:
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