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Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: On the Wilder Shores of Love ISBN: 034900546X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349005461 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 11120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story of a fascinating, bohemian - and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century - the perfect book for fans of the Mitfords.
Автор: Blanch, Lesley Название: The Wilder Shores Of Love ISBN: 0753827913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753827918 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: Journey Into the Mind`s Eye: Fragments of an Autobiography ISBN: 1681371936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681371931 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. "My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category," Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind's Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler--swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Faberg eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia--came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.
Автор: Blanch Arnold Название: Methods and Techniques for Gouache Painting ISBN: 1258996189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258996185 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: Regency England Undressed: Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of Her Age ISBN: 0993355226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993355226 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Lesley Blanch's novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary. The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year. Harriette Wilson lived among and was an integral part of a wealthy society where privilege, arrogance and leisure flourished. The greatest courtesan of her age, her patrons included many of the distinguished men of her day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. Her weapons of allure were beauty, style and wit. She held court in a box at the opera and competed with her courtesan sisters for status and prestige. "Harriette Wilson's life was deplorable - but how readable " Blanch exclaims. The motive for writing the Memoirs, published in 1825, was blackmail, or "a desperate effort to live by my wits," as Wilson put it. She was in her thirties, her looks were fading away as were her admirers, and the annuity she had been promised by the Duke of Beaufort in exchange for leaving alone his heir, the Marquis of Worcester, had been cut off. Wilson offered to edit out of her Memoirs any lovers who paid 200 pounds, thereby holding the British aristocracy to ransom. Certain men who bought her silence were excluded, while others who paid highly were hugely flattered. Those who were brave enough to stand up to her were ridiculed and shamed most famously the Duke of Wellington: "Publish and be damned " he cried. She did and she was. Regency England Undressed: Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of her Age also offers intimately detailed portraits of eccentrics, individualists and the demi-monde. Blanch's Biographical Notes in the Appendix read like a raffish Who's Who of Regency England, and Europe too. She brings the distant past to life so it reads like a novel; precise in its curious detail and bold in its historical panache."
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: The Nine Tiger Man: A Satirical Romance ISBN: 0993092748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993092749 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: JOHN BARKHAM, NEW YORK WORLD - A delicious tale of low behaviour in high places; with particular attention to the activities of an irresistible and gifted East Indian Prince who takes his own form of revenge against the entire English Empire by inducting a bevy of highborn English females into the fine points of Oriental eroticism, proving that Debrett's Peerage is no match at all for the Karma Sutra . . . TIME - Wildly funny. The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the British India of the 1850's, where representatives of Victoria's England preside uneasily over the glittering remnants of the Moghul Empire. The Nine Tiger Man is a piquant tale of a Maharaja's heir, a Viscount's daughter and an uninhibited chambermaid who sampled one another's environments and were never the same again. The women first encounter the Rao Jagnabad, warrior and slayer of nine tigers, when he visits England on a diplomatic mission. Fierce and handsome in gold-embroidered brocades and magnificent jewels, he meets the prim and proper Hon. Florence at a ball. She is overwhelmed by his powerful masculinity and dreams of him to the exclusion of all else, to the intense irritation of her fianc . Her maid, Rosie, is also overwhelmed and samples the Rao for herself. Fate decrees that, some years later, the two women are marooned in a crumbling palace on a remote, jungly island during the Indian Mutiny. They find themselves in the sole custody of the Rao along with two dozen other Englishwomen. A razor-sharp satire on class and Empire, the outcome is surprising, even to Rosie. Lesley Blanch's only novel was written while in Rajasthan: "I had pulled a ligament in my leg and had to stay on an island in Jaipur. You could hear the leopards coughing at dusk in the far hills, and the parakeets flew around turning the sky green. One day I saw what I thought was a log, but it was a crocodile. I had heard the story of a group of English women being put on that island during the Mutiny and not daring to escape because of the crocodiles - they were just stuck there, with no news, and fearing the worst. From that I imagined the whole novel." DAILY TELEGRAPH - Panache, high spirits, faultless timing and uncontrollable fun.