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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-11-12
A Very Private Life written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Fiction categories.
'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done . . . written with elegant simplicity.' New Statesman Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world. Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring ... 'A fairy tale of the future.' Guardian
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1984
A Very Private Life written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with English fiction categories.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Author : Robert Bernard Martin
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-06-16
Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Robert Bernard Martin and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his emotions toward nature and God, with profound results. Princeton emeritus professor Martin, the only biographer to have unrestricted use of Hopkins' private papers, tells this extraordinary story from Hopkins' early life and studies at Oxford, through his tortuous conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, to his struggle in later years to retain his very sanity. 'In Martin, the unhappy and tormented genius has found the most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter... [The book] goes to the heart of Hopkins, and plants him firmly before us as a Victorian, and a great one.' Allan Massie, Sunday Telegraph 'Martin follows Hopkins through his toils with sympathy and a great unshowy command of the facts. In this magnificently solicitous biography he has re-established the contours of the story definitively and made the homosexual drama integral to the better-known drama of conversion and poetics.' Seamus Heaney, Independent on Sunday 'The triumph of this learned, scrupulously detailed and persuasive biography is that it brings the reader as near as it is perhaps possible to come to living Hopkins' life, to sensing the mysterious crushing pressures that were for him intimately bound up with the richness and complexity of his writing.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph
A Very Private Woman
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Author : Nina Burleigh
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2009-10-21
A Very Private Woman written by Nina Burleigh and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story. Praise for A Very Private Woman “Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it’s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places.”—Dominick Dunne “A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way.”—Glamour “Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington’s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age.”—Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman “Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir.”—New York Observer “A rich array of real-life characters.”—New York Times Book Review
Patrick O Brian A Very Private Life
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Author : Nikolai Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Patrick O Brian A Very Private Life written by Nikolai Tolstoy and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
A Very Private Celebrity
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Author : Hugh Purcell
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-07
A Very Private Celebrity written by Hugh Purcell and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century: a renaissance man who constantly reinvented himself; a household name who sought complete anonymity. From advertising executive to war hero to MP tipped to be Prime Minister, Freeman then changed direction to become a seminal television interviewer and editor of the New Statesman. He subsequently remodelled himself yet again to become, in turn, an ambassador, a TV mogul, a university professor and, finally, in retirement, a well-known bowls player in south London. Freeman packed nine lives into his ninety-nine years, but all he really wanted was to be forgotten. The paradox of this private celebrity was captured by the very series that made him famous: Face to Face. While Freeman remorselessly interrogated the stars of his age, he himself sat in the shadows, his back to the camera. He was the grand inquisitor, exposing the personalities behind the public figures - but never his own. For ten years, Hugh Purcell has been tracking Freeman's story, trying to come face to face with this enigma who believed in changing his life - and his wife - every ten years. Why did Freeman want to forget what most old men would be proud to remember? Why did he try to erase himself from history? And yet, despite Freeman's best efforts to be ignored, his death in 2014 was marked by an enormous outpouring of appreciation and admiration. With his life now free from its shroud of inscrutability, the true story of this incredibly multifaceted man can finally be told.
A Very Private Public Citizen
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Author : Nancy Peterson Hill
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2014-11-18
A Very Private Public Citizen written by Nancy Peterson Hill and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Grenville Clark was born to wealth and privilege in Manhattan, where his maternal grandfather, LeGrand Bouton Cannon, was an industry titan, retired Civil War colonel, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Clark grew up on a first-name basis with both Presidents Roosevelt, and his close friends included Supreme Court justices. He was well known and respected in the inner circles of business, government, and education. In A Very Private Public Citizen: The Life of Grenville Clark, Nancy Peterson Hill gives life to the unsung account of this great and largely anonymous American hero and reveals how the scope of Clark’s life and career reflected his selfless passion for progress, equality, and peace. As a member of the “Corporation,” Harvard’s elite governing board, Clark wrote a still-relevant treatise on academic freedom. He fought a successful public battle with his good friend President Franklin Roosevelt over FDR’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court in 1937. He refused pay while serving as a private advisor for the Secretary of War of the United States during the Second World War, and he worked closely with the NAACP to uphold civil rights for African Americans during the tumultuous 1950s and ‘60s. Clark devoted his last decades to a quest for world peace through limited but enforceable world law, rewriting the charter of the United Nations and traveling the globe to lobby the world’s leaders. An enthusiastic husband, father, and friend, Clark was a lawyer, civil rights activist, traveler, advisor, and world citizen at large. Memories from Clark’s family and friends weave through the book, as do Clark’s own inimitable observations on his life and the world in which he lived. A Very Private Public Citizen brings Clark out of the shadows, offering readers an inspiring example of a true patriot and humanitarian, more concerned with the well-being of his country and his fellow man than with his own fame.
A Very Private Gentleman
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Author : Martin Booth
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-02-01
A Very Private Gentleman written by Martin Booth and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with Fiction categories.
The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous--mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life: Clara: the young student who moonlights in the town bordello. And another woman who arrives with $100,000 and a commission, but not for a painting of butterflies. With this assignment returns the dark fear that has dogged Signor Farfalla's mysterious life. Almost instantly, he senses a deadly circle closing in on him, one which he may or may not elude. Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, A Very Private Gentleman shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers
Memoirs Of The Public And Private Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty Caroline
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Author : Joseph Nightingale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1820
Memoirs Of The Public And Private Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty Caroline written by Joseph Nightingale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1820 with categories.
A Very Double Life
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Author : C. P. Stacey
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 1985
A Very Double Life written by C. P. Stacey and has been published by Formac Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A shrewd politician whose private life was one of bizzare and obsessive drives, sex life, love affairs, seances.