 | Six Characters in Search of an Author (American Repertory Theatre) by Luigi Pirandello
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 a contemporary classic of Italian drama
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 | Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.44 great urban fairy tale about two young kids falling in love
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 | Plays: "The Factory Girls", "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme", "Innocence", "Carthaginians", "Baglady" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Frank McGuinness
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £18.39 Innocence in this collection is the best yet on everything but what the title might suggest
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 | Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
Buy used from: £12.94 all of the icon of this age of anxiety
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 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Blake
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £2.25 simply the best of his time
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 | Art Library: Renaissance in Venice (Everyman Art Library) by Patricia Fortini Brown
Buy used from: £18.00 the best introduction on the subject
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 | The Architecture of Michelangelo by Ackerman
Buy new: £24.65 / Used from: £16.00 the most complete and rigorous analysis
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 | The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Andrea Palladio
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 | Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer
Buy new: £19.52 / Used from: £16.97 this man knows how to write and his book fills an important gap in Italian art history scolarship
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 | Mark Rothko: A Biography by JEB Breslin
Buy used from: £69.95 the best and most compelling biography on the man
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 | A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein
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 | The Twins by Tessa de Loo
Buy used from: £0.01 although almost all Dutch books have WWII as their subject, this is a very different, must read!
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 | The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £1.70 forget about Jeroen Krabbé's film with Stephen Fry, this is the real, unfilmable original
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 | The Classical Language of Architecture (World of Art) by John Summerson
Buy used from: £7.18 thorough analysis and a basic work that all interested in art history should know by heart
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 | Villa des Roses (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Willem Elsschot
Buy used from: £2.44 the first novel and straight away a masterpiece of this Flemish writer
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 | Fictions (Everyman's Library Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £4.83 mind bending puzzles that become clearer on every read
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 | A God Strolling In The Cool Of The by Mario De Carvalho
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £9.10 / Used from: £2.80 the master of Italian storytelling is out to frustrate all readers... but hang on to the end, it miught surprise you!
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
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 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Buy used from: £0.01 this novella is in prose that is as beautifully composed as any poem
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 the protagonists will haunt you long after you have closed this wonderful novel
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 | Essential Saint-Saëns
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £3.92 a great overview
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 | Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Le Sacre Du Printemps
Buy new: £21.27 / Used from: £3.20 Stravinsky's best
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 | The Gershwin Connection by Dave Grusin
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £3.90 Gershwin's classical masterpieces jazzed up superbly
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 | Moulin Rouge: Collector's Edition by Various Artists
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £1.95 how to revive old stuff and make it better than the original
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