Results for: books tagged ‘Society’
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life: Roger-Pol Droit
Roger Pol-Droit's highly original book is a reassessment of our day-to-day engagement with life. In 101 short texts, written with limpid elegance, Droit invites us to reconsider our most ordinary ... More
Arcadia: Tom Stoppard
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the ... More
Arguments with England: Michael Blakemore
In the days when Australians called England 'home', Michael Blakemore, an eager young man en route to RADA, made the long sea voyage to 1950s London to find himself in ... More
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
Asking Around: Hare Trilogy: David Hare
David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great ... More
Atonement: Christopher Hampton
ATONEMENT THE SHOOTING SCRIPT® Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Based on the novel by Ian McEwan Introduction by Christopher Hampton A Newmarket Shooting Script® Series Book 30 Colour photos in a ... More
Autobiography: Diana Cooper
Lady Diana Cooper’s autobiography covers the years from her earliest childhood (as Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the eighth Duke of Rutland) to retirement at Chantilly and the death ... More
Back to the Local: Maurice Gorham, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
The title needs explaining. Why back? We haven't been there yet! In 1939 the same team of Maurice Gorham (text) and Edward Ardizzone (illustrations) published The Local. Like so many ... More
The Coast of Utopia Trilogy: Tom Stoppard
The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage ... More
The Cocktail Party: T. S. Eliot
'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot ... More
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