After his son is violently attacked, Gideon Shand, a writer and lecturer, decides to move his family near a friend's, but, unexpectedly, problems soon develop between the two families

Heaven and Earth

Literature & Fiction

Frederic Raphael

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which grapples firmly with the paradox of his work - that in spite of his enormous influence, the magnetic power of his personality, and the fascination of his life, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question. The focus of the book is the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry; a subject that has remained largely unexplored. Dr Martin considers Byron's anomalous position as an aristocrat in a literary market governed by commercial interests and middle class tastes and reading habits. He suggests that the whole of Byron's poetry can be seen as a performance determined by a number of factors: Byron's anxieties about his modernity, his contemporaries, and the image his readers were ready to fashion for him.

Byron

Biographies & Memoirs

Time Warner Books Uk

<p>Brief, accessible, and affordable, these pocket-sized volumes offer the essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition-from Plato to Wittgenstein.</p>

The Great Philosophers

Politics & Social Sciences

RAY MONK

Philosophy

Routledge

Richard's Things

New Eng. Lib.

List of Books: A Library of Over 3,000 Works

Kenneth, Mcleish

Harmony

Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)

Frederic Raphael shared his days at Cambridge with us in his bestselling novel Glittering Prizes, now, in this evocative, painfully honest memoir he tells us about the first eighteen years of his life. His early years were spent in America and it was not until he was six that he and his parents sailed for England. Evacuated to Devon in the war, Freddie's prep school days were happy. His thirst for learning and easy intellect made him selective in his choice of friends, his embarrassment at his Jewish origins made him secretive. A scholarship to Charterhouse followed. It was here that he experienced the anti-semitism that coloured the rest of his life. A major scholarship to read Classics at St John's Cambridge where he meets the girl who will become his wife is the beginning of a happier period. This is a painfully honest and revealing memoir of a sensitive, intelligent boy. The first eighteen years of a remarkable man.

A Spoilt Boy : A Memoir of a Childhood

Memoirs

Orion Publishing

Popper (Great Philosophers)

This memoir examines the thinking, attitudes and methods of a Stanley Kubrick as he made his last film, "Eyes Wide Shut", woven with many anecdotes about stars he worked with along the way. The author also includes accounts of conversations he held on a wide range of topics.

Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick and " Eyes Wide Shut "

Arts & Literature

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Minor crease to dustjacket at top of spine, minor shelfwear to dustjacket and its extremities, a few pages have been underlined.

Going Up: To Cambridge and Beyond - A Writer's Memoir

Robson Press

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