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Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
1.  Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pope
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  "A wonderful collection - if only it featured the "Essay On Man""
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Freedom And Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty
2.  Freedom And Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
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  "Essay on Joseph de Maistre is especially interesting, and rather disturbingly convincing..."
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The Roots Of Romanticism
3.  The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
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  "Very readable - imagine being at these lectures. There's a wonderful compendium of wildly contradictory "what Romanticism was" type statements in the first essay..."
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Futility ): A Revived Modern Classic (New Directions Paperbook, 718
4.  Futility ): A Revived Modern Classic (New Directions Paperbook, 718 by W. Gerhardie
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  "Hilarious. Deserves to be as famous as Waugh."
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Feet of Clay: Study of Gurus
5.  Feet of Clay: Study of Gurus by Anthony Storr
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  "Anthony Storr is definitely the most lucid psyhiatrist-writer I've read - has a great gift for explaining simple concepts clearly and for recognising the limits of his profession"
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The Witchdoctor of Chisale
6.  The Witchdoctor of Chisale by Stephen McWilliams
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  "I know the author!"
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Crome Yellow
7.  Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
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  "Before Huxley decided to devote himself to saving the world."
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Metro-Land [DVD]
8.  Metro-Land [DVD] DVD ~ John Betjeman
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  "Innocent, charming, funny, and poignant."
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Real Presences
9.  Real Presences by Steiner
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  "An extraordinary book - quite densely argued and difficult to read but endlessly stimulating...."
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Ordet [1954] [DVD]
10.  Ordet [1954] [DVD] DVD ~ Hanne Agesen
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  "A really extraordinarily hypnotic movie. I would not recommend this to someone who has been recently bereaved however."
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Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy But Didn't Know Who to Ask
11.  Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy But Didn't Know Who to Ask by Patricia F. O'Grady
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  "featuring my deathless prose...."
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In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction
12.  In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by Val Stevenson
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  ".. and featuring my deathless fiction...."
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Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24; Toccata Festiva, Op 24
13.  Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24; Toccata Festiva, Op 24 by Samuel Barber
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  "Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a wonderful piece that deserves to be much better known - captures the wonder and poignancy of childhood summers"
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Tarik O'Regan - VOICES
14.  Tarik O'Regan - VOICES by Tarik O'Regan
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  "Choral music from a contemporary composer - don't let that put you off though!"
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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
15.  Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
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  "Very thought provoking - go to www.badmedicine.co.uk to read my further thoughts on it!"
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The Flying Dutchman
16.  The Flying Dutchman by Thomson Smillie
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  "Buy this with a performance of The Flying Dutchman for an accesible introduction to Wagner's most likeable and accessible opera..."
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Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
17.  Wagner - Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
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  "A wonderful package, a wonderful performance - after The Flying Dutchman the next step in your Wagnerisation!"
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Der Ring Des Nibelungen [14cd Box]
18.  Der Ring Des Nibelungen [14cd Box] by Richard Wagner
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  "All of which leads one to the Daddy of them all. It's pretty awesome. Haven't heard this particular one but it has good reviews here..."
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The Night of the Hunter [DVD] [1955]
19.  The Night of the Hunter [DVD] [1955] DVD ~ Robert Mitchum
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  "Just watch it. An amazing film. The moment when Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish are singing together (just watch it, OK?) never fails to set my hairs standing on end"
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The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes"
20.  The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" by Olivia Manning
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  "A great Anglo-Irish novelist, unjustly forgotten in Ireland. This is a wonderful evocation of the chaos of Romania and then Greece in WWII, along with an intimate portrait of a marriage"
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The Levant Trilogy: "Danger Tree", "Battle Lost and Won" and "Sum of Things"
21.  The Levant Trilogy: "Danger Tree", "Battle Lost and Won" and "Sum of Things" by Olivia Manning
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  "Following on from The Balkan Trilogy"
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Troubles: Winner of the 2010 "Lost Man Booker Prize" for Fiction (New York Review Books Classics)
22.  Troubles: Winner of the 2010 "Lost Man Booker Prize" for Fiction (New York Review Books Classics) by J. G. Farrell
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  "The greatest Irish novel - and it is an Irish novel - I've ever read (full disclosure: I've read half of "Ulysses")"
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The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
23.  The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Samuel Johnson
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  "The Great Cham himself. Probably my favourite literary figure of all time - largely because there's something very human about his emotional directness, prejudices and enthusiasms."
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