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Outhouse East Library			1 / 12

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	The Art of Gay Love	The Art of Gay Love is a celebration of homosexual love and passion as depicted in literature and art from ancient to modern times and spanning East and West. The extracts of poetry and prose - some moving, other lighthearted and amusing - are complemented by delightful full colour illustrations, including painting, sculpture and mosaics.

	1995
	Anthology, Art/Photography, Fiction, Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP001
	Beautiful Barbarians: Lesbian Feminist Poetry	A collection of lesbian feminist poetry.
	Lilian Mohin
	1986
	Anthology, Feminism, Lesbian, Poetry
	Book#: PP002
	Beyond Paradise: Poetry by Lesbians and Gay Men	A collection of poetry by lesbians and gay men.

	1990
	Anthology, Gay, Lesbian, Poetry
	Book#: PP003
	Gay Love Poetry	This wide-ranging and superbly entertaining anthology of poetry stretches from Catullus and Ovid through Marlowe and Michelangelo, on to Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, and finally to such moderns as Thom Gunn, J.R. Ackerley, Francis King, and C.F. Cavafy. This one-of-a-kind collection makes a convincing case for the central place of gay poetry in our literary culture.
	Neil Powell
	1997
	Anthology, Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP004
	Homosexual Acts: A Volume of Gay Plays	A collection of gay plays.
	Ed Berman
	1975
	Anthology, Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP005

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Outhouse East Library			2 / 12

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	How Can You Write a Poem When You Are Dying of AIDS?	A collection of unique poems provoked by AIDS.
	John Harold
	1993
	AIDS/HIV, Anthology, Poetry
	Book#: PP006
	Language of Water, Language of Fire: A Celebration of Lesbian and Gay Poetry	A collection of lesbian and gay poetry.
	Pat O'Brien, Berta Freistadt
	1992
	Anthology, Gay, Lesbian, Poetry
	Book#: PP007
	Lesbian Plays: Two	Representing the diversity of Lesbian politics and theatre, this collection includes "Coming Soon", a high-camp farce; "Supporting Roles", which explores long-term relationships; "Julie", which confronts the sexual taboo, and "Cinderella, the Real True Story", a pantomime.
	Jill Davis
	1989
	Anthology, Lesbian, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP008
	Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems	From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety.

	2001
	Anthology, Gay, Lesbian, Poetry
	Book#: PP009
	Book#: PP009
	Naming the Waves	A collection of lesbian poetry.
	Christian McEwen
	1988
	Anthology, Lesbian, Poetry
	Book#: PP010

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Outhouse East Library			3 / 12

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	The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse	A collection of gay poetry.
	Stephen Coote
	1983
	Anthology, Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP011
	Positive Poetry	This anthology of words builds on the horrific events that devastated the lives of two ordinary women and their extraordinary strenght in dealing with them. The brutal rape of a young girl and the HIV diagnosis of a mother to be. Through stories, poems and drawings Positive Poetry explores their reaction to the tragedy that shattered their lives and records a friendship built on a mutual love of words.
	AW, MH
	2000
	AIDS/HIV, Anthology, Art/Photography, Poetry, Short Story
	Book#: PP012
	Seven Ages of Woman	An anthology of fiction and poetry by women writers from Colchester.
	Nancy Hughes, Helen Hogan
	2009
	Anthology, Poetry, Short Story
	Book#: PP013
	Take Any Train: A Book of Gay Men's Poetry	A collection of gay men's poetry.
	Peter Daniels
	1990
	Anthology, Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP014
	Proof of a Tongue	A collection of poems by Sandra Alland.
	Sandra Alland
	2004
	Poetry
	Book#: PP015

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Outhouse East Library			4 / 12

