The Very Best Of The Daily Telegraph Books Of Obituaries

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0330484702

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The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Pdf

The five Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries have been both a critical and a popular success, winning plaudits from readers and reviewers alike. Here, gathered in one volume, is the very best of the witty, waspish and often wildly funny biographical short stories that are the mark of a Telegraph Obituary. Together they offer a richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century lives, a deliciously idiosyncratic study in miniature, reflecting the last century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0330349791

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The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Pdf

This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in The Daily Telegraph.

Author : Bridget Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134218028

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The Obituary as Collective Memory by Bridget Fowler Pdf

The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0333740009

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The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obituaries by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Pdf

Author : Jo Parnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781352007190

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New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives by Jo Parnell Pdf

With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques. Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative non-fiction.

Author : Mark Krupnick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299214432

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination by Mark Krupnick Pdf

When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors—Krupnick’s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner—have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick’s work with the “deep places” of his own imagination.

Author : V.R. Ferose
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789357312547

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Shelf Aware by V.R. Ferose Pdf

BIBLIOPHILIA: A perfectly acceptable addiction marked by obsessive reading, aggressive book-sniffing and strategic hoarding. For as long as Ferose, a San Francisco-based techie and 'gently mad' bibliophile, has understood books, he has devoured them with the unmitigated enthusiasm of a toddler on a sugar rush. For him, reading has been more than a weekend pursuit or a hobby on steroids. It has been a lifestyle - generously peppered with serendipitous first edition finds and deliberate in-store title hunting - of which he kept meticulous notes. In this intimate and refreshingly honest essay collection - illustrated by artists on the autism spectrum - Ferose professes his undying love for books and elaborates on his relationship with the life-affirming act of reading. Enthusiastically noting titles that carry scribbles in the neglected margins to gushing over one-of-a-kind collectibles, he delves into his varied picks, bringing his most formative bookish adventures to readers. Part memoir and part fascinating study of the quiet, fulfilling act of reading and collecting books, this joyous meld of anecdotes and recollections explores the sweeping genius of books and storytelling, and how they continually refine our collective conscience.

Author : Sarah Lyall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393070279

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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British (First Edition) by Sarah Lyall Pdf

“Should be handed out . . . in the immigration line at Heathrow.” —Malcolm Gladwell Sarah Lyall moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for amusing and sharp dispatches on her adopted country. Confronted by the eccentricities of these island people (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers), she set about trying to figure out the British. Part anthropological field study and part memoir, The Anglo Files has already received great acclaim and recognition for the astuteness, humor, and sensitivity with which the author wields her pen.

Author : Hugh Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781447210221

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Daydream Believer by Hugh Massingberd Pdf

Enchanting ... while writing a series of richly comic recollections which had me laughing out loud every few pages, he has now written a book with much more underlying seriousness and much more to say about the human condition than any Booker prizewinner could achieve' A. N. Wilson, Country Life 'Intensely comical ... contains some of the funniest scenes I have seen in print this year' Jeremy Paxman, Observer 'Although on route to meet plenty of people more famous ... none of them can begin to match the charm of the book's bumbling narratior in his Dickensian progression from weedy daydreamer, to failed solicitor, country squire, genealogist, obituarist and lurker at stage doors. This man is an institution, one of the great English eccentrics of our time' James Delingpole, Literary Review

Author : Keith Colquhoun,Ann Wroe
Publisher : Bloomberg Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079206655

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The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquhoun,Ann Wroe Pdf

For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about, the surprising lives they led, and the brilliant writing style. This volume gathers 200 of the best obituaries.

Author : Harry Quetteville
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781311080

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Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer by Harry Quetteville Pdf

The Telegraph’s obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing and capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism, ingenuity, infamy and the bizarre, Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer collects the very best of those obituaries to present an endlessly absorbing compendium of human endeavour. Organised day by day around the calendar year, with each life presented on the date it ended, the book features hundreds of remarkable stories. World statesmen jostle with glamorous celluloid stars, pioneering boffins sit alongside chart-topping rock ’n’ rollers, while artists and their muses mingle with record-breaking sportsmen, Victoria Cross winners, spies, showgirls and captains of industry – as well as the titans of rather more esoteric fields. Here, for instance, can be found Britain’s greatest goat breeder, a hangman who campaigned to abolish the death penalty, a priest to Soho’s pimps, a cross-dressing mountaineer and a minister who preached a gospel of avarice - donations in notes only, please, as ‘change makes me nervous’. A treasure trove of human virtue, vice and trivia, Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer is the perfect gift for the armchair psychologist in all of us.

Author : Bob Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781134094400

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Pulling Newspapers Apart by Bob Franklin Pdf

Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise. The book offers a detailed examination of features which previous studies have tended to neglect, such as editorial formats, aspects of newspaper design, newspaper contents as well as the content of newspapers which is not generated by in house journalists.

Author : Howard Sounes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504084284

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This Woman by Howard Sounes Pdf

The true account of the scandalous affair between one of Britain’s most notorious murderers, Myra Hindley, and a prison guard—and their jailbreak plot to run away together. Myra Hindley was convicted in 1966, with her boyfriend Ian Brady, of what became known as the Moors Murders. Between July 1963 and October 1965 the couple sexually assaulted and killed five children and teenagers. Four bodies were buried on the moors near Manchester, and a tape recording was played in court of one child begging Hindley for their life. Hindley became an icon of evil, but in 1973, in London’s Holloway prison, one woman fell in love with her. Hindley was a highly intelligent woman capable of charming anyone. Desperate to regain her freedom, she convinced an infatuated prison guard named Patricia Cairns, a former Carmelite nun, that she was a reformed woman who wanted to return to the Catholic church. Believing Hindley was sincere, yet had no chance of parole, Cairns plotted to break Hindley out of prison. This riveting story is told in vivid detail based on prison records and new interviews with former prison staff, inmates, and even the women’s accomplice. Interspersed with powerful accounts of the Moors Murders, This Woman reveals Hindley’s complex character and fiendish powers of manipulation—skills she used to lure children to their deaths in the 1960s, and used again to try to escape from prison.

Author : David Twiston Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000107522827

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The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries by David Twiston Davies Pdf

In the seventeen years since The Daily Telegraph started to take its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found here, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice in Crete and North Africa, the commando leader "Mad Jack" Churchill and Drum Major Buss, the bugler who rallied the Glosters at the Imjin River in Korea. Among the senior figures are General Mazek, who commanded the Poles in Normandy, the rigorous Field Marshal Lord Carver and General Sir Walter Walker, who won three DSOs.

Author : Stuart Feather
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785351440

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Blowing the Lid by Stuart Feather Pdf

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people’s movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands. All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of this country.