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Author : English life
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Scenes and sketches of English life written by English life and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 1760558370
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Scenes of London Life written by Charles Dickens and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colourful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance. Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by Boz. Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B. Priestley, these thirteen marvellous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshank’s evocative illustrations. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Author : Amos Oz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547483368
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Scenes from Village Life written by Amos Oz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel in stories by acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz.
Author : Maureen Waller
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568582160
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book 1700 written by Maureen Waller and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Waller captures the grit and excitement of London in 1700. Combining investigative reporting with popular history, she portrays London's teeming, sprawling urban life and creates a brilliant cultural map of a city poised between medievalism and empire in this Book of the Month Club Selection.
Author : Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scenes and Studies of Savage Life written by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat and published by London : Smith, Elder. This book was released on 1868 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0865477620
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Scenes from Early Life written by Philip Hensher and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him endlessly with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the collective memory of a family and a country. At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, Scenes from Early Life is based on the life of Philip Hensher's husband, and as such it is at once a memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable writer brings the past to life, we come to feel, vividly and viscerally, that Saadi's family—and its struggles and triumphs—are our own. Scenes form Early Life is the winner of the 2013 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chekhov written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Chekhov tick? What served as a source of creative inspiration in his life? In answering these questions, Russian scholar Rosamund Bartlett focuses on the writer's intimate relationship with the places where he lived and traveled--Taganrog and the southern Russian steppes, Moscow, Petersburg, Siberia, the French Riviera, and Yalta. By looking at his life through the prism of these landscapes, it is possible to gain a far greater insight into one of the most enigmatic writers who ever lived. Chekhov: Scenes from a Liferestores the humor and warmth to a man too often seen as merely melancholic, and reminds us why many consider him to be the greatest short-story writer of all time.
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496694
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Changing Places written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
Author : David Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848427211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Secret Life of Humans written by David Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Yuval Harari's international bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754507
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Scenes from a Writer's Life written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The making of a writer Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his -formative years,' till the age of twenty-one. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relation between his parents. Their estrangement while he is still a child leaves him with a life-long sense of insecurity. His unhappiness is exacerbated by the untimely death of his father " his emotional anchor when the author is just ten. Forced to stay with his mother and his stepfather, both of whom are absorbed in their own worlds, he tries to fend off his loneliness through books and the company of a few friends. Left for the most part to himself, the gentle dreamer realizes very early as -a pimply adolescent' his calling as a writer. His first book, The Room on the Roof, materializes in England, the land of his forefathers, where he is sent to make a career for himself. Despite the unexpected success of his novel, which wins a major British literary prize, the author's yearning for India is too powerful to let him remain abroad for long. He returns and begins a writing career which has spanned four decades, and earned him a place in the pantheon of great Indian writers.
Author : Judi Dench
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780297844273
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Judi Dench written by Judi Dench and published by Orion. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judi Dench is Britain's best-loved actress of our time. Her very name encourages a warm and admiring response from the public, whether for Shakespearean performances (most recently the Countess in All's Well That Ends Well) or in the contemporary theatre (plays by David Hare and Hugh Whitemore among them), or on TV (the series A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By) or in the cinema (Mrs Brown, her Oscar-winning performance in Shakespeare in Love, Iris, Shipping News, Ladies in Lavender, and four James Bond films as 'M'). Now she opens her photograph albums publicly for the first time, contributing substantial memoir and captions to pictures from throughout her seventy years. The private albums are augmented by photographs showing her work across 50 years of acting - on stage, film and TV. Here are previously unseen pictures of Judi's happy childhood in York before the second world war, family holidays, schooldays and her first work as an amateur actor in her teens in York. We see her growing up, drama school and the performance that made her name as Juliet in Franco Zefferilli's famous and controversial production at the Old Vic when Judi was in her early twenties. To these are added informal shots back stage and off set, as well as photographs of her own family, her actor husband Michael Williams, daughter Finty and grandson Sam. Britain's much loved Judi Dench as you have not seen her before.
Author : Francis Pryor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789544165
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)
Download or read book Scenes from Prehistoric Life written by Francis Pryor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly relating what life was like in pre-Roman Britain' Choice Magazine 'Makes life in Britain BC often sound rather more appealing than the frenetic and anxious 21st century!' Daily Mail In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen profiles of ancient landscapes. Whether writing about the early human family who trod the estuarine muds of Happisburgh in Norfolk c.900,000 BC, the craftsmen who built a wooden trackway in the Somerset Levels early in the fourth millennium BC, or the Iron Age denizens of Britain's first towns, Pryor uses excavations and surveys to uncover the daily routines of our ancient ancestors. By revealing how our prehistoric forebears coped with both simple practical problems and more existential challenges, Francis Pryor offers remarkable insights into the long and unrecorded centuries of our early history, and a convincing, well-attested and movingly human portrait of prehistoric life as it was really lived.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Ridout
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126881
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Scenes from Bourgeois Life written by Nicholas Ridout and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Lewes Cutts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scenes & Characters of the Middle Ages written by Edward Lewes Cutts and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Atkinson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312150600
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes at the Museum written by Kate Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year paints a rich, vivid portrait of heartbreak and happiness, recounting the story of Ruby Lennox, a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. "A poignant and beautifully wrought portrait of a young girl's growth".--"Seattle Times".
