Author: Elinor Mary Brent-DyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780006929451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Highland Twins at the Chalet School
Author: Elinor Mary Brent-DyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780006929451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Gay Lambert at the Chalet School
Author: Elinor Mary Brent-DyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780006933977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The School at the Chalet
Author: Elinor M. Brent-DyerPublisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667623273
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer wrote The School at the Chalet, launching a series that would span more than 60 books. The series follows the adventures of a boarding school set in the picturesque Swiss Alps. The series begins with The School at the Chalet (1925), where readers are introduced to Miss Madge Bettany, a young woman who decides to start a school for girls in the Swiss mountains. The series then chronicles the growth and evolution of the school, as well as the trials and triumphs of its students.
The Chalet School Goes to It
Author: Elinor M. Brent-DyerPublisher: Alien Ebooks
ISBN: 1667624318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children’s literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.
The Chalet School in Exile
Author: Elinor M Brent-DyerPublisher: Chalet School
ISBN: 9781847452559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Purple Cloud
Author: Matthew Phipps ShielPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "last man" novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence. As he descends into madness over the years, he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny?and the fate of the human race?are part of a profound, cosmological plan.
Life After Life
Author: Kate AtkinsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552779687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
In The Steps Of St. Paul
Author: H.v. MortonPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786743786
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
In the Steps of St. Paul dazzlingly retraces the apostle's famed journey of faith through Israel, Greece, and Italy, using the Bible itself as a guide. With an ear for good stories and an eye alert to detail, Morton creates a compulsively readable narrative that will satisfy the most curious traveler as well as the most informed and passionate reader of the Bible.
Summer Term at the Chalet School
Author: Elinor Mary Brent-DyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781847451729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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My Father, Marconi
Author: Degna MarconiPublisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550711516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The daughter of Guglielmo Marconi draws upon her father's personal journals and letters as well as from scientific and historical records to chronicle the life and profession of the internationally known inventor.