Author : Matthew Hollis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039308907X
Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the 20th century's most influential poets.
Author : Andrew Swift
Publisher : Akeman Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bath (England)
ISBN : 9780954613839
Interweaving letters from men at the front with stories of life at home, this book describes the Great War's impact on the city of Bath. It is a story of grief, suffering and anger - but also features laughter. With minor variations, it could be the story of almost any town or city in the country at that time.
Author : Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408187140
This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry.
Author : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 039306882X
"A witty, engaging narrative style…[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing." —New York Times Book Review A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language. Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail. He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers, scientists, soldiers, administrators, and intrepid tourists, of itinerant workers, pilgrims, and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals. We learn how France was explored, charted, and colonized, and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages. The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France—past and present—remains to be discovered. A New York Times Notable Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Slate Best Book, and Booklist Editor's Choice.
Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. This book includes all his poems and draws on freshly available archive material.
Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0241399173
'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.' Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.
Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781906578220
Contains poems, without any commentary, enabling them to be used either as student reference material or as 'clean' copies for the examination.
Author : Natasha Sizlo
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2023-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063268531
"This one brims with magic... An absolute page-turner and joy to read!" -- Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author Propulsive, touching, and darkly funny, All Signs Point to Paris is the story of one woman's search for a second chance at love. A surprising astrology reading sends Natasha Sizlo--divorced, broke, freshly heartbroken, and reeling from her father's death--on an unexpected but magical journey to France, in pursuit of a man born on a particular date in a particular place: November 2, 1968 in Paris. It's the cusp of Natasha Sizlo's forty-fourth birthday. Still reeling from her disastrous divorce, she's navigating life as a single mom and doing her best to fake it till she makes it in the cutthroat world of LA real estate. In the meantime, her ex-husband is dating a Hollywood star, and she's just broken it off--for the hundredth and final time--with her devastatingly handsome but impossibly noncommittal French boyfriend. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, her beloved father is given months to live. So when she's gifted a session with LA's most sought-after astrologist, Natasha--despite being a total skeptic--figures she has nothing to lose. The reading is eerily, impossibly accurate. As her misgivings give way, Natasha can't help but ask about her ex-boyfriend, the French man she can't seem to get over. To her surprise, the astrologist tells her that he is perfect for her. His birthday and birthplace--November 2, 1968, in Paris, France--lines up with her astrological point of destiny. The word husband comes up. Natasha is distraught. Panicked, even. Was he really The One? Was this all the big soul love she was destined for? Then, she has a lightning bolt of an idea: her ex wasn't the only man born on November 2, 1968, in Paris. Natasha's real soulmate is still out there--she just has to find him. Joined by her sister and two of her closest girlfriends and buoyed by her father's parting message to never give up on love, Natasha flies to the City of Light, determined to take destiny into her own hands.
Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571310052
Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short, vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his birth to his entry into St Paul's. Though a fragment, in many senses it is far more: in the words of its author 'no less than an autobiography . . . an attempt to put down on paper what [this author] sees when he thinks of himself from 1878 to about 1895'. The Childhood of Edward Thomas was not published until 1938, over two decades after Thomas originally showed the manuscript to a publisher. Those eventual publishers, Faber & Faber, were building on their release two years earlier of Thomas's Collected Poems, for which he was becoming best known. This edition includes Edward Thomas's 'War Diary,' a record of the last three months of his life when, as an elderly - at thirty-eight - subaltern he fought among the misery of the trenches. To witness Thomas's childhood memoir and wartime diaries in such close proximity is to have a moving incarnation of his distinctive voice, its clarity and - even in war - its unfailing attention to his fellow-creatures.
Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1465453806
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads France will take you on scenic routes to discover charming villages, local restaurants, and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of this magical region with all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and lengths of drives to parking information and opening hours for local attractions. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities - from walks to days on the beach, children's attractions, wine tours, and cycling trips. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels, guesthouses, and restaurants specializing in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. Discover the unexpected on your vacation with DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Back Roads France.
