Margaret Rutherford: A Blithe Spirit
So bad it's almost good: A sustained work of self absorbed narcissism and high camp. It's really about the author; I wouldn't believe a word of what it says about Rutherford without corroboration from a reliable source. Author: Dawn Langley Simmons [... more]
$16.95
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Agatha Christie
 Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the [... more]
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Miss Marple Movie Collection 4pk
Relive these four classic mysteries in a deluxe box set featuring one sleuthing character and written by one of the most prominent novelists of the past fifty years! This Agatha Christie Miss Marple Movie Collection includes MURDER SHE SAID, MURDER AT [... more]
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Eccentrics of Comedy
Eccentrics of Comedy examines the lives and careers of thirteen entertainers whose comedic style was distinctly eccentric: Milton Berle, El Brendel, Bobby Clark, Phyllis Diller, the two Duncan Sisters, Edward Everett Horton, Alice Howell, Franklin [... more]
$65.95
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Slaves in the Family
Amazon.com Review: Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he [... more]
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Slaves in the Family
Amazon.com Review: Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he [... more]
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The Filth: The Explosive Inside Story of Scotland Yard's ...
A must for the Anglophiles: "The Englishman is at his best the moment another man starts throwing a ball at him," wrote German novelist and poetess Vita Sackville-West in 1947. "He is then neither spiteful, nor vindictive, nor mean, nor [... more]
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Orwell: The Life
REVIEW OF D. J. TAYLOR'S ORWELL THE LIFE BY JOHN CHUCKMAN: This is a difficult book to categorize. It is well written, contains many interesting anecdotes, but it misses the essential Orwell. Taylor's gloomy, otherwordly, ex-Etonian, ex-imperial [... more]
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Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com Review: Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he [... more]
$17.95
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Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and ...
Amazon.com Review: It would take quite a story to live up to the melodramatic title of Edward Ball's Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. Fortunately for the reader, the bizarre and highly compelling tale of Gordon Langley [... more]
$24.00
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Orwell: The Life
REVIEW OF D. J. TAYLOR'S ORWELL THE LIFE BY JOHN CHUCKMAN: This is a difficult book to categorize. It is well written, contains many interesting anecdotes, but it misses the essential Orwell. Taylor's gloomy, otherwordly, ex-Etonian, ex-imperial [... more]
$30.00
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Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and ...
Amazon.com Review: It would take quite a story to live up to the melodramatic title of Edward Ball's Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. Fortunately for the reader, the bizarre and highly compelling tale of Gordon Langley [... more]
$21.95
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