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A Voyage Round My Father The Dock Brief What Shall We Tell Caroline
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Author :John Mortimer Publisher :Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books ISBN 13 : Total Pages :204 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis A Voyage Round My Father ; The Dock Brief ; What Shall We Tell Caroline? by : John Mortimer
Download or read book A Voyage Round My Father ; The Dock Brief ; What Shall We Tell Caroline? written by John Mortimer and published by Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voyage Round My Father is a funny, subtle, touching portrait of his father's enigmatic endurance.
Book Synopsis A Voyage Round My Father ; The Dock Brief ; What Shall We Tell Caroline? by : John Mortimer
Download or read book A Voyage Round My Father ; The Dock Brief ; What Shall We Tell Caroline? written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voyage Round My Father is a funny, subtle, touching portrait of his father's enigmatic endurance.
Book Synopsis John Mortimer: Plays One by : John Mortimer
Download or read book John Mortimer: Plays One written by John Mortimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the playsA Voyage Around My Father, The Collaborators, The Dock Brief, Lunch Hour, and What Shall We Tell Caroline? An unsuccessful barrister and even more unsuccessful murderer are the subject of Mortimer’s first play, The Dock Brief. This was followed by What Shall We Tell Caroline? and then Lunch Hour, another short play, about love and lies in the lunch-hour. The Collaborators covers the wear and tear of married life subsequently united by the threat of a third party. A Voyage Round My Father, one of Mortimer’s greatest theatrical successes, is a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave and impossible barrister the author had as a father.
Download or read book Quite Honestly written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the Rumpole stories—a novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer’s unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn’t be better for Lucinda Purefoy—college educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn’t it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors (SCRAP, for short), a misguided organization that recruits women to becomes guides, philosophers, and friends to ex-convicts coming out of prison. Once she meets her charge, Terry Keegan, the ensuing hilarity and mishaps produce a signature Mortimer tale, full of wit and surprise.
Book Synopsis Rumpole Misbehaves by : John Mortimer
Download or read book Rumpole Misbehaves written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.
Download or read book John Mortimer written by Graham Lord and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain every generation produces a national treasure, a lovable figure so English that he could not possibly be of any other nationality, and Sir John Mortimer is just such a figure.Mortimer has delighted millions all over the world with seven television series about the gloriously larger-than-life fictional barrister Horace Rumpole --- Rumpole of the Bailey --- as well as novels, autobiographies, stage plays, film scripts, short stories, television and radio plays, newspaper articles, and even an opera and a ballet. Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Alec Guinness appeared in his plays, and among his greatest theatrical triumphs is his stage and television play A Voyage Round My Father. He won a British Book Awards trophy for Lifetime Achievement in 2005.Mortimer actually practiced as a barrister for thirty-six years, defending husbands, wives, pornographers, and murderers in court and starring as the real-life "Devil's Advocate" in several legendary obscenity and blasphemy cases in the 1970s, quickly becoming a liberal hero.Yet despite huge success, fame, and knighthood there lurks beneath that genial "champagne socialist" mask an unusually complex man who has been plagued by depression, doubt, insecurity, and an irresistible urge to commit adultery.Biographer Graham Lord, whose discovery that Mortimer had a secret son by the British actress Wendy Craig forced Sir John to admit it publicly in 2004, has interviewed scores of Mortmer's family, friends, mistresses, and enemies to write a frank and vital biography that reveals the startling reality behind the beloved public figure. "Breathless prose and many juicyrevelations-an absorbing read."--Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis British or American English? by : John Algeo
Download or read book British or American English? written by John Algeo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for those with no prior knowledge of linguistics, it shows how these grammatical differences are linked mainly to particular words, and provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use.
Download or read book In Other Words written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Other Words - a hilarious book of verse, anecdotes and memories by John Mortimer From one of Britain's greatest ever raconteurs, these are the stories with which John Mortimer entertained the nation for years: of seedy criminals and the even seedier criminal justice system, of boyhood and his remarkable father, of passion and politics, and most of all English eccentrics from Lord Byron to the present day. Along the way, we meet a motley crew of failed murderers, remorseful drunkards, unrepentant adulterers and cantankerous judges. And interspersed among these humorous vignettes is a wonderful selection of English (and some American) poetry, which beautifully complements the stories. In Other Words is the record of an extraordinary life lived in law and literature, and a story of England and Englishness. If you like P.G. Wodehouse you will love this book. Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP in the Thatcher years (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets) has recently been republished in Penguin Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly and Summer's Lease.
Book Synopsis Rumpole Rests His Case by : John Mortimer
Download or read book Rumpole Rests His Case written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).
Book Synopsis The Theatre Guide by : Trevor R. Griffiths
Download or read book The Theatre Guide written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
Book Synopsis The Pocket Guide to Plays & Playwrights by : Maureen Hughes
Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Plays & Playwrights written by Maureen Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about plays and playwrights in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has had one of her 8 musicals produced in the West End and teaches musical theater. Covering everything from the top playwrights through the centuries to a comprehensive A-Z listing of plays from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with factboxes highlighting key or curious facts about the subject.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by : Dominic Head
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.
Book Synopsis Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals) by : John Elsom
Download or read book Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals) written by John Elsom and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, we have witnessed exciting, often confusing developments in the British theatre. This book, first published in 1976, presents an enlightening, objective history of the many facets of post-war British theatre and a fresh interpretation of theatre itself. The remarkable and profound changes which have taken place during this period range from the style and content of plays, through methods of acting, to shapes of theatres and the organisational habits of managers. Two national theatres have been brought almost simultaneously into existence; while at the other end of the financial scale, the fringe and pub theatres have kicked their way into vigorous life. The theatre in Britain has been one of the post-war success stories, to judge by its international renown and its mixture of experimental vitality and polished experience. In this book Elsom presents an approach to the problems of criticism and appreciation which range beyond those of literary analysis.
Download or read book English in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Joking Apart and Other Plays by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Joking Apart and Other Plays written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 by : Merritt Moseley
Download or read book British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 written by Merritt Moseley and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper fiction, the future of the novel, recent changes in British publishing, and the increase in writings by celebrity authors.
