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A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a schoolteacher, educational reformer, and author of illuminating and stylish books about education and the mind of the child. But few people know he was also a dedicated, prolific, uninhibited, witty and often mischievous letter writer. This selection of gems, first published in 1983, has been chosen from hundreds of his letters by his biographer. It includes letters about education, children, politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, old age and death.
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9781138809864 | Reissue edition (Routledge, September 18, 2014), cover price $155.00
9780531098226 | Olympic Marketing Corp, March 1, 1984, cover price $4.98 | also contains That You May Prosper | About this edition: A.
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9781138813359 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 4, 2016), cover price $54.95
King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale.He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.
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9781474223867 | Bloomsbury Arden, December 17, 2015, cover price $86.00
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9781474223850 | Bloomsbury Arden, December 17, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare.
9780553263589, titled "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $5.99 | also contains The Lazy Man''s Guide to Enlightenment | About this edition: Originally published by the author in 1972, the underground classic Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment teaches how to improve the quality of life, to feel good, and to determine what's real.
9780553263626, titled "Maria" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $6.99 | also contains Maria | About this edition: Upon losing her soldier husband soon after the British acquisition and occupation of Florida in 1763, Maria Evans Fenwick determines to make her own mark in St.
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9781138124332 | Reissue edition (Routledge, September 30, 2015), cover price $140.00
9780091823061 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Personal reminiscences of life in Great Britain during the Second World War depict the deprivations and suffering, as well as the exhilaration and community spirit experienced by the British people
A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to âthat dreadful schoolâ which continues to this day â Summerhill. First published in 1983, this sympathetic but critical exploration of his iconoclastic ideas and personality is the result of interviews with two hundred ex-pupils, parents and teachers about life at Summerhill, and of the practicality of Neillâs philosophy about child freedom. Jonathan Croall has also drawn on many unpublished letters and documents, which help to illuminate Neillâs personal struggles, and his analysis and friendship with Homer Lane, Wilhelm Stekel and Wilhelm Reich. The result is a fascinating and revealing portrait of a remarkable man who, in his absolute determination to be âon the side of the childâ, remained in permanent opposition to the adult world.
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9780415830942 | Reissue edition (Routledge, March 29, 2013), cover price $170.00 | About this edition: A.
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9780415835282 | Routledge, September 1, 2014, cover price $59.95
9780877224525 | Reprint edition (Temple Univ Pr, June 1, 1987), cover price $16.95
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9781783190072 | Oberon Books Ltd, December 17, 2013, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9781849434485 | Oberon Books Ltd, February 26, 2013, cover price $23.95
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9781408131060 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, July 19, 2011, cover price $65.00
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9781408179451 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, November 8, 2012), cover price $29.95
Product Description: Jonathan Croallâs book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical artists brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theater to the stage. This new edition includes an extra chapter on the productionâs visit to the ancient theater of Epidaurus in Greece, and a new foreword by Peter Hall...read more
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9781840028171 | Oberon Books Ltd, April 1, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Jonathan Croallâs book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical artists brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theater to the stage.
Product Description: Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent...read more
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9781408105207 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 1, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, Buzz Buzz!
Product Description: Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age...read more
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9781905791927 | Haus Pub, February 1, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure.
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9781840024630 | Oberon Books Ltd, December 30, 2008, cover price $18.95
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9781840025958 | Oberon Books Ltd, July 31, 2006, cover price $19.95
Between 1939 and 1945, the civilian population in Britain was exposed to the grim and dangerous realities of war to an unprecedented degree. This book gathers the personal stories of 35 people, drawn from all walks of life, and evokes the reality of life in Britain during World War II.
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9780750936989 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 1, 2005, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Between 1939 and 1945, the civilian population in Britain was exposed to the grim and dangerous realities of war to an unprecedented degree.
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9780750936996, titled "Don't You Know There's a War On?: Voices from the Home Front" | Sutton Pub Ltd, June 30, 2006, cover price $20.95
Based on interviews with over 100 friends and colleagues who worked with Gielgud, this biography covers Gielgud's childhood amongst his famous Terry relations, his early struggles as a young actor, his triumphs in Shakespeare at the Old Vic and his late flowering as an Oscar-winning film star. (view table of contents)
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9780826413338 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Based on interviews with over 100 friends and colleagues who worked with Gielgud, this biography covers Gielgud's childhood amongst his famous Terry relations, his early struggles as a young actor, his triumphs in Shakespeare at the Old Vic and his late flowering as an Oscar-winning film star.
Paperback:
9780826414038 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2002, cover price $29.95
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9780413771292 | New edition (Methuen Pub Ltd, February 21, 2002), cover price $14.80 | About this edition: On his death, Sir John Gielgud was acclaimed as one of the greatest classical actors of the 20th century, and a modern interpreter of Shakespeare.
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