Simon Callow

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

The Road to Xanadu

Traces Welles' portentous childhood; his youth in New York, where he worked with director John Houseman; his notorious radio career; and the making of "Citizen Kane"

Orson Welles

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography for Dickens newcomers and a wonderful read for all."—Library Journal Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors. Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories and flocked to see him on his legendary speaking tours. Not only did he create an incredible cast of characters on the page, but he was also a dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed, and acted in plays for the public. Throughout his life, from his childhood performances in pubs to his legendarily powerful reading tours, Dickens was fanatical about the stage. Callow reveals Dickens’s genius on and off the page and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literature.

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

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Excellent biography for anyone interested in the thespian life. Book is aged, but in good condition. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

Since its first publication, Being an Actor has been a small classic of its kind--an essential book on the craft, commitment, and life of an actor. Simon Callow's star has continued to rise; roles in A Room with a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and other films have made him a recognizable face to filmgoers. Anyone interested in theater will enjoy Callow's insights.

Being an Actor

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Vol 2: Hello Americans

Simon Callow’s celebrated first volume of Orson Welles’s life concluded with the brash young director unveiling what would prove to be his—and arguably American cinema’s—greatest achievement: Citizen Kane. But instead of embarking on an illustrious career in Hollywood, as Callow vividly details in Hello Americans, Welles became increasingly unable to function within the structure of the moviemaking industry.Hello Americansoffers readers a critical look at the years after Citizen Kaneup to Macbeth(1947), from his difficult and self-defeating temperament to some of the monstrous personalities with whom he was involved. Callow fully illustrates each film of the period—The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey into Fear, The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai—as well as Welles’s off-screen activities—his dedicated but ill-fated attempts to be a radio comedian and stage magician; his fervent desire to revive spectacular theater single- handedly; his newspaper columns; and his political interests, which he pursued passionately. The result is an expertly researched and elegantly written portrait that will remain the final word on this larger than life genius for generations to come.

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Michael Blakemore

Kentucky

(Applause Books). Noted director Michael Blakemore is renowned for such Broadway successes as Joe Egg , Noises Off and City of Angels . In the introduction, Simon Callow says of Blakemore's book, "There have been remarkable novels of the theatre, but no other book has so truly depicted the creative anarchic excitement of acting. Next Season is the finest fictional celebration of the passionate craft of the actor ... about the demands and rewards of acting, what it takes from you, what it gives you back. Acting as work, work as possion!" "An outstanding theatre novel ... extremely readable and informative." The London Times

Next Season

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Trade paperback. Pages are clean and tight with no spine creasing. 

Wisconsin

Penelope Fitzgerald's brilliant novel about life at an eccentric stage school.

In the 1960s, Freddie's was the usual name for the Temple Stage School, which supplied the West End theatres with children for roles in everything from Shakespeare to pantomime. Freddie, the proprietress, is a formidable woman, of unknown age and provenance. But everybody who is anybody claims to know her. By sheer force of character and single-minded thrust she has turned herself into a national institution.



This story of what happened at Freddie's is not only for theatre-lovers, but for people who care about children or hate them, or were - once upon a time - children themselves. In particular, it is for those of us who sometimes pretend to be what we are not - that is to say, act a little.

At Freddie's

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Connecticut

Merlin Holland

This is a series of dramatized biographies and it enables us to do just that a relaxed chat with Oscar Wilder turns into an eyebrow raising journey through the extra extraordinary life and opinions of one of our most eminent and colorful literary figure figures

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

So you've always wanted to know what is would be like to meet Oscar Wilde! Well, now you can - by a miracle of time travel. Enjoy his wit, admire his achievements on page and stage, and be moved by his poignant vulnerability.

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Being an Actor

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At Freddie's

Penelope Fitzgerald; Simon Callow

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Merlin Holland; Simon Callow

Coffee with Oscar Wilde

Penelope Fitzgerald; Simon Callow (Introduction by)

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