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Memoirs Of An Aesthete
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Author : Harold Acton
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2008-12
Memoirs Of An Aesthete written by Harold Acton and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12 with Authors, English categories.
N this classic memoir Harold Acton offers a witty and vivid account of the first thirty-five years of his life (1904-39): from a boyhood among the dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, through his friendships with some of the great writers of his generation in Oxford and Paris, to his discovery of a spiritual home in Peking.
Memoirs Of An Aesthete
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Author : Harold Acton
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 1948
Memoirs Of An Aesthete written by Harold Acton and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nordic Private Collections Of Chinese Objects
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Author : Minna Törmä
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Nordic Private Collections Of Chinese Objects written by Minna Törmä and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Art categories.
This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing collecting and display trends of the twentieth century. Minna Törmä examines four Scandinavian collections as case studies: Kustaa Hiekka, Sophus Black, Osvald Sirén and Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, all of whom had professional backgrounds (a jeweler, two businessmen and a scholar) and for whom collecting became a passion and an educational endeavour. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, Chinese studies and design history.
The Lesser Known World Of Mughal Emperor Jahangir
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Author : Som Prakash Verma
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-09-02
The Lesser Known World Of Mughal Emperor Jahangir written by Som Prakash Verma and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-02 with History categories.
This volume depicts the life and times of the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the light of his memoirs, Jahangirnama, popularly known as Tuzuk-i Jahangiri. With its fresh treatment of source material and a vivid account of historical events, the book tells the history of Jahangir’s India through his intimate and confessional memoirs incorporated in the genre of Mughal manuscript painting. The work is noteworthy for its historical portraits as well as Jahangir’s visual realism, his remarkable knowledge of natural history, and the perceptive and detailed descriptions of the world around him. Moving away from conventional historical writing, the book is a psychological study of an individual, his innate qualities, behavioural moves and instinctive affinities. Jahangir’s memoirs reveal deeper facets of him as a person as well as a poet, aesthete, connoisseur of painting and a keen observer of nature, both human and that of the natural world. The author also includes other contemporary literature of the period that narrate Jahangir’s life, such as Akbarnama, Ma’asir-i Jahangiri, Iqbalnama-i Jahangiri, Intikhab-i Jahangiri, Tatimma-i Waqi’at-i Jahangiri and Zakhirat-ul Khwanin, as well as Jesuits accounts and travelogues. He further analyses the influence of European Renaissance art on the history of Mughal paintings. A first of its kind, this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of medieval history, Indian history, Mughal history, art history, popular culture and South Asian studies, as well as the general reader.
Lady In Waiting
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Author : Anne Glenconner
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Lady In Waiting written by Anne Glenconner and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner—a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact. A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret's closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her "mad blood"; her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant; the death in adulthood of two of her sons; a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities. With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance. New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Sunday Times Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller ABA Indie Bestseller The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
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Author : Вячеслав Недошивин
language : ru
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2018-11-28
written by Вячеслав Недошивин and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Вячеслав Недошивин – писатель, автор книг «Адреса любви. Дома и домочадцы русской литературы. Москва, Санкт-Петербург, Париж» и «Прогулки по Серебряному веку. Санкт-Петербург». Долгие годы – от диссертации об антиутопиях в 1985 году до статей в научных сборниках и журналах («Иностранная литература») – занимался творчеством Дж.Оруэлла и переводами его произведений. «Джордж Оруэлл. Неприступная душа» – это не только подробнейшая биография английского классика, не просто увлекательный рассказ о его жизни и книгах, о его взглядах и его эпохе, – но и, в каком-то смысле, первый его «русский портрет». О русской женщине, в которую был влюблен, об офицере-эмигранте из России, спасавшем его в Париже, и о фронтовом друге-петербуржце, которого, напротив, спасал в Испании уже сам Оруэлл, о дневниках писателя, исчезнувших в подвалах Лубянки, и о переписке с СССР, которую обнародовали у нас лишь в девяностых... Книга иллюстрирована уникальными фотографиями из лондонского архива писателя, многие из которых публикуются в России впервые.
Fun Home
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Author : Alison Bechdel
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Fun Home written by Alison Bechdel and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. 'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent 'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Dictionary Of The British English Spelling System
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Author : Greg Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2015-03-30
Dictionary Of The British English Spelling System written by Greg Brooks and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
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Author : E. Lynn Harris
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-11-28
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted written by E. Lynn Harris and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own. Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them. Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life–from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small-town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreams–and more–come true.
Edgar G Ulmer
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Author : Noah Isenberg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-01-09
Edgar G Ulmer written by Noah Isenberg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German émigré directors—Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak. Despite early work with Max Reinhardt and F. W. Murnau, his auspicious debut with Siodmak on their celebrated Weimar classic People on Sunday, and the success of films like Detour and Ruthless, Ulmer spent most of his career as an itinerant filmmaker earning modest paychecks for films that have either been overlooked or forgotten. In this fascinating and well-researched account of a career spent on the margins of Hollywood, Noah Isenberg provides the little-known details of Ulmer’s personal life and a thorough analysis of his wide-ranging, eclectic films—features aimed at minority audiences, horror and sci-fi flicks, genre pictures made in the U.S. and abroad. Isenberg shows that Ulmer’s unconventional path was in many ways more typical than that of his more famous colleagues. As he follows the twists and turns of Ulmer’s fortunes, Isenberg also conveys a new understanding of low-budget filmmaking in the studio era and beyond.