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| Richard Adams: Day Gone By an Autobiography
Book Number: 34141
PENGUIN 1991 8vo softcover 398pp index, b/w illus. very good. First volume of the autobiography of Richard Adams covering his early life in Taunton, undergraduate days at Oxford and experiences across Omagh, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt, Normandy, Denmark, Singapore and Bombay between 1940 and 1947. The account ends with Adams giving Latin tuition to the girl next-door who became his future wife. Adams' early years should be of particular interest to any devotee of the novels since they concern a plethora of incidents which first fired his enthusiasm for nature. The book may be of particular interest to anyone interested in the social history of the period from 1920 to the aftermath of World War II.
Keywords: Biography Day Gone By an Autobiography Richard Adams
Price: $8.00 |
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| Edwards, Anne: The road to Tara: The life of Margaret Mitchell
Book Number: 34162
London Hodder and Stoughton 1983 8vo hardcover 369pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's bookplate on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Mitchell Margaret 1900 1949 The road to Tara gone eith the wind life of Margaret Mitchell Edwards Anne
Price: $18.00 |
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| Lindsay, Patrick.: Back from the dead : Peter Hughes' story of hope and survival after Bali / Patrick Lindsay.
Book Number: 34225
Milsons Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2003 8vo softcover 259pp index, colour illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep. Peter Hughes was the man whose blistered and swollen face we saw on television during the shocking first hours of the news coverage from Bali. This is his personal story of survival and hope after the tragedy in Bali.nnCover subtitle: Peter Hughes' story of survival and hope after Bali.
Keywords: Hughes Peter Bali Bombing Kuta Kuta Indonesia 2002 Personal narratives Terrorism Indonesia Kuta (Kuta) Back from the dead Peter Hughes' story of hope and survival after Bali / Patrick Lindsay Lindsay Patrick
Price: $25.00 |
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| Forbes, Malcolm: They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Died
Book Number: 34256
New York Simon & Schuster 1988 8vo hardcover 329pp index, b/w illus. very good / fair d/w with large piece missing from top rear corner. From Publishers WeeklynMore fun and games from Chairman Malcolm, a master of the short take in his magazine (Forbes) and books (Fact and Comment, The Further Savings of Chairman Malcolm). This time it's 150 capsule biographies, each based on how the subject died. Died? Yes, died. In alphabetical orderhandy for trivia quarrelswe learn that Alexander the Great and Sen. Joe McCarthy were done in by drink, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin OD'd on fame and drugs, actor James Dean and Gen. George Patton each got it from an oncoming vehicle, George (Superman) Reeves and Ernest Hemingway shot themselves. Saint Lawrence was roasted, Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded, Wild Bill Hickok shot in the back, French revolutionist Marat stabbed in his bath. The Roman historian Pliny died under fire from Mt. Vesuvius, Rasputin was poisoned, shot, beaten and drowned. Rich man Alfred Lowenstein fell from an airplane. This macabre parade, written with freelancer Bloch, is undeniably fascinating, and the bottom-heavy (so to speak) profiles are entertaining and informative. Preferred Choice Bookplan alternate. nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Keywords: Biographies Memoirs General They Went That A Way How the Famous the Infamous and the Great Died Forbes Malcolm
Price: $15.00 |
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| Wain, John: Samuel Johnson : A Biography
Book Number: 34272
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1975. 8vo hardcover 388pp index b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Samuel Johnson : A Biography english literature
Price: $18.00 |
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| Stone, Gerald: Singo: The John Singleton Story: Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters
Book Number: 34265
Pymble, N.S.W. New York HarperCollins 2002 8vo hardcover 356pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Biography Singo The John Singleton Story Mates Wives Triumphs Disasters Stone Gerald
Price: $18.00 |
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| Kingsley Amis: Memoirs
Book Number: 34304
PENGUIN PUTNAM @ TRADE 1992 8vo softcover 345pp index, b/w illus. very good. This autobiography of Kingsley Amis covers his upbringing in lower middle-class South London, Oxford, during and just after the war, his friendship with Philip Larkin and his marriage to Elizabeth Jane Howard. nnAbout the AuthornKingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. At one time he was a university lecturer, a keen reader of science fiction and a jazz enthusiast. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He published a variety of other work, including a survey of science fiction entitled New Maps of Hell (1960); Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Collected Poems (1979); and his Memoirs (1991). He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.n --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Keywords: Poetry Drama Criticism Biography Memoirs Kingsley Amis
Price: $9.00 |
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| Jones, J.D.F.: The Buchan Papers
Book Number: 34366
The Harvill Press 1996 Large 8vo softcover 250pp. very good. This volume posits that the "Buchan Papers" are the source for John Buchan's story "Kruger's Gold". Was it suppressed because it was too close to the diplomatic dramas of the first years of this century, or is it a mischievous and fantastical forgery.
Keywords: Fiction History Biography The Buchan Papers Jones J D F
Price: $15.00 |
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| Lewis, Norman: I Came,I Saw: An Autobiography
Book Number: 34370
Picador 1996 8vo softcover 391pp. very good, pages browned.
Keywords: Authors English Enfield I Came I Saw An Autobiography Lewis Norman
Price: $10.00 |
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| Ackroyd, Peter: Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
Book Number: 34511
London B B C Worldwide Americas 2002 4to hardcover 160pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. The acclaimed chronicler of London, Peter Ackroyd, explores the life and times of Charles Dickens, the great Victorian author. It is a story of rags to riches, demonstrating how much Dickens drew upon his own experiences in his fiction and what drove him to call for social reform.nnnCharles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by guilt and secrecy - rather like the plot of one of his novels. Indeed, Dickens drew strongly on his own experiences as the source for much of his fiction. Here the author offers a fresh view of Dickens's remarkable life story. Dickens's novels brim with references: they are located in the places he lived in and visited, peopled with characters he knew, and inspired by the preoccupations that haunted his mind. Ackroyd highlights the reality of Victorian life, warts and all, and the issues that sparked Dickens's fervent calls for social reform; and he also charts the influential landmarks of that era, such as the coming of the railways, the effects upon society of the industrial revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. Dickens was a complex personality. He apparently had everything - fame, success, wealth - but he died harboring the great sadness he had carried with him all his life, and he was humble enough to forbid a grand funeral. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life. Although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should offend his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow-author Wilkie Collins and, for the final 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress, Ellen Ternan.
Keywords: Literary Criticism biography authors classical English Dickens Public Life and Private Passion Ackroyd Peter
Price: $28.00 |
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