Télécharger le livre :  Scarcely English
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The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2024-09-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Sing As We Go
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‘An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originality’ Daily Express‘An astonishing achievement of narrative history . . . I think the word is "magisterial".’ Spectator‘Excellent, thorough, detailed and combatively argued.’...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2023-09-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Staring at God
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_______________________________'A brilliant history: The first serious and really wide-ranging history of the Home Front during the Great War for decades. Scholarly, objective and extremely well-written. Filled with surprising revelations and empathy. Heffer’s eye for...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2019-09-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Decadence
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‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.’ Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2017-09-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Simply English
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In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well.In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A–Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  High Minds
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Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-10-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Strictly English
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"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The Daily...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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