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141.York Notes on "Romeo and Juliet" (York Notes) by: John Polley August 19, 2002
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This book is an excellent introduction to what can be a dense and complex play. It starts with a simple plot outline. It then progresses to more in depth analysis of the play scene by scene. After which it lays out some key themes, symbols and ideas in the play in the forms of mini essays. It has a fairly good glossary, a potted history of Shakespeare himself and how his plays would have appeared. It also has a good time line and chronology, a glossary of common theatrical and critical terms and a good recommended reading list. It is very useful indeed.

142.Paperweight by: Stephen Fry August 05, 2004
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This book is collection of a wealth of essays, reviews, radio sketches and other oddments from various sources, so inevitably is something of a mixed bag. The majority of the pieces - including the fictionalised ramblings of The Liar's Professor Trefusis - take the form of short essays where Fry bemoans the state of society, both here and abroad. What saves these pieces from becoming tiresome is that Fry's observations (or, to put it more bluntly - moans) are wrapped up in both his ironic humour and an invigorating prose driven by his love of words. There is one slight problem with reading the pieces en masse however, and that is that Fry does have a tendencies to repeat his favourite anecdotes, arguments, and jokes - sometimes variations ... Read More:

143.Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman by: Kevin Gardner September 18, 2008
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This book is collection of a wealth of essays, reviews, radio sketches and other oddments from various sources, so inevitably is something of a mixed bag. The majority of the pieces - including the fictionalised ramblings of The Liar's Professor Trefusis - take the form of short essays where Fry bemoans the state of society, both here and abroad. What saves these pieces from becoming tiresome is that Fry's observations (or, to put it more bluntly - moans) are wrapped up in both his ironic humour and an invigorating prose driven by his love of words. There is one slight problem with reading the pieces en masse however, and that is that Fry does have a tendencies to repeat his favourite anecdotes, arguments, and jokes - sometimes variations ... Read More:

144.Waiting for Godot by: Samuel Beckett January 05, 2006
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I loved Waiting for Godot. A classic of Dialogue Theatre. People need to realise that even though it seems as if nothing is happening, it really is. They are waiting for something, and everyone knows what happens when you wait for so long, when it comes it will be a disapointment. Whether they are Waiting for God. In the days after WW11 when people started to really question whether there was a God and if there was, why didnt he stop the war? A brilliant example of the Absurdist theatre that was starting to rise or the Anti Theatre or the Search for ones Self, the search for purpose. A Fantastic play

145.Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) by: Harriet Beecher Stowe December 01, 1999
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of the most important and popular novels in literary history. One hundred and fifty years on it remains as controversial as it was at the time of its publication and has spawned the term Uncle Tom to describe black people who are excessively meek and submissive in the face of racial abuse and prejudice. The debate today though is not about the morality of slavery, which is universally reviled, but instead focuses on whether or not the author inadvertently demeans and degrades the very people for whom she sought both dignity and liberation. The novel begins in relatively liberal Kentucky in the home of a `liberal' slave owner and his wife who are reluctantly forced to sell two of their slaves to an unscrupulous dealer ... Read More:

146.The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by: Christopher Booker November 10, 2005
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Excellent and profound book - a must read for readers interested to gain a deep(er) understanding of the way literature relates to life!

147.The Year of the Jouncer (Smoking Diaries Volume 2) by: Simon Gray November 06, 2006
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I am so happy that Simon Gray saw a significant re-birth of his career (and in the general interest in him as a writer) in the final years of his life. I simply loved the Richard E. Grant helmed production of "Otherwise Engaged" and Gray's "Little Nell" is a fine, thoughtful play that will find its place someday. The Smoking Diaries are a fitting (and accomplished) final contribution from this very interesting and complicated man. That Simon Gray was able to record them on CD is all the more exciting because you may now hear Simon Gray eternally. (A good thing I assure you!) Would that so many others had the opportunity to do the same!

148.Archangel Oracle Cards by: Doreen Virtue April 30, 2004
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Beautiful cards that connect on a spiritual level offering knowledge and comfort. They have provoded me with answers and reassurance to recent traumatic circumstances and although I believe in Angels, I was sceptical about Angel cards --- However they deliver the answers or point the way

149.Lord of the Flies: Educational Edition by: William Golding July 15, 2004
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the book is one of the most boring books i have ever read it begins to get interesting from chapter 8 onwards but it seems golding tired of the book and finished it off rather quickly in the end the end is a complete let down i wud not advise this book to anybody unless they wish to suffer or become slightly depressed!

150.The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by: Jean-Jacques Rousseau October 01, 1998
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This book is a work of genius for the whole, exquisitely written it offers wisdom on most pages and nonsense on the others. It's been a very long time since I learnt such a large amount, the language has a poetic beauty to it and anybody interested in governance should read this. The thesis of the book is well known (as it indeed should be) but there are some startling facts about the author. Rousseau was serial child abandoner; he seems to have left five children in foundling hospitals and when attacked by his critic, a certain Voltaire, his defence was that the he would have been a poor father and his children would fair better in a foundling hospital. A slightly implausible fact given the high mortality rate at the founding hospital. Still, we judge him for his ideas, ... Read More:

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