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29 Ebooks by John Osborne
John Osborne: Inadmissible Evidence
I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, …
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€11.26
John Osborne: Entertainer
This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look …
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€11.15
John Osborne: John Osborne Plays 1
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his career along its startling trajectory, as well as …
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€17.49
John Osborne: John Osborne Plays 2
This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present. 'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether …
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€17.49
John Osborne: John Osborne Plays 3
This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century. …
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€17.52
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant …
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€11.21
John Osborne: Hotel in Amsterdam
Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a weekend to escape his clutches. Safely ensconced in a hotel in Amsterdam, the uneasy …
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€9.98
John Osborne: Damn You England
Well-known playwright and acerbic wit, John Osborne was a man of trenchant opinions which he was unafraid to express. Ranging from his infamous 1961 letter to Tribune which provides the book with its …
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€9.98
John Osborne: Looking Back
When John Osborne died at Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and acerbic wit. Now, Osborne's superb autobiographies, A …
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€16.24
Anthony Creighton & John Osborne: Epitaph for George Dillon
'Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a …
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€10.00
Bartlett Neil Bartlett: Picture of Dorian Gray
Believe me, no civilised man ever regrets a pleasure…As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while …
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€13.49
Osborne John Osborne & Lane Pamela Lane: Dearest Squirrel ‘
A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK’s greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct …
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€28.09
John Osborne: Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in …
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€31.31
John Osborne: Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in …
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€31.35
John Osborne: Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in …
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€31.49
John Osborne: Radio Head
John Osborne has long been a fan of radio – from late night sessions of John Peel to Test Match Special at dawn, he has always enjoyed tuning in to the riches of our best broadcasts. When his dull …
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€13.01
John Osborne: Rome in the Eighth Century
This book addresses a critical era in the history of the city of Rome, the eighth century CE. This was the moment when the bishops of Rome assumed political and administrative responsibility for the …
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€99.91
John Osborne: Rome in the Eighth Century
This book addresses a critical era in the history of the city of Rome, the eighth century CE. This was the moment when the bishops of Rome assumed political and administrative responsibility for the …
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€100.19
Jamie Duncan & John Osborne: OpenShift in Action
Summary Open Shift in Action is a full reference to Red Hat Open Shift that breaks down this robust container platform so you can use it day-to-day. Combining Docker and Kubernetes, Open Shift is a …
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€41.07
John Osborne: You’re Not Watching Me, Mummy and Try a Little Tenderness
First broadcast on ITV's Playhouse in 1980, You're Not Watching Me, Mummy focuses on the hollowness of an actor's existence and was written as Osborne was separating from his then …
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€12.49
John Osborne: Very Like a Whale
Originally written in 1971, John Osborne's Very Like a Whale concerns a wealthy industrialist who becomes increasingly estranged from friends and family as he reaches the heights of success. It …
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€7.47
John Osborne: Right Prospectus
The Right Prospectus focuses on a middle-aged couple who attempt to inveigle their way into a public school as pupils. John Osborne was prompted to write the script by a dream in which he imagined …
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€7.44
John Osborne: Gift of Friendship
Focused on rivalry and legacy, The Gift of Friendship examines the bitter relationship between two writers revealed after one of them dies. It was first broadcast on ITV in September …
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€7.48
John Osborne & Peter Smeaton: Out of the Studio
Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the …
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€43.72
Walter Benjamin: The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and …
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€21.99
