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‘An entertaining history of literary life’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily TelegraphSpanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2016-01-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Windsor Faction
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‘Terrific’ Daily Mail ‘Tremendous’ Guardian ‘Page-turning’ The Times ‘Gripping’ Daily TelegraphAutumn 1939. In an alternative world, where Edward VIII still sits on the throne, storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a ‘King’s Party’ of fascist...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-09-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Thackeray
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Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo-Indian childhood, a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Derby Day
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It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year.All through winter, from London to France,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-06-02

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Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins, she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors.But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back, and miles away, to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]TheBright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of...

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Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  On The Corinthian Spirit
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In January 1929, before 20,000 spectators, Norwich City of the Third Division South went down 0-5 in the third round of the FA Cup to an amateur side composed of ex-public school boys who disdained professional tactics in favour of instinct and teamwork. Within a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens... Full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the curious things men do to get - and keep - what they want. August 1863. Henry...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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