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A Bright Young Thing

Author : Brianne Moore
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643855344
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Bright Young Thing written by Brianne Moore and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1930s England, a young firebrand finds herself on a fraught and dangerous road to independence. In 1931 England, Astra Davies defies all the conventions. Clever, witty, and determined, Astra smokes, drinks, plays a mean piano, and gallivants around London with her beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. But Astra finds herself in a tight spot when her parents die suddenly, leaving her with a raft of debts. With few marketable skills and a closet full of family secrets, Astra has two choices: find a rich husband or make her own way. A fiercely driven woman like Astra is not about to cast her lot in with a man, especially out of desperation. And since the only man she fancies--Jeremy Harris, the Earl of Dunreaven--is as hard up as she is, her way forward is clear. But the path to independence is a bumpy one fraught with hazards and heartbreaking choices. A blackmailing socialite threatens to derail Astra's reputation. A brainless business partner just might drive her even further into debt. And a series of bruising scandals dogs her every step of the way. From the bustle of London to the country estates of the aristocracy, Astra embarks on a journey that tests her brains, wit, and mettle as never before. But one way or another, Astra Davies is dead set on proving she's no ordinary Bright Young Thing.

Bright Young Things

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062023918
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star. . . . Cordelia is searching for the father she's never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined—and more dangerous. It's a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will. The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. But Astrid's perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets. Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls' fortunes will rise and fall—together and apart. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

Bright Young Things

Author : Scarlett Thomas
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857863819
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things written by Scarlett Thomas and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.' They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on a deserted island. There's food in the fridge and they have a bedroom each, but there's no telephone, no television, and no way to escape.

Bright Young Things London

Author : Brooke De Ocampo
Publisher : Editions Assouline
ISBN 13 : 9782843233371
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things London written by Brooke De Ocampo and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke de Ocampo invites us back into the homes of Bright Young Things, only this time she opens the doors to London's most stylish and enterprising trend-setters. Bright Young Things London is the highly anticipated follow-up to the successful New York edition. This lush, elegant book is an enthralling journey through the homes of the most envied and emulated residents of one of the world's most exciting cities. Step inside the fabulous lives of 40 architects, artists, designers, and writers to discover why they embody everything London is known for: wit, cutting-edge style, and glamour. Along with elegant photographs by Vanity Fair photographer Jonathan Becker are intimate anecdotes written by the people who know these bright young things best: Claus von Bulow writes about his daughter Cosima; Ewan and Eve MacGregor rave about the home David Adjaye designed for them; Michael Kors fawns over his muse, Kim Hersov; and Paul Smith writes about Robert Violette. Bright Young Things London captures the spirit of the city while paying tribute to its international influences. It is just as addictive in London as it was in New York.

Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things

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Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781855147720
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1920s and '30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the "Bright Young Things." Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these men and women cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch and embodied its roaring spirit. In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 50 leading figures who sat for Beaton are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings, book jackets and ephemera, and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb. Cecil Beaton (1904-80) is one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the 20th century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. Also well known as a diarist, Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers.

The Lucky Ones

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062114573
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Ones written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen, author of the bestselling Luxe series, introduced the girls of 1929, girls with big dreams and big secrets in the big city of Manhattan during the Jazz Age. Each girl had a different fate. One would marry. One would find fame. And one would die. Lucky Ones, the thrilling conclusion to the glamorous Bright Young Things series, reveals the destinies of Broadway baby Letty Larkspur, bootlegger’s daughter Cordelia Grey, and flapper Astrid Donal. Letty’s dream of fame is within her reach. Cordelia is the midst of a whirlwind romance with celebrity pilot Max Darby. Socialite Astrid is a new bride. But secrets and scandals could destroy their happiness as the last summer of the 1920s reaches its peak.

VILE BODIES

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623796
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book VILE BODIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Bright Young Things

Author : MillaMia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956365828
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things written by MillaMia and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bright. Young. Things

Author : Georgia Christou
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848428621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Bright. Young. Things written by Georgia Christou and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a reality television show, six remarkable - and remarkably young - geniuses are competing for the coveted Golden Brain trophy and the title "Britain's Brainiest Child." As the contestants battle it out round after round, the pressure mounts, the spotlight gets harsher, and each is faced with questions they were never expecting. Who will win and who will lose - and what exactly does winning mean anyway? Georgia Christou's Bright. Young. Things. is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.

Hereditation

Author : J. P. Smythe
Publisher : Bright Young Things
ISBN 13 : 9781906998097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Hereditation written by J. P. Smythe and published by Bright Young Things. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hereditation tells the story of the Sloane family. Living in New York in the middle of the 20th century, brothers Erwin and Maynard share their brownstone Harlem house with their mother, a perpetually ill woman who has recently suffered the indignity of being abandoned by her philandering husband, Ezra.

