Background
Gray, Simon James Holliday was born on October 21, 1936. Son of James Davidson Gray and Barbara Cecelia Mary (Holliday) Davidson.
(In February 1995, Simon Gray's Cell Mates opened at the A...)
In February 1995, Simon Gray's Cell Mates opened at the Albery Theatre, London, starring Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall. A few days later, Stephen Fry mysteriously - and famously - vanished, leaving in his wake a mixture of anger and incomprehension, turmoil and gallantry. Fry's understudy stepped in, a replacement was found, but just three weeks later, the play closed. Fat Chance is Simon Gray's intimate story of how a West End play was made and unmade, a classic account of theatrical misadventure.
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('Tomorrow - no, fuckwit, later today, this afternoon or e...)
'Tomorrow - no, fuckwit, later today, this afternoon or evening, Friday, I'm going to devote my diary to telling the story of the fate of my last play, The Late Middle Classes, and on into the story of what's happening, failing to happen, with my new play Japes (working title).' But, this being a Simon Gray diary, other avenues, not to mention parks, cinemas, river journeys, theatre outings, hospitals, trains, cars and of course George (the dog) provide an irresistible melange of hilarious anecdote and bleak, black humour. As always with Simon Gray, the elegance of the writing, coupled with his sheer disbelief at what the world throws at him, makes his work a joy to read.
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(How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in ...)
How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in a life? In this chronicle of a year of things going wrong (and just occasionally right), the author of the acclaimed The Smoking Diaries meets with triumph and disaster and treats those two impostors just the same - which is to say with the mixture of wit, anger, vexation and candour that has made Simon Gray one of Britain's greatest writers of comedy - including the comedy that lurks in tragedy.
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(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T074049 A variant has the first five lines of the title set differently, reading: "The speech (at length) of the Honourable C. J. Fox, ..". London : printed for J. S. Jordan, by J. Davenport, 1800. [3],6-33,[1]p. ; 8°
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(When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to...)
When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Bringing together the four parts of The Smoking Diaries (The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and Coda) this beautiful volume is filled with comedy and serious reflection, sharp observation and painful self-disclosure. A brilliant and moving account of life's unsteady progress, it takes the reader to the heart of one man's brilliant struggle towards some kind of personal truth.
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( When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to k...)
When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the days's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. One of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs, and many more disasters; a record of shame, adultery, friendship, and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves, and even fewer so entertaining.
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( Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At...)
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother? With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography.
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( During a holiday with his wife in Crete, the celebrated...)
During a holiday with his wife in Crete, the celebrated diarist and playwright Simon Gray recalls the scans and consultations that have dominated the previous months in this frank, moving, and often painfully funny account of what Gray refers to as "the beginning of my dying". Wonderfully comic depictions of the medical team are interrupted by unforgettable portraits of fellow tourists, digressions on everything from crimes of passion to a brief history of his athletic career, and a masterfully tense distraction, composed while waiting for his final prognosis - and smoking one last cigarette. Written with a great generosity of spirit and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Simon Gray's Coda was read by the author shortly before his death, in August 2008.
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( A great many writers use their own lives as the raw mat...)
A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his previous best-seller, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer has the rare ability to make you laugh aloud one moment and ponder the sad mysteries of mortality the next, and sometimes to do both at the same time.
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( As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his...)
As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his carriage while still nestling inside it. "It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they planted the pram in the usual spot, and stood over it, watchingthe baby lay there smiling or snivelling up at them, until it struck them that they should try observing the baby when unobserved by the baby, and they withdrew behind bushes and trees; and thus witnessed the swaying of the pram, then the juddering of the pram, then its slow, unsteady progress along the path, the movement accompanied by a low humming and keening sound from within that reminded them more of a dog than a human . . . jouncing was the word they used for it. I was a jouncer therefore." In these hilarious chronicles of triumph and disaster, Gray intertwines scenes from his adult and his child self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life’s unsteady progress.
