Download or read book Cecil Beaton s Bright Young Things written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1920s and '30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the "Bright Young Things." Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these men and women cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch and embodied its roaring spirit. In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 50 leading figures who sat for Beaton are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings, book jackets and ephemera, and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb. Cecil Beaton (1904-80) is one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the 20th century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. Also well known as a diarist, Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers.

Download or read book Tender Things Shall Die written by Stephen Edward Reid and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outskirts of a small religious village near London in 1865, Arman Shaw lives alone. He hasn't seen another soul in 441 days. Not since the death of his wife. He longs to return to the congregation, but every day spent in isolation makes it harder to go back. Then Violet Walker turns up on his doorstep to tell him that her husband, an old friend of Arman's, has been murdered. The local congregation wants to execute the man responsible, but Violet wants the murderer to have a trial, and she wants Arman to defend him...

Download or read book Things As They Are written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the award-winning author of The Last Crossing and The Englishman's Boy Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death of his domineering father, a middle-aged man tries to uncover a truth about their sometimes difficult relationship. When a grade-six teacher tyrannizes a student without apparent reason, the boy learns an unexpected lesson and his young life is changed irrevocably. An elderly widow falls prey to a con artist, revealing what we are capable of sacrificing to appease what we dread the most. A twelve-year-old boy is shunted off to his grandmother's farm and becomes part of an adult world he scarcely understands. A group of high-school students play on a classmate's self-delusions and set up what promises to be the most loaded boxing match ever staged. Whether writing from the point of view of a child, an adolescent, or a man in his seventies, Guy Vanderhaeghe takes us into the lives of his characters with razor-sharp insights laced with gentle humour.

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Download or read book People and Things from the Walker County Alabama Jasper Mountain Eagle 1906 1909 written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of news clippings from the historic issues of the Jasper Mountain Eagle spans the years 1906 - 1909. Practically every issue from the time period is represented. Missing issues include Jan 3, Feb 7, Jul 25 and Dec 19 from 1906. All other issues are represented. These clippings from the Mountain Eagle come from microfilm purchased from the State Archives in Montgomery. Every issue of the Eagle was examined column by column to capture all available information regarding births, deaths, marriage notices, and relevant news items and information regarding the early history of Walker County and the surrounding area. Death notices were compared against available cemetery records at FindAGrave.com and were annotated. The history of Walker County is written in the pages of its early newspapers. This book will be a valuable asset to the serious student of Walker County genealoty and history.

Download or read book TV Land Detroit written by Gordon Castelnero and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence and recreation of the golden years of Detroit TV, based on interviews with and comments from the people who were there and made it happen

Download or read book E M FORSTER A Room with a View Howards End Where Angels Fear to Tread The Longest Journey written by E.M. Forster and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel presents the story of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian man, and of the efforts of her bourgeois relatives to get her back from Monteriano. Next, Forster published The Longest Journey (1907), an inverted bildungsroman following the lame Rickie Elliott from Cambridge to a career as a struggling writer and then to a post as a schoolmaster, married to the unappealing Agnes Pembroke. Forster's third novel, A Room with a View (1908), is his lightest and most optimistic. It is about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells a story of social and familial relations in turn-of-the-century England. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece. Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

Download or read book A World of Girls written by L. T. Meade and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A World of Girls by L. T. Meade

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Download or read book Life and times of General Sir Edward Cecil written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Life and Times of General Sir Edward Cecil Viscount Wimbledon Colonel of an English Regiment in the Dutch Service 1605 1631 and One of His Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council 1626 1638 written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book STRANGE STRANGE THINGS 550 Supernatural Mysteries Macabre Horror Classics written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 13364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, eerie, and gothic tales is here! Grab your copy and get ready for the chills down your spine: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm… Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas… M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night… Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables… Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror… William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement… Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper…

Download or read book A Room With A View written by E. M. Forster and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. M. Forster's 1908 novel 'A Room with A View' narrates the story of a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

Download or read book Selected works 20 masterpieces of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected works of Oscar Wilde from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AN IDEAL HUSBAND THE CANTERVILLE GHOST THE HAPPY PRINCE. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE. THE SELFISH GIANT. THE DEVOTED FRIEND. THE REMARKABLE ROCKET. THE YOUNG KING THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA THE SOUL OF MAN THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL THE STAR-CHILD LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN DE PROFUNDIS A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE POEMS POEMS IN PROSE LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME THE PORTRAIT OF Mr. W. H. AND OTHER STORIES INTENTIONS ESSAYS AND LECTURES

Download or read book Cecil s Sixty Curious Interesting and Authentic Narratives written by William Hone and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book People and Things from the Blount County Alabama Southern Democrat 1920 1927 written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Democrat was established by Forney G. Stephens at Blountsville in 1894. After fellow newspaperman Lawrence H. Mathews of the Blount County News-Dispatch died in 1896, Stephens moved the Democrat to Oneonta. When the News-Dispatch folded in 1903, the Democrat was the preeminent Blount County newspaper. Stephens died in 1939, but the Democrat continued to publish in Oneonta for almost 100 years. In 1989 the old Southern Democrat was renamed the Blount Countain. Microfilm for the old Southern Democrat was acquired from the State Archives in Montgomery and studied page by page. Every mention of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries and news important to the history and development of Blount County was reproduced here. This book is vital for any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.