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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

playwright, comedian, musician

  • Brentwood School, University of Cambridge

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So long, and thanks for all the fish
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Life, the Universe and Everything
Mostly Harmless
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Salmon of Doubt
Last Chance to See
Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Novels (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
The deeper meaning of liff
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
Great humorous stories
Literature
The meaning of Liff
The Time Traveller's Almanac
Life, the Universe and Everything (adaptation)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Double
Doctor Who
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Humorous Stories
The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - omnibus 2
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Collection 5 Books Set
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis 2
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset
The Utterly utterly merry comic relief Christmas book
Autostopem przez Galaktyke
À Boleia pela Galáxia
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
Iras celestiales
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
Trylogia Autostopem przez Galaktykę
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts
Untitled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
Guía del autoestopista galáctico
Restauracja na końcu wszechświata / Życie, wszechświat i cała reszta
Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti. Il ciclo completo
Novels (Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Iras celestiales
Not 1982. Not the 9 O'Clock News
Dirk Gently : The BBC Radio Collection
A Longa e Sombria Hora do Chá da Alma
Don't Panic : The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Secondary Phase
Illus. Hitch Hiker 12 Copy Pack
Shada
La vita, l'Universo e tutto quanto
The Salmon of Doubt / Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I jeszcze jedno
היו שלום ותודה על הדגים
Heyu shalom ṿe-todah ʻal ha-dagim
Cześć i dzięki za ryby / W zasadzie niegroźna
Guida Galattica agli autostoppisti. Ciclo completo
ha-Misʻadah shebe-sof ha-yeḳum
La Città della Morte
ha-Ḥayim, ha-yeḳum ṿe-khol ha-sheʾar
Madrikh ha-ṭrempisṭ la-galaḳsyah
Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe (1928-2013)

