Author: Fitzroy GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
More Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian
Author: Fitzroy GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The New Statesman
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Author: Talia SchafferPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Prayer for a Child
Author: Rachel FieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442439270
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Ideal for sharing, this Caldecott Medal–winning beloved classic presents an illustrated prayer full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things, the love of friends and family, and the kindly protection of God. Bless this milk and bless this bread Bless this soft and waiting bed Where I presently shall be Wrapped in sweet security Winner of the Caldecott Medal and in print since 1941, this is a prayer for boys and girls all over the world. It carries a universal appeal for all ages and brings to our hearts and minds the deep responsibility of preserving for all times the faith and hopes of little children.
More Was Lost
Author: Eleanor PerenyiPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker) Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II, after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Perényi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. She throws herself into this life with zeal, learning Hungarian and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. In the midst of massive political upheaval, Perényi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life, an alliance that will soon be tested by the war. With old-fashioned frankness and wit, Perényi recounts this poignant tale of how much was gained and how much more was lost.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Country Girl
Author: Edna O'BrienPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316230367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
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ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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