epub |eng | 1982-01-16 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Anna Pasternak [Anna Pasternak]

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Rodney Bolt [Bolt, Rodney]

FRED REMEMBERS SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT ADDINGTON, IN OUR FAMILY AFFAIRS There was early communion in the chapel. . . [then] morning service in the church was succeeded by lunch, lunch ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Bolt, Rodney

FRED REMEMBERS SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT ADDINGTON, IN OUR FAMILY AFFAIRS There was early communion in the chapel. . . [then] morning service in the church was succeeded by lunch, lunch ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Kate Summerscale

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]

MY BROTHER ARSENAL v TOTTENHAM 30.8.80 There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting ...

epub |eng | | Author:Linda Porter

CHAPTER TEN Solway Moss ‘Finally mine espial sayeth that the said king will not make war against any other realm, but liveth in fear to defend his own, for the ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Gopnik, Adam [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...

azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Adam Nicolson

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...

mobi |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Franny Moyle

11 A dark bitter forest THE SUMMER OF 1893 was peculiarly hot. The signs of an imminent heatwave began to emerge in the spring. In April residents of Coventry sweltered ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Constance: The Tragic & Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde [Tragic, Constance: The & Wilde, Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar]

11 A dark bitter forest THE SUMMER OF 1893 was peculiarly hot. The signs of an imminent heatwave began to emerge in the spring. In April residents of Coventry sweltered ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

In November, Parliament reassembled. The Lord Chancellor declared in the House of Lords: “The manner in13 which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has hitherto discharged her duty in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The Queen required all her female attendants to wear black and/or white, so that the vivid colours and embellishments of her own costume stood out dramatically. Woe betide the lady ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

There is more in the same vein, with the King pleading for aid against his enemies and detractors and, presumably, the threat of invasion from abroad. Then there is a ...