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Author : Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher : London, Michael Joseph [1947]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Purple Plain written by Herbert Ernest Bates and published by London, Michael Joseph [1947]. This book was released on 1947 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young British pilot wants to die but love gives him the will to live.
Author : Gary Fishgall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068485290X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Gregory Peck written by Gary Fishgall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gregory Peck: A Biography, Gary Fishgall meticulously recounts Peck's influential life, revealing the effects of the actor on the film industry and of the film industry on the actor."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Works written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608644
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "A" Western Filmmakers written by Henryk Hoffmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From High Noon to Unforgiven, the "A" Western represents the pinnacle of Western filmmaking. More intellectual, ambitious, and time-consuming than the readily produced "B" or serial Westerns, these films rely on hundreds of talented artists. This comprehensive reference work provides biographies and Western filmographies for nearly 1,000 men and women who have contributed to at least three "A" Westerns. These contributors are arranged by their role in film production. Cinematographers, composers, actors, actresses, and directors receive complete biographical treatment; writers whose work was used in at least two Westerns are also featured. An appendix lists well-known actors who have appeared in either one or two "A" Westerns, as specified.
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448214939
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Had Imagination written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman Who Had Imagination, H.E. Bates's fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator, lauded the collection as 'the first volume of Mr. Bates's maturity' and Bates as 'an artist of magnificent originality with a vitality quite unsuspected hitherto'. This is brilliantly demonstrated in the title story, 'The Woman Who Had Imagination', the heart-rending story of an Italian woman, revealed through the casual meetings and conversations that take place on a day's outing of a country choir. The contrast between 'The Waterfall', with its melancholy and grace, and the disturbing tensions in 'The Brothers', emphasises Bates's mastery of both the delicate and the disquieting. It is also in this collection that we are introduced to the much-loved comic narrator, Uncle Silas, in 'The Lily', 'The Wedding' and 'Death of Uncle Silas.' In addition to the original collection this edition includes two extra stories. 'The Country Doctor' concerns a woman's grief on the death of her dearest friend. It was first published in the Fortnightly Review in 1931 with the title 'The Country Sale', and later in the limited edition The Story Without an End and The Country Doctor (White Owl Press, 1932), and has not been reprinted since. 'The Parrot' chronicles a man, a marriage and the eponymous parrot, and has only previously been published in 1928 in T.P.'s Weekly, founded by the radical MP, T.P. O'Connor.
Author : Fabienne Remize
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039214918
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Safety and Microbiological Quality written by Fabienne Remize and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The safety and microbiological quality of fermented foods covers complementary aspects of such products. Food fermentation is primary intended to improve food preservation, thereby modifying food properties. However, the management of chemical and microbiological hazards is a leading aspect for innovative processing in this domain. Similarly, microbiological quality in fermented foods is of peculiar importance: all microorganisms with a positive effect, including probiotic bacteria, fermentative bacteria, Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces yeasts, can be relevant. The fitness of pro-technological microorganisms impacts nutritional quality, but also sensory properties and processing reliability. This book provides a broad view of factors which determine the safety and microbiological quality of fermented foods. A focus is made on the interconnection between starter properties and the expectations related to a probiotic effect. All chapters underline the involvement of fermented foods towards better resource management and increasing food and nutritional security, especially in developing countries.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039134
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Modernity and the English Rural Novel written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses to modernity. It argues that the most important writers in this tradition have had a very significant bearing on the trajectory of English cultural life through the modernist period and beyond.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Street
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826413956
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Crossings written by Sarah Street and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Crossings is the first major study of the distribution and exhibition of British films in the USA. Charting the cross-cultural reception of many British films, Sarah Street draws on a wide range of sources including studio records, film posters, press books and statistics. While the relative strength of Hollywood made it difficult for films that crossed the Atlantic, Streets research demonstrates that some strategies were more successful than others. She considers which British films made an impact and analyzes conditions that facilitated a positive reception from critics, censors, exhibitors and audiences.Case studies include Nell Gwyn (1926), The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), The Ghost Goes West (1935), Henry V (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), Ealing comedies, The Horror of Dracula (1958), Tom Jones (1963), A Hard Days Night (1964), Goldfinger (1964), The Remains of the Day (1993), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Trainspotting (1996).Against a background of the economic history of the British and Hollywood film industries, Transatlantic Crossings considers the many fascinating questions surrounding the history of British films in the USA, their relevance to wider issues of Anglo-American relations and to notions of "Britishness" on screen.
Author : V. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230624987
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Narratives of Memory written by V. Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in narrative, during and immediately after the war. Authors include Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and Denton Welch.
Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183871524X
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Decades Never Start on Time written by Michael Temple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences. This anthology brings together selected writings from his published works with previously unpublished archival material – from an unfinished study of Truffaut, to extracts from his books on film-makers such as Straub-Huillet and Ophüls, and articles for The Guardian and Sight & Sound. Charting Roud's journey through the world of film festivals and film criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s, Decades Never Start on Time provides a fascinating insight into the flourishing film culture of the era. With a preface by David Thomson.
Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Works of the British Poets written by Robert Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal ; Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of poetry ; Francis's Horace written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448214912
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Seven Tales and Alexander written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Tales and Alexander beautifully captures a spectrum of emotions from innocent childhood and early adolescence, to those of simple-hearted and uninquiring old age. On its original release in 1929 (The Scholartis Press), The New Statesman observed that Bates has 'by seeing with a child's eyes, found a world of marvellous and strange beauty, and has given the smallest shades of change and emotion the magnitude and drama they have in the minds of children and poets.' In 'The Child' we meet a young girl mesmerised by the sea seen through a multi-coloured window, and, in contrast, 'The Comic Actor' sees an unsuccessful farmer who, encouraged by his devoted family, fulfils a life ambition by participating in a village play. Bates draws on his own experiences of the barber shops of his youth in 'The Barber'. Forced to visit them on Saturdays, he was made to wait until the barber had served the army of 'black-necked, poaching, shoemaking, prizefighting, often stinking men.' The title story, 'Alexander', follows a young boy as he travels with his uncle by horse cart to the garden of an eccentric old lady, where each year they pick fruit. The boy becomes enamoured with a young girl, meets a darkly cunning and cynical poacher, picks a forbidden apricot as a gift for the girl, and is consequently thrust into first reflections on pleasure, pain, and life itself in this most charming story.
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448215145
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Colonel Julian and Other Stories written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Julian and Other Stories was Bates's first collection following World War II, containing stories he wrote between 1941 and 1951. The title story 'Colonel Julian' sees an eighty-three-year-old veteran of service in India now hosting pilots in his mansion. Here the old generation meets the new. The Colonel is fond of a young pilot, but also bewildered: by his enthusiasm so different from his own business-like relationship with war, by his lack of perspective on his role in a larger military strategy, and by an apparent absence of ethics. 'The Bedfordshire Clanger' sees the welcome return of Uncle Silas after a ten year hiatus. Bates has Silas regaling his young nephew with a typical tall tale, this one involving a buxom landlady and disappointing meal with a pudding that is 'hard as a hog's back' called the Bedfordshire Clanger, but with a conclusion in which Silas, from then on, is 'never in want fur the nicest bit o' pudden in the world.' The collection also features bonus story 'For Valour', where the narrator, on a visit to an old airfield some years after the war, meets a café owner who shows him the medals she received after her pilot son was killed over Arnhem, and tells tales of countless soldiers, and now travellers, who continue to pass by.
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448215374
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book An Aspidistra in Babylon written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1960, this collection of four novellas continue Bates's sensitive, often witty, explorations of unhappy love. The title story, 'An Aspidistra in Babylon', is a reminiscence of a girl's loss of innocence. Christine, who describes herself at eighteen as 'dull as one of the aspidistras that cluttered up ... our little boarding house' is seduced by the forty-year-old Captain Blaine, who charms her imagination with stories of a life on the Continent. 'A Month by the Lake' is a comedy of errors set in 1920s Lake Como revolving around two middle-aged vacationers unable to express their affection for each other. A film version starring James Fox, Vanessa Redgrave, and Uma Thurman was directed by John Irvin in 1995. Also featured in this collection is 'A Prospect of Orchards', as narrated by a familiarly mild-mannered Bates character, concerning unfolding affections and blossoming relationships in this quirky tale of extra-marital intrigue. In contrast to this is the darker tone of 'The Grapes of Paradise', where the narrator relates the tale of a fellow traveller in Tahiti, laced with callousness, jealousy, and violence. Included in this edition is bonus story 'The Duet', first published in 1935 and never before featured in any collection. It is the tale of a young choirmaster's son, eager for the autographs of two famous singers. Ignored throughout the day, he follows the players he now considers haughty to a private room where, though the keyhole, he spies an intimate and affectionate scene between them that changes his perceptions completely. The Spectator calls Bates 'a supreme anecdotalist, endowed with vast self-confidence and the gift of imagery ten times the size of life.'
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448214947
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Cut and Come Again written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.E. Bates's fifth collection is a sparkling body of work full of stories of childhood. Geoffrey West observed the collection overall as "bright with life, with individuals alive and interacting, and with the sweeping beauties of broad country backgrounds." Often cited as one of Bates's best stories, 'The Mill' relates the misfortune of a young girl in service. Bates was inspired by the daughter of a travelling greengrocer who called on his family: "It seemed to me a face moulded out of yellow clay: a face born to tragedy. I believe it is true that Hardy saw his Tess only once and ... from that fleeting experience, haunted also by a face, created his celebrated novel.” We get a glimpse into Bates's negative experiences of education in both 'Little Fish', where a boy observes his father, normally a man "terrifying everyone in spasms of half-theatrical anger" become, in the presence of a school administrator, furtive and apprehensive; and in 'Jonah and Bruno', a classroom tale involving an arrogant and dictatorial teacher, a rebellious smart-mouthed student, and the eventual humiliation of the teacher by an intervening soldier. Comic relief comes in the form of witty characterisation and dialogue in 'The Irishman', and in 'The Revelation', a charming tale where the young narrator observes the housekeeper giving an elderly Uncle Silas his weekly bath; between roasting "taters" and drinking wine, Silas relates his childhood follies, including the time he chased a young woman "across the meadow with my clothes under her arms," which leads to a tender twist in the tale.