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(In these, the latest chronicles of triumph and disaster f...)
In these, the latest chronicles of triumph and disaster from the celebrated author of "The Smoking Diaries", Gray intertwines scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.
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( Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At...)
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother? With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography.
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("Butley" - 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically...)
"Butley" - 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil associations are all stunningly illuminated by continuous explosions of sardonic, needling, feline, vituperative and civilised lines' - "Evening Standard".
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(Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's c...)
Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America"* comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists-and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way. A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom. Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious. *Jimmy So, Daily Beast
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("Butley" - 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically...)
"Butley" - 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil associations are all stunningly illuminated by continuous explosions of sardonic, needling, feline, vituperative and civilised lines' - "Evening Standard".
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(One of a series of children's books featuring individual ...)
One of a series of children's books featuring individual characters from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" story books. This particular boxed set features four stories of Tigger, with the characters of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, Rabbit and Kanga included.
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(This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley";...)
This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley"; "Otherwise Engaged"; "Quartermain's Terms"; "Close of Play"; and "The Late Middle Classes".
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(With his wife away, Simon Hench, successful publisher and...)
With his wife away, Simon Hench, successful publisher and avid Wagnerite, is looking forward to a long listen to his new record of "Parsifal". But the sex problems of his lodger and his brother's desire to share his anxiety turn out to be the beginning of a string of interruptions.
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(This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley";...)
This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley"; "Otherwise Engaged"; "Quartermain's Terms"; "Close of Play"; and "The Late Middle Classes".
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('A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play...)
'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour' - "Punch on Otherwise Engaged". 'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays'. 'Harold Pinter Plaintiffs and Defendants Exceptionally good...the play gave such a rending picture of married mess that it was hard to know where to look' - Clive James, "Observer". 'Simon Gray is the one [TV playwright] whose work I most relish seeing for his acerbic wit, wonderful ironies and above all for his care with our mother tongue' - Dennis Potter.
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('The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illu...)
'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small' - "New York Times" on "Quartermaine's Terms".
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(This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley";...)
This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley"; "Otherwise Engaged"; "Quartermain's Terms"; "Close of Play"; and "The Late Middle Classes".
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(This manual includes worked-out solutions to every odd-nu...)
This manual includes worked-out solutions to every odd-numbered exercise in Multivariable Calculus, 7e (Chapters 10-17 of Calculus, 7e).
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(The traditional working papers include problem-specific f...)
The traditional working papers include problem-specific forms for preparing solutions for Exercises, A& B Problems, the Continuing Problem, and the Comprehensive problems from the textbook. These forms, with preprinted headings, provide a structure for the problems, which helps students get started and saves time. New to this edition: All forms have been updated to coincide with core text changes.
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(This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnorm...)
This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnormal psychology. It focuses on both clinical descriptions, using illustrative case studies at the beginning of each section, and on the implications of the major theoretical perspectives and relevant empirical evidence for clinical treatment. It provides a very readable and up-to-date review of topics including childhood behaviour disorders, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders and models of abnormal behaviour. Alan Carr illustrates a scientific approach to the understanding of these aspects of abnormal psychology. Both the content and style of this book will help students understand a complex area of psychology.
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(Harry, a literary agent, and Louise, who is a writer, are...)
Harry, a literary agent, and Louise, who is a writer, are a happily married young couple who move with their children to an idyllic country house. But country life proves to be the opposite of the idyll they envisaged. The play is an attack on the artistic pretensions of the rich middle class.
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(This play takes as its central characters the spy George ...)
This play takes as its central characters the spy George Blake and the Irish petty criminal, Sean Bourke, who sprang Blake from Wormwood Scrubs. It tracks their relationship from their first meeting in prison to their hide-out in London and in the flat they shared in Moscow.
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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(In Simon Gray's 1975 comedy, "Otherwise Engaged", success...)
