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British Library: 20th Century Works: My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) was the first screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Empire of the Sun
"Empire of the Sun" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: East Is East
Ayub Khan Din based his debut play "East Is East" on his own childhood in Salford. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
"Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" is a play by Trinidadian actor, playwright, and director Errol John. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Loot
Read an overview of the play "Loot" by Joe Orton and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: In Praise of Love and Children
"In Praise of Love and Children" by Beryl Gilroy is a novel that tells of the experiences of Caribbean migration and celebrates community. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Howards End
Read an overview of "Howards End" by E.M. Forster and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: High Rise
"High-Rise" is the final book in a quartet of novels by J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Happy Days
Read an overview of "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: 'Musee Des Beaux Arts'
Read an overview of the poem 'Musee des Beaux Arts' by W.H. Auden and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Mrs. Dalloway
In her fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway (1925), the English modernist writer Virginia Woolf took on the subject of the English middle classes in the aftermath of World War I. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles,...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Maurice
Read an overview of "Maurice" by E.M. Forster and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Lullaby
Read an overview of the poem 'Lullaby' by W.H. Auden and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Look Back in Anger
Read an overview of the play "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: An Inspector Calls
Read an overview of the play "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Betrayal
Harold Pinter's 1978 play 'Betrayal' employs a reverse-chronological structure to tell the story of an extra-marital affair. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Ariel
'Ariel' is a posthumously published collection of poetry by the American poet Sylvia Plath. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Anthem for Doomed Youth
'Anthem for Doomed Youth' is a poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, drafted at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in 1917. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Animal Farm
"Animal Farm" (1945) is a novella by George Orwell about the development of Russian communism under Joseph Stalin delivered in allegorical form. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Dulce Et Decorum Est
'Dulce et Decorum Est' is a poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, drafted at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in 1917. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Dubliners
"Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories by the modernist Irish writer James Joyce, concerning everyday events in the primarily lower-middle-class life of Dublin. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Down and Out in Paris in London
"Down and Out in Paris in London" was the first book published by Eric Arthur Blair under the pseudonym George Orwell. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Crash
"Crash" is a novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard, published in 1973. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Birthday Letters
'Birthday Letters', a collection of 88 poems by the British poet Ted Hughes, revolves around Hughes's relationship with the American poet Sylvia Plath. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items,...