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus ISBN: 0993092721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993092725 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The definitive, epic biography of the Muslim chieftain Imam Shamyl, the 'Lion of Daghestan', THE SABRES OF PARADISE took six years to complete, with research done in Russia and the Caucasus, including tracing his descendants in Turkey and Egypt. ― THE SABRES OF PARADISE is the story of two worlds (two faiths, two societies, two continents) brought into sudden juxtaposition. During the Caucasian Wars of Independence, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan and Chechnya united under the charismatic leadership of Imam Shamyl, strengthened only by the desire for an independent Caucasus and their religious faith. ― For years Imam Shamyl defied his enemy, Tsar Nicholas I, who had taken his eldest son as a hostage to St Petersburg. The Muslim chieftain captured in turn two Georgian princesses (from the Tzarina's entourage), a French governess, and the children, and kept them in his harem until they could be exchanged for his son. ― A universal saga, it is also a history of late 19th century Imperialist Russian rule. The struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia had a powerful influence on Tolstoy and Pushkin, and is disturbingly relevant to our world today.― It is set both in the Caucasus, a region of supreme natural beauty and mighty mountain ranges, and in St Petersburg, the most elegant and sophisticated of Russian cities.GUARDIAN: "Crammed with truly fabulous stories of fighting and love and violent death . . . this is a] profound and exhilarating book."PHILIP MARSDEN: "Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its particularities, the quirks of individuals and their personal narratives, their deluded ambitions, their vanities and passions."HAMISH BOWLES in JACQUELINE KENNEDY: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS: "Jacqueline Kennedy and Khrushchev maintained a spirited badinage through dinner. Mrs Kennedy had recently read THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Lesley Blanch's dashing history of the Muslim tribes' resistance to Russian expansionism in the Caucasus, and attempted to engage the Soviet premier in conversation on the subject. He responded with the comparative numbers of teachers per capita in the Soviet and Czarist Ukraine. She cut him off with the playful riposte, "Oh, Mr Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." BRIAN ALDISS: "A book as thick with flavour as roast wild boar, tusks and all. One of the most nutritious books I have ever read."
Автор: Gunn, Garrett Blanch, Christina Название: Good boy ISBN: 195441269X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781954412699 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This is a paperback edition of Eric Fenby`s famous book which has not been available in authorised form for some years. It is a memoir of the last six years of the composer`s life when Fenby, then a young organist from Scarborough, volunteered to live in Grez-sur-Loing to help the blind and partly paralysed Delius to continue to compose.
Автор: Salley Bob, Blanch Christina Название: Broken Gargoyles Vol. 2: Sin and Virtuevolume 2 ISBN: 1954412436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781954412439 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 12660.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: With easy-to-understand tips, real-world examples and over 100hand-drawn illustrations, this book helps you to create happier places -from individual homes and workplaces to landscaping and urban design. Itexplores how factors, such as lighting, comfort, control over our environmentsand access to nature, exercise and social interaction, can impact how we feel.
Автор: Blanch, Christina Chee Название: Damnation of charlie wormwood ISBN: 1945940492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781945940491 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20050.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: How far will a man go to save his son? For Charlie Wormwood, he's willing to unravel his life and make choices he never thought he could and become someone he couldn't have imagined. The complete omnibus of the phenomenal story edited by Mark Waid! How far will a man go to save his son? Charlie Wormwood has a pretty normal life - a house, a wife, a job, and a kid. With his son sick, he begins treading a dangerous path to make things right. Teaching in prison gives him many "opportunities" but what problems will he create as he walks into the prison of darkness for his family?
Автор: Blanch, Teresa Название: Los buscapistas ISBN: 841558069X ISBN-13(EAN): 9788415580690 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11760.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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