Ethel Ernest

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781407093321

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Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs Pdf

A marvellous, life-enhancing book for all ages, now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke Treadaway Utterly original, deeply moving and very funny, Ethel & Ernest tells the story of Raymond Briggs' parents' marriage, lady's maid Ethel and milkman Ernest, from their first chance encounter in 1928, through the birth of their son Raymond in 1934, to their deaths, within months of each other, in 1971. Told in Brigg`s unique strip-cartoon format, Ethel and Ernest live through the defining moments of the twentieth century: the darkness of the Great Depression, the build up to World War II, the trials of the war years, the euphoria of VE Day and the emergence of a generation from post war austerity to the cultural enlightenment of the 1960s. Ethel & Ernest is a heartfelt and affectionate tribute to an ordinary couple and an extraordinary generation.

Author : Ernest Thompson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822208482

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On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson Pdf

THE STORY: This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory--but still as tart-tongue

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0241102812

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Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs Pdf

A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonists "Gentleman Jim" is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in life, devotes his time to envisioning a world beyond it. His walls are lined with books like "Out in the Silver West," "The Boys' Book of Pirates," and "Executive Opportunities," which provide fodder for his ruminations on career change. Encouraged by his wife, who is also eager to incorporate more adventure into her life, Jim sets out to bring these dreams to fruition by accumulating various accoutrements, only to discover that the life of an executive, an artist, or a cowboy is more complicated and costly than it appears. Jim's childlike understanding of the world that surrounds him is enhanced by Raymond Briggs's subtle and inventive illustrations. Fantasies are portrayed as organic clouds that move between and overlap outlined panels of his reality, and myopic Jim is drawn smaller and softer than the policemen and bureaucrats interested in impeding his search for adventure. As he begins to infringe more seriously on the law, the city workers and their speech boxes become increasingly angular, much like the rigid rules and regulations restricting his sincere quest. With this playful style, Briggs expertly transforms common feelings of inadequacy into an endearing and enjoyable experience that speaks across generations, concluding with an optimistic implication that even a misfortunate outcome can be better than no change at all. This classic novel, originally published in 1980, is presented by Drawn & Quarterly in a new edition.

Author : Oliver Craske
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571350872

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Indian Sun by Oliver Craske Pdf

A Times, Spectator, TLS and BBC Music Magazine Book of the YearOver eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador who took Indian classical music to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed. Renowned for his association with The Beatles - teaching George Harrison sitar - Shankar turning the Sixties generation on to Indian music, astonishing the crowds at Woodstock, Monterey Pop and the Concert for Bangladesh with his virtuosity. He radically reshaped jazz and Western classical music as well as writing film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi, and transformed awareness of Indian culture in the process.Indian Sun is the first biography of Ravi Shankar. Benefitting from unprecedented access to family archives, Oliver Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic, who lived a passionate and extraordinary life - from his childhood in his brother's dance troupe, through intensive study of the sitar, to his revival of the national music scene; and from the 1950s, a pioneering international career that ultimately made his name synonymous with India.

Author : Kerry Lord
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781446372647

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Edward's Menagerie: Birds by Kerry Lord Pdf

Forty fine-feathered friends to crochet using easy-to-master techniques with projects for all skill levels, from the bestselling author of Edward’s Menagerie. You’ll be as happy as a lark as you crochet your way through this colorful collection of birds, including a bashful Flamingo, a romance-writing Owl, and a politically incorrect Pheasant. Read all about these kooky characters, their adorations and aversions, daydreams and delusions, then crochet them for friends and family. Each bird can be crocheted in four different sizes, making over 160 different pattern possibilities—so pick your first project and get started! The patterns use basic stitches, are grouped by difficulty and include step-by-step technical guides for beginners, so there’s no excuse to chicken out. These loveable birds are quick to make using a super-soft yarn in a sophisticated color palette, and will become your best friends as their larger-than-life personalities and easy-to-master techniques get their claws into you. Praise for Edward’s Menagerie: Birds “This book is a hoot! (Pun intended . . . ) . . . I’m not naturally a fan of amigurumi, but this book by Kerry Lord may change all that.” —Bonnie Bay Crochet “Edward's Menagerie: Birds has some of the most adorable toy birds that I have ever seen! . . . The author put a tremendous amount of detail into each bird pattern, which makes them all adorable in their own way.” —The Stitchin’ Mommy

Author : Ethel Wilson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771088889

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The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson Pdf

Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth’s singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging – and mostly oblivious – optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz leads a largely unexamined life. But the magical quality of her consciousness, revealed through stunning narrative technique, makes her into one of the most delightful characters in Canadian literature. Published in 1949, The Innocent Traveller is Ethel Wilson’s most original literary achievement.

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781473572171

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Time For Lights Out by Raymond Briggs Pdf

In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some melancholy, some remembering his wife who died young, others about the joy of grandchildren, of walking the dog... He looks back at his schooldays and his time as an evacuee during the war, and remembers his parents and the house in which he grew up. But most, like this one, are about his home in Sussex: Looking round this house, What will they say, The future ghosts? There must have been Some barmy old bloke here, Long-haired, artsy-fartsy type, Did pictures for kiddy books Or some such tripe. You should have seen the stuff He stuck up in that attic! Snowman this and snowman that, Tons and tons of tat.

Author : Zeina Abirached
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467700474

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A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached Pdf

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and her little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city, and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safehome. Zeina Abirached, born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981, has collected her childhood recollections of Beirut in a warm story about the strength of family and community.

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141351384

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The Tin-Pot Foreign General And the Old Iron Woman by Raymond Briggs Pdf

BANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Tin-Pot Foreign General BANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Old Iron Woman Raymond Briggs's visceral take on the Falklands War is uncompromising in its dark and moving satire of the build-up and aftermath of the conflict. This controversial book's infamous stars - General Leopoldo Galtieri and Margaret Thatcher - are depicted as robotic caricatures with a pointless blood lust. Now available as an eBook for the first time.

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:782005380

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When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs Pdf

Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375870293

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Two Crafty Criminals! by Philip Pullman Pdf

Benny Kaminsky leads a ragtag gang of neighborhood children as they use improbable disguises and crazy ruses while investigating such crimes as counterfeiting and stolen silver in 1894 London.

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671636036

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Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann Pdf

An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.

Author : Matilda Homersham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600072103

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Ethel's romance by Matilda Homersham Pdf

Author : Chester Brown
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770460850

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Louis Riel by Chester Brown Pdf

Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Bears
ISBN : 9780099385615

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The Bear by Raymond Briggs Pdf

One night a great big, white polar comes to stay with Tilly. The bear's got black hooked claws and huge yellow teeth; but his white furry coat is warm and soft and Tilly decides he's the cuddliest thing in the whole world. Tilly soon finds out that a big bear can cause big problems - he takes a LOT of looking after! But when she describes the bear's latest antics to her parents they think he's a figment of her imagination - but is he?