Toms Brando-inspired bikers & leathermen. This is a mixture of multi-panel comics & single panel drawings & paintings starting in the 1940s through the 50s 60s 70s & 80s. In 1953 The Wild One" starring Marlon Brando as Johnny leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club was released worldwide. In 1954 Tom of Finland previously known for his military & blue-collar subjects drew his first civilian motorcyclist dressed in black leather. Coincidence? Hardly. " The Wild One" originally marketed to a female audience with a poster featuring a close-up of Brandos face sans leather cap hair tousled cheeks & pout tinted pink with the tagline " That Streetcar Man has a new Desire!" resonated far more with gay audiences who took Brandos character as a template for the first leatherman. After seeing " The Wild One" Tom never drew men in brown leather again; black leather now dominated his fantasies & his art. Tom adopted Brandos leather Perfecto jacket white t-shirt Levis & high boots as his signature look. It was this same look that Tom selected for Kake his confident ever-horny hero of 26 panel stories. Kake became Toms fearless outgoing alter ego & bikers supplanted military men as his favorite subject. In " Tom of Finland Volume II
- Bikers" we explore Toms fascination with bikers through a mixture of multi-panel comics & single panel drawings & paintings starting in the 1940s before " The Wild One" fixed his taste on black leather through the 50s 60s 70s & 80s. Historic film stills & posters personal photos of Tom sketches & Toms own reference photos make this far more than another Toms Comics retread."
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The list of artists who had major influence on the gay movement is rather short since the movement itself is just a few decades old. But without a doubt Tom of Finland has to be included the man whose amazing drawings tell us everything about love lust & life of those hunks who have a good heart & live a simple life. Tom of Finland
- Life & Work of a Gay Hero is a detailed anthology which is dedicated to his body of work from its early beginnings to the last years. With many drawings a lot of photos & an extensive biography it gives you a portrait of this unique artist which is as many-sided & life-embracing as the artist himself.
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This is a simplified & shortened retelling of the Mark Twain classic which remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story. It follows the mischief-filled antics of Tom Sawyer who is always getting into trouble whether playing pirates on the Mississippi River getting lost in caves or wriggling his way out of punishment. It is perfect for enthusiastic young readers who will be mesmerised by these stories & encouraged to pursue an interest in literature. ...

Take a walk around the Secret Garden. Experience boarding school with A Little Princess. See life through a horse's eyes with Black Beauty. Be enchanted by charming & hot-headed Anne of Green Gables. Carefully retold in clear contemporary language & presented with delightful illustrations these favourite classic stories will capture the heart & imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter simpler form children will find these books highly engaging & the colour illustrations help with both comprehension & interest level. ...

Tom Sawyer a shrewd & adventurous boy is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant & parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures accidentally witnessing a murder establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused as well as being hunted by Injun Joe the true murderer eventually escaping & finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck who runs away from a drunken & brutal father & meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft participating in the lives of the characters they meet witnessing corruption moral decay & intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background & character these two stories the best of Twain indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century & the institution of slavery. ...

Dalliance"" Undiscovered Country"" Rough Crossing"" On the Razzle"" The Seagull" This fourth volume of Tom Stoppards work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations & adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (" Dalliance" & " Undiscovered Country") Ferenc Molnar (" Rough Crossing " a classic farce set aboard an ocean liner) Johann Nestroy (" On the Razzle " a mad chase through Vienna) & Anton Chekhov (" The Seagull " the classic Russian country tale). According to " The Times" of London " Adaptation in Stoppards terms means finding a sympathetic text & using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind." In adapting these plays--some classics some nearly forgotten--for the modern stage Tom Stoppard has added his own unique elements of dazzling wit & verbal brilliance hilarious parody & cutting satire to create works that stand as exceptional works of theater that do not belong to any one age." ...

Plays Five: Arcadia"" The Real Thing"" Night & Day; "" Indian Ink; "" Hapgood " This fifth collection of Tom Stoppards plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. " Arcadia "received the Evening Standard the Oliver & the Critics Awards & " The Real Thing "won a Tony Award." ...

Tom Thumb's musical maths
- the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour
- is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This

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The Trueheart house is busy & bustling-because today is a special day. Toms older brothers are getting married & preparing to live happily ever after. But then an unexpected wedding guest arrives. Someone who has decided that there will be no more Happy Endings. Toms brothers & their brides are whisked off to the Land of Dark Stories as prisoners of their old enemy Brother Ormestone. & Tom himself is put under a terrible enchantment... It is up to Tom to try to save the others & to bring back Happy Endings. But how can he defeat the storybook monsters now that he is only the size of a thumb? ...

Tom Waits may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth. He is also a shape-shifter who over a span of almost four decades has restlessly transformed his song-writing & persona not to suit the times but his own whims. Along with Bob Dylan he stands as one of American musics last great mysteries. Hundreds of journalists have sought to crack the Waits code but few have come close to piercing the myths that shroud him. Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty of his most intriguing interviews the majority of which have never been collected in book form before. In each Waits shares something truly unique delivering prose as crafted poetic potent & haunting as his best lyrics. Taken together they present a de facto autobiography of a notoriously guarded artist. ...