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Juliet Gardiner

    The Thirties
    Little Boy Lost
    The Village
    Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde
    The Blitz
    Wartime
    • Wartime

      • 800 stránek
      • 28 hodin čtení
      4,4(219)Ohodnotit

      The definitive account of life on the Home Front during the Second World War, which was published in 2004 to universal critical acclaim.

      Wartime
    • The Blitz

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,3(36)Ohodnotit

      From the author of `Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz.

      The Blitz
    • Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde

      • 160 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      4,1(25)Ohodnotit

      "I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." Oscar WildeAlthough it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through his own words – private letters, poems, plays, stories and legendary witticisms. It includes his relationships with key artists and writers of the time, including John Ruskin, Charles Ricketts, and Lillie Langtry.It is illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, contemporary photographs, cartoons and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. With illustrations and paintings by Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Whistler and Max Beerbohm, it is a beautiful evocation of the glittering fin de siecle word by its most fascinating wordsmith and aesthete.The book details Wilde's ruin after the trial and its outcome. The profundity of his writing from prison and exile form an epitaph, not only to his own life, but also for the era that carelessly delighted in it.

      Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde
    • Little Boy Lost

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      4,1(952)Ohodnotit

      Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision.

      Little Boy Lost
    • The Thirties

      • 576 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení
      4,0(33)Ohodnotit

      As `Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich material available in the British Library.

      The Thirties
    • Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and controversy. The contributors are Dr David Bates (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), John Gillingham (London School of Economics), Dr Diarmaid McCulloch (University of Bristol and University College London), Joanna Innes (Somerville College, Oxford), Dr David Englander (Open University) and Dr John Stevenson (Worcester College, Oxford).

      The History Today Companion to British History
    • An evocation of the glittering fin de siecle world by its most fascinating wordsmith and aesthete, whose life is chronicled in this lavish sampling of his plays, poems, stories, and legendary witticisms. Illustrated with 140 paintings, prints, photos, and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. Now in paperback, 160 pp, 10 x 8 with 60 color & 80 b/w photos & illustrations. The 'Illustrated Letters' series.

      Oscar Wilde : a life in letters, writings and wit
    • A short, hard-hitting 1946 novel, originally published under the pseudonym 'Sarah Russell', about sex in wartime London.

      To Bed with Grand Music
    • The Victorian Chaise-Longue

      • 99 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      3,6(521)Ohodnotit

      A young woman falls asleep on an antique chair and wakes up in a strange room somewhere in the past.

      The Victorian Chaise-Longue