Flying Visits-Postcards from the Observer 1976-83

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Spisovateľ: James Clive
Vydavateľ: Picador
Rok vydania: 1984
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Katalogové číslo: G3956

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Literate, brilliantly perceptive and witty, James's travel writing lays fair claim to S.J. Perelman's mantle. In this collection of James's London Observer pieces he describes his visits to his native Australia, Moscow, Japan, Salzburg and Jerusalem, and such U.S. sites as New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Epcot Center. There are also delightful entries on Margaret Thatchers visit to China, in which the Prime Minister is variously described as the War Leader, the Strong Woman, the Woman of Science and the Dragon Lady... v angličtine,brožovaná,180 strán

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Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Spisovatel: Howe Nicholas, University of Notre Dame press 2001
Katalogové číslo: P1398

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries... v angličtine, brožovaná, 200 strán

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The road to nab end

Spisovatel: Woodruff William, Abacus 2002
Katalogové číslo: L5080

A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years, The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, Billy and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty... v angličtine, brožovaná, 407 strán, na predsádkach žlté bodky

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Dynasty of Death

Spisovatel: Caldwell Taylor, Fontana, Collins 1979
Katalogové číslo: L7924

the French Bouchards and English Barbours arrive, penniless immigrants, in their raw American town. In one generation they accumulate vast wealth, great power - and greater guilt... v angličitne, brožovaná, menší formát, 668 strán