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  1. Influence of Joyce’s Writing on Iain Sinclair’s Own Style of Urban Narrative (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    Recording of the John Coffin Memorial Reading, which took place at the Institute of English Studies on June 16, 2016. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses the influence of Joyce’s writing on his own style of...

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  2. You’Re Human Like the Rest of Them: The Collected Films of B.S. Johnson (2013)

    Director
    B.S. Johnson; Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    Best known for groundbreaking novels such as "The Unfortunates" and "Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry", B.S. Johnson was also the director of a number of films that have been out of circulation for...

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  3. Great Expectations (2011) (2012)

    Director
    Brian Kirk
    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

    Lavish BBC production of Dickens’ classic tale starring Douglas Booth as Pip, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and David Suchet as Jaggers.

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  4. British Novelists (2011)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    The story of the 20th century novel in Britain, told by authors themselves. There are three 60 minute programmes where great British novelists talk about their life and work.How did working-class writers...

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  5. Hireling, The (2009)

    Director
    Alan Bridges
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband’s death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with...

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  6. British Writers: The Spoken Word (2008)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 214 minutes), £19.50

    This three-CD compilation forms part of the British Library’s series of documentary recordings by English-language authors and playwrights. 30 British writers are represented, talking about their lives and...

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  7. Jane Eyre (2006) (2007)

    Director
    Susanna White
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 330 minutes), £24.99

    BBC adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, with Ruth Wilson as the heroine. The dramatisation races through the earlier passages of the novel such as Jane’s miserable childhood, but there is a...

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  8. Far from the Madding Crowd (2007)

    Director
    NIcholas Renton
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £9.99

    A SNAP People’s Theatre Trust production of Thomas Hardy’s novel

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  9. Painted Veil, The (2007)

    Director
    John Curran
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £17.99

    Based on the classic novel by Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is an epic and captivating love story set in the 1920s that tells the tale of a young English couple, Walter, a middle-class doctor, and...

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  10. Graham Greene: The Spoken Word (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 70 minutes), £9.95

    As novelist, essayist, critic and playwright, Graham Greene was one of the leading English literary figures of the twentieth century. This CD provides an overview of Greene’s life and achievements in his...

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