In Simon Gray's 1975 comedy, "Otherwise Engaged", successful publisher and Wagnerite Simon Hench suffered continual interruptions just as he was settling down to listen to a new recording of "Parsifal". This sequel follows a retired Hench out to the countryside where he now lives.
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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(This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley";...)
This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley"; "Otherwise Engaged"; "Quartermain's Terms"; "Close of Play"; and "The Late Middle Classes".
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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( Simon Gray’s funny, melancholic and captivating play ab...)
Simon Gray’s funny, melancholic and captivating play about a young boy trapped between two types of oppressive love reveals the frustration, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England. Two years after the playwright’s death his 1999 success receives a major revival at one of London’s best known theatres, the Donmar Warehouse.
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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( Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then ...)
Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then share the woman they both love. They have a daughter, but who is the father? Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, Simon Gray’s funny, sardonic new play Japes is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate of the terrible ravages of time.
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(The Pig Trade, Japes Too, Michael, The Holy Terror The Pi...)
The Pig Trade, Japes Too, Michael, The Holy Terror The Pig Trade is set in 1937 in the Villa of I Tatti outsider Florence where, under the menacing shadow of Mussolini, a famous art historian and a notorious art dealer have an explosive final encounter. Japes Too and Michael are companion plays, in which the love of two brothers for one woman both highlights and obscures their dependency on each other but where fate and tragedy strike differently. Simon Gray's play Melon, which follows a publisher into his nervous breakdown and out again, enjoyed great success in the West End but, dissatisfied with the work, Gray revised it so thoroughly that a new play with the same central character emerged, entitled The Holy Terror. This volume also contains a brief chronicle by the author on the gestation of his work and the impossibility of writing. 'Simon Gray is actually one of the most accessible, elegant and tender of contemporary writers. He is also, both on stage and on the printed page, laugh-out-loud funny.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph 'Gray's plays, funny and sad, have a savage honesty at their heart.' Mail on Sunday
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( A comprehensive study of the techniques of drawing, thi...)
A comprehensive study of the techniques of drawing, this is both a historical work, covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the present, and a useful manual for contemporary artists. It presents the old masters’ techniques by means of a thorough study of the historical and written evidence of the tools and materials used. The author also includes a series of workshop procedures he has developed with which the contemporary artist may produce the equivalents of the techniques of earlier draughtsmen. This book comprises a body of knowledge that is essential to students of art history, curators, collectors and artists, and is a significant addition to the literature on drawing. In addition to his scholarly investigation of earlier practices, the author identifies materials and processes used by such important artists as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Romney, Picasso, Michelangelo, Watteau, Holbein, Tiepolo, and Delacroix. For the artist interested in reproducing the effects achieved by these and many other acknowledged masters, there are full discussions and specific directions concerning the making of inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, fabricated chalks, and instructions for preparing grounds for metalpoint drawings. At every step, the discussion is supplemented with illustrations from laboratory experiments and from drawings by both old and contemporary artists. Of the more than sixty illustrations included, thirty-six are reproductions of master works, and among the others there are microphotographic enlargements of detail showing the differences in density and texture produced by various tools on different papers or grounds. Thus, as a collection of master drawings, the book is worthy of the art lover’s library; as a technical study, it is an indispensable aid to the art student and practicing artist.
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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(The accidental death of their parents when Michael and Ja...)
The accidental death of their parents when Michael and Jason (Japes) were in their teens made them as close as brothers can be: the family home they inherited remains unchanged, part playground, part shrine. But their lives change forever when Michael falls in love with Anita… and so does Japes… and a passionate triangle develops.
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('Sharp, funny and clever ...What a pleasure to re-encount...)
'Sharp, funny and clever ...What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit' - "Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit". 'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed' - Howard Jacobson, "Critical Quarterly Hidden Laughter". 'A sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this respect, he has become an English Chekhov...At the same time, Gray dispenses some of the incandescent malice and moral savagery of Coward at his acid best...But, of course, comparisons can only help you get your bearings. Gray is entirely his own man in this painful, querulous, warm, hard and mature play' - "Sunday Times".