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	Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995	The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates one of our major literary talents. Here, as in her novels, is intensity combined with sardonic detachment, and in these early poems her genius for a level stare at the ordinary is wonderfully apparent. Just as startling is her ability to contrast the everyday with the terrifying: 'Each time I hit a key/ on my electric typewriter/ speaking of peaceful trees/ another village explodes.' Her poetic voice is crystal clear, insistent, unmistakably her own. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. Two former collections, Poems 1965 - 1975 and Poems 1976 - 1986, are presented together with her latest collection, Morning in the Burned House, in this omnibus that represents the development of a major poet.
	Margaret Atwood
	1998
	Poetry
	Book#: PP016
	Book#: PP016
	A Lover's Discourse: Fragments	An insight into the discourse a lover addresses to himself and to the imagined figure of his beloved. The text is structured as a dictionary and written in a series of aphorisms. Barthes is also the author of "On Racine", "Writing Degree Zero" and "Mythologies".
	Roland Barthes
	1990
	Philosophy, Relationships, Romance
	Book#: PP017
	The History Boys: A Play	An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises―with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character―not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.
	Alan Bennett
	2004
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP018
	Book#: PP018
	Diesel Fuel: Passionate Poetry	An extraordinary volume from this renowned sexual pioneer. In this first collection of verse, the author of such best-selling and infamous volumes as Sensuous Magic and Macho Sluts, reveals herself to be a poet of unusual power and frankness. Not for the timid, Diesel Fuel is nonetheless one of this year's must-read explorations of underground culture.
	Pat Califia
	1997
	Poetry
	Book#: PP019
	A Withered Nosegay: Three Cod Pieces	A republication of three humorous pieces published by Coward in 1922, 1924 and 1932 which parody aristocratic memoirs, Edith Sitwell's verse and offer other humorous verse selections.
	Noel Coward
	1987
	Humour/Comedy, Poetry
	Book#: PP020

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Outhouse East Library			5 / 12

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	Noël Coward Collected Plays: One	This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Cowardand the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to alost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society.
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP021
	Book#: PP021
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Two	The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its production but as a whole." The Marquise is an "eighteenth century comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is a vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerfu lwriting.
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP022
	Book#: PP022
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Three	The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who...
	Noël Coward
	1979
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP023
	Book#: PP023
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Four	Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years the longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. Present Laughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary, middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona - self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like an educated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noël best knew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It is the closest to an autobiographical play that Coward ever wrote.This Happy Breed is a saga of a lower middle-class fam...
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP024
	Book#: PP024

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Outhouse East Library			6 / 12

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	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Five	Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life,this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and Suite in Three Keys (1965), a trilogy of plays which gave Coward his last roles on stage. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer, and includesan extensive chronology of Coward's work.
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP025
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Six	Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised…set in the bisexual1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society". Point Valaine is "th edrama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble whichconcerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP026
	Book#: PP026
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Seven	The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the crackle and sheen of a five-pound note. Her eyes mock marvelously, her voice cuts like a knife into a wedding cake, and the scene in Act Three, on the eve of her elopement with Mr. Lung, is as delicious ascrushed ice." Evening Standard, 1952. "The idea of Peace in Our Time", Coward wrote "was conceived in Paris shortly after the Liberation. . .I began to suspect that the physical effect of four years intermittent bombing is far less damaging to the intrinsic character of a nation than the spiritual effect of four years enemy occupation." The volume also contains four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence: We Were Dancing "provides a marvelously compact illustration of the way the English public school spirit prevails even in moments of strenuous passion." "Shadow Play is a musical fantasy. . . which gave Gertie and me a chance to sing as romantically as we could, dance i...
	Noël Coward
	1999
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP027
	Book#: PP027
	Noël Coward Collected Plays: Eight	The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'l lLeave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of them I appeared with the utmost determination." This Was a Man, a slightly later play, was written in 1926, after the successes which made his name. It was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain "for facetious adultery".
	Noël Coward
	2000
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP028

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Outhouse East Library			7 / 12

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	Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?: And Other Stand-up Theatre Plays	Five stand-up theatre plays from "the female counterpart to Quentin Crisp" (Evening Standard) Who does Claire Dowie think she is? In Adult Child/Dead Child she invented an imaginary friend to be all the things she wasn't allowed to be… In Why is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? She hated being a girl but what's the alternative? In Death and Dancing she was determined to be anything she wanted to be…In Drag Act Mother would have been proud. In Leaking From Every Orifice she was a lesbian, had a sexual relationship with a gay man and ended up pregnant…
	Claire Dowie
	1996
	Drag, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP029
	Torch Song Trilogy	Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First! "A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for." - Newsweek "Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny." - N.Y. Post
	Harvey Fierstein
	1984
	Humour/Comedy, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP030
	Deathwatch	In Deathwatch, two convicts try to impress a third, who is on the verge of achieving legendary status in criminal circles. But neither realizes the lengths to which they will go to gain respect or that, in the end, nothing they can do - including murder - will get them what they are searching for.
	Jean Genet
	1970
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP031
	White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985	Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry." - Helen Vendler
	Allen Ginsberg
	1987
	Poetry
	Book#: PP032
	Two Gay Sweatshop Plays: As Time Goes By / The Dear Love of Comrades	The late playwright, actor and director, Noël Greig was a teacher, artist and gay rights activist with a tremendous sense of historical context and his plays As Time Goes By (1977) and The Dear Love of Comrades (1979) admirably demonstrates this. Most at home in fringe theatre, where his ambitions could be more easily realised, in 1977 he joined Gay Sweatshop, which Drew Griffiths and Gerald Chapman had founded a few years earlier, and from there became a fierce champion for gay rights. With Griffiths, he wrote the extraordinary historical play As Time Goes By which dealt with repression throughout the ages - in Victorian Britain, Nazi Germany and modern America, and this was followed shortly after by The Dear Love of Comrades, the story of the 19th-century radical socialist Edward Carpenter.
	Noel Greig, Drew Griffiths
	1981
	Gay, Politics, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP033
	Book#: PP033

