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The Last Of The Eccentrics
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Author : Verily Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Last Of The Eccentrics written by Verily Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Eccentrics and eccentricities categories.
Lord Berners
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Author : Sam Leith
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Lord Berners written by Sam Leith and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory's words 'The Last Eccentric', famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vibrant colours, and, for a time, having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. His literary and artistic milieu was glittering: Stravinsky, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjeman, the Sitwells, Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Stein - they all belonged to it. In fiction, he was famously portrayed as Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. 'As social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric this long awaited, much needed and beautifully written book is, to use a simple cliché, indispensable.' Alexander Waugh, Literary Review 'In Amory, this engaging character has found the ideal biographer. Getting the exact measure of its subject throughout, written in a dry, wittily ironic prose ... the biography offers of sheer bliss.' Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times
The Last Victorians
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Author : W. Sydney Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-10
The Last Victorians written by W. Sydney Robinson and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the longreigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds - or worse. Yet not everyone in the twentieth century agreed with Strachey and his followers. To a handful of eccentrics born during Victoria's reign, the nineteenth century remained the greatest era in human history: a time of high culture for the wealthy, 'improvement' for the poor, and enlightened imperial rule for the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire. They were, to friend and foe alike, 'the last Victorians' - relics of a bygone civilisation. In this daring group biography, W. Sydney Robinson explores the extraordinary lives of four of these Victorian survivors: the 'Puritan Home Secretary', William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932); the 'Gloomy Dean' of St Paul's Cathedral, W. R. Inge (1860-1954); the belligerent founder of the BBC, John Reith (1889-1971), and the ultra-patriotic popular historian and journalist Arthur Bryant (1899- 1985). While revealing their manifold foibles and eccentricities, Robinson argues that these figures were truly great - even in error.
The Last Victorians
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Author : W. Sydney Robinson
language : en
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Release Date : 2014
The Last Victorians written by W. Sydney Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Eccentrics and eccentricities categories.
Daring group biography of a handful of British eccentrics who kept Victorian values alive in the twentieth century.
Alcanor The Eccentric Lover Tiberius In Capra The Last Of The Family Don Pedro The False Demetrius
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Author : Richard Cumberland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1813
Alcanor The Eccentric Lover Tiberius In Capra The Last Of The Family Don Pedro The False Demetrius written by Richard Cumberland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1813 with categories.
The Eccentrics
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Author : Tim Akers
language : en
Publisher: Baen Books
Release Date : 2024-05-07
The Eccentrics written by Tim Akers and has been published by Baen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Fiction categories.
THE LATEST ENTRY IN TIM AKERS’ KNIGHT WATCH URBAN FANTASY SERIES Steampunks Have Heroes Too Knight Watch stands between the mundane world and the monsters of myth and legend. But there are more than dragons and trolls prowling the shadows of the modern world. Creatures of clockwork and mad science threaten to disrupt the peace. For monsters such as these, a different band of heroes guards the world.The Eccentrics Led by the eighth incarnation of Nikola Tesla, the Society of Eccentric Geniuses protects the Mundane world from the horrors of the Gestalt, a timeline of the future that never was. Powered by SCIENCE and steam, the Eccentrics travel the world in their airship, righting wrongs and rescuing troubled suitors, mad scientists, and optimistic engineers, often from monsters of their own creation. But now something new threatens the Gestalt, and they need help from John Rast and the heroes of Knight Watch. Will John be able to navigate a world of clockwork and science to save the day? Or will he fall into the clutches of a madman bent on remaking both the Gestalt and the Unreal in his own image?
The Last Victorians
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Author : W Sydney Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06
The Last Victorians written by W Sydney Robinson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with categories.
We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.' Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the long-reigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds or worse. Yet not everyone in the twentieth century agreed with Strachey and his followers. To a handful of eccentrics born during Victoria's reign, the nineteenth century remained the greatest era in human history: a time of high culture for the wealthy, improvement for the poor, and enlightened imperial rule for the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire. They were, to friend and foe alike, 'the last Victorians' relics of a bygone civilisation. In this daring group biography, W. Sydney Robinson explores the extraordinary lives of four of these Victorian survivors: the Puritan Home Secretary , William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932); the Gloomy Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral, W. R. Inge (1860-1954); the belligerent founder of the BBC, John Reith (1889-1971), and the ultra-patriotic popular historian and journalist Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). While revealing their manifold foibles and eccentricities, Robinson argues that these figures were truly great even in error.
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities
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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities written by John Timbs and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... ing amusing trifle--an Alphabet constructed on a single rhyme: -- "A was an Army, to settle disputes; B was a Bull, not the mildest of brutes; C was a Cheque, duly drawn upon Coutts; D was King David, with harps and with lutes; E was an Emperor, hailed with salutes; F was a Funeral, followed by mutes; G was a Gallant, in Wellington boots; H was a Hermit, and lived upon roots; J was Justinian, his Institutes; K was a Keeper, who commonly shoots; L was a Lemon, the sourest of fruits; M was a Ministry--say Lord Bute's; N was Nicholson, famous on flutes; O was an Owl, that hisses and hoots; P was a Pond, full of leeches and newts; Q was a Quaker, in whitey-brown suits; R was a Reason, which Paley refutes; S was a Serjeant, with twenty recruits; T was Ten Tories, of doubtful reputes; U was uncommonly bad cheroots; V vicious motives, which malice imputes; X an Ex-King, driven out by emeutes; Y is a Yawn; then the last rhyme that suits, Z is the Zuyder Zee, dwelt in by coots.' Non Sequitur and Therefore. Lord Avonmore was subject to perpetual fits of absence of mind, and was frequently insensible to the conversation that was going on. He was wrapped in one of his wonted reveries, and not hearing one syllable of what was passing (it was at a large professional dinner given by Mr. Burke), Curran, who was sitting next to his Lordship, having been called on for a toast, gave, "All our absent friends," patting at the same time Lord Avonmore on the shoulder and telling him he had just drunk his health. Taking the intimation as a serious one, Avonmore rose, and apologizing for his inattention, returned thanks to the company for the honour they had done him by drinking his health. There was a curious character, Serjeant Kelly, at the Irish bar. He...
In Search Of The English Eccentric
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Author : Henry Hemming
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-02
In Search Of The English Eccentric written by Henry Hemming and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Humor categories.
The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to be an eccentric. Is it simply to thrive on creativity and non-conformity, and where does this incarnation of Englishness stem from? Hemming concludes that this tribe is, in fact, in rude health, as essential as ever to the English national identity, only they are no longer to be found where you'd expect them.
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities
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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
English Eccentrics And Eccentricities written by John Timbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Characters and characteristics categories.