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Ronald Searle

    3. březen 1920 – 30. prosinec 2011

    Ronald Searle byl uznávaný britský umělec a karikaturista, jehož dílo zanechalo nesmazatelnou stopu. Je známý především jako tvůrce ikonických postav ze St Trinian's School a spoluautor oblíbené série Molesworth. Jeho umělecká dráha, poznamenaná válečnou zkušeností, se vyznačuje ostrým pozorováním a satirickým vtipem. Searle dokázal ve svém díle zachytit jak groteskní humor, tak i vážné lidské zkušenosti s mimořádnou obratností a osobitým stylem.

    Slightly Foxed
    Illustrated Winespeak
    Searle's Cats
    Zoodiac
    Big Fat Cat Book
    To the Kwai - and Back
    • To the Kwai - and Back

      • 208 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      4,6(35)Ohodnotit

      In 1941 Ronald Searle was made a prisoner of war by the Japanese, after 14 months in a POW camp he was sent to work on the Burma Railway until May 1944 when he was sent to the notorious Changi prison. Throughout his captivity Searle drew to record his experiences, hiding the drawings, and they have been become to be recognised as among the greatest, and most moving, record of WW2. Searle has described the book as "the grafitti of a condemned man... who found himself--to his surprise and delight -- among the reprieved."

      To the Kwai - and Back
    • Searle's Cats

      • 48 stránek
      • 2 hodiny čtení
      4,0(1)Ohodnotit

      World renowned cartoonist Ronald Searle has satirically but lovingly portrayed his feline friends in outlandish almost human entanglements. A remarkably hairy cat facing a dandruff problem, a vanity-stricken balding cat wearing an unsuitable wig, and a cat of a thousand disguises concealing itself as a rug are just some of the witty full-color illustrations that everyone, but cat lovers in particular, will find irresistible."

      Searle's Cats
    • Illustrated Winespeak

      • 104 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      4,2(57)Ohodnotit

      A hilarious send-up of winetasters' jargon, this collection of cartoons offers a satiric look at pretentious phrases used to describe wines by humorously assigning those characteristics to people.

      Illustrated Winespeak
    • Slightly Foxed

      • 128 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení
      4,1(118)Ohodnotit

      Ronald Searle's wicked world of book collecting: The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shockingly explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred bibliophile.

      Slightly Foxed
    • Paperback slight edge wear by Ronald Searle & Geoffrey Williams -previous owners sticky library label-b/w illustrated-Pub:-Puffin 1974-presents 112 trifle age toned pages...anyone over 9 can read this-Book condition:-good clean copy.#25

      How to be Topp
    • Takes us to the world of the Gothic Public School. This book features shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. It also contains a selection of the author's work from the non-school books, including The Rake's Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, and others.

      The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings
    • Teachers and small children beware! Welcome to St Trinian's - the young ladies' academy where arson, stabbings and witchcraft are among the maidenly arts offered on the curriculum, where gunpowder is available from the tuck shop and where smaller girls are tortured on the rack by prefects at playtime. Chaos reigns and vultures circle overhead as this fiendish band of schoolgirls hold black masses in the cellar, torment souls during violin practice and conduct scientific experiments with bat's blood in the lab, while sadistic school mistresses teach unarmed combat in the gym and oversee murderous mayhem on the hockey field. Vividly imagined in Ronald Searle's exuberant, energetic cartoons, St Trinian's is a hilarious, Gothic satire on the English boarding school that has inspired naughty schoolgirls for generations.

      St. Trinian's