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Outhouse East Library			8 / 12

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	My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign	The script of the screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1984. Includes other screenplays and journalistic pieces.
	Hanif Kureishi
	1986
	Television
	Book#: PP034
	Book#: PP034
	Beautiful Thing	Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homoerotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.
	Jonathan Harvey
	1997
	Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP035
	The Playground Bell	Three weeks before his death at the age of 28, in May 1993, Adam Johnson delivered the typescript of this collection to Carcarnet. His poems celebrate music, painting, places and, above all, friendship.
	Adam Johnson
	1994
	Poetry
	Book#: PP036
	The Normal Heart	A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.
	Larry Kramer
	1993
	AIDS/HIV, Death, Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP037
	The Destiny of Me	The Destiny of Me, the companion play to The Normal Heart, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.
	Larry Kramer
	1993
	AIDS/HIV, Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP038

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Outhouse East Library			9 / 12

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	Beckham By The Balls... And Other Poems	‘Those who attended the brilliantly intense Poet Idol in May might be pleased to learn that third place finisher Vince Laws releases a pamphlet this month, called Beckham By The Balls, available at City Books. Laws is a technically adept poet capable of putting cunning linguistic threads through their precisely phased paces. Check it out.’ Simon Clayton, Insight Magazine, Brighton
	Vince Laws
	2004
	Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP038.01
	If the small frayed knot...	The Small Frayed Knot is a poetry play commissioned by Future Radio, Norwich, and first performed live on air in February 2010. The Albany Theatre, London, then selected the script for a rehearsed reading in front of an audience. Their mail-out reads, 'The Small Frayed Knot is like clinging to a stagecoach as it rattles along an unknown track to an unknown destination in excited anticipation. It’s beautiful, spikey, shocking and brave. A 21st century HIV+ queer poet tells his truth.'
	Vince Laws

	Gay, Poetry
	Book#: PP038.02
	The Little Book of Coming Out Stories	“Out140: The Little Book of Coming Out Stories” was launched at Norwich Pride in July 2012. It contains 140 stories written in 140 characters or less and costs £1.40. Here is a review Dr B.J. Epstein, lecturer at University of East Anglia, specialist in queer literature and theory: “Brave. Funny. Worried. Joyous. Confused. Suicidal. Accepting. Satisfied. These are just a few of the emotions that Out140: The Little Book of Coming Out Stories depicts and also inspires in the reader. This delightful book, edited by Shelly Telly and Vince Laws, includes a range of coming out tales, all told in 140 characters or fewer. Read it and be entertained and motivated. Admire others for their courage, and think about how you’d tell your own story. The most important adjective here for both the writers and the readers is: Proud.”
	Shelly Telly, Vince Laws

	Bisexual, Coming Out, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: PP038.04
	Book#: PP038.04
	Edward the Second	Marlowe's play retains its power to shock even today, and this edition gives full value to its three overriding themes of sexual favouritism, political confrontation and sheer cruelty. Critics in the last twenty years, who have focused on the overtly sexual relationship between Edward and his favourite Gaveston, have hailed it as a 'gay classic'; earlier interpretations concentrated rather on the deposition by his subjects of a weak king, reading it in tandem with Shakespeare's Richard II.
	Christopher Marlowe
	1983
	Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP039
	Another Country	Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools. The setting is a 1930s Eton-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, while Judd is a Marxist. One night a house man walks in on Martineau and a boy from another house together in the dark room. Martineau commits suicide because of the shame of having been found in a homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as teachers and the senior students try their hardest to keep the scandal away from parents and the rest of the outside world. However, the gay scandal gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler, who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against them.
	Julian Mitchell
	1989
	Gay, Politics, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP040
	Book#: PP040

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Outhouse East Library			10 / 12

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	The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions	This is possibly the sweetest gay fantasy book written during the magical post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epoch. It's a series of poems/stories about fairy men living in a community, spending time together, wearing spangles, and mocking straight society.
	Larry Mitchell
	1977
	Fantasy, Fiction, Gay, Poetry, Short Story
	Book#: PP041
	Orton Complete Plays	'I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' - Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; The Erpingham Camp, his version of The Bacchae, set in a Butlin's holiday resort; together with his television plays, Funeral Games and The Good and Faithful Servant.
	Joe Orton
	1985
	Humour/Comedy, Television, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP042
	Queens	Part autobiographical, part fiction, 'Queens' is a satirical and self-accusing tour of the London gay scene in what subsequently proved to be the last hedonistic days before AIDS became a reality.
	Pickles
	1986
	Autobiography, Gay, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP043
	Eyes From a Dream	The work of this poet displays an imaginative brilliance and a burning concern for humanity. These poems of personal and public commitment are set in the troubled Poland of the early 1980s.
	Agneta Pleijel
	1991
	Poetry
	Book#: PP044
	Selected Poems and Letters	The poems and letters of one of France's most unusual modern poets, here in both French and English. Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French verse forms, the young Rimbaud set out to transform his art, and language itself, by a systematic -disordering of all the senses,¬ often with the aid of alcohol and drugs. The result is a highly innovative, modern body of work, obscene and lyrical by turns-a rigorous journey to extremes.Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock¬s new translation includes Rimbaud¬s greatest verse, as well as his record of youthful torment, A Season in Hell (1873), and more than 100 letters that unveil the man who turned his back on poetry. The F...
	Arthur Rimbaud
	2004
	Letters, Poetry
	Book#: PP045
	Book#: PP045

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Outhouse East Library			11 / 12

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	The Gay Detective	Set in Dublin, The Gay Detective is both an explosive thriller and a tender love story. When a Garda superintendent discovers his talented sergeant, Pat, is homosexual, he persuades him to make use of this fact in his work. Tracking down a queer-basher, Pat also discovers Ginger, his first real lover, but as his investigation turns to the murder of a gay TD, the moral path becomes an impenetrable maze, and what seemed a simple agreement with his Garda superior suddenly appears more like a Faustian pact. The Gay Detective is replete with complex (and often comic) characters, and carefully crafted within the tradition of "film noir" and hard-boiled private-eye novels. The Gay Detective is an unflinching investigations into loyalty, betrayal, and the private demons of sexual desire, as well as the difficulties of reading your moral compass in a world where reliable ethical signposts are few and far between. Gerard Stembridge is a supremely gifted writer whose mastery of the detective fict...
	Gerard Stembridge
	1996
	Gay, Romance, Theatre/Play, Thriller
	Book#: PP046
	Book#: PP046
	The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems	Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde dazzled the salons of his day with supremely witty conversation and his ardent championship of a philosophy of aestheticism. As a writer, he produced The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the finest comedies in English, and other classic plays. His one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is still widely read, as is "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," a powerful poetic indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life. This carefully edited volume focuses on Wilde's poetic legacy. In addition to the title poem, readers will find twenty-three other important works: "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "Requiescat," "Impression du Matin," "Panthea," "Silentium Amoris," "The Harlot's House," "To L. L." and others. While Wilde's fame rests mainly on his achievements as a dramatist and critic, these poems offer important clues to the themes and subjects that preoccupied him in his other works.
	Oscar Wilde
	1992
	Poetry
	Book#: PP047
	Book#: PP047
	De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings	De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
	Oscar Wilde
	2002
	Essays, Letters, Poetry
	Book#: PP048
	The Plays of Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.
	Oscar Wilde
	2002
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP049
	Book#: PP049

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Outhouse East Library			12 / 12

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	Lady Windermere's Fan	Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.
	Oscar Wilde
	1995
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP050
	Woman of No Importance	Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?
	Oscar Wilde
	1996
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP051
	Plays, Prose Writings and Poems	Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde’s belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works gathered here include Wilde’s once-controversial and now classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the rioutously (sic) comic plays “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of Wilde’s moving letter from prison, De Profundis, and his teasing parable about Shakespeare, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Other notable included writings are the semi-comic mystery story “Lord Arthur’s Savile’s Crime” and the essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
	Oscar Wilde
	1972
	Fiction, Letters, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP052
	Book#: PP052
	Wilde: Three Plays	Contains three of Wilde's most well-known plays: "Lady Windermere's Fan," "An Ideal Husband," and "The Importance of Being Earnest."
	Oscar Wilde
	1981
	Theatre/Play
	Book#: PP053

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