Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883202X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
By the author of the international bestseller The Snow Goose and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
Mrs Harris MP
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883202X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
By the author of the international bestseller The Snow Goose and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
Mrs. Harris, M.P.
Author: Paul GallicoMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: International Polygonics Limited
ISBN: 9781558820210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Charmed by her employers' beautiful wardrobe, Mrs. 'Arris, a London charwoman, visits the Dior salon in Paris
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1639731830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
**A USA TODAY Bestseller ** The delightful, uplifting story of Mrs. Harris, an ordinary woman whose life is transformed by one beautiful dress-now a motion picture starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert-and its sequel, set in New York. Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life-a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves until one day, after three long, uncomplaining years, she finally has enough money to go to Paris. When she arrives at the House of Dior, Mrs. Harris has little idea of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other lives she will transform forever. Always kind, always cheery, and always winsome, the indomitable Mrs. Harris takes Paris by storm and learns one of life's greatest lessons along the way. This treasure from the 1950s reintroduces the irrepressible Mrs. Harris, part charlady, part fairy godmother, whose adventures take her from her humble London roots to the heights of glamour.
Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
By the author of the international bestseller The Snow Goose and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
Closing Time
Author: Joe QueenanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101032561
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists Over the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is half-baked, half-witted, and halfhearted in American culture. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and a more personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic, alcoholic father, and his long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighborhood into the greater, wide world. A story about salvation and escape, Closing Time has at its heart the makings of a classic American autobiography.
One of Ours
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
John Stonehouse, My Father
Author: Julia StonehousePublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 178578742X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The authoritative account of the infamous runaway MP, by his daughter. 'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin Bell On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identity was uncovered and he was cautioned; the start of years of legal proceedings. In a tale that involves spies from the communist Czechoslovak secret service, a three-way love affair and the Old Bailey, John's daughter examines previously unseen evidence, telling the dramatic true story for the first time, disputing allegations and upturning common misconceptions which are still in circulation. The story was never far from the front pages of the press in the mid-70s, and yet so much of the truth is still unknown. A close look at the political dynamics of the time; paced like a thriller, it's time for the world to know the real John Stonehouse.
Here Comes Mother Goose
Author: Iona Archibald OpiePublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763606831
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Presents more than sixty traditional nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard, " "I'm a Little Teapot, " and "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, " accompanied by illustrations of various animals.
Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher
Author: Robin HarrisPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250047153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers"--T.p. verso