Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960.
Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death ...
Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia.
Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in L...
In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story.
In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed...
Takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback.
Takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of...
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. This title unearths the family demons that haunted his fugitive youth.
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by t...
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a...
Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.
Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of ...
Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an ironic political parable. This volume features 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' and 'Goodbye to Berlin'.
Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an iron...
Obrázková cesta je kniha, která vás dostane do světa fantazie a her. Jestli vám dosud říkali, že do knih se nepíše a nekreslí, tak u této knihy to neplatí. Je to kniha, která čeká na váš příběh. Připravila jsem řadu obrázků, které vám pomohou vytvořit příběh. Můžete si je vymalovat, dokreslit, ale hlavně vezměte tužku nebo pero a napište příběh. Staňte se autorem vlastní knihy, která bude jedinečná a také bude jediná na světě. V této knize je dovolené vše.
Malé děti mají obrovskou fantazii, jeden příběh střídá druhý,...
Obrázková cesta je kniha, která vás dostane do světa fantazie a her. Jestli vám dosud říkali, že do knih se nepíše a nekreslí, tak u této...
