Author: Giles WaterfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743475526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner
Author: Giles WaterfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743475526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The Hound in the Left-hand Corner
Author: Giles WaterfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416580816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In this brilliantly witty satire -- a bestseller in the UK -- a prestigious British museum launches an ambitious new exhibit...which quickly becomes a seasonal nightmare. Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is cold, quiet, and austere? Think again. Giles Waterfield brings a combination of intellectual comedy and knockabout farce to the subject in this story of one long day in a museum full of scandals, screw-upsŠand more than a few scalawags. At the beginning of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner, Auberon, the brilliant but troubled director of the Museum of British History, is preparing one midsummer's day for the opening of the most spectacular exhibition his museum has ever staged. The centerpiece is a painting of the intriguing Lady St. John strikingly attired as Puck, which hasn't been shown in London in a hundred years. As the day passes, the portrait arouses disquieting questions, jealousies, rivalries -- and more than a few strange affections -- in the minds of the museum staff. As guests and employees pour in, the tension rises -- and Auberon himself has the hilariously ridiculous task of keeping the peace, without losing his own sense of reality as well. For everyone who loves the farce of David Lodge and Michael Frayn, or even the Antiques Roadshow, the fast-paced, hilarious satire of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner is sure to delight and entertain.
Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996444
Category : Tapestry
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Tresham GilbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
Author: The Sportsman
Author: The New sporting magazine
Author: The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
Author: John William CarletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Lucian Freud
Author: Phoebe HobanPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544114590
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A riveting life of the brilliant British artist, one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th century.
Author: