Marx William Peter Miles (5 results)
More imagesThe Best After-Dinner Stories (The Folio Society)
Heald, Tim; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Shakespeare, William; Thackeray, William Makepeace; Johnson, Samuel; Purves, Libby; Walpole, Horace; Wodehouse, P.G. [Pelham Grenville]; Manser, Jose; The King's Tradesmen; Chesteron, G.K. [Gilbert Keith]; Warner, Pelham; Barham, R.H.; Dickens, Charles; Ingrams, Richard; Grady, Henry W.; Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]; Holroyd, Michael; Herbert, A.P.; Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]; Baldwin, Stanley; Fothergill, John; West, Mae; Parker, Dorothy; Marx, Groucho; Sitwell, Osbert; Baring, Maurice; Grenfell, Joyce; Waugh, Evelyn; Hoffnung, Gerard; Garland, Patrick; James, Clive; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Gordon, John; Lord Beaverbrook; Parris, Matthew; Brandreth, Gyles; The Think Tank; Kington, Miles; Mortimer, John; Trollope, Joanna; Davies, Robertson; HM the Queen; Scott, Margaret; Braun, Thomas; White, Alan; Steadman, Ralph; Fielding, Helen; Lipman, Maureen; Burnett, David; Ind, William; Cooper, Jilly; Ustinov, Peter
Language: English
Published by The Folio Society, 2003
- Hardcover
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various author…s, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.
The Word and the Visual Imagination : A Decade in the Lampeter MA in Literature and the Visual Arts.
Published by Dyfed, Wales: English Department, St. Davids University College, 1989., 1989
- Softcover
Seller: Sara Armstrong - Books, Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.Sara Armstrong - Books
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75pp, (7.5 x 9.75 inches), b&w illustrations, four color plates. Near Fine in wrappers (soft cover). Clean, tight, bright, no bumps, tears or creases, no markings. Twenty literary essays, including "Scholarship, the Book and Illustration," and "Medieval Poets and Artists; the Imagery of Love Paramours" by Alcuin Blamires, "Liter…ature and Art: Analysis and Analogy" by Rebecca Ferguson, "The Art of Love: Elizabethan Literature and Renaissance Art" by Gordon Williams, 'Hogarth and Rowlandson" by Allen Samuels, "Text and film" by Lawrence Normand, "The Erlangen Connection" by Karl Holtgen, "The Old (Antiquarian) Library at Lampeter and the Illustrated Book" by Gwyn Walters, "The Renaissance Art of May-Games and Mahem" by Godron Williams, "Evelyn Waugh's Illustrations for 'Decline and Fall'," by Peter Miles, "The Leverhulme Project: Building a Book Illustration Archive" by Gwyn Walters, "Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in Wales" by William Marx & Alcuin Blamires.
The word and the visual imagination: A decade in the Lampeter MA in Literature and the Visual Arts
Marx,William; Miles,Peter And Williams,Gordon(editorial Committee)
Language: English
Published by English Department,St David's University College, Lampeter,Dyfed, Wales, 1989
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 75 pages. Illustrated. (BT#4).
Language: English
Published by English Dept., St. David's University College, Lampeter., 1989
- Hardcover
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Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1989 1st edition with numerous colour and B&W illustrations; spine and cover uncreased; owner's name on first page; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.
THE WORD and the VISUAL IMAGINATION. A Decade in the Lampeter MA in Literature and the Visual Arts.
Marx,William; Miles,Peter and Williams,Gordon(editorial committee)
Language: English
Published by English Dept. St.david's University College Lampeter, 1989
- Hardcover
Seller: Siop y Morfa BA, Y RHYL, United KingdomSiop y Morfa BA
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75pp. Laminate p/b. Illust. with 32 b&w figures and 4 colour plates. Nr.F; minor bumping to corners.
