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Britannia Mews

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504034244
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Britannia Mews written by Margery Sharp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate heroine defies the English class system in this novel set in 1875 London—perfect for lovers of Edith Wharton and Downton Abbey. Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it’s no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what goes on there. Years later, Adelaide shocks her family when she falls in love with an impoverished artist and moves into the mews. But violence shatters Adelaide’s dreams. In a dangerous new world, she must fend for herself—until she meets a charismatic stranger and her life takes a turn she never expected. A novel about social manners and mores reminiscent of Edith Wharton, this story of love, family, and the price one must pay for throwing off the shackles of convention is also a witty and incisive dissection of the “upstairs, downstairs” English class system of the last two centuries.

Britannia Mews

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Britannia Mews written by Margery Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britannia Mews

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788896919262
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Britannia Mews written by Margery Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rescuers

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175719
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rescuers written by Margery Sharp and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic children’s fantasy of two mice on a mission to save a Norwegian poet—and the inspiration for the beloved 1977 animated Disney movie. “Miss Sharp’s delicate and sophisticated humor is good fun for wise children from age 10 to 100.” —Los Angeles Times Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners’ Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don’t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything they’ve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. Margery Sharp’s classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams.

Mrs Queen Takes the Train

Author : William Kuhn
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780062208293
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Queen Takes the Train written by William Kuhn and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, this lively, wonderfully inventive romp takes readers into the mind of the grand matriarch of Britain’s Royal Family, bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town—and leading us behind the Buckingham Palace walls and into the upstairs/downstairs spaces of England’s monarchy.

Gaslight Melodrama

Author : Guy Barefoot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474290361
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Gaslight Melodrama written by Guy Barefoot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Hangover Square. It also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama in Victorian or Edwardian settings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, 19th century discussions of gas lighting in street, home and theatre, and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema.

Jean Negulesco

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627525
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Jean Negulesco written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was later hired as a director by various studios--mostly for ballet and musical shorts--before being assigned to a number of commercially successful films. During his 30-year career, he worked in several European countries yet it was in the U.S. he achieved his greatest success, with Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. Dubbed "The Prince of Melodrama" by critics, he directed films of all genres, working with stars like Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Fred Astaire and many others. Negulesco was nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1948 for Johnny Belinda--now considered a classic, along with his The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Humoresque (1946), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). This book--the first on him since his 1984 autobiography--covers his extraordinary life and career, with extensive analyses of his films.

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715339
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Directors in British and Irish Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

Dana Andrews

Author : James McKay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456760
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Dana Andrews written by James McKay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of Hollywood’s most prestigious productions, including The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). His unique screen presence was shown at its best in such film noir classics as Laura (1944) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). Beginning with an absorbing biographical chapter, this critical survey of Dana Andrews’ screen career features a complete filmography with synopses, reviews, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insightful comments from Andrews and his coworkers. A chronological list of television, radio and theater credits is included.

Rhododendron Pie

Author : MARGERY. SHARP
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913527617
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Rhododendron Pie written by MARGERY. SHARP and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish. Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits. Ann, on the other hand, worries about being plump, is what might be called a 'people person, ' and appreciates the simpler pleasures. As the young Laventies spend more and more of their time in the glitter of London, their differences grow more pronounced, and when Ann returns home with an unsuitably ordinary fiancé, this dazzling, witty battle of the brows reaches its exhilarating climax. Rhododendron Pie, one of Margery Sharp's rarest and most sought-after novels, was her debut, reportedly written in one month while Sharp worked as a typist and shared a flat in Paddington with two other girls. But it already shows all the charm, humour, and sophistication that characterizes Sharp's beloved later work. First published in 1930, it has, inexplicably, never been reprinted. Until now. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford. 'A first novel of quite unusual charm, pointedly and gracefully written, and whimsically human' Yorkshire Post

Harper's Magazine

Author : Lee Foster Hartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harper's Magazine written by Lee Foster Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1946-07 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

British Film Editors

Author : Roy Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714820
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book British Film Editors written by Roy Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book on British feature-film editing.

From a Clear Blue Sky

Author : Timothy Knatchbull
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089324
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book From a Clear Blue Sky written by Timothy Knatchbull and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, “exceptionally moving” memoir of a family boat trip, an IRA bombing, and a teenager’s loss of his twin brother (The Telegraph). Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award Winner and PEN/JR Ackerley Prize Nominee On an August weekend in 1979, fourteen-year-old Timothy Knatchbull joined his family on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. By noon, an Irish Republican Army bomb had destroyed the boat, leaving four dead. The author survived, but his grandparents, family friend, and twin brother did not. Lord Mountbatten, his grandfather, was the target, and became one of the IRA’s most high-profile assassinations. Knatchbull and his parents were too badly injured to attend the funerals of those killed, which only intensified their profound sense of loss. Telling this story decades later, Knatchbull not only revisits these terrible events but also writes an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy—a story of recovery not just from physical wounds but deep emotional trauma. From a Clear Blue Sky takes place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles and gives compelling insight into that period of Irish history. But more importantly, it brings home that while calamity can strike at any moment, the human spirit is able to forgive, to heal, and to move on. “A minute by minute story of what happened that day, and what happened afterwards.” —Daily Mail “This is an extremely moving book. Beyond providing a phenomenally detailed evocation of his own family’s trauma, Knatchbull has lots of wise things to say about how we survive horrors—of all kinds—in our lives.” — Zoë Heller, author of the Booker Prize finalist Notes on a Scandal “A very poignant, clearsighted, heartbreaking but ultimately positive account.” —Hugh Bonneville, The New York Times

The Eye of Love

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504034260
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of Love written by Margery Sharp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margery Sharp’s enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolores into a Spanish rose and stout Harry into the man of Dolores’s dreams. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleague’s daughter in order to save his nearly bankrupt business. The course of true love never runs smoothly but with some inadvertent help from Dolores’s keenly observant nine-year-old niece, Martha, Harry’s grasping fiancée, and Dolores’s calculating lodger, Harry might succeed in both averting financial ruin and reclaiming his beloved.

AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215214
Total Pages : 1464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book-news Letter ...

Author : Book-of-the-Month Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book-news Letter ... written by Book-of-the-Month Club and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE INDIAN LISTENER

Author : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi . This book was released on 1947-05-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-05-1947 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 112 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XII, No. 10 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 36-99 ARTICLE: 1. Indo-Siamese Cultural Links 2. In Japan Today AUTHOR: 1. P. A. Rachathon 2. Amar Lahiri KEYWORDS: 1. Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhist, Indian words, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 2. Hunger, Black market, Worker, Food politics, Middle class Document ID: INL-1947 (J-J) Vol-I (09)