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Maran brings Don Camillo up to date
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MIKE MARAN returns to the Brunton Theatre next Thursday for
another unique evening of musical storytelling, when he invites you
to join him in The Little World of Don Camillo.
Based on the original tales by Giovanni Guareschi, and set in the
Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in the threadbare years just after
the war, the village priest, Don Camillo, and the communist mayor,
Peppone, represent the two poles of Italian life - the Catholic
Church and the Communist Party.
But while t...
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We need a memorial to write home about
Evening News - Scotland
; ON December 2, 2002, I arrived in Apia, the capital of Western Samoa. The next day I was to achieve one of my lifetime ambitions - to visit the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. Much to the amusement of the locals, I stepped out of the taxi wearing my kilt and proceeded to climb Mount Vaea. It was
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Room at the inn for Stevenson exhibition
Evening News - Scotland
; THE pub which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write one of his greatest novels has opened a permanent exhibition dedicated to the famous author. There had been fears that renovations being carried out by the owners of the Hawes Inn in South Queensferry would remove all links with the author. But
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RL Stevenson club offers treasure prize for aspiring writers
Evening News - Scotland
; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON enthusiasts are setting up a writing competition for school pupils in a bid to promote the writer's works. Members of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club, formed in 1920 by those who wanted to encourage interest in the life of one of the Capital's greatest writers, plan to offer
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Topeka Collegiate to offer concerts to celebrate author
The Topeka Capital-Journal
; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Capital-Journal Robert Louis Stevenson's 150th birthday anniversary will not go unobserved in Topeka. In fact, it is the inspiration for a three-day celebration from Oct. 19-21 of Stevenson's work. Topeka Collegiate School will offer a sesquicentennial gift to Topeka
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The Robert Louis Stevenson trail: the man who wrote "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go", is enshrined in the leafy hills of Southern France. Many still make a pilgrimage in celebration of his memory.(Brief Article)
Geographical
; ... from Le Monastier to St Jean de Gard armed with maps, a paperback Stevenson, and often a diminutive sheass ... by Alan Castle, Cicerone, 7.99 [pounds sterling] maps Ten of the IGN's 1:25,000 maps cover the walk. The sheet numbers are: 2735E, 2736E ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Beyond the romance
The Boston Globe
; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By Frank McLynn. Random House. 567 pp. Illustrated. $30. THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vols. I-IV. Edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mayhew. Yale. Illustrated. $45 each volume. Robert Taylor is professor of English at Wheaton College. One hundred years ago this
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(The Fall of Man ... )
New Straits Times
; (The Fall of Man ) Byline: Mary Chandapillai Edition: 2* Section: Lit Explorer Memo: (STF) - Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jeykil and Mr Hyde, is one of the prescribed novels in the Literature Component of the PMR Enlish Language Syllabus. This first installment if a teacher-
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Stevenson, Robert Louis: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson.(Brief article)(Book review)
Biography
; Stevenson, Robert Louis Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Claire Harman. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 503 pp. $29.95. As Claire Harman makes clear in her shrewd and sparkling biography, Stevenson remained something of a lamplighter. The perils of the night and the
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John Bright: Bonfire night rocket that Robert Louis Stevenson hardly deserved.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; There we were at the bar bemoaning the state of the British railway system. I rely on the bus - old chum Phil Parkin, of Headline Communications in Birmingham, is the train expert because he takes 'the rattler' every day from Stourport. And he was in full flow. 'Yes,' says Phil. 'Robert Louis
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The great exhilarator Caroline Moore enjoys a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson which captures his 'peculiar sparkle'
The Sunday Telegraph London
; "THE GREAT exhilarator" is how one of Robert Louis Stevenson's friends summed him up: certainly, his life must set the pulses of a prospective biographer racing. It is not just his disease-racked but courageously rackety way of living, coughing blood and chain-smoking as he produced febrile
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