Falling Towards England

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330474313

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Falling Towards England by Clive James Pdf

In the first volume of Clive James's autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney Harbour, bound for London, fame and fortune. Finding the first of these proved relatively simple; the second two less so. Undaunted, Clive moved into a bed and breakfast in a Swiss Cottage where he practised the Twist, anticipated poetical masterpieces and worried about his wardrobe . . . Falling Towards England is the entertaining and erudite second part in Clive James' life story, which he continues in May Week Was in June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330474344

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May Week Was In June by Clive James Pdf

Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.’ Falling Towards England – the second volume of Clive James’s Unreliable Memoirs – was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that's not the case. In ‘Unreliable Memoirs III’, May Week Was in June, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), and marrying (once) during May Week – which was not only in June but also two weeks long . . . Continue Clive's story with even more of his memoirs: North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602480522

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Falling Towards England by Clive James Pdf

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393336085

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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James Pdf

Nearly 30 years ago, James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. Long unavailable in the U.S., "Unreliable Memoirs" is being made available to American readers.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, Australian
ISBN : 1863405216

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Falling Towards England by Clive James Pdf

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 033026463X

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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James Pdf

Autobiography disguised as a novel - Story of childhood - Notes and names of real people have been changed.

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101543559

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Fall of Giants by Ken Follett Pdf

Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186328

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The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson Pdf

It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler’s army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downstairs. Then Norah is told that she and her brother, Gavin, are being sent to Canada. The voyage across the ocean is exciting, but at the end of it Norah is miserable. The rich woman who takes them in prefers Gavin to her, the children at school taunt her, and as the news from England becomes worse, she longs for home. As Norah begins to make friends, she discovers a surprising responsibility that helps her to accept her new country.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529015119

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The Complete Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James Pdf

The Complete Unreliable Memoirs features all five volumes of Clive James's memoirs in one ebook omnibus. Including Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week was in June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity. Unreliable Memoirs: In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. His adventures are hilarious, his recounting of them even more so, in this – the book that started it all . . . Falling Towards England: When we last met our hero in Unreliable Memoirs, he had set sail from Sydney Harbour bound for London, fame and fortune. Having arrived, he finds fame and fortune initially difficult to achieve. May Week was in June: In ‘Unreliable Memoirs III’, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), and marrying (once) during May Week – which was not only in June but also two weeks long . . . North Face of Soho: Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows — via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire starring Anne Robinson as Mrs Thatcher — North Face of Soho is the larger-than-life story of a life lived to the full. The Blaze of Obscurity: Perhaps his most brilliant book yet, The Blaze of Obscurity tells the inside story of his years in television, it shows Clive James on top form – both then and now.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330526722

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Always Unreliable by Clive James Pdf

Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June. In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James – dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With Falling Towards England, we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpieces he’s yet to compose, and worries about his wardrobe. Finally, May Week Was In June sees Clive at Cambridge University, where he enthusiastically involves himself in college life (generally female lives) until May Week – not only in June but also a fortnight long – when he gets married. The rest, of course, is history . . .

Author : Diana Athill
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847081582

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Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill Pdf

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. Now in her nineties, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taught her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.

Author : Deborah Heiligman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250187550

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Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman Pdf

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Mark Alice Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057863273X

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Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling by Mark Alice Durant Pdf

Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and / or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence. Artists include Andre Kertesz, Yves Klein, Laurie Simmons, Maya Deren, Gideon Mendel, Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Tabitha Soren, Nan Goldin, Rania Matar, John Divola, Harry Callahan, Sarah Charlesworth, and Francesca Woodman. Writers include David Campany, Lynne Tillman, Jennifer Blessing, Diane Seuss, Susan Bright, Gilda Williams, Marvin Heiferman, Maud Casey, and Carol Mavor.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174890

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Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547792178

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.