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Willie Donaldson S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics
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Author : William Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Chambers
Release Date : 2008
Willie Donaldson S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics written by William Donaldson and has been published by Chambers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Criminals categories.
The final book by the late, great Willie Donaldson is an impressive line-up of nefarious and idiosyncratic characters past and present. Its encyclopedic entries provide an eyebrow-raising guide to the extraordinary lives of roguish Britons from Emma Hamilton to Ozzy Osbourne, Margaret "Mother" Clap to the Duke of Edinburgh.
Brewer S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics
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Author : William Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Cassell
Release Date : 2004
Brewer S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics written by William Donaldson and has been published by Cassell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Reference categories.
A browsable and addictive collection of pen-portraits of 1500 extraordinary characters from British and Irish history
Brewer S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics
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Author : William Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2002
Brewer S Rogues Villains And Eccentrics written by William Donaldson and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Reference categories.
“You need this book because: It feels so good to read about the naughty. Besides, how can you resist an encyclopedia with entries like ‘butlers, murderous’ and ‘Jesus, believing oneself to be having carnal relations with’?”—Publishers Weekly. “A reference treasure.”—Booklist
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This
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Author : Terence Blacker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This written by Terence Blacker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been one of the great, under-rated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. His achievements were significant - he published Sylvia Plath while still at Cambridge, as a producer in the Sixties he staged Beyond the Fringe, and he was later to write the celebrated Henry Root Letters - but not as impressive as his reckless talent for self-destruction. The impresario became a serial bankrupt. The man about town, who had lived with Sarah Miles and been engaged to Carly Simon, ended up as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. Success as a writer quickly led him into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual obsession. Now friend and collaborator, Terence Blacker unravels the intimate truth of Willie Donaldson's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain. 'What a young fool I was. But how I adored him' Carly Simon 'A slimy crook' Private Eye 'For the skill and wit of his writing he deserves to be hailed as the English Nabokov' Auberon Waugh 'I am someone who always answers the phone at 1.00 am, because I know it isn't going to be my bank manager or the Inland Revenue, but probably a crack dealer or a prostitute' Willie Donaldson
Mad Toffs The British Upper Classes At Their Best And Worst
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Author : Patrick Scrivenor
language : en
Publisher: Metro Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-03
Mad Toffs The British Upper Classes At Their Best And Worst written by Patrick Scrivenor and has been published by Metro Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Humor categories.
‘This book is a record of the British upper classes – and a few others – at their best (sometimes their worst), displaying a sort of unhinged blitheness of manner that leads them to say and do strangely unexpected things. It is a quality of innocent insolence, or maybe guileless arrogance, which belongs only to the very rich, the very privileged and the very idle.’ Consider the duke who, on being told by his butler that there was no bread, demanded to know why he had not been brought toast, or the earl whose passion for his good-looking young footmen led to their tinkling with the jewellery he had given them. Or the duke who, when it was tentatively suggested that he might, as an economy, dispense with one of his six chefs – the pastry cook – gazed bleakly at his straitened future and asked plaintively, ‘Can’t a chap have a biscuit?’ Patrick Scrivenor has combed the annals of the British aristocracy to provide an illuminating – and wildly funny – portrait of people who, though often talented in their own fields, courteous and well-meaning, generous and even liberal-minded, none the less display a certain disconnectedness from the realities that tend to afflict the less elevated echelons of society. The result is clear evidence that what many call ‘eccentricity’, the more rational would probably describe as ‘plain bonkers’. Whether you aspire to the upper reaches of the Establishment yourself, or long for the Revolution and the tumbrils carrying the toffs to their horrible fate, this is a book to amuse, delight, mystify, amaze and, occasionally, outrage any reader.
In And Out
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Author : Sophie Aymes-Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
In And Out written by Sophie Aymes-Stokes and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with History categories.
The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English “character”. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideological constructs; the structural need for variation and divergence within accepted social norms; the paradoxical status of the eccentric as outsider – when eccentricity is transgressive and alienating – and as insider – eccentricity as socially acceptable deviation. Fundamentally eccentricity is a normative notion: being ex-centred enables eccentrics to delineate and negotiate boundaries between the margins and the centre, the canon and the norm. The contributors question the links between eccentricity, diversity and originality; the value of individual experience and character; and as a corollary, the struggle to retain individuality against increasing standardization, commoditisation and channelling within the normative discourse of normality. Eccentricity as display and performance is also tackled in several chapters, which focus on reception, image and (self)-representation, exhibition and voyeurism.
Writing True Crime
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Author : Stephen Wade
language : en
Publisher: Straightforward co Ltd
Release Date : 2009
Writing True Crime written by Stephen Wade and has been published by Straightforward co Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Stephen Wade introduces the aspiring crime writer to the skills needed to write true crime and crime history. The chapters cover everything from finding a subject, working on a creative treatment and researching in libraries and archives.
The Count Of Scotland Yard
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Author : Stephen Wade
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2018-09-15
The Count Of Scotland Yard written by Stephen Wade and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stephen Wade tells the story of one of Scotland Yard's most notorious detectives. In the first ever biography and case book of Herbert Hannam, Wade reveals how Hannam found fame for his solving of the infamous Teddington Towpath Murders, before later facing criticism during the controversial landmark trial of John Bodkins Adams.
Curing Hiccups With Small Fires
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Author : Karl Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-09-04
Curing Hiccups With Small Fires written by Karl Shaw and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-04 with Humor categories.
'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God."' An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a ‘mixture of fogs, beef and beer...aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday’. Whatever the reason, the British Isles do seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of magnificent oddballs, the finest of which are profiled in this fast, funny celebration of over 200 aristocrats, inventors, artists and the just plain weird... * Dr Samuel Johnson is said to have shaved off all of his bodily hair, just to see how long it would take to grow back * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, once related an experience he had at Westminster: 'I had a horrid nightmare. I dreamed I was making a speech in the House of Lords, and woke up to find I actually was.' * Percy Bysshe Shelley once tied a cat to a kite in a thunder storm to see if it would be electrocuted
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This
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Author : Terence Blacker
language : en
Publisher: Ebury Press
Release Date : 2007
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This written by Terence Blacker and has been published by Ebury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The life of Willie Donaldson ended in June 2005 when he was found dead in the seedy rented flat in Chelsea where he had lived for 35 years. His extraordinary career of writing, drug-taking, brilliance and underachievement put him in the same holy bracket as Peter Cook, Jeffrey Bernard, Peter Sellers and Alan Clark.