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Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2000
ISBN 10 : 1841154946ISBN 13 : 9781841154947
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Galileo is seen as one of the greatest scientists ever, but little is known of his illegitimate daughter, Virginia. As a nun, she wrote 120 letters to her father from 1623 to her death from exposure and malnutrition ten years later. This text investigates the father-daughter relationship.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 1999
ISBN 10 : 1857029119ISBN 13 : 9781857029116
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. The dual biography of the great British comedy double-act and the rise and fall of mass audience television by the respected biographer of Cary Grant . Following the success of Cary Grant - A Class Apart, Graham McCann has now created an intricate portrait of Eric Morcambe and Ernie Wise, possibly the most famous Bristish comedy double-act of all time. This book charts the p rogress of the duo from a conventional working class music hall act to a ma ss-audience television team to a national institution. From northern workin g men's clubs at the beginning of their career to the 1977 Christmas specia l that had an audience of 28 million, Morecambe and Wise were a double act continually changing the dynamics of their relationship to reflect their in fluences and their times. Their shows were like nostalgic reflections on a century of popular entertainment, an entertainment that was inclusive to a wide audience and paid homage to the past. McCann's study is also an investigation in the background of mass audience entertainment from which Morecambe and Wise rose. Morecambe & Wise is the definitive biography of one of the most-loved double acts as well as a history of their times.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1841151661ISBN 13 : 9781841151663
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In the style of 'Longitude' and 'Fermat's Last Theorem', a narrative histor y of the making of the myth of the English. Three thousand years of our isl and history from Boadicea to Blair, from the acclaimed author of 'Restituti on'. In 75,000 words Maureen Duffy covers three thousand years of history to sho w where the idea of the English has come from. The myth begins with the ide a that the English were the original inhabitants of this island, that the ' real' natives of Britain are the English and anyone else is somehow a forei gner. The idea is captured by G K Chesterton in his popular poem of 1912 wh ich begins 'Before the Romans came to Rye or out to Severn strode/The rolli ng English drunkard made the rolling English road'. The first British heroes Boadicea and Caractacus ruled parts of an island t hat was divided into princedoms with names that sound like modern European football teams: the Iceni, Brigantes, Coritani and Catuvellauni. Boadicea w as one of the many charismatic female leaders of the time. Tacitus, the Rom an historian wrote that 'the Britons make no distinction of sex in their ap pointment of commanders'. Not much evidence of the myth of the English rose here. Even in 1500 an anonymous Italian visitor described the English wome n as 'very violent in their passion'. The myth of the English woman is just one of the many threads in this fascinating book which explores the political, religious, environmental and physical influences that have arrived at the myth that is E.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0007163541ISBN 13 : 9780007163540
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
Livre
Paperback. Etat : Good. Fourth Estate Edition.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0007277954ISBN 13 : 9780007277957
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This is the extraordinary life story of comic legend Denis Norden, told in momentary snapshots by the master British comedian himself. Containing remi niscences of a career stretching back to the golden age of the radio, throu gh the heyday of cinema and the early pioneering days of television comedy, Back Then showcases Denis Norden's creative genius at its very best. Told with Denis' hallmark flashes of brilliant humour and sharp observ ation, the extraordinary life of this enduring humorist is unravelled throu gh his private recollections of the ways things used to be, back then. Denis' school-day musings, dry witticisms, and old-time sayings uneart hed from days gone by, combined with remembrances of collaborations with fa mous figures of the day, from Eric Sykes to Bill Fraser, will sweep you bac k instantaneously to the magical gags, lively characters and laughter of th e past. Flitting between Denis' East End childhood and early career in Variety as a cinema manager for the Hyams Brothers, to his post-war work as a scriptwriter on the groundbreaking radio shows Take It From Here and In All Directions, to the phenomenally successful television comedy Whack-O!, (all written with long-term collaborator Frank Muir), to his years as a solo writer, performer, and presenter on programmes such as the much-loved It'll Be Alright on the Night, it is easy to see how Denis' comic appeal has endured for decades, to make him one of the greatest British writers a.
Edité par Fourth Estate Ltd, US, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0007315104ISBN 13 : 9780007315109
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. "The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Ti mes bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the d ownfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Hen ry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and h er sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the n oble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from t he court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three te rrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure J ane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilar y Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he p ay for Anne's head?"--.
Edité par Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, US, 2014
ISBN 10 : 0007548699ISBN 13 : 9780007548699
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunnin gly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German bo y whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devasta tion of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within wal king distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six , she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and nav igate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Pari s, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Mari e-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He be comes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a plac e at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a high ly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Sain t-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combina tion of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweavi ng the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0007378017ISBN 13 : 9780007378012
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good/ Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Unbroken [Hardcover] Hillenbrand, Laura.
Edité par Fourth Estate, US, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0007141084ISBN 13 : 9780007141081
Vendeur : Keeper of the Page, Enumclaw, WA, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine DJ. First Edition Stated. Fourth Estate 2002 First Edition Stated Fine/Fine DJ.
Edité par Fourth Estate First U.S. Edition 2003,, 2003
ISBN 10 : 0007156642ISBN 13 : 9780007156641
Vendeur : Antiquariat Mercurius, Köln, Allemagne
Livre
340 S., Pappband (Hardcover), OU, 8°. Zustand: sehr gut.Gewicht: 700 g.