The Small Back Room
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1949
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474601170
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474601197
The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment. Featured on BACKLISTED podcast Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is also on the verge of losing his wife Marcia to a literary poseur named Stephen. As the bombs continue to fall, Bill must decide whether he his willing to compromise his principles and prevent his life from crumbling before his very eyes.
Author : Michael Powell
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679434436
The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497685516
In the hallowed halls of one of New England’s most prestigious colleges, a young woman finds new and unexpected life as professor while a scandal brews just on the periphery On the train north from New York City, Lucy Winter takes inventory of her life. Twenty-seven and newly single, Lucy is headed toward a fate she never anticipated: professorship at a women’s college in New England. Her doctorate degree, obtained from Harvard, was more of a hobby than a professional aspiration—something to occupy her time while her fiancé completed his medical studies nearby. But at Appleton College she finds new enthusiasm in academia, teaching young women to be brilliant in a society that does not yet value their intellect. When Lucy discovers a scandal involving a star student, she ignites controversy on the campus. Many in the faculty rush to either defend or condemn the student, who is carrying the burden that often accompanies excellence. At the center of the political maelstrom is Lucy, who, despite her newfound difficulties on campus, is finding that her unexpected detour to Appleton may lead to a more rich and rewarding life than she ever anticipated. An insightful and inspiring study of scholarship, teaching, and women in academia, The Small Room is also the memorable story of a young professor coming into her own.
Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Studio
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edward Schuyler Chamberlayne
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Political fiction
ISBN :
Author : Bea Brommer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004293329
To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448741
A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It will be essential reading for those working on the history and historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical sociology of war and the history of science and technology.