teacher, photographer, comedian, political activist

  • Lancing College, University of Cambridge

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Knights of Madness
Indecent Exposure
Porterhouse Blue
Blott on the Landscape
The Midden
Wilt
The great pursuit
Wilt on High
Vintage Stuff
Riotous Assembly
The Gropes
The Throwback
The Wilt Inheritance
The Wilt Alternative
Vintage stuff
Ancestral Vices
Puppenmord oder bis dass ihr Tod ihn scheidet
Grantchester grind
Ancestral vices
WILT IN NOWHERE
Wilt on High
Wilt in Nowhere
Midden
Novyĭ rasklad v Pokerkhause
Wilt
Throwback
Ancestral vices
Wilt Alternative
Wilt
Riotous Assembly
THE GREAT PURSUIT
Wilt in Nowhere
Vintage Stuff
WILT IN NOWHERE
Lo peor de cada casa
Wilt
Porterhouse Blue
Lo Peor de Cada Casa
Gropes
Porterhouse blue ; Blott on the landscape
Riotous Assembly
Wilt in Nowhere
The great pursuit
Wilt/Spanish
Wilt Inheritance
Wilt in triplicate
Grantchester Grind
The Wilt alternative
Reunión tumultuosa
Vintage Stuff
Grantchester Grind
Porterhouse blue
The wilt alternative
Outrage public à la pudeur
Wilt 1, ou, Comment se sortir d'une poupée gonflable et de beaucoup d'autres ennuis encore
Lo peor de cada casa
Ancestral Vices
Wilt in Nowhere : (Wilt Series 4)
Tom Sharpe Treble
Zafarrancho En Cambridge - Compacto -
Wilt on High
Wilt Alternative
Le Cru de la Comtesse
Indecent Exposure
Los Grope
Vicios ancestrales
Great Pursuit
Exhibición impúdica
Comment échapper à sa femme et ses quadruplées en épousant une théorie marxiste
Mohrenwäsche
Wilt
Fumiers et cie
Le bâtard récalcitrant
Grantchester Grind : (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)
Zafarrancho en Cambridge
Wilt No Se Aclara
Blott on the landscape
Fumiers et compagnie
Wilt 1 ou Comment se sortir d'une poupée gonflable et de beaucoup d'autres ennuis encore
Tohuwabohu. Roman
Ein dicker Hund
La gran persecució
Mélée ouverte au Zouzouland
Vintage Stuff
El Temible Blott/Blott on the Landscape
Todo Wilt
Puppen Mord
Memoir to the Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland by William Smith
Wilt 3
Blott on the Landscape
Wilt Inheritance : (Wilt Series 5)
Wilt Alternative : (Wilt Series 2)
Riotous Assembly
La Gran Pesquisa
Wilt on High : (Wilt Series 3)
Wilt : (Wilt Series 1)
Riotous assembly
Henry dreht auf. Jubiläumsausgabe. Roman
La Route Sanglante du Jardinier blott
Der Renner
¡Ánimo Wilt!
Quelle famille !
Vicios Ancestrales
Trabbel für Henry
Indecent Exposure
Wilt
El Bastardo Recalcitrante
Henry dreht auf. Roman
Porterhouse Blue : (Porterhouse Blue Series 1)
Wilt 3
Las tribulaciones de Wilt
Bloody Mary
Throwback
Feine Familie. Roman
Alles Quatsch
Puppenmord. Oder Bis dass ihr Tod ihn scheidet
Wilt / Wilt on High
Becas flacas
Exhibición impúdica
Midden
Indecent Exposure
Klex in der Landschaft
Panique à Porterhouse
Indecent exposure ; The great pursuit ; Porterhouse blue ; Blott on the landscape
Wilt 2, ou, Comment se débarrasser d'un crocodile, de terroristes et d'une jeune fille au pair
Wilt 2 ou Comment se débarrasser d'un crocodile, de terroristes et d'une jeune fille au pair
Familienbande. Roman
Schwanenschmaus in Porterhouse
X36 Tom Sharpe Bogof Pack
Bloody Mary
Porterhouse ou la Vie de collège
Panique à Porterhouse
Wilt
La Gran Pesquisa
Riotous assembly
The throwback
Porterhouse blue
The Midden
Ánimo Wilt!
Midden, Th
Animo, Wilt!
The Wilt alternative
Wilt on high
Wilt is nergens
Le Bâtard récalcitrant
Vintage stuff
Comment enseigner l'histoire à un ado dégénéré en repoussant les assauts d'une nymphomane alcoolique
Riotous Assembly / Wilt
Der Renner
Familienbande. Roman
Trabbel Fur Henry
Puppenmord oder bis dass ihr Tod ihn scheidet
Alles Quatsch
Henry dreht auf. Roman
Fart de llop
Wilt in Nowhere
Wilt prend son pied
Novel
Grantchester Grind
Blot on the landscape
Indecent Exposure
Becas Flacas
Blott on the landscape
Tom Sharpe Omnibus
Ancestral vices
Grantchester Grind Header
The great pursuit
Dog's Nose
Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry (born 1958)

television actor, film actor, comedian, singer, stage actor, stand-up comedian, television producer

  • The Open University, St James Academy

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Anansi Boys
Charlie, Queen of the Desert
Charlie and the Big Chill
Do You Speak English Moon
What a Comic Relief
Black British Lives Matter
Lenny Henry's well-hard paperback
Comic Relief Presents What a Relief! (Canned Laughter)
The Quest for the Big Woof
Boy with Wings
Rising to the Surface
Your 3rd Fairytale Collection
Access All Areas
Lenny Go Home - Live
Charlie and the big chill
Who Am I, Again?
You Can Do Anything, Tyrone!
Book of Legends
Fairy Tales III
Harry Hill
Harry Hill (born 1964)

