Speak For England

melvyn-bragg

Hardcover: 144 pages 
Publisher: Hutchinson (October 15, 1984) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0091587409 
ISBN-13: 978-0091587406 
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches 
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

Laurence Olivier

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hutchinson

A novel, originally published in 1969, set in Cumberland between 1889 and the 1920s and telling the story of one man's struggle to break free from the status of a 'hired man'. The first part of the CUMBRIAN TRILOGY.

The Hired Man

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Silken Net (Coronet Books)

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Speak for England: An essay on England 1900-1975, based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland

Literary

Coronet

Speak for England

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

This is a regional book about the Border country concerning the meeting of two families. The author has written twelve novels including "The Maid of Buttermere" and "Josh Lawton" as well as several works of non-fiction, the most recent being the biography of Richard Burton, "Rich".

The second inheritance

Hodder&Stoughton

<p>The story of an imposter and bigamist, who travels to the North where he marries "the maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of a=early 19th century writers.</p>

The Maid of Buttermere

Sceptre

This is the first biography of the actor, Richard Burton, to be supported by his own 300,000-word unpublished journals that cover the years of his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, plus all his papers and unpublished memoirs of his adopted father. Many of those close to Burton have talked for the first time, including his daughter Kate, his elder sister Cis, who brought him up as her own after the death of his mother when he was two years old and the teacher Philip Burton who adopted him and gave him his name. Bragg has also had the benefit of conversations with actors and close friends, including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Lauren Bacall, Robert Hardy, John Neville, Emlyn Williams, John Le Carre and Alec Guinness. Here, the actor who was born Richard Jenkins, the twelfth child of a South Wales miner, stands revealed as never before, often in his own words. After a scholarship to Oxford, a brilliant career in the theatre, then Hollywood and films like "The Robe", his career blossomed with "Camelot" and "Cleopatra" after which he married co-star Elizabeth Taylor. Further films intervened, then, in quick succession, he divorced Elizabeth Taylor, married Suzy Hunt and re-married Taylor, divorced her and married Sally Burton. In the book he discusses marriage, women, his work, arthritis and addiction to drink, and also shows himself to be a fine descriptive writer and humourist with a love of literature. At the age of 56 he died in his sleep. Melvyn Bragg is the author of 13 novels; his non-fiction includes a study of Laurence Olivier, "Land of the Lakes" and "Speak for England".

Rich: Life of Richard Burton (Coronet Books)

Teach Yourself Books

<p>A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and experience as in age. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destructive kernel of jealousy.</p>

A Time to Dance

Romance

Scepter Pubs

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