Damned if I'm repeating myself...

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:35:29 GMT

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Mon, 14 May 2007 22:50:56 GMT

Laurence Rees: Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution'
The evil that men do
Robert Benchley: Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor Collections)
I don't actually have this (I've got some old out-of-print stuff from second-hand shops), but it's bound to be a delight
Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Calvin & Hobbes)
And, indeed, every other Calvin and Hobbes book
David Stenn: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
The original "It" girl
Richard J. Evans: Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910
A study of disease and its impact on a societal structures
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
More fiction set in the Victorian era, with added lesbianism and audacious plot twists
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
The book the Da Vinci Code desperately longs to be. Only, of course, Dan Brown lacks the intellect, the wit, the invective, and the towering genius of the mighty Umberto Eco.
Ian Kershaw: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
The best biography of everyone's favourite Charlie Chaplin impersonator
Barry Paris: Louise Brooks: A Biography
The ultimate biography of an elusive screen icon
Louise Brooks: Lulu in Hollywood
Essays on silent film and its stars from the insightful mind of Brooksie
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)
The best, most accurate drawing of a female character by a male writer... ever!
Daniel Blum: Pictorial History of the Silent Screen
The title says it all really
Alasdair Gray: Poor Things
A Glaswegian "Frankenstein". That's a good thing, in case you were wondering
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics)
Oh the tragic fatality of it all...
Eric J. Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
A fitting conclusion to the "Age of" quatrology
Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller
A pioneering work of social and cultural history (and a damn good read to boot)
Dorothy Parker: The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics)
For those who don't know, in addition to being the wittiest woman who ever lived, Dorothy Parker was also a world class writer of short stories.
Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
Exquisitely written tale of a prostitute in Victorian London and her rise through society
Francois Truffaut: The Films in My Life
Essays on cinema from a master of the art
Robert Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays
A study of 18th century France
Margot Peters: The House of Barrymore
A portrait of a self-destructive family
Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree
Ah, the innocence of youth
Kevin Brownlow: The Parade's Gone by
The classic study of the silent cinema industry
Thurber James: The Thurber Carnival
I do have this, and it is a delight

Heavens to Betsie

Damned if I'm repeating myself...

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