actor, comedian, television presenter, television actor, physician

  • Island School, Cranbrook School

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Livin The Dreem A Year In My Life
Harry Hills Whopping Great Joke Book
Last Flight from Deathrow
Harry Hill's Fun Book
A voice for the theatre
The Further Adventures Of The Queen Mother
Thomas & Friends
I Wonder Why Cars Go Fast Sticker Activity Book
Tim The Tiny Horse At Large
He Was My Father
Make it unanimous
Harry Hills Tv Burp Book
A Complete History of Tim The Tiny Horse
The singing period
Flight from Deathrow
Teacher's manual
A study of the voice of the boy
Flip the Flaps
Knit Scarves and Shawls Now
In the Footsteps of Abraham: The Holy Land in Hand Painted Photographs
Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium
Harry Hills Bumper Book of Bloopers
Matt Millz on Tour!
Automotive service and repair tools
A Whole Life
Matt Millz
Harry Hill's Fight!
Tiny touch animal colours
Making Room for Jesus
Matt Millz Stands Up!
Sanitary science notes
Clean milk
food Food inspection notes
Pasteurisation
Jurassic World
Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book
Food inspection notes
Tiny touch jungle animals
Paradise City
Concise Larousse Gastronomique
Sanitary science notes, a handbook for students
King Leopold
Proceedings of Planning Division seminar, University of Waterloo, February, 1971
EXILES
Macmillan Exams Skills for Russia Secondary Level Speaking
Santa is Coming to Edinburgh Colouring
Life Cycles
Minions
Sanitary science notes
France 2015 Mini Atlas (Michelin Tourist and Motoring Atlas)
Harry Hill's TV
I'm Glad My Mom Died By Jennette McCurdy, Fight!
Tim the Tiny Horse Shrinkwrapped
The Night Jesus was Born (Press Out Nativity)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Song Sounds)
Look and Learn Fun Counting
Ultimate Graphic Element Collection
Seven Days in the Art World
Lullaby Sounds
The Christmas Bear
Livin' the Dreem
Over 2001 Pretty Stickers for Girls
Laser B1 TB w Test CD
Tim the tiny horse
Santa is Coming to Scotland Colouring
Black and White My First Vehicles
Tim the Tiny Horse at large
Keto Diet : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes
US Navy Divers Handbook
Mrs J.Rules
Scottish Ghost Stories
Leo Leopard's Play Day
EASY INDIAN SNACKS STARTERS
How to Be Silly Every Day of the Year
Go Wild be an Explorer
My Sleeping Beauty Sticker Scenes
Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling (born 1982)

musician, comedian, Liedermacher, cabaret performer

  • Free University Berlin

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Der Spurenfinder
QualityLand
Das NEINhorn
Der Tag, an dem Papa ein heikles Gespräch führen wollte
QualityLand 2.0
Das Känguru-Manifest
Der Tag, an dem die Oma das Internet kaputt gemacht hat
Die Känguru-Tetralogie
Die Känguru-Offenbarung
Die Känguru-Chroniken
Qualityland
Die Känguru-Apokryphen
Der Tag, an dem der Opa den Wasserkocher auf den Herd gestellt hat
Afterwork mit Sisyphos
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Hank Green
Hank Green (born 1980)

YouTuber, podcaster, businessperson, teacher, inventor, environmentalist, television producer, science communicator, blogger, entrepreneur, singer, comedian

  • Eckerd College, University of Montana

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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - From a Certain Point of View
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
From a Certain Point of View
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Esto te va a sorprender
Esto te va a sorprender
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

caricaturist, poet, essayist, watercolorist, painter, literary critic, illustrator, journalist, comedian, drawer

