The Fatal Englishman

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781804944141

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Compelling and stunningly written' THE TIMES 'Wildly exciting . . . a classic' SPECTATOR 'Flawless . . . poetic . . . superbly portrayed' DAILY TELEGRAPH Three men. Three short, glittering lives. Young English painter Christopher Wood arrives in Paris in 1921 set on becoming the next great master. By day he studies; by night he attends parties with Picasso and Cocteau before paying too high a price for success. Richard Hilary, a confident if unprincipled Spitfire pilot, is suffering from terrible burns after being shot down. But the operations to restore him haven't deterred him from returning to action. And Jeremy Wolfenden, the cleverest of his set at All Souls College, leaves it all behind to report on the Cold War. But his louche private life makes him a plaything for the intelligent services, taking him on a fateful journey between East and West. The Fatal Englishman is a stunning tale of three short lives that burned brightly from a master storyteller.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375727443

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In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young. Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist. Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three. Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time. Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 141770960X

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Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks Pdf

Author : S. FAULKS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655468506

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Fatal Englishman by S. FAULKS Pdf

Author : FREEBORN ENGLISHMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1762
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023032689

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The Freeborn Englishman's Unmasked Battery: Containing Remarks on the Preliminary Articles of Peace ... Shewing the Fatal Tendency of Granting the French a Fishery, and Restoring Our Most Important Conquests by FREEBORN ENGLISHMAN Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339735

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The Englishman's Magazine of Literature, Religion, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339729

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The Englishman's magazine [ed. by E. Moxon]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry Phillips
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796022063

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An Englishman’s Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail (1865–1889) by Larry Phillips Pdf

An English teenager sails to America in 1865 and finds work driving stagecoaches on the Santa Fe Trail. He encounters Indian attacks and numerous adventures and deadly dangers on the frontier. He becomes friends with many of the famous frontiersmen during these adventures along the trail. He ends up being married to a Kiowa princess who later gets raped and killed by outlaws, and he seeks revenge—killing four, with the last one killed years later by the townsfolk on the Oklahoma border. He ends up to be a famous horse breeder and dies in Southeast Colorado at the age of seventy on the Santa Fe Trail.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017503510

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The Green of the Period; Or, the Unsuspected Foe on the Englishman's Home by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir Richard Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1714
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000115391215

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The Englishman by Sir Richard Steele Pdf

Author : Stephen Sayre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435018134635

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The Englishman Deceived; by Stephen Sayre Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HNZM56

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The Englishman's Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : WISC:89082984303

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WLA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339733

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The Englishman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339726

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The Englishman's fire-side by Anonim Pdf