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Gentlemen And Players
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Author : Joanne Harris
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Gentlemen And Players written by Joanne Harris and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school—as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan’s Atonement and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald’s School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who—unknown to Straitley and everyone else—holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie’s ways and secrets, it’s comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald’s. As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances—a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug—they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie’s ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent—a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move. A harrowing tale of cat and mouse told in alternating voices, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before.
Gentlemen Players And Politicians
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Author : Dalton Camp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Gentlemen Players And Politicians written by Dalton Camp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with History categories.
A candid description of Canadian politics, and politicians from 1948 to 1957.
Ladies And Gentlemen V Players
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Author : P. G. Wodehouse
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date :
Ladies And Gentlemen V Players written by P. G. Wodehouse and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Barbarians Gentlemen And Players
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Author : Kenneth Sheard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Barbarians Gentlemen And Players written by Kenneth Sheard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition of this text. Sports lovers, rugby fans and students of the history and sociology of sport will find it invaluable. Rugby football is descended from winter 'folk games' which were a deeply rooted tradition in pre-industrial Britain. This was the first book to study the development of Rugby from this folk tradition to the game in its modern forms. The folk forms of football were extremely violent and serious injuries - even death - were a common feature. The game was refined in the public schools who played a crucial role in formulating the rules which required footballers to exercise greater self-control. With the spread of rugby into the wider society, the Rugby Football Union was founded but class tensions led to the split between Rugby Union and Rugby League. The authors examine the changes that led to the professionalisation of Rugby Union as well as the alleged resurgence of violence in the modern game.
Gentlemen And Players
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Author : Joanne Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Gentlemen And Players written by Joanne Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Public schools categories.
Gentlemen Players
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Author : Charles Williams
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Gentlemen Players written by Charles Williams and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with History categories.
Amateurs versus professionals - a social history and memoir of English cricket from 1953 to 1963. The inaugural Gentlemen v. Players first-class cricket match was played in 1806, subsequently becoming an annual fixture at Lord's between teams consisting of amateurs (the Gentlemen) and professionals (the Players). The key difference between the amateur and the professional, however, was much more than the obvious one of remuneration. The division was shaped by English class structure, the amateur, who received expenses, being perceived as occupying a higher station in life than the wage-earning professional. The great Yorkshire player Len Hutton, for example, was told he would have to go amateur if he wanted to captain England. GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS focuses on the final ten years of amateurism and the Gentlemen v. Players fixture, starting with Charles Williams' own presence in the (amateur) Oxbridge teams that included future England captains such as Peter May, Colin Cowdrey and M.J.K. Smith, and concluding with the abolition of amateurism in 1962 when all first-class players became professional. The amateur innings was duly declared closed. Charles Williams, the author of a richly acclaimed biography of Donald Bradman, has penned a vivid social-history-cum-memoir that reveals an attempt to recreate a Golden Age in post-war Britain, one whose expiry exactly coincided with the beginnings of top-class one-day cricket and a cricket revolution.
Gentlemen Players
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Author : Joanne Harris
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Gentlemen Players written by Joanne Harris and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid, this is an astute and intelligent psychological thriller centring around obsession and rage from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Fast paced with unexpected twists and turns, it will get right under the skin... '[A] gripping psychological thriller... Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form' -- DAILY EXPRESS '[A] delicious black comedy ... the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life' -- DAILY MAIL 'It kept me on the edge of my seat and I was thinking about it long after I turned the last page' -- ***** Reader review 'An intricate, engrossing novel' -- ***** Reader review 'Wonderfully, horribly plausible' -- ***** Reader review 'I read it in three days which is as close as I get to "couldn't put it down"' -- ***** Reader review 'Well written and enthralling' -- ***** Reader review 'A must read....' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely loved this book!' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************* At St Oswald's, a long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, the eccentric veteran Latin master, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt. The trilogy continues with blueeyedboy and Different Class.
Routledge S Sporting Annual
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Routledge S Sporting Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
Gentlemen And Players
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Author : Timothy Mowl
language : en
Publisher: History PressLtd
Release Date : 2010-07-09
Gentlemen And Players written by Timothy Mowl and has been published by History PressLtd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-09 with Gardening categories.
The English love affair with the landscape garden reached its height in the eighteenth century, when the creation of some of our greatest gardens set a stylistic lead which Continental Europe was eager to follow. In this informed and entertaining book, Timothy Mowl reveals how this development in garden style came about through an interaction between the garden owners, who had a vision of what these gardens might become, and the professionals who had the expertise to realise this vision. Technologies and discoveries were exchanged, and theories were absorbed, popularised and then discarded, in a fascinating sequence of action and reaction. It was a mould-breaking, revolutionary period in garden history. Mowl takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the magnificent gardens at Chiswick, Stowe, Castle Howard, Painshill, Stourhead and an astonishing host of lesser Edens, and casts a fresh and illuminating perspective on the great age of the English Arcadia (1620-1820).
The Theory And Practice Of Cricket From Its Origin To The Present Time With Critical Explanatory Notes Upon The Laws Of The Game
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Author : Charles Box
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
The Theory And Practice Of Cricket From Its Origin To The Present Time With Critical Explanatory Notes Upon The Laws Of The Game written by Charles Box and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Cricket categories.