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By Simon Callow (foreword by)
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9781849434485 | Oberon Books Ltd, December 11, 2012, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language...read more
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9780345803238 | Vintage Books, August 7, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.

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Product Description: A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up in the 1960s—can Benson be both gay and Catholic? Gay and happy? What do you do when you're fat, 14, and your obsessions include the Catholic Church, doing the right thing, scones and sweets, and other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery...read more
By Simon Callow (foreword by)
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9780907633266 | Cutting Edge Pr, May 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up in the 1960s—can Benson be both gay and Catholic?

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Product Description: Now in paperback! Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theater. In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions, and events that have left their indelible mark on him...read more
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9781848420540 | Reprint edition (Nick Hern Books, May 17, 2011), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Simon Callow writes with perceptiveness, wit and flair about the remarkable people he has encountered in the course of his career.

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9781848421714 | Reprint edition (Nick Hern Books, February 28, 2012), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback!

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9781840027693 | Oberon Books Ltd, May 17, 2011, cover price $26.95

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A new edition of Virgil's epic work from the award-winning translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity as well as its influential blend of poetry and verse, in a volume that is complemented by an extensive notes section and glossary.
By Simon Callow (narrator), Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox (introduced by)
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9780143059028 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, November 2, 2006), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A new edition of Virgil's epic work is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity, as well as its influential blend of poetry and verse.

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A successful British actor briefly recounts his career, describes the experiences every actor goes through, and reveals his own feelings about what acting should be
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9780312072766 | St Martins Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A successful British actor briefly recounts his career, describes the experiences every actor goes through, and reveals his own feelings about what acting should be

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9780312422431 | Rep sub edition (Picador USA, July 1, 2003), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A successful British actor briefly recounts his career, describes the experiences every actor goes through, and reveals his own feelings about what acting should be.
9780312134334 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Since its first publication, Being an Actor has been a small classic of its kind--an essential book on the craft, commitment, and life of an actor.
9780802131232 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A successful British actor briefly recounts his career, describes the experiences every actor goes through, and reveals his own feelings about what acting should be

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9781429971485 | Revised edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Christmas fascinated the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, and to Victorian England, Dickens was Christmas. Following the enormous success in 1843 of A Christmas Carol, Dickens wrote several other Christmas books, sketches, and short stories, and the holiday plays a part in many of his novels...read more
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9780810945340 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An anthology of Christmas writings by Charles Dickens features the complete text of 'A Christmas Carol,' complemented by period illustrations and excerpts from other writings.

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9780711230316 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, September 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Christmas fascinated the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, and to Victorian England, Dickens was Christmas.

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Product Description: Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 1960s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 1970s, and the AIDS cinema of the 1980s have given way in recent years to films which celebrate a vast array of gay lifestyles...read more
By Simon Callow (foreword by) and Steven Paul Davies
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9781842432914 | Old Castle, December 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance.

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A memoir of Peggy Ramsay.
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9781854599766 | Nick Hern Books, November 29, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A memoir of Peggy Ramsay.

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Product Description: Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an esteemed Irish folklorist), transforming his life into a work of art (“My great tragedy is that I put my genius into my life—and only my talent into my work”), his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks “in life, style, not sincerity, is the essential...read more
By Simon Callow (foreword by) and Merlin Holland
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9781844835126 | Duncan Baird Pub, September 1, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights.

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By Simon Callow (foreword by) and Antonio Fava
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9780810123687 | Northwestern Univ Pr, February 19, 2007, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: With more than 200 stunning color photographs by noted photographer Wendy McDougall, Classical Destinations takes readers on a tour of the history and geography of classical music, examining the lives of the great composers as related to their places of b
By Simon Callow (foreword by) and Wendy Mcdougall (photographer)
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9781574671582 | Amadeus Pr, February 1, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: With more than 200 stunning color photographs by noted photographer Wendy McDougall, Classical Destinations takes readers on a tour of the history and geography of classical music, examining the lives of the great composers as related to their places of b

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A second volume in the biographical series about the legendary director traces the years after Citizen Kane to offer insight into Welles's increasing inability to function within the movie industry's structure, tracing his contributions to such films as The Magnificent Ambersons and The Lady from Shanghai, as well as his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.
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9780670872565 | Viking Pr, August 17, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of 'Citizen Kane,' his contributions to such films as 'The Magnificent Ambersons' and 'The Lady from Shanghai,' and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics
9780224038539 | Vintage Uk, May 4, 2006, cover price $55.55 | About this edition: Examines the years from 'Citizen Kane' to 'Macbeth' in which Orson Welles' Hollywood film career came apart.

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9780140275179 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 27, 2007), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A second volume in the biographical series about the legendary director traces the years after Citizen Kane to offer insight into Welles's increasing inability to function within the movie industry's structure, tracing his contributions to such films as The Magnificent Ambersons and The Lady from Shanghai, as well as his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

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9781848419131 | Nick Hern Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $32.25

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Product Description: When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking.A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account of a film made in the former Yugoslavia, together with new essays on film and film acting including Callow’s work in Amadeus and Four Weddings and a Funeral...read more
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9780312422448 | 1 edition (Picador USA, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together.

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Product Description: This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.P.A Federal Theatre Project and Mercury Theatre adaptations, including the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar and Welles' compilation of history plays, Five Kings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Simon Callow (foreword by), Richard France (editor) and Orson Welles
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9780415937269 | Routledge, January 1, 2002, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.

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Product Description: One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated London society with his works of drama, poetry and fiction. His sharp social observation coupled with his elegant writing style assured him popular success both in Britain and the USA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781855143128 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, June 1, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated London society with his works of drama, poetry and fiction.

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Product Description: This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon.
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9780851708225 | British Film Inst, January 26, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director.

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Product Description: "A magnificent memoir . . . a poignant, gut-wrenching, and intimate story of a remarkable relationship . . . captured brilliantly in [Simon] Callow's exquisite style . . . When Callow met Peggy Ramsay, the celebrated agent, they made an instant soul-deep connection, which was inexplicable to all ...read more
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9780880642576 | Reprint edition (Fromm Intl, February 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "A magnificent memoir .

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A first retrospective on the photographer's nearly fifty-year career is published to accompany a major exhibition and includes fashion shots for Vogue, pictures of noted artists, portraits of the royal family, and photographs of the lonely and disadvantaged.
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9780810944794 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A first retrospective on the photographer's nearly fifty-year career is published to accompany a major exhibition and includes fashion shots for Vogue, pictures of noted artists, portraits of the royal family, and photographs of the lonely and disadvantaged.

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Product Description: A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this anthology cuts across age and class, taboo and prohibition...read more
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9780711215351 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love.

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Product Description: Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor of Paris-Soir, Cocteau sets off with his very own ‘Passepartout’ as companion on a picaresque voyage some sixty-three years after his fictional predecessor...read more
By Simon Callow (introduced by), Jean Cocteau and Stuart Gilbert
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9781860645921 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in 1873.

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Presents Shakespeare's famous love poems.
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9781859982235 | Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, June 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents Shakespeare's famous love poems.

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A film and stage actor recounts his unlikely love affair with a famous theatrical agent forty years his senior in the face of his own homosexuality, detailing the pleasure and pain of loving a fascinating older woman.
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9780880642392 | Fromm Intl, May 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A film and stage actor recounts his unlikely love affair with a theatrical agent forty years his senior in the face of his own homosexuality, detailing the pleasure and pain of loving an older women

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