  • University of Oxford, Charterhouse School

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
Rossetti and his circle
A Christmas garland
The happy hypocrite
The works of Max Beerbohm
Seven men and two others
Seven men
Yet again
Max in verse
Max Beerbohm 1872-1956
And Even Now
Around theatres
Lytton Strachey
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956
Last theatres, 1904-1910
Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen
The incomparable Max
Max and Will
Beerbohm's literary caricatures
Mainly on the air
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Zulieka Dobson
A survey
Max's nineties
Around Theaters 1898 1903
The Early Works
Prince of Minor Writers
A peep into the past
A defence of cosmetics
More
The incomparable Max;
A peep into the past, and other prose pieces
Fifty caricatures
Laravel
Watercolors and drawings by "the incomparable Max"
More theatres
Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of drawings by Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
The Bodley Head Max Beerbohm
Arduino Programming
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, some memories of him and of his art
Heroes and heroines of Bitter sweet
More theatres, 1898-1903
Max Beerbohm
The poet's corner
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Happy Hypocrite and Other Pieces
Dressing Gowns and Glue
Works and More
A. V. Laider
Sept personnages
A book of caricatures
The Importance of Being Earnest, an Authoritative Text Edition of a Great Play (Avon Theater Library)
Short Works
React
Optitles Woolf Triad Titles
Cartoons
Things new and old
Enoch Soames
Letters to Reggie Turner
Catalogue of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Max in retrospect
A Stranger in Venice
Feasibility Study and Business Plan
A variety of things
James Pethel
Mainly on the air
Arduino Programming
Around theatres
MAINLY ON THE AIR A NEW BOOK OF ESSAYS AND BROADCASTS BY THE AUTHOR OF SEVEN MEN, AROUND THEATRES, ZULEIKA DOBSON, AND CHRISTMAS GARLAND
More
WordPress
Mainly on the air
Rossetti and his circle
Magento
Crimen y Otros Textos Seleccionados
Works of Max Beerbohm
More
Around Theatres, Vol. 1
A. V. Laider
Selected Prose
Ruby on Rails
T. Fenning Dodworth
MAINLY ON THE AIR/MAX BEERBOHM
Cartoons, "The second childhood of John Bull"
The fetish of speed
And even now
Go for Beginners
Flask Programming
Works of Max Beerbohm
Leaves from the garland
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures
Max's nineties
Fifty caricatures
And even now ; and, A Christmas garland
The mote in the middle distance
Tableau Public
Arduino Language Reference
Modern Essays
Bootstrap 4
Even Now (Essay Index Rep. Series)
More
Suleika Dobson
Fifty Caricatures
C# in Unity
Selected Essays
Works of Max Beerbohm
A luncheon
Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
Two glimpses of Andrew Lang
A selection from Around Theatres
Max's Nineties, Drawings 1892-1899
Defence of Cosmetics
Defence of Cosmetics
Refactoring
Asp. net
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Fifty Caricatures
A variety of things [microform]
Max in verse
Python Programming
TypeScript
Fifty Caricatures
Selected prose
Enoch Soames
Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Ghosts."
Hipocrita Feliz, El
A book of caricature
Around Theatres
Works and More
A Defence of Cosmetics
More Theatres 1898-1930
The Modern Theater (Volume 6)
Aubrey Beardsley
Mainly on the Air
The Incomparable Max
Express. js
Xamarin
Max Beerbohm and Arthur Conan Doyle
Works of Max Beerbohm
First meetings
A Morris for May-Day
Visual C#. NET
The works of Max Beerbohm,
Letters, 1892-1956 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs)
Django
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Roots of Brexit
A peep into the past
Collected verse
The guerdon
The incomparable Max
The guerdon
Mainly on the Air
Rossetti and his Circle
Mainly on the air
Around theatres
Bash Scripting
Catalogue of another exhibition of caricatures by Max Beerbohm
Letters, 1892-1956
And even now, and A Christmas garland (A Dutton Everyman paperback)
Catalogue of the Philip Guedalla collection of caricatures by Sir Max Beerbohm ... Leicester Galleries ... London, September-October, 1945
The Incomparable Max
Cordova 9 Programming
Dickens and Christmas, as George Moore might well have described them
Kipling's entire
Caricatures by Max
Understanding JQuery
Works and More by Max Beerbohm (1952-12-05)
More Theatres
Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner
Observations
Alan Parsons' book
Triumph of Feminism
Before Buying
And Even Now and a Christmas Garland
Kotlin for Android Developers
R for Data Science
The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill
Six stories
Not that I would boast
Works
A variety of things
"In homes unblest"
The happy byprocrite
Last theatres
An introduction
"Savonarola" Brown
Max Beerbohm and H. Crouch Batchelor
Selected essays
Fifty caricatures
Leaves from the garland
Daniel Greene
Daniel Greene

YouTuber, comedian, reviewer, BookTuber, Internet celebrity

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