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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory
$62.00Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers—Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria—Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion
$62.00Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers—Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria—Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett
$62.00In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
$62.00In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
$62.00Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley. Philip H. Highfill, Jr., is a professor emeritus of English at George…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse
$62.00Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the “English Ballad-Singer,” boxing champion of England, “Gentleman” John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family— Charles, Maria Theresa,…
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A Birthday for Frances
$16.99As her little sister Gloria’s birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous’and being jealous. ‘[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.
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A Brightness Long Ago
$32.00From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan comes a masterful new novel set in a vivid world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offering an extraordinary…
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A Canon of Vegetables
$25.95Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK’S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His…
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A Century of Horrors
$28.00The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while…
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A Child Alone with Strangers
$26.99“Fracassi’s novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and ’80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.” —Laird Barron, author of Worse Angels”A Child Alone with Strangers starts…
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A Child’s Book of Poems
$12.95William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of…
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