Rowson, Martin

Old Testament stories with a Freudian twist by Leo Abse( file )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 895 libraries worldwide
This collection of Leo Abse's last essays are writings that he was working on from 2006 up to and during his final illness. They take as their starting point stories from the Old Testament. For Abse, the Bible provided a great inspiration for analysis, reflection, and speculation. His own distinctive voice is evident in every essay. Chapters include: Jubal: A discursive meditation on music and its origins; Jacob's wrestling match; The judgment of Solomon; Abishag: The lure of incest; and The nakedness of Noah

Curiosities of literature by John Sutherland( Book )
13 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and held by 742 libraries worldwide
One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? What do 12% of all winners of the Booker prize have in common? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius? Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topic imaginable, from author advances to civil war literature to Victorian sex to odd-things-eaten-by-literary characters (think Patrick Bateman's girlfriend in American Psycho). This is the ideal anthology of useless information for all book lovers.--Publisher description

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Martin Rowson( Book )
12 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in English and held by 206 libraries worldwide
A graphic adaptation of a 1767 novel by Laurence Sterne, an English clergyman. A bawdy work filled with eccentric characters, the novel represented a reaction to the intellectualism of the 18th century

The waste land by Martin Rowson( Book )
12 editions published between 1990 and 2012 in English and held by 180 libraries worldwide
Private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries, namely T.S. Eliot's The waste land

Gulliver's travels by Martin Rowson( Book )
5 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 152 libraries worldwide
From the inimitable Martin Rowson, a modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, Gulliver's Travels. On 5 November 1699, the Merchant Ship Antelope foundered on a rock at the Latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. The only survivor of the crew was the ship's physician, Lemuel Gulliver, who some hours later awoke, bound by hundreds of tiny ropes, lying on a beach in the Empire of Lilliput. On 31 August 1997, Gulliver's direct (although unwitting) descendent was being driven back from a conference in Paris when, travelling through an underpass, his vehicle was struck with great force from behind. Rendered unconscious, he was next aware of being thrown from a helicopter into a shallow sea. On awaking next morning, he found himself bound by hundreds of tiny ropes, lying on a beach and surrounded by tiny figures welcoming him to...a modern Lilliput. This is only the beginning of his adventures, as he finds himself, quite by chance, visiting the same places as his famous forebear, only three centuries later. Thus the Modern Gulliver learns how history has unfolded for the Lilliputians, discovering the secrets of the 'New' Lilliput's economic boom and accidentally precipitating its crash. He finds out how the giants of Brobdingnag were inspired to transform their way of life by his ancestor's example, impressed by their encounter with one of 'the most pernicious Race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the Earth'

Snatches by Martin Rowson( Book )
8 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 123 libraries worldwide

Giving offence by Martin Rowson( Book )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 75 libraries worldwide

Imperial exits by Julius Cicatrix( Book )
4 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 69 libraries worldwide

The dog allusion : pets, gods and how to be human by Martin Rowson( Book )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide

The sweet smell of psychosis by Will Self( Book )
3 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
On landing a job with a London magazine, reporter Richard Hermes ingratiates himself into the milieu by participating in its debauchery. But Richard is an innocent from the provinces and his attempt at seduction is a fiasco. By the author of Great Apes