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Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable written by Ronald Searle and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory.... But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons. Now, licking his wounds, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked booksellers for ever more. No longer will the innocent book collector need to puzzle over the finer meaning of 'old half road', 'good working copy', blind tooled', or 'tail-edged shaved'. The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shocking explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred of bibliophiles. The result is one of the funniest, most entertaining books to have emerged from the brilliantly perceptive pen of the master. No book collector, and certainly no bookseller, can afford to be without it - even the wicked ones.

Something in the Cellar

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 9780285643499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Something in the Cellar written by Ronald Searle and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated in Searle's inimitable style are the ancient noble ceremony of slashing the trockenbeerenauslese, the inauguration of the first authentic denominazione di origine controllata e garantita, and the vinolympics. For wine lovers who have never tasted ptolemy nouveau or watched the uncorking of the kangarouge, these experiences are related with warmth and humor. The many ways to open a bottle of wine are illustrated, and the rituals and delights of wine around the world are described.

Original Sins

Author : Matt Rowland Hill
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369720458
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Original Sins written by Matt Rowland Hill and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*? “A shattering portrait of addiction—generously open, desperately honest and confronting.” —Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor’s son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents’ Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill’s substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive. Hill’s debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival—of growing up and learning how to live.

Paris Sketchbook

Author : Fabrice Moireau
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312284160
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Paris Sketchbook written by Fabrice Moireau and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris is seen through the eyes of artist Fabrice Moireau, with sketches in watercolor and pencil perfectly matched by an introduction by Mary A. Kelly. These residents of the world's most romantic capital city are the perfect guides to its streets, monuments, gardens and delightfully hidden corners.

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006137
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys written by Miranda Seymour and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enthralling.… Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse’s shamefaced offspring, complicity.” —James Wood, The New Yorker An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the “Rhys woman” of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable—and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist.

Riders of the Purple Sage

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623958717
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Riders of the Purple Sage written by Zane Grey and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the novel that shaped the genre of Western novels in America. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey stalls the story of a woman's battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon church. This complex novel is an classic tale of romance, adventure and the wild west. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Ronald Searle's America

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606998439
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Ronald Searle's America written by Ronald Searle and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispatched to America in the early ’60s, the golden age of illustrative reportage, Ronald Searle spent several years covering everything―in the form of drawings in his trademark satirical and virtuosic style―from sports to politics, for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and TV Guide. Topics included Palm Springs, Las Vegas, the Presidential contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon―as seen through the eyes of a caustic Englishman.

In Search of Mary Shelley

Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681778211
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Mary Shelley written by Fiona Sampson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.

Super-Infinite

Author : Katherine Rundell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374607419
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Super-Infinite written by Katherine Rundell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times—unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.

Christabel

Author : Christabel Bielenberg
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140121780
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Christabel written by Christabel Bielenberg and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paris Sketchbook

Author : Jason Brooks
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780675372
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Paris Sketchbook written by Jason Brooks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book from leading international fashion illustrator Jason Brooks. Although he is best known for his beautiful fashion imagery, which has regularly graced the pages of Vogue and Elle magazines, travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire. During his time on fashion assignments at the couture shows in Paris, Brooks developed a fascination for the city, drawing and painting beautiful travel journals that demonstrate his passion for all things Parisian. This book is a whimsical take on Paris, part guide book, part illustrated journal, it will appeal to both travellers and fashionistas. Sumptuous production with different stocks and inks will make this a must for anyone who loves fashion illustration and beautiful books.

Look Back with Mixed Feelings

Author : Dodie Smith
Publisher : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Look Back with Mixed Feelings written by Dodie Smith and published by W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1978 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author leaves behind her Manchester childhood and comes to London. After training at RADA she launches out as a touring actress. And there are her first attempts at writing.

The High Path

Author : Ted Walker
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The High Path written by Ted Walker and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dawn Wind

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN 13 : 0192793608
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Dawn Wind written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy lay in the silence of the great battlefield, gazing at his own hand spread on the ground beside him. The hand moved and he realized, with something like surprise, that he was not dead. His name was Owain and further up the hillside lay his father and brother, both killed by Saxon warriors in that last great battle of Aquae Sulis. From that moment Owain knows that he must make his own way in the world and so begins his journey to face the many challenges that lie ahead. Rosemary Sutcliff is one of the greatest writers of historical fiction and Dawn Wind is an acclaimed and much-loved classic tale which will enthral readers old and new. This stunning new edition features the evocative original black and white illustrations by award-winning artist, Charles Keeping, which bring the story vividly to life.

Blue Remembered Hills

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Sunburst
ISBN 13 : 9780374407148
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Blue Remembered Hills written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Sunburst. This book was released on 1992 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical novelist recalls her childhood and struggle with rheumatoid arthritis that made her unable to walk as a child and describes the family and friends who encouraged her to become a writer

The Illustrated Winespeak

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 9780285625921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Winespeak written by Ronald Searle and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious send-up of winetasters' jargon, this collection of cartoons offers a satiric look at pretentious phrases used to describe wines by humorously assigning those characteristics to people.

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Author : Paul Murray
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141942037
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book An Evening of Long Goodbyes written by Paul Murray and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man- and a family - living in denial . . .