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1.		Auden from Vintage Customer Review: This is splendid literature in it's own right. Davenport has gotten deeply into Auden's life and argues for it's unrelenting energy and pervasive sense of purpose. This might be missed in a life story which sometimes seems almost wearing in it's social and intellectual complexity. It is deeply and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $12.71 Customer Review: Nearing the end of the disastrous Bush administration, it's easy to forget that one of the biggest problems faced by Americans is the War on Drugs. The drugs themselves are at worst a minor medical problem, but the War continues to be a serious threat to things that Americans have always valued:... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson from Phoenix Price: $15.96 Customer Review: The late Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003; later Baron Dacre of Glanton) was everything you want in an Oxford don: deeply learned; possessed of a wicked sense of humor; extremely clever (in the British sense of the term); sporting a period of service in the Secret Intelligence Service during the war... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin from North Point Press Customer Review: Subtitled "Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin," this book is not what one should buy for your weird teen goth nephew who wears a nose ring, black fingernail polish, listens to Marilyn Manson, and hangs out at the food court at the mall. Davenport-Hines' book is strictly a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.	[no image]	Vice: An Anthology from Viking Adult Customer Review: A wonderful anthology, with selections that cover virtually every "vice" attached to man. Each one is celebrated in its way, and you are taken from the forbidden lust/love of adultery, and the guilty pleasure of voyeurism. A must have for any library.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Pursuit of Oblivion: A History of Narcotics, 1500-2000 from Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Price: $14.62	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris from Bloomsbury USA Price: $5.99 Customer Review: The pretext for this chatty meditation on Proust's final year was a 1922 dinner at the Hotel Majestic in Paris to celebrate a new production at the Ballets Russe. Hosted by an English couple who knew the players, it put Proust, Diaghilev, Picasso, Stravinsky, and Joyce in one place at one time--to... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		A Night at the Majestic from Faber and Faber Price: $13.16	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	The MacMillans (Charnwood Large Print Library Series) from Ulverscroft Large Print Price: $26.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Auden. from Pantheon Books, New York	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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