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('Sharp, funny and clever ...What a pleasure to re-encount...)
'Sharp, funny and clever ...What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit' - "Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit". 'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed' - Howard Jacobson, "Critical Quarterly Hidden Laughter". 'A sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this respect, he has become an English Chekhov...At the same time, Gray dispenses some of the incandescent malice and moral savagery of Coward at his acid best...But, of course, comparisons can only help you get your bearings. Gray is entirely his own man in this painful, querulous, warm, hard and mature play' - "Sunday Times".
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(This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnorm...)
This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnormal psychology. It focuses on both clinical descriptions, using illustrative case studies at the beginning of each section, and on the implications of the major theoretical perspectives and relevant empirical evidence for clinical treatment. It provides a very readable and up-to-date review of topics including childhood behaviour disorders, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders and models of abnormal behaviour. Alan Carr illustrates a scientific approach to the understanding of these aspects of abnormal psychology. Both the content and style of this book will help students understand a complex area of psychology.
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("There are few things more enjoyable than reading the dia...)
"There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray". (Craig Brown, "Mail on Sunday"). Simon Gray's witty, painful, and acutely observed "Early Diaries" chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage. "An Unnatural Pursuit" records the London production of The Common Pursuit, from the nail-biting process of finding a producer through rehearsals to the first-night post-mortem. This is an enthralling insight into the world of Simon Gray, his working relationship with Harold Pinter - who directed many of his plays - and into the fascinating business of putting on a play. "A remarkable account of a remarkable experience". (Harold Pinter). "How's That for Telling 'em, Fat Lady?" describes Gray's experiences staging "The Common Pursuit" and "Dog Days" in Los Angeles and New York. "Not only the funniest book ever written about the American theatre, but a biliously accurate memoir of the inescapable beastliness of modern life. It splutters with instantly comic characters ...and richest of all these is the self-portrait of the author, whose bellicose melancholy and fortitude is so ripe and raw. For those who dread grease-paint anecdotalism, don't be put off. It's a terrific comic adventure, terrifically told with exquisite ill-temper". (John Osborne, "Spectator").
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('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)
'Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthralling and chilling' - "Financial Times" on "The Late Middle Classes".
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(In February 1995, Simon Gray's Cell Mates opened at the A...)
In February 1995, Simon Gray's Cell Mates opened at the Albery Theatre, London, starring Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall. A few days later, Stephen Fry mysteriously - and famously - vanished, leaving in his wake a mixture of anger and incomprehension, turmoil and gallantry. Fry's understudy stepped in, a replacement was found, but just three weeks later, the play closed. Fat Chance is Simon Gray's intimate story of how a West End play was made and unmade, a classic account of theatrical misadventure.
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(Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fie...)
Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray's voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often outrageously funny. He faced life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity; even when writing about his own mortality, he lost none of his prodigious talent to entertain. Warm, candid and with a double dose of dark humour, this dramatisation of Gray's "The Smoking Diaries" and other memoirs was completed just before his death last summer. "The Last Cigarette" premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in March 2009.
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(Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of lov...)
Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood - to Sell Out, the story of Simon's ancestor, returned to life decades after an industrial accident involving pickling brine, these stories are inventive, witty and sometimes a bit too much like real life.
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( Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stor...)
Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stories, and quality chapter books for beginning readers? Look no further: Jigsaw and Mila are the best detectives on the market! Lights, camera -- disaster! The coolest show on TV, Spy Guy, is filming an episode in Jigsaw's town. When Jigsaw lands a role as an extra, he gets to go behind the scenes. He even meets Chase Jackson, the show's spoiled star, who plays a junior spy. But then an important prop disappears -- and everyone accuses Chase of stealing it. Luckily, there's a real detective on the set. It's up to Jigsaw Jones to crack the case before the cameras roll!
