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  • Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal - or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition

    by Osborn, John Knox Laughton ...
    The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew. After two years with no word, a £20,000 reward was offered to anyone who could find the expedition, leading to many rescue missions. One such attempt was the search mission of 1850–1 under Horatio Thomas Austin, which ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Look Back in Anger

    by John Osborne ...
    Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • John Osborne Plays 3

    A Patriot for Me; Luther; Inadmissible Evidence

    by John Osborne ...
    This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century.A Patriot for Me'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosexuality and in the breadth of its historical canvas... few post-war plays have dealt so brilliantly with the way the individual, in ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Rome in the Tenth Century

    A History in Art

    by John Osborne ...
    Series series British School at Rome Studies
    This is the third and final volume in a series examining the history of Rome in the early Middle Ages (700–1000 CE) through the primary lens of the city's material culture. The previous volumes examined the eighth and the ninth centuries respectively. John Osborne uses buildings (both religious and domestic), their decorations, other works of painting and sculpture, inscriptions, manuscripts, ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Paper Chase

    by John Osborn ...
    Fortieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author. A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series, THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young midwesterner, James Hart, who finds himself in the great classrooms of Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School, locked in a zero-sum game with a dominating, omniscient deity: Professor Kingsfield. Kingsfield is the sort of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Gift of Friendship

    by John Osborne ...
    Focused on rivalry and legacy, The Gift of Friendship examines the bitter relationship between two writers revealed after one of them dies.It was first broadcast on ITV in September 1974. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • John Osborne Plays 2

    The Entertainer; The Hotel in Amsterdam; West of Suez; Time Present

    by John Osborne ...
    This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present.'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching commitment to their view of the truth which he took for granted in his own. Of all the British playwrights of ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • John Osborne Plays 1

    Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu

    by John Osborne ...
    In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his career along its startling trajectory, as well as his much later play, Dejavu, which brings us Look Back in Anger's Jimmy Porter thirty-five years on, older and wiser, but no less indignantly eloquent. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Rome in the Ninth Century

    A History in Art

    by John Osborne ...
    Series series British School at Rome Studies
    Intended as a sequel to Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020), this survey of the material culture of the city of Rome spans the period from the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the nadir of the fortunes of the Roman Church a century later. The evidence of standing buildings, objects, historical documents, and archaeology is brought together to create an integrated picture of ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Plays for England

    by John Osborne ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre. It led to the coining of the phrase 'angry young man', which applied not only to Osborne but also to many new writers who criticised the system.But Osborne was not a conventional ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • John Osborne: Four Plays

    A Sense of Detachment; The End of Me Old Cigar; Jill and Jack; A Place Calling Itself Rome

    by John Osborne ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself RomeOsborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Very Like a Whale

    by John Osborne ...
    Originally written in 1971, John Osborne's Very Like a Whale concerns a wealthy industrialist who becomes increasingly estranged from friends and family as he reaches the heights of success.It was first broadcast on ITV in 1980. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD