In Shackleton`s Footsteps, Worsley, Henry

Автор: Worsley, Lucy
Название: Agatha Christie at Home
ISBN: 1529303885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529303889
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 17940.00 T
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** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'A riveting portrait'
- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR

***

'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times

'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph

'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie's life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.' - Observer

Ms Worsley herself writes engagingly... She combines an almost militant support for her subject with a considered analysis of her books and plays.' - Economist


'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'.

She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.

So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?
She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer.

It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

Автор: Worsley, Lucy
Название: Jane austen at home
ISBN: 147363220X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473632202
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen at home, exploring the author`s life through the places which meant the most to her.

Автор: Worsley Lucy
Название: Very British Murder
ISBN: 1849906513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849906517
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: This is the story of a national obsession. Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in `a good murder`.

Автор: Worsley Lucy
Название: Courtiers
ISBN: 0571238904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571238903
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.

Автор: Worsley Harriet
Название: 100 Ideas That Changed Fashion
ISBN: 178627390X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786273901
Издательство: Laurence King
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Цена: 15170.00 T
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Описание: Charting the movements, developments and ideas that transformed the way women dress, this book gives a unique perspective on the history of twentieth-century fashion. From the invention of the bias cut and the stiletto heel to the designers who changed the way we think about clothes, the book is entertaining, intelligent and a visual feast.

Автор: Tolkien J.R.R.
Название: Farmer Giles of Ham: Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
ISBN: 0007542933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007542932
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 7850.00 T
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Описание: A commemorative golden anniversary edition of Tolkien`s classic book, including a new introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien`s unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes.

Автор: Worsley, Lucy
Название: Agatha Christie at Home
ISBN: 1529303877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529303872
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 25300.00 T
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Описание: A ground-breaking biography of Agatha Christie from acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley

Автор: Worsley Lucy
Название: Queen Victoria
ISBN: 1473651417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473651418
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 13150.00 T
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Описание: Historian, author and TV presenter Lucy Worsley delves into the detail of Queen Victoria`s life in this major new biography.

Автор: Worsley Lucy
Название: If Walls Could Talk
ISBN: 0571259545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571259540
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home. Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove.

Автор: Herron, Kerry G.
Название: Critical masses and critical choices :
ISBN: 0822959348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822959342
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Examines American attitudes on issues of national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews conducted over a ten-year period. Provides surprising insights into public opinion on nuclear deterrence, terrorism, and other security issues.

Название: Sicher! C1, Arbeitsbuch + CD zum Arbeitsbuch
ISBN: 3190112088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783190112081
Издательство: Hueber
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Цена: 5200.00 T
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Описание: The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant. This volume contains the papers given at a conference held in 2004 at the British Museum, presenting both new evidence and new theories bearing on this transitional period.

Автор: Worsley Kate
Название: She Rises HB
ISBN: 1620400979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620400975
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 25900.00 T
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It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady's maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty young mistress, who is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before: as unexpected as she is fascinating.

Intertwined with her story is fifteen-year-old Luke's: He is drinking in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by Her Majesty's Navy. Unable to escape, Luke is beaten and press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. He must learn fast and choose his friends well if he is to survive the brutal hardships of a sailor's life and its many dangers, both up high in the rigging and in the dark below decks.

Louise navigates her new life among the streets and crooked alleys of Harwich, where groaning houses riddled with smugglers' tunnels are flooded by the spring tides, and love burns brightly in the shadows. Luke, aching for the girl he left behind and determined to one day find his way back to her, embarks on a long and perilous journey across the ocean.

The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing and irrevocable.

A breathtakingly accomplished love story and a gripping search for identity and survival, She Rises is a bold, brilliant, and utterly original novel.