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An Actor Despairs
His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasnโt the book they tried t...
Peter Davison became a national treasure for having his arm up a cow in his role as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small. Then in 1981 he s...
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him....
Lizzie has just been named captain of the soccer team -- the boys' soccer team, that is. For a shy twelve year old, that's a problem. Lizzie never dre...
Even productions of Othello based on very different conceptions of the play can prove successful ad deeply moving. Among critics, however, Othello has...
On 29 March 1945 Orwell's wife Eileen died, aged 39. Her last, long, very moving letters to her husband are printed here. Less than six months later t...
An important guide to the quantification of contract claims in the construction industry, updated third edition The substantially expanded third editi...
Text and Performance
Character of Hamlet - Comedy of Hamlet - Relevance - Performance - Globe and Garrick versions - Olivier film, 1948 - Guilgud and Burton, 1934 and 1964...
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Poems
"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his ton...
Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including "Song of Myself," "Starting from Paumanok," "Children of Adam," "I Sing the...
During the 1940s, the Soviet government, knowing of the American nuclear program, elected to begin work on its own nuclear weapon program. The goal wa...
Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic interceptor that is often declared the finest and m...
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a coll...
Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwellโs life in his own words. From his school d...
The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and t...
Spanning a period of 20 months, this volume is part of The Complete Works of George Orwell, available as a separate book. It includes essays, film, bo...
Most medium to large construction contracts include a claim for extra payment for variations and changes or for disruption to the programme. A number ...
In the years following World War II, many nations made use of captured German technology, and given the pressures of the incipient Cold War, Soviet en...
With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letter...
George Orwell was a tireless and lively correspondent. He communicated with family members, friends and newspapers, figures such as Henry Miller, Cyri...
A Personal History
โPeter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his t...
And Other Poems
1943
This volume shows how much George Orwell achieved during his Two wasted years at the BBC. It covers the programmes broadcast that were either written ...
Poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath
He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton,...
The photos in this edition are black and white. Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic int...
Poems, 1957-1974
The Comprehensive Manual to All Aspects of Video Photography and Editing
This handbook on video photography provides information on choosing equipment, camcorders, lighting, tripods and associated photographic equipment, mi...