Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
1601
Author: 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors is a book by Mark Twain. A humorous piece delving into the situational comedy of flatulence at dinner guests evening.
Year 1601
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Gathered in the dressing room of an elderly Queen Elizabeth I, a series of select characters, most of the elderly like her, chat to the love of the fire: Sir Walter Raleigh, the pirate; Francis Bacon, the philosopher; Ben Jonson and his young disciple, Francis Beaumonte; ladies and countesses and duchesses, and the amazing master Shakespeare. What could they be talking about? Of the past glories of the pirate, of the interpretation of the life of the philosopher, of the ingenuity of art ...? Well no, ladies and gentlemen, the conversation is more banal, irreverent, rowdy and "smelly" than might be expected in such an exalted group and in the English Golden Age.
1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
Author: Марк ТвенPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040823827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Mark Twain Classics: 1601
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The diarist describes a conversation in the presence of the queen between various famous Elizabethans during which one of the company passes gas: "In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore."
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia WoolfPublisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In a picturesque English village, residents prepare for an amateur production in the grounds of their manor house. Against the backdrop of World War II looming in the background, the play becomes a microcosm reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and societal changes of the time. Through Virginia Woolf's distinctive narrative style, each character's inner world is intricately woven into the fabric of the performance, blurring the lines between reality and theatricality. Between the Acts stands as Virginia Woolf's final novel, completing her exploration of experimental narrative techniques and modernist themes. Published posthumously in 1941, the novel continues Woolf's profound literary legacy of challenging conventional storytelling and delving into the complexities of human consciousness. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.
Mark Twain's 1601
Author: Mark TwainMark Twain's 1601
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258889777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
Table-talk
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Royal Governess
Author: Wendy HoldenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593101332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
During the childhood years of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most famous women who ever lived, a young governess helped shape her into the icon the world knows today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths, and on joyful Christmas shopping trips at Woolworth’s. From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses the trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War II. She steers the little princesses through it all, as close as a mother. As Hitler’s planes fly over Windsor, she shelters her charges in the castle dungeons (not far from where the Crown Jewels are hidden in a biscuit tin). Afterwards, she is present when Elizabeth first sets eyes on Philip, her future husband. But being beloved confidante to the Windsor family comes at huge personal cost. Marriage, children, her own views: all are compromised by proximity to royal glory. In this majestic story of love, sacrifice and allegiance, bestselling novelist Holden brings to life the early years before Queen Elizabeth II became monarch. “This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933…A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne.”—Woman’s World