{"title":"Books by John Osborne","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780228012054","title":"Out of the Studio","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOut of the Studio\u003c\/i\u003e documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of their \"photographic gallery\" in 1861, they developed a reputation in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events taken in challenging outdoor settings. Smeaton pictures of the aftermath of the Great Fire of Quebec in 1866 helped bring an understanding of the disaster to an international audience; images featuring the gold mining industry were displayed at the Exposition universelle in Paris the following year. When Charles travelled to Europe in 1866, he accomplished a feat previously thought impossible, taking the first successful photographs in the Roman catacombs. 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Jimmy Porter could fill an opera house with his bellowing hunger for a bigger, better life and a loyal love to share it with.’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger \u003c\/i\u003epresents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a signal achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage – the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of “official” attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour, the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned . . . \u003cb\u003eI doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see \u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the best young play of its decade.’ Kenneth Tynan, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘How bracing, and, yes, even shocking, its white-hot fury remains.’ \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes an introduction by Michael Billington and an afterword by David Hare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291241656693,"sku":"9780571038480","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571038480_3b1ea7ec-cb6b-4934-ba7e-063d8ea56d7a.jpg?v=1786014175"},{"product_id":"9780571335145","title":"The Entertainer","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's \u003ci\u003eThe Entertainer\u003c\/i\u003e conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of \u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger\u003c\/i\u003e, the play has become a classic of twentieth-century drama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292681875829,"sku":"9780571335145","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571335145_4511ccab-67df-49b1-b75d-2688318f6c04.jpg?v=1786015120"},{"product_id":"9780573112553","title":"Look Back in Anger","description":"Jimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with middle-class wife Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison's friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison becomes pregnant Helen leaves them together. This play originally opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and has since proved to be a milestone in the history of theatre.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293049467253,"sku":"9780573112553","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780573112553_e7bd380c-21e2-47a7-9254-4800a44464e9.jpg?v=1786015147"},{"product_id":"9781009639699","title":"Rome in the Tenth Century","description":"This is the third and final volume in a series examining the history of Rome in the early Middle Ages (700–1000 CE) through the primary lens of the city's material culture. The previous volumes examined the eighth and the ninth centuries respectively. John Osborne uses buildings (both religious and domestic), their decorations, other works of painting and sculpture, inscriptions, manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, and coins as 'documents' to supplement what can be gleaned from more traditional written sources such as the Liber pontificalis. The overall approach is particularly appropriate for tenth-century Rome, which has traditionally been considered a 'dark age', given recent research on standing monuments and the large amount of new material brought to light in archaeological excavations undertaken over the last four decades. This magnificent and beautifully illustrated volume provides a triumphant conclusion to a series which will be indispensable for all those interested in early medieval Rome.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295753580917,"sku":"9781009639699","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009639699.jpg?v=1786017524"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-john-osborne.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}