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London and provincial cities like Bristol, Leeds and Birmingham are examined and special attention is given to certain types of towns: railway towns like Crewe and Swindon, and seaports and holiday resorts many of which were developed in conjunction with the railways.
Features letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, the composer's correspondence with his publishers, that cover the years 1928-39 and the publication of the "Violin Concerto", the "Concerto per due pianoforte soli", "Jeu de Cartes", the "Concerto in E flat", and the "Symphony in C". These letters offer glimpses into his daily life.
Presents Igor Stravinsky's correspondence. This book offers information relating to the composer's association with dance, to his relationship with other composers and musicians, and to the daily, financial, and familial concerns of his life.
Presents a selection of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky. This book provides information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. Based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, it helps in an understanding of the composer's personal and family life.
Based on the books "With the Russians in Manchuria" (impressions of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905); "A Year in Russia" (the record of a momentous year in the political history of Russia, 1905-1906); and, "Russian Essays and Studies" (later impressions), this title the author's views as an observer in the Russia.
The author spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the Guardian. This book presents an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension.
Exploring a wide range of topics, this book offers a perspective on the developing thoughts of a Science Fiction writer and a critique of the function of Science Fiction in society.
The Utods are a highly advanced alien species from whom the human race might learn much, with superior technology and a profound philosophy. But when they meet, their customs and conventions are far beneath what humankind considers to be civilized.
Moorhouse's evocation of a beautiful, turbulent and little-known region is masterly and unforgettable. 'It was high time someone put Pakistan on the travel bookshelf, and this is what Geoffrey Moorhouse has done - with style, relish, much wit and enormous good humour ...
Sir Isaac Harman, international Bread and Cake magnate, suffers an onslaught of women. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is a witty, sardonic and thoughtful novel about sex, society and women's independence.
'We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms.' Salley VickersThe Hashemites are the oldest, proudest, most romantic and most tragic family of Greater Arabia.
Nor does he forget that the garden is also a children's playground, window-cleaner's base and domain of cars and clothes lines. 'A basic and eminently practical book about gardens - ordinary gardens, such as are owned by thousands of people all over Britain.
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, although made as Communist propaganda to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the mutiny in 1905, is an undoubted film classic.
showing us the enthralling interplay of politics, avarice, hate, national pride, and religious fanaticism in that part of the globe.' The New YorkerThe Market of Seleukia is a portrait of the Middle East at the catalytic moment of the Suez Crisis.
Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has left his aunt and siblings to come to London where his widower father wishes to introduce him to his young future step-mother. Unable to return home when his brother and sister become ill, Ben is left on his own to explore the maze of walled gardens which surround his new home.
First published in 1936, Of Mortal Love is a simple love story, in the author's own words 'containing fresh love-lore and treating of the succeeding stages of transmutation of love erotic into love imaginative;
The story of My Wife's the Least of It centres on Mr Baldridge, a one-time novelist married to a mad millionairess. Then an early novel of his - Dixie - is recognized as a possibility for a film ... and Mr Baldridge's hard-won philosophical calm is threatened by the endless vicissitudes and absurdities of the film industry.
The cusp of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a revived fascination with the native song of England, perhaps best known through the work of that crusading folklorist Cecil Sharp. This book presents a selection of 115 folk lyrics of Cecil Sharp.
Considered to be among the world's greatest masters of fiction Turgenev's works explored the social issues that affected Russians during the nineteenth century, most notably the peasantry and the intelligentsia.
Also known as Spring Torrents, The Torrents of Spring focuses on the main protagonist Dimitry Sanin, a young Russian landowner who on his travels to Germany meets and falls in love with Gemma, an Italian living in Frankfurt.
Virgin Soil, written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev's last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist.
Virgin Soil, written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev's last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist.
First translated by Constance Garnett in 1895 Fathers and Children was published in 1862 in The Russian Messenger and provoked immediate controversy for its portrayal of the rise of the nihilist movement.
It is the story of Frank Dickin, an impoverished young novelist, and his involvement with an eccentric family of Russian emigres - in particular, their beautiful daughter Eva - and with an all-powerful newspaper magnate, Lord Ottercove (based on Gerhardie's friend Lord Beaverbrook), who takes Dickin on as a lost cause.
The White Weathercock; The Devil; The White Paternoster; The Left Leg; The Lonely Lady; The Rival Pastors; The Golden Gates; The Dog and the Lantern; The Corpse and the Flea.Charles Prentice, who had been T.
Who is a major poet, and who is a minor poet? This title offers a rationale for distinguishing between the two.
Combing fiction and non-fiction by the subject of flying, this book describes the two years the author spent learning to fly Bluebirds and Moths.
Faber Finds is reissuing the four volumes: The Young Lloyd George, Lloyd George: The People's Champion 1902-1911, Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916, Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918. 'A delight to read and a contribution to our political history of the greatest importance.
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