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The Rain Forest
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-30
The Rain Forest written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Fiction categories.
From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the Indian Ocean. Too late they discover how it seethes with unrest and intrigue. Yet now when they need each other, the sullen, muttering forest seems only to intensify their differences.
Olivia Manning
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Author : Neville Braybrooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Olivia Manning written by Neville Braybrooke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Olivia manning was born in Portsmouth to a naval family in 1908 and she made an independent if penurious life for herself as a young woman, painting furniture and reading film scripts for MGM. Her first novel was published in 1937. Olivia married Regiie Smith a lecturer in the British Council and they resided in Bucharest. After the war she was at the centre of the London literary scene.
Olivia Manning
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Author : Deirdre David
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-01-10
Olivia Manning written by Deirdre David and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the Middle East, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucharest, Olivia Manning arrived in Romania on the 3rd September 1939, the fateful day when Allied forces declared war on Germany. For the duration of World War Two, she kept one step ahead of invading German forces as she and her husband fled Romania for Greece, and then Greece for the Middle East, where they stayed until the end of the war. These tumultuous wartime years are the subject of her best-known and most transparently autobiographical novels, The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Olivia Manning refused to be labelled a 'feminist,' but her novels depict with cutting insight and sardonic wit the marginal position of women striving for independent identity in arenas frequently controlled by men, whether on the frontlines of war or in the publishing world of the 1950s. However, she did not just write about World War Two and women's lives. Amongst other things, Manning published fiction about making do in Britain's post-war Age of Austerity, about desecration of the environment through uncontrolled development, and about the painful adjustment to post-war British life for young men. As the author of thirteen published novels, two volumes of short stories, several works of non-fiction, and a regular reviewer of contemporary fiction, she was a visible presence on the British literary scene throughout her life and her work provides a detailed insight into the period. Grounded in thorough research and enriched by discussion of previously unexamined manuscripts and letters, Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is a timely study of Olivia Manning's remarkable life. Deirdre David integrates incisive critical analysis of Manning's writing with extensive discussion of the historical contexts of her fiction.
School For Love
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-01
School For Love written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.
The Balkan Trilogy
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-04-27
The Balkan Trilogy written by Olivia Manning and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Fiction categories.
'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess 'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement' Sunday Times 'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. At the heart of the trilogy are newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest - the so-called Paris of the East - in the autumn of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own...
The Great Fortune
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Great Fortune written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Fiction in English categories.
The Balkan Trilogy
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
The Balkan Trilogy written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Fiction categories.
'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess 'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement' Sunday Times 'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. At the heart of the trilogy are newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest - the so-called Paris of the East - in the autumn of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own...
The Battle Lost And Won
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-08-20
The Battle Lost And Won written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-20 with Fiction categories.
The second vol. of her Levant trilogy; the 1st is The danger tree, and the 3d is The sum of things.
The Levant Trilogy
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1988
The Levant Trilogy written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
"The Balkan Trilogy" is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning's focus is not the battlefield but the cafe and kitchen, the bedroom and street, the fabric of the everyday world that has been irrevocably changed by war, yet remains unchanged. At the heart of the trilogy are newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest--the so-called Paris of the East--in the fall of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy, an Englishman teaching at the university, is as wantonly gregarious as his wife is introverted, and Harriet is shocked to discover that she must share her adored husband with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own, as great in its way as the still-expanding theater of war.
Doves Of Venus
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Author : Olivia Manning
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-25
Doves Of Venus written by Olivia Manning and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it.