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('A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play...)
'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour' - "Punch on Otherwise Engaged". 'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays'. 'Harold Pinter Plaintiffs and Defendants Exceptionally good...the play gave such a rending picture of married mess that it was hard to know where to look' - Clive James, "Observer". 'Simon Gray is the one [TV playwright] whose work I most relish seeing for his acerbic wit, wonderful ironies and above all for his care with our mother tongue' - Dennis Potter.
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(They are young and entirely unconventional. They have fin...)
They are young and entirely unconventional. They have finished at Cambridge and done the tour of Europe. Now the three friends need to earn a living, so they have set up a unique organisation – a very exclusive London club with high membership fees, affordable only to a select few, and where the services on offer are richly varied and exotic. The menu is sex, in every imaginable form, guaranteed to satisfy any craving and fulfil any desire. Some of the world’s most prominent people make up the clientele. ‘Outrageously indecent.’ – Punch
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(In Tartuffe, a witty 17th-century French comedy, a religi...)
In Tartuffe, a witty 17th-century French comedy, a religious hypocrite almost succeeds in his plot to jail a naive friend and his family and thereby get the title to their home. The Misanthrope centers on a man who decides to speak and act with complete honesty, despite the fact that society has its hypocritical aspects. Love enters the picture, and the results are funny and filled with disillusionment. Moliere's play The Bourgeois Gentleman tells us about a boring, unimaginative, and newly wealthy man who decides that he will become a first-class gentleman. Many comic episodes ensue before the final disappointment.
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(The word “fire” appears in the King James Version of the ...)
The word “fire” appears in the King James Version of the Bible 1,111 times. Fire has a natural and spiritual meaning. The natural meaning can be understood by anyone, but the spiritual meaning has to be discerned through the Holy Spirit. Spiritual discernment makes His word exclusive. Exclusion of the meaning of God’s word is to limit spiritual understanding and its practical application to those who are born of Him. Those who are born of Him have opportunity to gain understanding as they read, study, examine and meditate on God’s word. This process positions us to be able to receive understanding and revelation. You are invited to take a journey with me to examine a fire in the Scriptures in a light that few have seen, but many should be given the opportunity to trek. We have all been exposed to the traditional views of everlasting fire according to preachers and theologians. Most of us have heard or read of accounts given by people who have had visions or dreams of eternal fire. Many of us have taken for granted that these traditional views and teachings must be correct as they are preached and taught by mainstream Christianity. You and I have heard and accepted these views with very little investigation. A challenge is being issued to those who would like to dig deeper than the surface of traditionalism. Let this book challenge you to investigate, meditate and formulate an understanding of one aspect of the Consuming Fire of God. The Hell fire you find may not be measured in degrees of Fahrenheit or Celsius, but may be measured in degrees of consequences. Open the cover to discover!
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(Title: Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief ...)
Title: Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ... Edited by Mrs. J. S. Jameson. [With a preface by Andrew Jameson.] With ... map and illustrations, etc. (Natural-History appendix. The Ornithological work of J. S. Jameson. By R. B. Sharpe. List of Coleoptera collected by Mr. Jameson on the Aruwimi. By H. W. Bates. Lepidptera Rhopalocera by F. D. Godman and O. Salvin. Lepidoptera Heterocera by H. Druce.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Jameson, James S.; 1890. xxxii. 455 p. ; 8º. 010096.ff.3.
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(Excerpt from A Dictionary of Old English Plays: Existing ...)
