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    The World’s Game

    Frederic Raphael

    In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: 'The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world's game'. Yet history has proven to be much more…

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    Dream Story

    Arthur Schnitzler, J.M.Q. Davies (trans.)

    This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission…

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    Darling

    Frederic Raphael

    First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is The Happiness Girl in ads plastered all over the country…

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    Coast to Coast

    Frederic Raphael

    The Pierces are travelling across the USA to deliver a Jaguar to their son, who is about to be married. But as the long hours pass, the cracks in the…

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    California Time

    Frederic Raphael

    Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him…

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    A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus

    Frederic Raphael

    From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist–an audacious history of Josephus, the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the singular Jew alone in the…

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    Against the Stream

    Frederic Raphael

    Oscar-winning Raphael’s wickedly funny memoir progresses into years of controversy in literary and film worlds.

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    There and Then: Personal Terms 6

    Frederic Raphael

    The latest volume of the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter’s notebooks.

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    Cuts and Bruises

    Frederic Raphael

    The third of memoirs by the novelist, dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Frederic Raphael. This volume contains various observations about his life as a screenwriter in 1970s Hollywood.

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    Benefit of Doubt: Essays

    Frederic Raphael

    In Frederic Raphael’s essays we meet familiar faces, known names, but the way he reintroduces them to us, with a ruthless clarity which seeks to conceal nothing, makes us revalue…

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    Last Post

    Frederic Raphael

    A book of celebrity letters from the award-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael.

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    Antiquity Matters

    Frederic Raphael

    A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes

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    The Great Philosophers

    The Great Philosophers in one volume: the acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers, by specialists writing for the general reader.

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    Where Were We? - The Conversation Continues

    Frederic Raphael,Joseph Epstein

    Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary critic, exchanged e-mails sporadically over the years, usually commenting on…

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    The Great Philosophers in one volume: the acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers, by specialists writing for the general reader.

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    The Cost of Living Like This (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    James Kennaway

    Kennaway’s best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight. - John le Carre
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    Bacchae

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    Euripides’ classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled - and frequently hysterical - celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine. In this play, a…

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    Medea

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    A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama.

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    Becket

    Jean Anouilh

    When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket, to take his place. Becket told his king: ‘If I become archbishop I shall…

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    Dream Story

    Arthur Schnitzler

    This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission…

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    Marching with April

    Hugo Charteris

    It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bemused devotee of the…

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    Aeschylus Plays: II: The Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation-bearers; The Eumenides

    Aeschylus,Aeschylus

    Contains the classical tragic trilogy The Oresteia , which traces the passage of Greek emancipation from belief in blind necessity and from unquestioning submission to savage divinities. This is a…

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    Euripides Plays: 6: Hippolytos; Suppliants and Rhesos

    Euripides

    The collection in this volume is intended for both performers and readers. It includes translations of Hippolytos , Suppliants and Rhesos .

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    Six Greek Tragedies: Persians; Prometheus Bound; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes; Trojan Women; Bacchae

    The work of these three Athenian playwrights became the touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. This volume contains the earliest surviving Greek tragedy, an…

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    Raphael Morghen’s Engraved Works: Being a Descriptive Catalogue of All the Engravings of This Master, the Inscriptions Given at Full Length, and the Variations of the States Precisely Set Forth

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Sophocles, 1: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

    Jealousy and suicide, love and passion, grief and intrigue, honor and deceit are the order of the day in four of Sophocles’s great tragedies. The Penn Greek Drama Series presents…

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    Color and Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross

    This beautifully illustrated book examines the artistic career of the French painter and draftsman Henri-Edmond Cross who was a key figure in the development of European modernism.

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