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South Riding
Häftad, 2010
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170 kr
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'One of my favourite novels: a life-enhancing, twentieth-century masterpiece' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT'A novel that works beautifully on all sorts of levels, capturing the life of a whole community even as it offers us the passions, frustrations and …
South Riding
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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NOW A BRITISH DRAMA FILM AND A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION ADAPTATION. A preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain. ''Rich in humour and worldly insight'' INDEPENDENT ''The novel undoubtedly remains a fascinating depiction of a time and place'' GUARDIAN …
Mandoa, Mandoa!
A Comedy of Irrelevance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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''One of the exciting books of this period . . . it strikes a wholly new note in the catalogue of books about Africa'' KIRKUS REVIEWS Mandoa is a small African state: at its head a Virgin Princess, conceiving (immaculately) further princesses. The old traditions remain undisturbed until Mandoa''s …
Poor Caroline
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Caroline 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 …
Crowded Street
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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''They promise us all sorts of things,'' she said, ''happiness, success, adventure - don''t you know? Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . …
Anderby Wold
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary''s neglected inheritance: their beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - has made Mary old before her …
Land of Green Ginger
A Virago Modern Classic
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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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 eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. …
Crowded Street
Häftad, 1981
188 kr
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'They promise us all sorts of things,' she said, 'happiness, success, adventure - don't you know? Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . . …
Mandoa, Mandoa!
A Comedy of Irrelevance
Häftad, 1982
335 kr
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'One of the exciting books of this period . . . it strikes a wholly new note in the catalogue of books about Africa' KIRKUS REVIEWS Mandoa is a small African state: at its head a Virgin Princess, conceiving (immaculately) further princesses. The old traditions remain undisturbed until Mandoa's Lord …
South Riding
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, 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 …
South Riding - An English Landscape
E-bok, 2020
100 kr
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“South Riding” is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around the lives of young headmistress Sarah Burton, unhappy husband Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, socialist Joe Astell, and Alderman Mrs Beddows. Winifred …
Winifred Holtby: A BBC Radio Collection
South Riding, Anderby Wold, The Crowded Street and more
Ljudbok, 2023
188 kr
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Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the author Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first …
South Riding
E-bok, 2018
38 kr
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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's great novel SOUTH RIDING was published posthumously. She died only a few months after finishing it and never saw it in print. It has since been reprinted a dozen times and remains in print to this day.
Inventions - A Short Story Collection
Av Frank R Stockton, Winifred Holtby m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
99 kr
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The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality. In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring …
Frozen Earth & Other Poems
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire. A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret''s School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided …
Women of Wonder - Crime
Av Winifred Holtby, Baroness Orczy m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
123 kr
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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own …
Poor Caroline
Häftad, 2011
318 kr
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Caroline 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 …
Anderby Wold
Häftad, 2011
145 kr
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Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance: their beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - has made Mary old before her time. …
Land of Green Ginger
A Virago Modern Classic
Häftad, 2011
145 kr
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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 eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. …
