Автор: Bassett, Richard Название: Last Days in Old Europe ISBN: 0141979992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979991 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)
Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and Spectator
In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious diplomats and glamorous informants provided him with an unexpected counterpoint to the austerities of life along the Iron Curtain, first as a professional musician and then as a foreign correspondent. The book shows us familiar events and places from unusual vantage points: dilapidated mansions and boarding-houses, train carriages and cafes, where the game of espionage between east and west is often set. There are unexpected encounters with Shirley Temple, Fitzroy Maclean, Lech Walesa and the last Empress of Austria. Bassett finds himself at the funeral of King Nicola of Montenegro in Cetinje, plays bridge with the last man alive to have been decorated by the Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef and watches the KGB representative in Prague bestowing the last rites on the Soviet empire in Europe.
Music and painting, architecture and landscape, food and wine, friendship and history run through the book. The author is lucky, observant and leans romantically towards the values of an older age. He brilliantly conjures the time, the people he meets, and Mitteleuropa in one of the pivotal decades of its history.
Автор: Bassett, Dave, Downes, Wally Название: The Crazy Gang ISBN: 0857503251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857503251 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Promoted to the Football League in 1977, Wimbledon FC was a small team from south London that against the odds went all the way to the top of the First Division, then to win the FA Cup, in only just over a decade. With no money, scant resources and a blend of youth players and offcuts from other clubs, they were christened `Rag-Arse Rovers`.
Автор: Bassett, Jennifer Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: The Phantom of the Opera ISBN: 0194789152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194789158 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Word count 6,230 Bestseller
Автор: Bassett, Jennifer Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: The Omega Files - Short Stories ISBN: 0194789136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194789134 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Word count 5,830
Автор: Bassett Frederick W. Название: The Old Stoic Faces the Mirror: A Life in Poems ISBN: 0578595273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578595276 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Most of these poems focus on the thoughts, sentiments, and experiences of Fred Bassett. These are predominately narrative poems, but they include a mingling of lyrical poems. Together, they will hopscotch the reader over time from his boyhood into his elderhood. Other poems focus on family, relatives, friends, neighbors, and students--people he often interacted with along his spiritual and intellectual journey. There are also a few persona poems scattered throughout the collection. Obviously, they are but a sampling of those individuals whose voices came to him either through oral stories, especially the stories of his elders, or the written word. For one reason or another, he found himself drawn into the lives of some of these people and thus needed to let them tell a part of their story. In other persona poems, a few of the individuals, who have enriched his life or taught him important lessons, tell some significant part of their story. Bassett is very conscious of the fact that we are social animals, that we would not be human without social connections. These connections start at birth and follow us, at least in our psyche, to our death. Some of the poems are told on the slant, just as Emily Dickinson advised poets, but all of the poems are accessible. None are written just for academics or other poets.
Автор: Parsons Sheridan Название: Wootton Bassett One Hundred Years Ago - The Great War ISBN: 0993054218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993054211 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Wootton Bassett One Hundred Years Ago is the ultimate guide to the history of the town and its surrounding countryside during the post-Edwardian era. The series comprises three volumes: 'The Great War', 'The Town', and 'The Country', which together form a much extended and improved successor to Sheridan's previous book, Wootton Bassett in the Great War (2014).
This volume is part one: 'The Great War'. It begins with a Roll of Honour for the fallen heroes of Wootton Bassett, Hook, Lydiard Tregoze, Tockenham, and Brinkworth. It tells the story of the area throughout the war years, with reference to local regiments, recruitment, nursing, volunteer activity, employment, German prisoners of war, Belgian refugees, remembrance, war memorials, and much more. Finally a useful appendix and last names index acts as a resource for the subsequent books in the series.
The author, Sheridan Parsons, is a professional local and family historian. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Local and Family History and she is a member of the Register of Qualified Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, and the Family and Community Historical Research Society.
Автор: Bassett, Jennifer Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: One-Way Ticket - Short Stories ISBN: 0194789144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194789141 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Word count 5,520
Автор: Madge Vaji Название: The Tale of the Emu Who Thought He Was a Bassett ISBN: 1787100553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787100558 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Brian the Basset Hound lived a comfortable life. All he needed was lots of love, cuddles, snacks and a wonderful yard to sniff new smells that the wind blew in. Brian was kept busy by his person, Georgie, who rescued lost and injured animals. One day, Brians life was interrupted by a large, blue egg. To Brians surprise and horror, a little black monster hatched out of the egg and instantly thought Brian was his dadJoin Brian and Errols heartwarming tale of friendship and adventure in this story of an emu who thought he was a Basset Hound.
Автор: Bassett Caroline, Kember Sarah, O`Riordan Kate Название: Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures ISBN: 0745340504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745340500 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A major work of feminist critical theory challenging the masculinist politics of digital media forms, practices and study.
