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Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679731313
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of a Tangled Life written by Jan Morris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Welsh author's memoirs reveal her idiosyncrasies, passions, and obsessions
Author : Gillian Fenwick
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037474
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Traveling Genius written by Gillian Fenwick and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traveling Genius surveys the half century of work by British writer Jan Morris, including more than fifty books and thousands of essays and reviews, from 1950s America via Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Sydney, and Hong Kong to her home in Wales. Internationally known as a travel writer, she has also distinguished herself across many other genres by writing history, autobiographies and biographies, and literary fiction and essays." "Existing accounts of Morris's work are largely confined to reviews and magazine essays, and often concentrate on James Morris's sex change and transformation into Jan Morris. This is of course significant to the writing, and some critics detect a change of tone and style afterward, but a detailed analysis of how her writing works has not yet been undertaken. In Traveling Genius, Gillian Fenwick fills that gap in the scholarship with the first study to explore the depths of Morris's complete body of work, utilizing close readings and archival research."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of a Tangled Life written by Jan Morris and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepack contains two copies of the Western epic "Son of the Morning Star", along with one free VHS copy of "The Making of Son of the Morning Star". Color, rated PG-13, closed cap., Stereo, 85 minutes.
Author : William Boyd Carpenter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life's Tangled Thread written by William Boyd Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Lubbock
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Life written by Sir John Lubbock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Pleasures of Life', John Lubbock delivers a series of lectures on various topics that are still relevant today. The book is divided into two parts, each containing chapters that focus on topics such as the value of time, the pleasures of travel, love, and religion. Through his insightful and thought-provoking writing, Lubbock explores the beauty and challenges of life. From the joys of home to the blessings of friendship, he provides an inspiring guide to living a fulfilling life.
Author : Andrew Lownie
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473627397
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess written by Andrew Lownie and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One of the great biographies of 2015.' The Times Fully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'A remarkable and definitive portrait ' Frederick Forsyth 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ... shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd 'In the sad and funny Stalin's Englishman, [Lownie] manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.' Craig Brown Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
Author : Sara Mansfield Taber
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425092
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Chance Particulars written by Sara Mansfield Taber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A guide to paying attention to the concrete, sensory details of experience and the process of getting them down on the page.” —James Barilla, author of My Backyard Jungle Based on what accomplished nonfiction writer Sara Mansfield Taber learned in her many years of field notebook keeping, Chance Particulars is a unique and handy primer for writers who want to use their experiences to tell a lively, satisfying story. Often, writers try to turn their notes into a memoir, essay, travel piece, or story, only to find that they haven’t recorded enough of details necessary to create evocative description. To help writers overcome this problem, Taber has composed a true “field notebook for field notebook keepers.” Enhanced by beautiful illustrations, this charming and comprehensive guide is a practical manual for anyone who wishes to learn or hone the crafts of writing, ethnography, or journalism. Writers of all levels, genres, and ages, as well as teachers of writing, will appreciate this useful tool for learning how to record the details that build vibrant prose. With this book in hand, you will be able to recreate times and places, conjure up intricate character portraits, and paint pictures of particular landscapes, cultures, and locales. “At once a delicious read and the distilled wisdom of a long-time teacher and virtuoso of the literary memoir. Her powerful lessons will give you rare and vital skills: to be able to read the world around you, and to read other writers, as a writer, that is, with your beadiest conjurer’s eye and mammoth heart. This is a book to savor, to engage with, and to reread, again and again.” —C. M. Mayo, author of Miraculous Air
Author : J. Edwards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294766
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial Travel Writing written by J. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.
Author : George Stade
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116896
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present written by George Stade and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
Author : Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Book of Pleasures written by Raoul Vaneigem and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mary Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134758707
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Family Affairs written by Mary Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Exploring the secret life of English families from 1920 to 1990, Mary Abbott takes the reader into her subjects homes and hearts and provokes us to reflect on families past and speculate on families future.
Author : Stewart Purvis
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785900137
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Guy Burgess written by Stewart Purvis and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker, with a contacts book that included everyone from statesmen to socialites, high-ranking government officials to the famous actors and literary figures of the day. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously, and often simultaneously, for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB. Despite this, Burgess was never challenged or arrested by Britain's spy-catchers in a decade and a half of espionage; dirty, scruffy, sexually promiscuous, a 'slob', conspicuously drunk and constantly drawing attention to himself, his superiors were convinced he was far too much of a liability to have been recruited by Moscow. Now, with a major new release of hundreds of files into the National Archives, Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert reveal just how this charming establishment insider was able to fool his many friends and acquaintances for so long, ruthlessly exploiting them to penetrate major British institutions without suspicion, all the while working for the KGB. Purvis and Hulbert also detail his final days in Moscow - so often a postscript in his story - as well as the moment the establishment finally turned on him, outmanoeuvring his attempts to return to England after he began to regret his decision to defect.
Author : Linda McFerrin
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725011
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Dead Love written by Linda McFerrin and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies, ghouls, vampires, gangsters; pursuit, betrayal, death—it's a globalized manga turned literature. Dead Love is Twilight with teeth.
Author : Andrew Lownie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250101018
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Englishman written by Andrew Lownie and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies"—Maclean, Philby, Blunt—brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colorful, tragi-comic wonder.
Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408113953
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide written by Nick Rennison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves.
Author : Andrew Williams
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481258
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Portable Music & Its Functions written by Andrew Williams and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using iPods or portable CD players, millions of people take their music with them every day to modify their daily experiences. Encased in headphones, they listen to music for entertainment, but also use it, among other things, as a buffer between themselves and the world outside, and to manage their moods. What is it about music that makes it useful in different ways to so many people? Have people always used music in these ways, or only since the technology of the Walkman and then the mp3 player made music portable? In this wide-ranging exploration of how and why we use portable music, Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.
