Author: Stanley Holloway
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241103067
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of author's comic monologues, performed between 1929 and 1941. It features the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom, Sam Small, and King Arold.
Playing with the Grown-ups
Author: Sophie Dahl
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Kitty loves living at the isolated Hay House with her doting grandparents, but it cannot provide the adventure and excitement that her restless, bohemian mother Marina craves. When a guru sees Marina's future in New York, Kitty is torn from her home and bounced from place to place—first a colorless boarding school, then an American ashram, and finally back to an unfamiliar England. But soon, no god, man, or martini can staunch Marina's hunger for a happiness that proves all too elusive. And Kitty, turning fifteen, must choose: whether to play dangerous games with the grown-ups or put herself first. With this witty and poignant debut novel, Sophie Dahl ably carries on the literary legacy of her grandfather, the beloved children's book author Roald Dahl.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Kitty loves living at the isolated Hay House with her doting grandparents, but it cannot provide the adventure and excitement that her restless, bohemian mother Marina craves. When a guru sees Marina's future in New York, Kitty is torn from her home and bounced from place to place—first a colorless boarding school, then an American ashram, and finally back to an unfamiliar England. But soon, no god, man, or martini can staunch Marina's hunger for a happiness that proves all too elusive. And Kitty, turning fifteen, must choose: whether to play dangerous games with the grown-ups or put herself first. With this witty and poignant debut novel, Sophie Dahl ably carries on the literary legacy of her grandfather, the beloved children's book author Roald Dahl.
'Stately As a Galleon' and Other Songs and Sketches
Author: Joyce Grenfell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780754031536
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Joyce Grenfell achieved fame as an actress, comedian, writer and musician. This volume contains a select ion of songs and sketches from thirty-six years'' worth of Jo yce''s stage material. '
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780754031536
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Joyce Grenfell achieved fame as an actress, comedian, writer and musician. This volume contains a select ion of songs and sketches from thirty-six years'' worth of Jo yce''s stage material. '
Middle C
Author: William H. Gass
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307701638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria in 1938 to London where his father disappeared, he and his family then relocated to small town Ohio and Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307701638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria in 1938 to London where his father disappeared, he and his family then relocated to small town Ohio and Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.
History and Humour
Author: Barbara Korte
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
ISBN: 9783837625936
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
ISBN: 9783837625936
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.