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Without Knowing Mr Walkley

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Author: Edith Olivier
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447266242
Format: PDF
Pages : 234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Without Knowing Mr Walkley

by Edith Olivier, Without Knowing Mr Walkley Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Without Knowing Mr Walkley books, "Nowadays, one meets fewer 'Characters' than of old, and life seems to be far more uniform. Everyone knew some oddities in their childhood, curious people who looked and behaved quite unlike others, but such pronounced individuality is rare to-day." In the mesmerising autobiography, Without Knowing Mr Walkley, acclaimed novelist Edith Olivier describes her remarkable life, which spanned the last decades of the nineteenth century, two world wars, and the birth of modern Britain. The daughter of a stern, traditional and fiercely charismatic Victorian rector, her journey begins with a childhood rooted in the timeless traditions of the Wiltshire countryside. From the start, Olivier's account is a treasure trove of historical knick-knacks and engaging anecdotes: from her studies at Oxford University in 1895 to her friendships with famous First World War poets, energetic efforts on behalf of the Women's Land Army and supernatural experiences on the Salisbury plains. Edith Olivier's wry and witty narrative vividly conjures the oddball characters, smells, sounds and sights of a bygone era.

British Autobiographies

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ISBN: 0520361245
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 394
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Languages : en
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British Autobiographies

by , British Autobiographies Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download British Autobiographies books, This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

The Spectator

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The Spectator

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The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes PDF
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199543410
Format: PDF, Mobi
Pages : 385
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
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The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes

by John Gross, The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes books, An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors.The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. Theyshow writers in the English-speaking world from Chaucer to the present acting both unpredictably, and deeply in character. The range is wide - this is a book which finds room for Milton and Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Ian Fleming, Brendan Behan andWittgenstein. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star left a haunting account of Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of Hercule Poirot - a book not just for lovers ofliterature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.

British Autobiographies

British Autobiographies PDF
Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520053571
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Pages : 376
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
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British Women Writers

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Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Burns & Oates
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Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Pages : 762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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British Women Writers

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Lewis Carroll

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Author: Morton N Cohen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Format: PDF
Pages : 273
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
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Lewis Carroll

by Morton N Cohen, Lewis Carroll Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Lewis Carroll books, Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections is more than a biography of the author of the Alice books; it is a record of the man as people knew him. Here is a collection of reminiscences about Lewis Carroll (1832-98) as recalled by his teachers, friends, relatives, colleagues and pupils who provide anecdotes of the schoolboy, proficient in Latin and mathematics at the age of 12, the gifted undergraduate and don, the eldest male of a large family dealing with his brothers' and sisters' problems and of the author of some of the best known children's classics in the English language.

Ontario Library Review

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Ontario Library Review

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