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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
5) A single man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
6) A single man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, on a fellowship for Middle Eastern Studies, joins an escort agency to supplement her income. Her clientele includes a British diplomat working on a top secret, volatile Arab peace settlement.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission--but...
10) Educating Rita
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
12) The Devlin diary
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Historian Clare Donovan, who delved into 17th-century Venetian intrigue with handsome Cambridge fellow Andrew Kent in The Rossetti Letter, is now a temporary lecturer at Cambridge's Trinity College, packed with scheming academics roiling in a hotbed of nearly every human frailty imaginable. When dashing and venal Professor Derek Goodman is found slain clutching a page of a coded diary by 17th-century physician Hannah Devlin, Clare and Andrew get on...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew volume 2
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 1350, Cambridge lies ravaged by the Black Death. Crime flourishes too: three harlots are found with slit throats and branded feet, a friar dies rifling a strongbox full of college chronicles, and the Vice Chancellor of the University vanishes from his sick chamber with all its furnishings. Now the Chancellor calls on the deductive skill of Matthew Bartholomew, Master of Medicine. Busy enough already with the teaching and practice of new techniques,...
14) Elegy for Iris
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Bayley, who was married to Iris Murdoch for over 40 years, has written one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years. With great compassion he recreates their passionate love affair and poignantly describes the mask that ineluctably descended over Iris' being with the progression of her Alzheimer's disease. It was Bayley's accomplishment to find the glimmers of Iris' old self that broke through the barriers of her disease, and to share...
15) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2000, c1938
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins (Howard) works to make a pretty flower girl (Hiller) into a young lady of society.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A unique and moving real-life story of the extraordinary bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz. In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant master at a prestigious boarding school. But Michell's adventures really begin when, on a weekend in Uraguay,...