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Firebird
Author: Susan Sellers
Publisher:
Published: 2022-07-05
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781913087814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This richly imagined novel tells the surprising story of two of Bloomsbury's most unlikely lovers - John Maynard Keynes, the distinguished economist, and the extrovert Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova. Firebird is the third novel of prize-winning author Susan Sellers, who is also an expert on Bloomsbury and the writing of Virginia Woolf. / Weaving biography and fiction, Firebird explores the tangle of Bloomsbury's bohemian relationships as lifestyles are challenged and allegiances shift following Lydia's explosive arrival. / It is the winter of 1921 and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes launch a flamboyant new production at London's Alhambra Theatre. Maynard Keynes is in the audience, though he expects little from the evening. Despite Lydia's many triumphs, including the title role in Stravinsky's Firebird, Maynard's mind is made up - he considers her 'a rotten dancer'. Besides, Lydia has at least one husband in tow and Maynard has only ever loved men. Tonight, however, he is moved by her performance, and when the ballet closes in financial disaster leaving its cast penniless, he invites Lydia to move into his Bloomsbury house. / No strangers to scandalously unconventional liaisons, Maynard's Bloomsbury friends - Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey - are intrigued to find the resolutely homosexual Maynard falling for a woman. They assume it is a passing fad. After all, Lydia is a noisy, uneducated chatterbox, while Maynard is a brilliant intellectual whose encylopaedic knowledge and genius for strategy have already made him indispensable to the Treasury. But when Maynard pulls out of a Royal Commission tour to stay close to Lydia, his friends realise they must act. As Virginia writes to her sister Vanessa, everything they value risks ruin from this 'parokeet' whose conversation is limited to 'one shriek, two dances'. Anything other than a brief affair would be 'a fatal and irreparable mistake'. Maynard must be rescued from himself. / Vividly recreating Lydia's life-changing journey from Tsarist St Petersburg to Jazz Age London via the Paris of Proust and Picasso, this compelling new novel celebrates a love story that is utterly unexpected, true, and stranger than fiction.
The Book in the Renaissance
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780300110098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit, the story of the post-Gutenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe. The Book in the Renaissance reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic, and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word. From its very beginnings, the printed book had to straddle financial and religious imperatives, as well as the very different requirements and constraints of the many countries who embraced it, and, as Pettegree argues, the process was far from a runaway success. More than ideas, the success or failure of books depended upon patrons and markets, precarious strategies and the thwarting of piracy, and the ebb and flow of popular demand. Owing to his state-of-the-art and highly detailed research, Pettegree crafts an authoritative, lucid, and truly pioneering work of cultural history about a major development in the evolution of European society.
The Scent of Roses
Author: ZINNIE. HARRIS
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780571376025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →You'd be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something. Of being alive. The Scent of Roses begins with a wife who takes her husband hostage in order to have an honest conversation. This simple, transgressive act, and her demand for a straight answer, sparks a chain of conversations, interrogations, obfuscations and revelations, as they and those around them try to discover what is real and who they can trust in a post-truth world. Zinnie Harris's The Scent of Roses premieres at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2022.
The Matriculation Roll
Author: James Maitland Anderson
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780530567211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The St. Andrews Seven
Author: Stuart Piggin
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780851514284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The St. Andrews Seven" is about a university Professor, Thomas Chalmers and six of his students. The story of their years together at Scotland's oldest university is a record of the most remarkable flowering of evangelistic and missionary enthusiasm in the history of Scottish Christianity. --from publisher description.
Ever to Excel
Author: Norman H. Reid
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2011-05-30
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781845860592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →600 years old, aware of its past, but facing forward, the University of St Andrews remains distinct. Now, more than ever throughout its long, sometimes troubled and often distinguished history, the University invites the highest objective: 'ever to excel'. Norman H. Reid uses the University's own rich archival holdings to introduce the reader to the vibrant and often turbulent 600-year story of the University and its town, set in the wider historical contexts of society, religion, politics and intellectual thought.
What Works Now?
Author: Boaz, Annette
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1447345479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and realities of evidence-informed policy and practice. The text is clearly structured and provides sector by sector analysis of evidence use in policy-making and service delivery, considers some crosscutting themes, includes a section of international commentaries, and concludes by looking at lessons from the past and prospects for the future. This book will be of interest to a wide range of social science researchers, students and practitioners as well as those interested in supporting more evidence-informed policy and practice.
Medieval St Andrews
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 178327168X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages.
