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Product Description: “A generous helping of [James’s] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow.”—Billy CollinsOpal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James’s poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication of Cultural Amnesia as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation, Clive James is now, with the publication of this collection, being granted recognition as the poet he has always been...read more
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9780393067071 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 14, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Inspired, through his vast reading, by the poetic voices of the past, yet always speaking in a voice unmistakably his own, Clive James ineffably combines humor and great tragedy (but never solemnity) to create poems that are at once traditional yet engagingly fresh.

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9780393337358 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 22, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “A generous helping of [James’s] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow.

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9780330457385 | Pan Macmillan, June 5, 2009, cover price $26.80

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Product Description: A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain...read more
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9780224018258 | Chatto & Windus, June 1, 1980, cover price $16.95

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9780393336085 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 18, 2009, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.

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Product Description: "I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it."—Jacob Weisberg, SlateFinally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism...read more
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9780393061161 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 19, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In a compilation of one hundred essays, a critic offers an illuminating study of humanism that examines the work of Louis Armstrong, Sigmund Freud, F.

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9780393333541 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it.

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Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire starring Anne Robinson as Mrs Thatcher, this book is the story of a life lived to the full.
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9780330481274 | New edition (Picador, January 15, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire starring Anne Robinson as Mrs Thatcher, this book is the story of a life lived to the full.

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With his criticism beginning to appear in magazines and newspapers such as the 'New Statesman', and his poetry published in 'Carcanet', as well as a play then being performed to rave reviews at the Arts Theatre, James had good reason to be content. But what happened next?
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9780330481281 | Picador, October 31, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: With his criticism beginning to appear in magazines and newspapers such as the 'New Statesman', and his poetry published in 'Carcanet', as well as a play then being performed to rave reviews at the Arts Theatre, James had good reason to be content.

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9781405092654 | Pan Macmillan, October 6, 2006, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: With his criticism beginning to appear in magazines and newspapers such as the 'New Statesman', and his poetry published in 'Carcanet', as well as a play then being performed to rave reviews at the Arts Theatre, James had good reason to be content.

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Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man, and master of many talents and the essays collected here are testament to that fact.
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9780330440257 | Picador, December 31, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man, and master of many talents and the essays collected here are testament to that fact.

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Takes the readers from London to Bali, theatre to library, from pre-election campaigning to sitting in front of the TV at home, and watching 'The Sopranos' and 'The West Wing'. This collection of essays is written by Clive James, a literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan.
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9780330440288 | New edition (Picador, December 30, 2004), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Takes the readers from London to Bali, theatre to library, from pre-election campaigning to sitting in front of the TV at home, and watching 'The Sopranos' and 'The West Wing'.

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The verse in this title is combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is entirely the poet's own. Following the publication of his 1986 collection, 'Other Passports', he has emerged as a prominent poet of his generation.
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9780330420044 | Pan Macmillan, October 17, 2003, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: The verse in this title is combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is entirely the poet's own.

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The noted critic offers a collection of his poetry, film, culture, and fiction criticism, ranging from 1967-2001, including forty-nine witty essays on Judith Krantz, James Agee, Fellini, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and more. (view table of contents)
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9780393051803 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The noted critic offers a collection of his poetry, film, culture, and fiction criticism, including forty-nine essays on such figures as Judith Krantz, James Agee, D.

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Product Description: Including his most memorable pieces his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analytical side...read more
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9780330481304 | Picador, December 31, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Including his most memorable pieces his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analytical side.

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Product Description: Effervescent, energetic and eclectic. this is one of the late Twentieth Century's finest minds (and bellies) on show. Even As We Speak is an illuminating and hilarious collection of essays by one o' Picador's most beloved authors...read more
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9780330481762 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Effervescent, energetic and eclectic.

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One of Britain's most witty and popular writers and television personalities tells the comi-tragic story of a young Indian boy who escapes from abject poverty by insinuating himself into India's burgeoning, decadent film world. 15,000 first printing.
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9780375500930 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Sanjay, a Bombay street child, escapes from abject poverty by insinuating himself into India's burgeoning, decadent film world

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An aspiring Japanese bureaucrat moves to London when he meets a flaky pop singer named Jane Austen, joins a health club, learns colloquialisms from a boozy journalist, and gains fortune and fame. 12,500 first printing.
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9780679411727 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Suzuki's reserved, driven, Japanese existence is turned completely upside down when he moves to London and starts sleeping with a glamorous yuppie stockbroker

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As an accompaniment to an upcoming PBS television series, this volume examines the nature of fame in the twentieth century, commenting on the notoriety of such figures as Madonna, Charles Lindbergh, and Walt Disney. TV tie-in. 40,000 first printing.
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9780679426998 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Examines the nature of fame in the twentieth century, commenting on the notoriety of such figures as Madonna, Charles Lindbergh, and Walt Disney

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Product Description: 'Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form...read more
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9781850895510 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist.

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Product Description: In the first volume of 'Unreliable Memoirs', we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney Harbour, bound for London, fame and fortune. Finding the first of these proved relatively simple; the second two less so. Undaunted, Clive moved into a bed and breakfast in a Swiss Cottage where he practised the Twist, anticipated poetical masterpieces and worried about his wardrobe ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781850895565 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In the first volume of 'Unreliable Memoirs', we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney Harbour, bound for London, fame and fortune.

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The photographer/author of numerous books on the royal family offers 180 chronologically arranged photographs that capture the transformation of 'shy Di' to the beautifully confident Princess of Wales
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9780671670580 | Summit Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The photographer/author of numerous books on the royal family offers 180 chronologically arranged photographs that capture the transformation of 'shy Di' to the beautifully confident Princess of Wales

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The author recounts his arrival in England at the age of twenty-two and the experiences of his two-year residence in London while awaiting a scholarship to Cambridge
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9780393023602 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his arrival in England at the age of twenty-two and the experiences of his two-year residence in London while awaiting a scholarship to Cambridge

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Capturing the essence of cities and countries through wit, satire, and penetrating observation, the author develops a unique form of travel writing with small pieces called 'postcards,' in which he renders impressions of such phenomena as sumo wrestling and the Russian language
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9780393022940 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Capturing the essence of cities and countries through wit, satire, and penetrating observation, the author develops a unique form of travel writing with small pieces called 'postcards,' in which he renders impressions of such phenomena as sumo wrestling and the Russian language

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Product Description: Each key is segmented according to the growth stage of the plant and refers users to illustrations of disease symptoms as well as to disease descriptions and guidelines on the back of each page for making disease assessments.
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9780890540817 | Amer Phytopathological Society, June 1, 1971, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Each key is segmented according to the growth stage of the plant and refers users to illustrations of disease symptoms as well as to disease descriptions and guidelines on the back of each page for making disease assessments.

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