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9780719565335 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, July 23, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From its birth in 1768, when the first John Murray of Edinburgh came down to London, each of the publishing house's seven leaders has made his own contribution to the dissemination of literature and the understanding of the world.
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9780618057023 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, June 6, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Profiles the life of Tolkien beginning with his South African childhood, exploring his roles as a soldier in World War II, an English professor at Oxford University, and as a writer of fantasy.
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9780606303248 | Demco Media, April 30, 2004, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Profiles the life of Tolkien beginning with his South African childhood, exploring his roles as a soldier in World War II, an English professor at Oxford University, and as a writer of fantasy.
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Product Description: Class Three has been given an amazing new computer, but there's something a bit strange about it. Firt it is cheeky to Mr. Majeika, then the whole class is magically trapped on the Internet. How on earth are they going to get out?
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9780754063353 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Class Three has been given an amazing new computer, but there's something a bit strange about it.
9780754063353 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Class Three has been given an amazing new computer, but there's something a bit strange about it.
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9781586480813 | 1st edition (Public Affairs, April 1, 2002), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A vibrant history of the British satire explosion of the early 1960s-from Private Eye and Beyond the Fringe to That Was the Week That Was-and its lasting influence on comedy.
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9780306812057 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s.
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9780670855339 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A very different look at some of Shakespeare's stories told from a minor character's point of view.
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9780670855346 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A very different look at some of Shakespeare's stories told from a minor character's point of view.
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9780754065050 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents simplified retellings of nine of Shakespeare's plays.
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9780754050483, titled "Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits!" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, January 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents simplified retellings of nine of Shakespeares plays.
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9780575065888 | Victor Gollancz, January 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: At the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett changed the face of British comedy with their satire.
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Product Description: '...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780618056996 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, June 6, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: '.
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9780670872015 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Amusing retellings of Shakespeare's plays set in the present day.
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9780754050810 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents simplified retellings of some of Shakespeare's plays.
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9780140366419 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Do be careful, Mr.
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9780140371239 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When old Mr Jenks retires, St Barty's School advertises for a new caretaker.
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9780140366488 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Follow the antics of Mr Majeika as he helps save a family of foxes, narrowly escapes having to marry an ugly mermaid and lends Santa a hand in the festive season.
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9780140327625 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Sometimes,' whispered Jody.
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9780140368154 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This anthology introduces children to the children's classics from "Anne of Green Gables" to a "Christmas Carol", offering them an opportunity to use the extracts as a guide to which classics they would enjoy.
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9780670865321 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The tenth story about Mr Majeika, the ex-wizard turned teacher, and the amazing adventures which he has with his class at St Barty's school - and his enemy, the wicked witch Wilhelmina.
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9780140378405 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Class 3 are sure that something is very wrong when Mr Majeika leaves school without saying goodbye.
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Product Description: Poor Mr Majeika gains so many penalty points when the nasty Mr Postlethwaite, a school inspector, comes to inspect that he nearly loses his teacher's licence. However Mr Majeika gets his revenge.
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9780670847389 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poor Mr Majeika gains so many penalty points when the nasty Mr Postlethwaite, a school inspector, comes to inspect that he nearly loses his teacher's licence.
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9780140323603 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Oh, don't be cowards,' said Jody.
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9780670819751, titled "Mr Majeika" | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The new teacher at St Barty's makes his first appearance in a very unusual manner.
9780745115825 | Large print edition (Chivers, July 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.
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9780140316773, titled "Mr Majeika" | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.
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9780745184654 | Chivers, May 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The new teacher at St.
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9780670807543 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: There's a new music teacher starting at St Barty's and it's William Warlock - Mr Majeika's sworn enemy.
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9780140321418 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Music teacher?
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9780340571071 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This is a biography of the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury, including Runcie's opinions on major incidents of his tenure and presents a portrait of the man himself and the Church of England today.
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9780340660041 | Hodder & Stoughton, September 1, 1997, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A biography of the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
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9780140348347 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Oh dear,' said Mr.
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9780140343588 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'I really am quite useless as a wizard.
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9780140362886 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 'Use of magic by teacher strictly forbidden.
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9780192115829 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 19, 1984, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive survey of children's literature features almost two thousand entries encompassing biographical sketches of authors, illustrators, printers, and publishers, as well as essays on the different genres, fictional characters and printing processes
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9780198602286 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 27, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive survey of children's literature features almost two thousand entries encompassing biographical sketches of authors, illustrators, printers, and publishers, as well as essays on the different genres, fictional characters and printing processes
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9780312221263 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An authorized biography of the prolific and sometimes controversial author of 'The Singing Detective,' chronicles his life and career
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9780345295521 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1981, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, the author examines the friendship between and the social and literary gatherings of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams who laughingly called themselves the Inklings
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9780786101030 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: During the 1930s at Oxford, C.
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