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Gentlemen and Players

Author : Joanne Harris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061839914
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen and Players written by Joanne Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school—as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan’s Atonement and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald’s School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who—unknown to Straitley and everyone else—holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie’s ways and secrets, it’s comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald’s. As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances—a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug—they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie’s ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent—a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move. A harrowing tale of cat and mouse told in alternating voices, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before.

Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714653535
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players written by Eric Dunning and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue.

Gentlemen & Players

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297608096
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen & Players written by Charles Williams and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateurs versus professionals - a social history and memoir of English cricket from 1953 to 1963. The inaugural Gentlemen v. Players first-class cricket match was played in 1806, subsequently becoming an annual fixture at Lord's between teams consisting of amateurs (the Gentlemen) and professionals (the Players). The key difference between the amateur and the professional, however, was much more than the obvious one of remuneration. The division was shaped by English class structure, the amateur, who received expenses, being perceived as occupying a higher station in life than the wage-earning professional. The great Yorkshire player Len Hutton, for example, was told he would have to go amateur if he wanted to captain England. GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS focuses on the final ten years of amateurism and the Gentlemen v. Players fixture, starting with Charles Williams' own presence in the (amateur) Oxbridge teams that included future England captains such as Peter May, Colin Cowdrey and M.J.K. Smith, and concluding with the abolition of amateurism in 1962 when all first-class players became professional. The amateur innings was duly declared closed. Charles Williams, the author of a richly acclaimed biography of Donald Bradman, has penned a vivid social-history-cum-memoir that reveals an attempt to recreate a Golden Age in post-war Britain, one whose expiry exactly coincided with the beginnings of top-class one-day cricket and a cricket revolution.

Different Class

Author : Joanne Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501155512
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Different Class written by Joanne Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: Doubleday, 2016.

Ladies and Gentlemen v. Players

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146554030X
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen v. Players written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gentlemen and Players

Author : Timothy Mowl
Publisher : History PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780750937689
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen and Players written by Timothy Mowl and published by History PressLtd. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English love affair with the landscape garden reached its height in the eighteenth century, when the creation of some of our greatest gardens set a stylistic lead which Continental Europe was eager to follow. In this informed and entertaining book, Timothy Mowl reveals how this development in garden style came about through an interaction between the garden owners, who had a vision of what these gardens might become, and the professionals who had the expertise to realise this vision. Technologies and discoveries were exchanged, and theories were absorbed, popularised and then discarded, in a fascinating sequence of action and reaction. It was a mould-breaking, revolutionary period in garden history. Mowl takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the magnificent gardens at Chiswick, Stowe, Castle Howard, Painshill, Stourhead and an astonishing host of lesser Edens, and casts a fresh and illuminating perspective on the great age of the English Arcadia (1620-1820).

The American Cricketer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The American Cricketer written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sportsman's Year-book for 1880

Author : J. Keith Angus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sportsman's Year-book for 1880 written by J. Keith Angus and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improper Gentlemen

Author : Maggie Robinson
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758272448
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Improper Gentlemen written by Maggie Robinson and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsuitable. Forbidden. Oh-so-seductive. These gentlemen are hardly respectable. But they are the very, very best. . . Talbot's Ace Diane Whiteside ". . .Prose so steamy that it fogs one's reading glasses."-Booklist He rules Colorado's most glittering, anything-goes gambling palace. And Justin Talbot never does something for nothing. But if daring Boston aristocrat Charlotte Morland needs his protection from a dangerous enemy, he'll have no choice but to make her business his pleasure. . . To Match a Thief Maggie Robinson "A fun read that will keep you turning pages in the night."-Affaire de Coeur on Mistress by Mistake Ex-pickpocket Sir Simon Keith can finally afford the best of everything. But London's most-desired courtesan is his lost love Lucy. Now Simon will need his wits and his considerably large. . .wiles to win his way back into her bed-and into her heart. A Knack for Trouble Mia Marlowe "Mia Marlowe is a rising star!"-Connie Mason Lord Aidan Stonemere didn't go from prison to a title playing by society's rules. If he wants something, he takes it, and Rosalinde Burke didn't object to being taken. Once. To keep her from marrying a staid viscount, Aidan's about to remind her how deliciously good being bad feels. . .

Gentlemen of a Company

Author : Jerzy Limon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521115094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen of a Company written by Jerzy Limon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind in English. It is a comprehensive and scrupulously researched account of the theatrical activity, of professional groups of players who left England for Central and Eastern Europe between the years 1590 and 1660. Touring on such a scale was an unprecedented phenomenon, and in an introductory chapter Dr Limon establishes its causes within the context of English acting traditions on the Continent in general. He describes its distinctive phases, examines the fortunes of particular companies, and stresses the significance of noble patronage, which enabled the players to survive even the most severe times. The book's main chapters deal with English theatrical activities in various specific towns and regions: Gdansk, Elbing, Königsberg, Pomerania, Livonia, Warsaw, Bohemia and Austria. Additional sections discuss two key theatre institutions in Gdansk and Warsaw. His book is illustrated with seventeenth-century engravings of theatre sites in the relevant regions. It will be valuable to all scholars and students of English and Continental theatre and drama.

The Compleat Gentleman

Author : Brad Miner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512158
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Compleat Gentleman written by Brad Miner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies—or louts.”—Michelle Malkin "Miner writes with wit and charm."—Wall Street Journal The Gentleman: An Endangered Species? The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day—mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity—reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man’s only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with? No. Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood— the gentleman. In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here—the warrior, the lover, and the monk—forming the character of “the compleat gentleman.” He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with passionate respect. And he values learning in pursuit of the truth. Miner’s gentleman stands out for the combination of discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth, following a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival.

Sporting Gentlemen

Author : E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412851807
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Gentlemen written by E. Digby Baltzell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Free Press, 1995.

Gentleman of Leisure

Author : Susan Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576873113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Gentleman of Leisure written by Susan Hall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile edition of the first 1972 edition that followed Silky, a pimp, and his women through an entire year of life on the streets of New York City. Bob Adelman dives headlong onto the world of the original Macks and players - the Big City Pimps - in this in-depth photographic exploration of the underworld figures that populated the streets of New York City. Armed with only a camera Adelman entered the lives of Silky and his women. This facsimile edition re-introduces this classic of the times and makes available, once more, this compelling and hugely popular book.

The Impossible Collection of Motorcycles

Author : Ian Barry
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161428055X
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Collection of Motorcycles written by Ian Barry and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s an undeniable fascination with motorcycles—their speed, design, riders, and coolness factor, are all part of the magnetism. This exquisite deluxe volume, presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate, is the newest addition to Assouline’s Impossible Collection series is a compendium of the 100 most exceptional bikes of the twentieth century—from the rare to the renowned—each one is unique. Some of these brilliant pieces of machinery include the stunning and one-of-a-kind BMW R7, the 1948 Vincent Series Rapide that Rollie Free shattered land speed record on, in nothing but a bathing suit, the iconic 1969 Easy Rider bike that Peter Fonda made famous, and the 1973 Harley-Davidson XR750, Evel Knievel’s bike of choice. Motorcycle aficionados, aesthetes, and enthusiasts alike will treasure this collector’s item.

Routledge's sporting annual

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge's sporting annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sportsman's Year-book

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sportsman's Year-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sportsman's Year-book

Author : C. S. Colman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sportsman's Year-book written by C. S. Colman and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: