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Author : Sachin Garg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789381841006
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Never Let Me Go written by Sachin Garg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371336
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
Author : David M. Dyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956915504
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Heroes of Hailsham written by David M. Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the war memorial in Hailsham, Sussex, including details of the lives of the 123 people named on it.
Author : Jonathan Aitken
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826478337
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Contemporaries written by Jonathan Aitken and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes and Contemporaries is a book of profiles written with the author's personal insights, anecdotes and judgments on fascinating public figures he encountered in life's journey. Jonathan Aiken was for many years at the heart of British journalism and politics. The early chapters here offer illuminating portraits of historical characters Aitken knew as a young man including Sir Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook, the author's great uncle, who founded the Aitken dynasty of newspaper owners and politicians. In his own career, which took him through 23 years in the House of Commons to the Cabinet, Aitken became close to some of the most intriguing figures in British politics including Harold Wilson; Margaret Thatcher and her family; and Michael Portillo - all profiled in these pages. Jonathan Aitken also enjoyed a colourful personal and business life which ranged wider than politics. This is reflected in the chapters on Sir James Goldsmith, John Aspinall and Sir Frank Williams. During his prison sentence Aitken was visited by several of his subjects including Lord Longford and Nicky Gumbel. The resulting mixture of these profiles makes a book attractively written biographical studies full of fresh perceptions and revealing stories.
Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429000057
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction written by Susana Onega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.
Author : Shaun Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408841525
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Soldier B: Heroes of the South Atlantic written by Shaun Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 14, 1982, after a bloody war on land and sea and in the air, British forces forced the Argentinians to surrender in the Falkland Islands. Vital to that great victory, but hidden behind a veil of secrecy, were the many daring exploits of the legendary Special Air Service the SAS! Landed on enemy territory by boat, submarine, helicopter, aeroplane and parachute, the SAS performed tasks too dangerous for the average soldier. Surviving hunger, thirst, freezing cold, isolation, silence and constant danger, the SAS gathered vital intelligence, engaged in espionage, disrupted enemy communications and, when, necessary, attacked and killed the enemy. Now, at last in fictional form, for reasons of security, but firmly based on fact the extraordinary story of the SAS's involvement in the Falklands can be told. Soldier B SAS: Heroes of the South Atlantic is the second in a series of novels based on this extraordinary regiment a thrilling 'factoid' adventure about the most daring soldiers in military history: the SAS!
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lord Hailsham written by Geoffrey Lewis and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Lord Hailsham, details his political career from its start in the Oxford by-election of 1938. It describes his joining of the cabinet just before the Suez crisis and how he remained a strong presence in every Tory government until his retirement.
Author : Hugo Young
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141903600
Total Pages : 1437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Hugo Young Papers written by Hugo Young and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Young was one of Britain’s leading journalists for over thirty years, first on the Sunday Times, where he was political editor and deputy editor, and then as the Guardian’s senior political commentator. On his death in 2003 he was called ‘the Pope of the liberal left’, but for the last decade or more of his life there was really no more admired and respected journalist in any position on the political spectrum. One of the secrets of Young’s success as a journalist was that he was exceptionally well informed. Politicians from every major party, senior civil servants, judges and public figures of all kinds talked to him off the record, discussions which then informed the judgements he made when he wrote. Most of his interlocutors were unaware that straight after their telephone conversation, meal or meeting with Young had finished, he meticulously wrote down exactly what had been said, together with his own immediate impressions of whoever he was talking to. By 2003, Young’s records from such conversations amounted to a million and a half words. From this extraordinary archive Ion Trewin, who knew Young since they were colleagues in the 1960s, has made a selection which presents a unique record of what many of the leading figures in British political and public life were thinking, frankly and without the distortions of hindsight, for more than three decades. The result is one of the most gripping and informative books about British politics published for many years. Young’s first interviewee, Douglas Hurd, later Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, and one of his regulars for the whole of the period of this book, judged him thus: ‘His success was partly achieved by creating a conversation between two people roughly equal in status and knowledge. His own preconception sometimes appeared, as is natural in a conversation between equals, but never in a way which interrupted the even flow of discourse. He did not distort what he heard.’ The Hugo Young Papers shows Young’s central place in the nexus between politics and journalism in Britain and provides a historical document of the first rank.
Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408844745
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Soldier M: Invisible Enemy in Kazakhstan written by Peter Cave and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, in the bleak, snow-capped mountains of Kazakhstan, the SAS return to settle a score which goes back almost half a century and to face a new and terrifying enemy an enemy that is silent, deadly and invisible and that will test their endurance, and their equipment, to the limit. Almost fifty years earlier in 1945, even as treaties were being signed in Berlin, treachery was being planned. An SAS patrol on a routine mission was ambushed and massacred by a cynical and ruthless Russian KGB Major with an insane dream of a new and terrible form of biological welfare. In the post-war years captured Nazi medical personnel and the cream of the USSR's scientists were established in a high-security research facility in the remote, mountainous region of Kazakhstan, close to the Mongolian border. Although the complex's inhuman experiments were devastatingly successful and although it was still funded by the KGB, by the early 1980s the virtually autonomous complex, with its well-armed security unit and fanatically independent community, was almost forgotten by the Soviet authorities. Until, that is, sketchy reports of an accident possibly a plague or leak of a mutated virus form a biological experiment filtered through to American intelligence. A Russian army team sent in to investigate disappeared without trace. The Chinese, terrified that their territory might be threatened by the leak, turned to Britain, an unlikely ally, for help. Only one group of men was deemed capable of discovering the truth behind the underground facility the legendary Special Air Service the SAS!
Author : Sally Spencer
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1448300517
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Dark Lady written by Sally Spencer and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend will have to rely on his observational gifts to have a ghost of chance in solving his latest murder case. The night after the mysterious appearance of the legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German efficiency expert, Gerhard Schultz, is found battered to death in the woods and Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is faced with his most puzzling case yet. Why did Schultz seem so frightened when on his colleagues mentioned the legend of the Dark Lady? Did the workers at the BCI chemical factory—many of whom are known to hate the Germans—have anything to do with his death? How could Fred Foley, the tramp whose bloodstained overcoat was found close to the scene of the crime, have completely disappeared? And is this murder connected with one which occurred in Liverpool nearly twenty years earlier? “A very successful British procedural, nicely complicated by leftovers from both local lore and the war.” —Library Journal “Excellent work from a too-little-known author.” —Booklist
Author : Henry Strafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Coates's Herd Book written by Henry Strafford and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bridget Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134218028
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Obituary as Collective Memory written by Bridget Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Author : Minodora Barbul
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443839442
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book From Francis Bacon to William Golding written by Minodora Barbul and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Francis Bacon, to William Golding and to the tradition of writing utopias and dystopias. Although some of the articles contained herein were presented at the conference from which this book originated, there are also other contributions which join these to complete a 21st century vision on utopia, from the point of view of specialists in philology, philosophy, anthropology, etc. The novelty of such an undertaking comes from the fact that the editors enabled researchers from different fields to come together and create an interdisciplinary volume which contains very rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Sloane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501348000
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics written by Peter Sloane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be gestured towards,' Sloane argues that while Ishiguro's novels and short stories are profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties, while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards the undisclosable essences of fiction and being.
Author : Aaron S. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000173194
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Character and Dystopia written by Aaron S. Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years, and Maggie Shen King’s An Excess Male, showing how in the 20th and 21st centuries dystopian nostalgia shades into reactionary humanism, a last stand mounted in defense of forms of subjectivity no longer supported by modernity. Unlike most work on dystopia that emphasizes dystopia’s politics, this book’s approach grows out of questions of poetics: What are the formal structures by which dystopian character is constructed? How do dystopian characters operate differently than other characters, within texts and upon the reader? What is the relation between this character and other forms of literary character, such as are found in romantic and modernist texts? By reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