Excerpt from A Dictionary of Old English Plays: Existing Either in Print or in Manuscript, From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century; Including Also Notices of Latin Plays Written by English Authors During the Same Period When I proposed to myself the superintendence of a new edition of Langbaine, with the additional matter published by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, F. R.S., F.S.A., etc., in 1860, incorporated, I had no conception that beyond the entries and notes which I had gradually drawn together between 1860 and 1890, much would remain to be done. But during the process of amalgamating these insertions, I discovered on every page of the work a proof that my predecessor had discharged his task in a manner infinitely more negligent and perfunctory than I had supposed, and it became indispensable either to relinquish the undertaking, or to submit to the onerous duty of revising the volume from beginning to end. I was too warmly interested in my self-imposed labour to throw it up, and I had to face the sole honourable alternative. No one can even cursorily examine the two impressions side by side without perceiving how entirely the text has been castigated and improved; but, of course, it will be easy for many to point out where I have failed, or might have accomplished more. The Dictionary of Old English Plays of 1860 marked, of course, a great advance on Langbaine, but nothing in comparison with what it might have done in more careful and conscientious hands. There is, as the case stands, scarcely any form of error and misstatement from which the publication is free. The defects of every kind are rather those of the earlier book improperly retained than any for which Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps is directly answerable. But that gentleman seldom put his whole strength into work not immediately associated with Shakespear, and we have here, no doubt, the result of casual and desultory jottings in an interleaved copy of Langbaine. The mischief is that a project of this sort, where the public demand is special and limited, however imperfect it may be, fills the room of a worthier book, and deprives those whose studies or researches are in a dramatic direction of the advantage of possessing a really useful Manual on the subject. The weakest portion of the original work, as it has so far appeared from time to time in print, is that which deals with the earlier dramatic literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Gray, Simon James Holliday was born on October 21, 1936. Son of James Davidson Gray and Barbara Cecelia Mary (Holliday) Davidson.
Student, Westminister School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Master of Arts, University Cambridge.
Wise Child 1968, Sleeping Dog 1968, Dutch Uncle 1969, The Idiot 1971, Spoiled 1971, Butley 1971 (Evening Standard Supervisor English University British Columbia, 1960-1963. Senior instructor, 1963-1964. Lecturer Queen Mary College, University London, 1965-1984.
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Author: (novels) Colmain, 1963, Simple People, 1965, Little Portia, 1967, A Comeback for Stark, 1968, Breaking Hearts, 1997, (non-fiction) An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces, 1985, How's That For Telling 'Em Fat Lady, 1988, Fat Chance, 1995, Enter a Fox, 2001, The Smoking Diaries, 2005, The Year of the Jouncer, 2006, The Last Cigarette: Smoking Diaries Volume 3, 2008, (plays) Wise Child, 1968, Sleeping Dog, 1968, Dutch Uncle, 1969, The Idiot, 1971, Spoiled, 1971, Butley, 1971 (Evening Standard award), Otherwise Engaged, 1975 (Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circuit, Evening Standard award), Plaintiffs and Defendants, 1975, Two Sundays, 1975, Dog Days, 1976, Molly, 1977, The Rear Column, 1978, Close of Play, 1979, Quartermaine's Terms, 1981, Tartuffe, 1982, Chapter 17, 1982, The Common Pursuit, 1984, Plays One, 1986, Melon, 1987, Hidden Laughter, 1991, The Holy Terror, 1992, Cell Mates, 1995, Simply Disconnected, 1996, Life Support, 1997, Just the Three of Us, 1997, The Late Middle Classes, 1999, Japes, 2000, Old Masters, 2004, Little Nell, 2007, Missing Dates, 2008, (television movies) After Pilkington, 1987, Quartermaine's Terms, 1987, Old Flames, 1990, They Never Slept, 1991, The Common Pursuit, 1992, Running Late, 1992, Unnatural Pursuits, 1993, Femme Fatale, 1993, (film) A Month in the Country, (radio plays) The Holy Terror (review), 1989, The Rector's Daughter, 1992, With a Nod and a Bow, 1993, Suffer the Little Children, 1993, Little Nell, 2006.
Member Dramatists Guild.
Married Beryl Mary Kevern, 1965 (divorced 1997). 2 children; Married Victoria Rothschild, 1997.