Tortoise By Candlelight

Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468934769

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Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Virago
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748127641

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Tortoise By Candlelight by Nina Bawden Pdf

'It is a small book, acute, discreet and tender; it is also written with warm care and considerable taste - all qualities too easily overlooked' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'An exceptional picture of disorganised family life' OBSERVER 'Bawden is noted too for the sharp sense of humour that edges her tales of middle-class manners and mores towards satire, particularly when it all goes wrong' GUARDIAN With the ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, fourteen-year-old Emmie Bean watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her beautiful, wayward sister Alice and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, who has the countenance of an angel and the ethical sense of a cobra. But with the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life and Emmie's kingdom is no longer secure. Combining the guile of a young child with the desperation of adolescence, Emmie fights to stave off the changes- and the revelations- that growing up necessarily brings. Powerful, heart-rending, but never sentimental, Tortoise by Candlelight is a captivating excursion into the landscape of youth.

Author : Peter Young
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861895042

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Tortoise by Peter Young Pdf

Tortoise is the first cultural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years. The book covers tortoises worldwide, in evolution, myth and reality, ranging across paleontology, natural history, myth, folklore, art forms, literature, veterinary medicine and trade regulations. The tortoise has been seen as an Atlas-like creature supporting the world, as the origin of music and as a philosophical paradox. Peter Young examines the tortoise in all these guises, as well as a military tactical formation, its exploitation by mariners and others for food, as ornament (in tortoiseshell), as a motif in art, and in space research. He looks at the movement away from exploitation to conservation and even the uses of the tortoise in advertising. As well as examples of species, illustrations from around the world include monuments, sculptures, coins, stamps, objets d’art, drawings, cartoons, advertisements and X-rays. The book will appeal not only to tortoise lovers but also to readers of cultural histories around the world. "Peter Young’s Tortoise, on the other claw, can be warmly recommended."—Jonathan Bate, The Times

Author : Alison Sealey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317884088

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Childly Language by Alison Sealey Pdf

Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English. It addresses such questions as: How is concern for children's safety and welfare reflected in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary English? and When we say that an adult is being 'childish', what are we saying about the characteristics of children?

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by NA NA Pdf

Author : Kristin Davidse,Caroline Gentens,Lobke Ghesquière,Lieven Vandelanotte
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269744

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Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns by Kristin Davidse,Caroline Gentens,Lobke Ghesquière,Lieven Vandelanotte Pdf

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies interrogate historical corpora to reconstruct the diachronic development of patterns such as light verb constructions, verb-particle combinations, the be a-verbing progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse of, amongst others, tag questions and it-clefts, or to elucidate some long-standing problems in the syntactic analysis of verbal or adjectival complementation patterns, thanks to the empirical detail only corpora can provide. The volume documents the practices that have been developed to guarantee optimal representativeness of corpus data, to formulate definitions of patterns that can be operationalized in extractions, and to build dimensions of variation such as text type and register into rich grammatical descriptions.

Author : A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349185115

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Twentieth-Century English Literature by A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony Pdf

In revising this book for a second edition, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.

Author : Robert Allen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780141917689

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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases by Robert Allen Pdf

Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1963-04
Category : Books
ISBN : UCR:31210018779486

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New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Rowe Townsend
Publisher : Viking Kestrel
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014314945

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A Sounding of Storytellers by John Rowe Townsend Pdf

Essays on Nina Bawden, Vera and Bill Cleaver, Peter Dickinson, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Virginia Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, Penelope Lively, William Mayne, Jill Paton Walsh, K.M. Peyton, Ivan Southall and Patricia Wrightson.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2038 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00036827R

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The Book Buyer's Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082981831

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014157484

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Contemporary Novelists by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015036930033

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Publisher and Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Author : James Vinson
Publisher : London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B3470580

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Contemporary Novelists by James Vinson Pdf

Extensive reference guide to most important living novelists in the English language.