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Letters to a Friend
ISBN: 9780992422028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winifred Holtby met Jean McWilliam in a WAAC camp at Huchenneville in France very near the end of the First World War. McWilliam was the camp commander, and Holtby her new hostel forewoman. They took to each other instantly, became firm friends, and lifelong correspondents. Through a world overshadowed by war in both directions, they kept up a lively discussion of events, politics, literature and life, even when McWilliam relocated to South Africa in pursuit of her teaching career. Seeing each other very rarely in the flesh, their relationship was played out in the written word poignantly and...
Winifred Holtby met Jean McWilliam in a WAAC camp at Huchenneville in France very near the end of the First World War. McWilliam was the camp commande...
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81,56 |
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South Riding - An English Landscape
ISBN: 9781528716178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 605 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,09 |
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Anderby Wold
ISBN: 9781023585491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,52 |
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Poor Caroline
ISBN: 9781844087907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winifred Holtby affectionately observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkling satire, first published in 1931Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a pioneer, one who must risk everything for the "Cause of the Right." Her board of directors is a motley crew including Basil St. Denis, upper crust but impecunious; Joseph Isenbaum, aspiring to society and Eton...
Winifred Holtby affectionately observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkling satire, first published in 1931Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccen...
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132,84 |
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South Riding
ISBN: 9780860689690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed - there is nobody else to care for the children.
Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has farmed the... When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to tak...
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South Riding
ISBN: 9781849902038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 529 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's ("Bleak House, " "Little Dorrit")three-part adaptation
The community of South Riding, like the rest of England, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change. Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fiance, she returns home to Yorkshire focused on her career as headmistress of the local schoolbut not everyone can embrace the new social order.... A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's ("Bleak House, " "Little Dorrit")three-part adaptation
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The Crowded Street: in large print
ISBN: 9783387306927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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322,41 |
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Anderby Wold
ISBN: 9781023585460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,56 |
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The Land of Green Ginger: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844087921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The third novel by the author of "South Riding"Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At 18, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of World War I. Joanna has been in love before with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the...
The third novel by the author of "South Riding"Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. The...
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South Riding - An English Landscape
ISBN: 9781528772419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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172,13 |
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Crowded Street
ISBN: 9780860682080 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden to her. Pretty, but not pretty enough, she fails to achieve the one thing required of her - to find a suitable husband. Then comes the First World War, a watershed which tragically revolutionises the lives of her generation. But for Muriel it offers work, friendship, freedom, and one last chance to find a special kind of happiness...
This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire vi...
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Anderby Wold
ISBN: 9781844087914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first novel by the author of" South Riding"Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance, her beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labor of love and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways have made Mary old before her time. Then into her purposeful life comes David Rossitur, red-haired, charming, eloquent: how can she help but love him? But David is a young man from a different England, radical and committed to social change. As their confrontation and its consequences...
The first novel by the author of" South Riding"Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they ba...
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The Crowded Street
ISBN: 9781903155660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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100,28 |
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The Crowded Street
ISBN: 9781023553919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,78 |
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Mandoa, Mandoa!
ISBN: 9780860682516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,95 |
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The Crowded Street
ISBN: 9781023553957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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146,13 |
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Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby
ISBN: 9781443842396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book was conceived after reading Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship. Winifred Holtby died very early after suffering from Bright's Disease - renal failure - aged only 37 in 1935. Into these years, she crammed more than most people achieve in an average life. She was a kind, gentle and very generous person; she had a strong belief in equality of sex, race and status, and was a very strong feminist. She became a Director of the feminist newspaper Time and Tide. She wrote several novels, the most famous being South Riding. During her life, she also wrote many...
This book was conceived after reading Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship. Winifred Holtby died very early after suffering ...
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