thomas dylan ormond john (5 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Time Reading Program special ed. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Special edition in stiff cardboard cover; cover slightly split at spine. Cover and pages yellowed. xix, 177 p.; 20 cm. "Dramatic story, written in the form of a film scenario.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Used - Good. Cover not as pictured.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. Alexey Brodovitch (Cover Design) Ilustrador. Copyright 1964. 177 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Publisher's remainder copy. Creased spine. Back cover corners are missing. Stain on fore-edge.

Trade paperback. Time Reading Program special ed. xix, 177 p.; 20 cm."Dramatic story, written in the form of a film scenario. Very good. No dust jacket as iss.

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Welsh poet & writer Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), hard-drinking & ever bar present, hailed as a major 20th century Welsh poet, wrote wrote chiefly in the English language. This novel shows his rhythmic, ingenious command of words & imagery is evidenced in his prose as well. A semi-Gothic tale of a medical school physician/teacher short on lab cadavers, and, the consequent criminal responses by either digging them out of graves, or, killing them fresh to sell them to the medical school. The work, set in early 19th century Edinburgh, famous for schools of medicine, is based on true story of Dr. Knox for whom Burke and Hare, who in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, murdered at least 16 people to sell their bodies for anatomical dissection. Screen script adapted to 1985 horror film, The Doctor and The Devils, produced by Mel Brooks.