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Michael Warburton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Actor (The Strays, All About Eve, Coronation Street). Posting stuff I like, no pandering.

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Book Cover for: A Christmas Carol: A Faithful Reproduction of the Original First Edition, Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol: A Faithful Reproduction of the Original First Edition

Charles Dickens
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

A little Christmassy treat for you should you wish. The great Lionel Barrymore as ‘Scrooge’ and Orson Welles narrating his own wonderful 1938 Radio production of Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL🎄 It’s FREE to enjoy in full here: https://t.co/zbirZVVAXx https://t.co/iipzy42a82

Hardcover, 2021

$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

73 years ago, having recently read 1984, Brave New World author Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell to compare dystopian hellscapes. https://t.co/kVrCCorlvu

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

Passepartout & his Penny Farthing work their way around a very Hollywood version of 19thC London in Mike Todd’s lavish take on Jules Vernes’ AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956) #Cantinflas https://t.co/InjVE2iAAu

Paperback, 2013

$10.49Member price:$9.44 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

73years ago and having recently read ‘1984’, ‘Brave New World’ author Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell to compare dystopian hellscapes. https://t.co/ixuKX3vx8K

Paperback, 2006

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Roddenberry

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Gene Roddenberry
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

PATRICK STEWART wears a wig for his Star Trek audition. Creator Gene Roddenberry at first said “When we bring him in I want him to wear a wig, I don't want this guy going in bald." Having impressed said Creator Roddenberry then said “Go with the English guy, but lose the wig." https://t.co/IVjaAF88Ho

Paperback, 2019

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

JAMES CAAN’s English professor inspires his college students with his interpretations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work - but - he has a gambling problem. A big one. THE GAMBLER (1974) https://t.co/xJh0DlB239

Paperback, 2022

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

John Huston wastes no time getting MARY ASTOR and HUMPHREY BOGART straight into the laying out of Dashiell Hammett’s labyrinthine plot lines in the stone cold classic film noir THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) https://t.co/IUpNFwfYdR

Paperback, 1989

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll

Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

Taken in 1865 - the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated & Lewis Carroll's Alice made her first trip to Wonderland - this extraordinary photo of Dickensian London never ceases to take my breath away. https://t.co/ecITLldaHo

Paperback, 2015

$8.95Member price:$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

A fantastic full-length original Trailer for the triple Oscar-winning adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) #GregoryPeck #MaryBadham #PhillipAlford #BrockPeters #JamesAnderson #RobertDuvall https://t.co/sTXxowV1pK

Paperback, 2002

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell
Michael WarburtonMichael Warburton

When Margaret Mitchell’s husband eventually saw this shot in the film he is reported to have said “Why if we’d had that many soldiers we’d have won the war!”. Behind the scenes on the making one of the film’s most iconic shots. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)https://t.co/rEvIyGvXiq

Paperback, 2011

$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book