Author: Olivia Manning
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies—joy, charity, and love—even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. Olivia Manning’s great subject is the lives of ordinary people caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, The Balkan Trilogy, she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and humor.
Boarding-school Days
Author: Vieux Moustache
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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School for Love
Author: Olivia Manning
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies—joy, charity, and love—even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. Olivia Manning’s great subject is the lives of ordinary people caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, The Balkan Trilogy, she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and humor.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies—joy, charity, and love—even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. Olivia Manning’s great subject is the lives of ordinary people caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, The Balkan Trilogy, she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and humor.
Principles of Secondary Education
Author: Alexander James INGLIS
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Nursery School
Author: Margaret McMillan
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Category : Early childhood education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Early childhood education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The School Review (Classic Reprint)
Author: University of Chicago School Education
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528563499
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Excerpt from The School Review About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528563499
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Excerpt from The School Review About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Study of the Orders
Author: Frank Chouteau Brown
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Open Air Crusaders
Author: Sherman Colver Kingsley
Publisher: Chicago
ISBN:
Category : Open-air schools
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher: Chicago
ISBN:
Category : Open-air schools
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Book of Self
Author: James Oppenheim
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Elementary Spelling Book
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
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Category : Spellers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Spellers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Jesuit Education
Author: Robert Schwickerath
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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