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Communication English fiction Irish authors Anthologies English language History Fathers and daughters England Drama Man-woman relationships England London Drama Musicals Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Short stories Anthologies Short stories, Irish Speech and social status England London DramaShaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822 SHAShaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.912 SHAShaw, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHAShaw, Bernard
Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHASummary: In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEVHepburn, Audrey
Summary: A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Warner 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family My 2004Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PYGSummary: "Epifania is glamorous, clever-- and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MILSummary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSContents: Overture -- Why can't the English? -- Wouldn't it be loverly -- With a little bit of luck -- I'm an ordinary man -- Just you wait -- The rain in Spain -- I could have danced all night -- Ascot gavotte -- On the street where you live -- You did it -- Show me -- Get me to the church on time -- A hymn to him -- Without you -- I've grown accustomed to her face -- The embassy waltz.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Broadway Masterworks 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SM My Fair 1998Summary: One night, a frightened Swiss soldier of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her romantic notions about love and valor. The bonus play is set in 1796 at an inn where Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest of Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARMLoewe, Frederick
Contents: Overture -- Why can't the English? -- With a little bit of luck -- I'm an ordinary man -- Just you wait -- The rain in Spain -- I could have danced all night -- Ascot gavotte -- On the street where you live -- You did it -- Show me -- Get me to the church on time -- A hymn to him -- Without you -- I've grown accustomed to her face.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MYVarious authors
Contents: The beaast in the jungle / Henry James. -- Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Swann in love (from Remembrance of things past) / Marcel Proust. -- A lost lady / Willa Cather. -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitSummary: A beautiful Russian girl is used as part of an international conspiracy to kill James Bond, Agent 007. The adventure leads him through Istanbul aboard the Orient Express.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2000Summary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENShepp, Archie.
Contents: For losers. Stick 'em up (2:05) -- Abstract (4:20) -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster (5:16) -- What would it be without you / Cal Massey (4:05) -- Un croque Monsieur (poem: For losers) (21:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse!/Universal Music Group 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On his Sussex estate Captain Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer and inventor, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEALerner, Alan Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 1958
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 LERYardley, Jonathan.
Summary: This collection of 5 dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 YARSummary: This overview of George Bernard Shaw's life and work from the Famous Authors series starts in Dublin, introducing Shaw's family and his mother's voice teacher and influential family friend, George Vandeleur Lee. The film discusses Shaw's experience as a Protestant in Ireland. Eventually Shaw moved to England, where his mother had started giving singing lessons, and set off writing. There he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: “Opera is usually full of drama, tragedy, and death. In fact the writer George Bernard Shaw once said that he knew when it was the end of an opera because no one was left alive on stage. But there are also many comic operas, operas that are full of comic characters and situations. According to the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest comic opera ever written is the subject of today’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: This program follows English through the 18th and 19th centuries, from attempts at reforming and standardizing the tongue in the Age of Reason to the soaring verse of Romanticism and the verbal prudishness of the Victorian era. Linguistic milestones are highlighted by original editions of critical texts, including Newton's Opticks, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Contents: She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll -- The islandman / Desmond Clarke -- The lady on the Grey / John Collier -- The awakening ; The return / Daniel Corkery -- Saint Bakeoven / Eric Cross -- The kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany -- The burial / St. John Ervine -- Something in a boat / Padraic Fallon -- Miss Gillespie and the micks / Arnold Hill -- The leaping trout / David Hogan -- Araby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Devin-Adair Co. 1987