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The Sandman


The Sandman
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Author : Neil Gaiman
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Release Date : 1994

The Sandman written by Neil Gaiman and has been published by Titan Books (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Comic books, strips, etc categories.


The story of the search for Sandman's missing brother, Destruction, and the consequences of that endeavour. Sandman and his sister Delirium have to travel through the waking world to find the missing member of the Endless family. Sandman also manages to resolve his relationship with his son.



Brief Lives


Brief Lives
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-08-01

Brief Lives written by Anita Brookner and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Fiction categories.


With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocentric Julia and the modest, self-effacing Fay, who is at once fascinated and appalled by Julia's excesses. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership -- and by a guilty secret -- Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.



Brief Lives


Brief Lives
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Author : Chris Price
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01

Brief Lives written by Chris Price and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order, the author constructs a series of vignettes mixing biography, autobiography, arcane snippets of information, and meditations on life as performance. Written with great lucidity, this strange and captivating dictionary of fragments offers funny, thoughtful, and moving reflections on life, art, and the unknown.



Brief Lives


Brief Lives
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

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Brief Lives


Brief Lives
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Release Date : 2021-12-07

Brief Lives written by John Aubrey and has been published by Graphic Arts Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts—names, dates, family, important works—and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever. As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle. But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a “poor” scholar “immerst...in fabrication of his owne fortunes,” or to read that Shakespeare, the son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to “make a speech” while slaughtering a calf. At times straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside the point—that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives. Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that Aubrey’s work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and biography reimagined for modern readers.



Brief Lives


 Brief Lives
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

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Brief Lives


Brief Lives
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Author : W. F. Deedes
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-03-28

Brief Lives written by W. F. Deedes and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and re-evalued, while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to be far more than just their achievements. Further afield, W. F. Deedes ruminates on the chaotic and shady world of Imelda Marcos, the dignity and determination of anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman and the controversial leadership of Ian Smith in Rhodesia. But there are lighter portraits too. Noel Coward, with his useful advice on trains, Mary Whitehouse’s inadvertent demonstration of pornography and Malcolm Muggeridge’s half-hearted suicide attempt all feature in this delightful compendium. Like his previous books, Dear Bill and At War With Waugh, Brief Lives is an affectionate, perceptive and anecdotal book, bursting with life, humour and wit.



Brief Lives Volume 1


Brief Lives Volume 1
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-19

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Sandman Brief Lifes Vol 7 New Ed


Sandman Brief Lifes Vol 7 New Ed
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Author : Neil Gaiman
language : en
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date : 2011

Sandman Brief Lifes Vol 7 New Ed written by Neil Gaiman and has been published by Vertigo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Comic books, strips, etc categories.


"Delirium, youngest of the extended family known as The Endless, prevails upon her brother Dream to find their missing sibling, Destruction."--P. [4] of cover.



Brief Lives I Y


 Brief Lives I Y
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Author : John Aubrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

Brief Lives I Y written by John Aubrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Great Britain categories.