Author: McGill UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
McGill University Publications
Author: McGill UniversityThe English Catalogue of Books [annual]
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Onward and Upward in the Garden
Author: Katharine S. WhitePublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178513
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
Annual Report (reprinted Papers) of the Investigations Carried Out Under the Supervision of the Therapeutic Research Committee of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association ...
Author: Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
When the Going Was Good
Author: Evelyn WaughPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0718197763
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
My Heart Lies South
Author: Elizabeth Borton De TrevinoPublisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 1883937515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties' provincial Monterrey? She finds herself-sometimes hilariously-coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. In this vivid autobiography, Newbery Award winning author Elizabeth Borton de Treviño brings to life her experiences with the culture and the faith of a civilization so close to the United States, but rarely appreciated or understood. This special young people's edition presents the humor and the insights of a remarkable woman and her contact with an era which is now past, but not to be forgotten.
The Common Book of Poetry
Author: The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: 1967 Annual Supplement
Author: John B. SimeonePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489952357
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1479
Book Description
Rhododendron Pie
Author: MARGERY. SHARPPublisher:
ISBN: 9781913527617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish. Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits. Ann, on the other hand, worries about being plump, is what might be called a 'people person, ' and appreciates the simpler pleasures. As the young Laventies spend more and more of their time in the glitter of London, their differences grow more pronounced, and when Ann returns home with an unsuitably ordinary fiancé, this dazzling, witty battle of the brows reaches its exhilarating climax. Rhododendron Pie, one of Margery Sharp's rarest and most sought-after novels, was her debut, reportedly written in one month while Sharp worked as a typist and shared a flat in Paddington with two other girls. But it already shows all the charm, humour, and sophistication that characterizes Sharp's beloved later work. First published in 1930, it has, inexplicably, never been reprinted. Until now. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford. 'A first novel of quite unusual charm, pointedly and gracefully written, and whimsically human' Yorkshire Post