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Author: N. Quentin Woolf (ed.) Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557472652 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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An anthology of short stories and poetry, interwoven with non-fiction pieces about London's East End and centred on a particular bookshop there.
Author: N. Quentin Woolf (ed.) Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557472652 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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An anthology of short stories and poetry, interwoven with non-fiction pieces about London's East End and centred on a particular bookshop there.
Author: Monica Ali Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416584072 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 451
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Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she meets a younger man involved in radical politics and begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
Author: Sasha Abramsky Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681371138 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 377
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A tender and compellling memoir of the author's grandparents, their literary salon, and a way of life that is no more. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age’s greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century’s most important rabbis, Chimen was born in 1916 near Minsk, spent his early teenage years in Moscow while his father served time in a Siberian labor camp for religious proselytizing, and then immigrated to London, where he discovered the writings of Karl Marx and became involved in left-wing politics. He briefly attended the newly established Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until World War II interrupted his studies. Back in England, he married, and for many years he and Miriam ran a respected Jewish bookshop in London’s East End. When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Chimen joined the Communist Party, becoming a leading figure in the party’s National Jewish Committee. He remained a member until 1958, when, shockingly late in the day, he finally acknowledged the atrocities committed by Stalin. In middle age, Chimen reinvented himself once more, this time as a liberal thinker, humanist, professor, and manuscripts’ expert for Sotheby’s auction house. Journalist Sasha Abramsky re-creates here a lost world, bringing to life the people, the books, and the ideas that filled his grandparents’ house, from gatherings that included Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin to books with Marx’s handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes’s Meditations. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is a wondrous journey through our times, from the vanished worlds of Eastern European Jewry to the cacophonous politics of modernity. The House of Twenty Thousand Books includes 43 photos.
Author: Old House Books Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783660333 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 101
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Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster, according to the Guardian 'one of the great English comic artists of the twentieth century', this is an unmissable treasure for lovers of London and of design. Arranged by hour of the day, it guides the reader around 1950s London, from morning walk to evening visit to a Turkish bath and late-night taxi home, including many stately homes and restaurants.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bibliography Languages : en Pages : 556
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Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.
Author: N. Quentin Woolf (ed.)
Author: N. Quentin Woolf (ed.)
Author: Monica Ali
Author: Sasha Abramsky
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Author: Old House Books
Author: Pickering & Chatto![The modern London catalogue of books ... containing the books published in London ... since the year 1800 to October 1818 [compiled by W. Bent]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/G4kIAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: London catalogue
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books