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Author : Anthony Devas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Two flamboyant fathers written by Anthony Devas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicolette Devas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Two Flamboyant Fathers written by Nicolette Devas and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A autobiography by one whose real father was Francis Macnamara - a flamboyant Irishman - and who came early in life to look on the ebullient Augustus John as a father-figure.
Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Author : Andrew Lycett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780227485
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Dylan Thomas written by Andrew Lycett and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic work Dylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for both lyrical phrases and impish humour, he also wrote for films and radio, and was renowned for his stage performances. He became the first literary star in the age of popular culture - a favourite of both T.S. Eliot and John Lennon. As his status as a poet and entertainer increased, so did his alcoholic binges and his sexual promiscuity, threatening to destroy his marriage to his fiery Irish wife Caitlin. As this extraordinary biography reveals, he was a man of many contradictions. But out of his tempestuous life, he produced some of the most dramatic and enduring poetry in the English language.
Author : L Guinness
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448130484
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Vintage Book Of Fathers written by L Guinness and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, puffed-up-with-pride fathers, horribly and humanly flawed fathers: this wonderful anthology contains a whole range of experience from the amazed joy of new fatherhood, to the pains of bereavement, from the comic and eccentric Papa to the sinister and silent Dad. Louise Guinness has collected irresistible extracts spanning nearly three thousand years, from Homer and the Bible to present day, from Chaucer to Beatrix Potter, Rabelais to Seamus Heaney.
Author : Virginia Nicholson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639367071
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book All the Rage written by Virginia Nicholson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions—and how it affects the female body. Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what colour lipstick we adore, what body shape is 'all the rage’. Thestory of female adornment from 1860- 1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long been fascinated by the way we women present ourselves – or are encouraged to present ourselves – to the world. ‘Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-cheeked, slouched or erect, according to the prevalent notions of beauty…’ Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion (1954), In this book we learn about rational dress, suffragettes' hats, the Marcel wave, the Gibson Girls, corsets and the banana skirt. At the centre of this story is the female body, in all its diversity – fat, thin, short, tall, brown, white, black, pink, smooth, hairy, wrinkly, youthful, crooked or symmetrical; and – relevant as ever in this context – the vexed issues of body image and bodily autonomy. We may even find ourselves wondering, whose body is it? In the hundred years this book charts, the western world saw the rapid introduction of new technologies like photography, film and eventually TV, which (for better and worse) thrust women – and female imagery – out of the private and into the public gaze.
Author : Harold Orlans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413072
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book T.E. Lawrence written by Harold Orlans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence of Arabia, as adviser to Prince Feisal, led camel-riding Bedouin in a guerrilla war against Turkey from Arabia to Damascus. The great British hero of World War I, he helped Winston Churchill draw the map of the modern Middle East, creating Jordan and making Feisal king of Iraq. Then, in 1922, he shed the rank of colonel and his name to serve as a private in the Royal Air Force until shortly before his death in 1935 at age 46. Lawrence has been characterized as a man with extraordinary powers and as an imposter who manufactured his own legend. This careful study, based on virtually all published and unpublished English-language sources, sides neither with Lawrence's eulogists nor with his denigrators. Presenting a fair, balanced picture of his life, it shows the lifelong continuity of his puzzling conduct: the often needless deviousness that troubled even close friends; the self-hatred and savage masochism that cursed his adult years.
Author : Deirdre Toomey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349258229
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Yeats and Women written by Deirdre Toomey and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeats and Women , published originally in the Yeats Annuals series, collects eight essays on Yeats's relationships with women, two collections of letters to him and his broadcast, 'Poems about Women'. The essays cover sexuality and its dynamic in Yeats's writing: his attitude to feminism and to the 'feminist occult'; his relationships with Maud Gonne, Dorothea Hunter, Olivia Shakespear, Florence Farr, Iseult Gonne and George Yeats. Yeats's relationship with Lady Gregory and her co-authorship of Cathleen ni Houlihan is analysed. The collection includes 12 plates.
Author : Elizabeth Grubgeld
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630166
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Irish Autobiography written by Elizabeth Grubgeld and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a volatile meeting point of personal and public experience, autobiography exists in a mutually influential relationship with the literature, history, private writings, and domestic practices of a society. This book illuminates the ways evolving class and gender identities interact with these inherited forms of narrative to produce the testimony of a culture confronting to its own demise. Elizabeth Grubgeld places Irish autobiography within the ever-widening conversation about the nature of autobiographical writing and contributes to contemporary discussions regarding Irish identity. Her emphasis on women's autobiographies provides a further reexamination of gender relations in Ireland. While serving as the first critical history of its subject, this book also offers a theoretical and interpretive reading of Anglo-Irish culture that gives full attention to class, gender, and genre analysis. It examines autobiographies, letters, and diaries from the late eighteenth century through the present, with primary attention to works produced since World War I. By examining many previously neglected texts, Grubgeld both recovers lost voices and demonstrates how their work can revise our understanding of such major literary figures such as George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, John Synge, Elizabeth Bowen, and Louis MacNiece.
Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198126840
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.
Author : Valerie Grove
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849547688
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee written by Valerie Grove and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fighting Franco's forces in A Moment of War. As a poet, playwright, broadcaster and writer, Laurie Lee created a legend around himself that would see him safely secured in the literary canon even within his own lifetime. Yet, though he wrote exclusively about his own life, Lee never told the whole story. His readers know him as a man devoted to two women: his wife and his daughter, 'the firstborn'. Among the pages of his published works there is little trace of the girls he left behind. He never identifi ed in print the girl who inspired him to go to Spain, or the woman who supported him there. He never named the beautiful mistress he came home to, who was the great love of his young life and who led him into literary London, bore his child and broke his heart. In The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee, acclaimed biographer Valerie Grove delves into the letters and diaries he kept hidden from the world, building on her magisterial study of the charismatic poet to capture the essence of this romantic, elusive enigma and bring him to life once more.
Author : Adam R. Kaul
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456238
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Turning the Tune written by Adam R. Kaul and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its historical development from the days prior to the influx of visitors, through a period called "the Revival," in which traditional Irish music was revitalized and transformed, to the modern period, which is dominated by tourism. A large number of incomers, locally known as "blow-ins," have moved to the area, and the traditional Irish music is now largely performed and passed on by them. This fine-grained ethnographic study explores the commercialization of music and culture, the touristic consolidation and consumption of "place," and offers a critique of the trope of "authenticity," all in a setting of dramatic social change in which the movement of people is constant.
Author : Louise Guinness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fathers written by Louise Guinness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, imagined fathers, puffed-up with pride fathers, noble fathers, and humanly flawed fathers, loving fathers, exasperated fathers. Literature is full of these but nobody, until Louise Guiness, has dared to collect them in one book. This anthology considers the whole range of experience from the amazed joy of new fathers to the pains of bereavement, from the comic, eccentric Papa to the sinister and silent Dad. Fatherhood is universal, yet intensely personal: this book contains the reflections of fathers across time, with extracts from the Bible to Beatrix Potter, from Homer to Chaucer to Yeats and Laurie Lee, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Dickens to Sylvia Plath, E. Nesbit and Louis MacNeice. A delight to read, a collection to muse upon, and a perfect present to family members, everywhere."
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Marriott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836241267
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence written by Paul Marriott and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is quiet here now, and I feel as though I were fixed in my cottage for good. It is as I thought ... something is finished with my leaving the RAF. ... It gets worse instead of healing over ... At present the feeling is mere bewilderment. I imagine leaves must feel like this after they have fallen from their tree and until they die." The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence is a chronicle of the time from when Lawrence of Arabia left the RAF up to his fateful motorcycle accident on 13 May 1935. Much of the story is told in Lawrence's own words, from diaries and letters. It covers his time at Clouds Hill, the picturesque cottage in Dorset, where Lawrence intended to retire. Influenced by Lawrence's last and unpublished writing project, "Leaves in the Wind," A Leaf in the Wind reveals his state of mind as he prepared to leave the RAF. Travelling on his Brough Superior motorcycle along a narrow Dorset lane, Lawrence collided with two pushbikes. An official witness told of Lawrence travelling fast, and swerving to avoid a black car coming in the opposite direction. This book painstakingly fits together all the evidence to determine the truth of the motorcycle crash that led to the death of Lawrence of Arabia. For the first time a detailed record is set down covering the last six days before the accident. Meticulously researched by Paul Marriott and Yvonne Argent, their painstaking investigations reveal many new insights into Lawrence's life, activities and interests.
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590209958
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Wilfred Thesiger written by Alexander Maitland and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perceptive and gripping biography” of the enigmatic British explorer, photographer, and author of Arabian Sands (Daily Mail, UK). Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, journeyed for sixty years to some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth, from the mountains of western Asia to the marshes of Iraq. The author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime. Yet his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized biography—written with Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the rich Thesiger archive—Alexander Maitland investigates this fascinating figure’s family influences, his wartime experiences, his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist, his writing and photography, his friendships with Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived, and his now-acknowledged homosexuality.
Author : Mary Jo Santo Pietro
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813210827
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Father Hartke written by Mary Jo Santo Pietro and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this biography, Mary Jo Santo Pietro chronicles Father Hartke's experiences and endless achievements by combining his own stories, taped weekly during the last year of his life, with stories told by friends, colleagues, and celebrities. The book offers an inside look at major theatrical and political events in the nation's capital from the 1930s through the 1980s, and also uncovers the complex and paradoxical character of the man known as the "White House priest" and "Show Biz priest.""--BOOK JACKET.