Beautiful Days: A Bright Young Things Novel

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061962686
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Days: A Bright Young Things Novel written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry. After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal at the Greys’ lush Long Island estate and their nights in Manhattan’s bustling metropolis. But Letty’s not content to be a mere socialite. She is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams—no matter the cost. Cordelia is still reeling from the death of her father at the hands of Thom Hale, the man she thought she loved. Now she is set to honor Darius Grey’s legacy . . . and take her revenge. Promised to Cordelia’s half brother, Astrid is caught up in a world of dazzling jewels and glittering nights—and the sparkle is blinding. Charlie Grey is a gangster playing a dangerous game; and for Astrid, Cordelia, and Letty, the stakes could be deadly. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes the second book in an epic series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

Young China

Author : Zak Dychtwald
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250078814
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Young China written by Zak Dychtwald and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who is in his twenties and fluent in Chinese, intimately examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou—the generation born after 1990—exploring through personal encounters how his Chinese peers feel about everything from money and marriage to their government and the West

Bright Young Dead

Author : Jessica Fellowes
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250170818
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Dead written by Jessica Fellowes and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True and glorious indulgence. A dazzling example of a golden age mystery." —Daisy Goodwin, author of Victoria and The American Heiress on The Mitford Murders Set amid the legendary Mitford household, Bright Young Dead is the second in the thrilling, Golden Age-style Mitford Murders series by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books. Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at the 18th birthday party of Pamela Mitford, but ends in tragedy as cruel, charismatic Adrian Curtis is pushed to his death from the church neighbouring the Mitford home. The police quickly identify the killer as a maid, Dulcie. But Louisa Cannon, chaperone to the Mitford girls and a former criminal herself, believes Dulcie to be innocent, and sets out to clear the girl's name . . . all while the real killer may only be steps away.

Bright Young Things

Author : Alison Maloney
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0385345259
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things written by Alison Maloney and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated lifestyle guide to the fashion, parties and notorious personalities of the 1920s celebrates everything from jazz and all-night dance halls to Prohibition cocktails and flappers, in a volume complemented by art deco illustrations and a foil-stamped case. By the author of the best-selling Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2008. 15,000 first printing.

The Luxe

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061756849
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Luxe written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Luxe is the first book in the New York Times bestselling Luxe series by Anna Godbersen. In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. This thrilling trip to the age of innocence is anything but innocent. Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hook-ups. This is Manhattan, 1899. Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone—from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker to the spiteful maid Lina Broud—threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future. With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl whose glittering life lit up the city's gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current. As all of New York grieves, some begin to wonder whether life at the top proved too much for this ethereal beauty, or if, perhaps, someone wanted to see Manhattan's most celebrated daughter disappear... “Mystery, romance, jealous, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldn’t put The Luxe down!” —Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series

Bright Ruined Things

Author : Samantha Cohoe
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250768853
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Bright Ruined Things written by Samantha Cohoe and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights Forbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all... The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island’s magic and its spirits. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. But tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island’s magic and started producing aether – a magical fuel source that has revolutionized the world. With everyone returning to the island, Mae finally has the chance to go after what she’s always wanted. When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae realizes that things aren’t what they seem. And Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir to the Prosper magic, may hold all the answers – including a secret about Mae’s past. As Mae and her friends unravel the mysteries of the island, and the Prospers’ magic, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on. In this YA fantasy, Samantha Cohoe wonderfully mixes magic and an atmospheric setting into a fantastically immersive world, with characters you won’t be able to forget.

The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me

Author : Sofka Zinovieff
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006233896X
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me written by Sofka Zinovieff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage, this beguiling, heady tale of a scandalous ménage à trois among England's upper classes combines memoir and biography to re-create an unforgettably decadent world. Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka Zinovieff's grandparents lived and loved with abandon. Robert Heber-Percy was a dashing young man who would rather have a drink than open a book, so his involvement with Jennifer Fry, a gorgeous socialite famous for her style and charm, was not surprising. But by the time Robert met and married Jennifer, he had already been involved with a man—Gerald, Lord Berners—for more than a decade. Stout, eccentric and significantly older, Gerald was a composer, writer and aesthete—a creative aristocrat most at home in the company of the era's best and brightest minds. He also owned one of Britain's loveliest stately homes, Faringdon House, in Oxfordshire, which under his stewardship became a beacon of sybaritic beauty. Robert and Gerald made an unlikely couple, especially because they lived together at Faringdon House when homosexuality was illegal. And then a pregnant Jennifer moved into Faringdon in 1942, creating a formidable ménage à trois. In this gorgeous, entertaining narrative of bohemian aristocracy, Sofka Zinovieff probes the mysteries of her grandparents and the third man in their marriage: Gerald, the complex and talented heir to a legendary house, its walls lined with priceless art and its gardens roamed by a bevy of doves, where he entertained everyone from Igor Stravinsky to Gertrude Stein. What brought Robert and Jennifer together under his roof, and why did Jennifer stay—and marry Robert? Blending memoir and biography in her quest to lay old ghosts to rest, Zinovieff pieces together the complicated reality behind the scandals of revelry and sexuality. The resulting story, defined by keen insight, deep affection and marvelous wit, captures the glory and indulgence of the age, and explores the many ways in which we have the capacity to love.