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Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736755X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England, England written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque visionary Sir Jack Pitman has an idea. Since most people are too lazy to travel from landmark to landmark, why not simplify things and create a new England on the Isle of Wight? Unfortunately, his idea is a huge success, and the resulting theme park threatens to supersede the original. Called England, England, it has all the elements of "Old England" in one convenient location. Wander into the new Sherwood Forest and you may spot Robin Hood and his now sexually ambiguous Merrie Men. Or take a stroll to see Stonehenge and Anne Hathaway's Cottage, enjoy a ploughman's lunch atop the White Cliffs of Dover, then pop over to see the Royals, now on contract to Sir Jack, in their scaled-down version of Buckingham Palace. Every detail has been considered: even the postcards come pre-stamped! Julian Barnes' first novel in six years is a ferociously funny examination of the search for authenticity and truth in a fabricated world.

Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen from England written by Maud Hart Lovelace and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English gentry go in for bean farming in Minnesota after the Civil War.

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391438
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of England written by Simon Jenkins and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full sig­nificance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English histo­ry by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country’s birth, rise to global promi­nence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and LondonTimes former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today’s England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.

Author : Matt Lake
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402742293
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird England written by Matt Lake and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the bizarre, a collection of entertaining, illustrated travel guides features a host of oddball curiosities, ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions that can be found in England.

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670919147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How England Made the English written by Harry Mount and published by Viking. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories. Q. Why are English train seats so narrow? A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. For readers of Paxman's The English, Bryson's Notes on a Small Island and Fox's Watching the English, this intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow. Praise for Harry Mount: 'Highly readable, encyclopeadic, marvellous, illuminating. Mount portrays England via dextrous excavations of its geography, geology, history and weather' Independent 'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting companion' Daily Mail 'Charming and nerdily fact-stuffed' Guardian Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and A Lust for Window Sills - A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London

Author : Ruth McKenney
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here's England written by Ruth McKenney and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241315668
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England Your England written by George Orwell and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Elizaveta Strakhov
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
ISBN 13 : 9780814214978
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental England written by Elizaveta Strakhov and published by Interventions: New Studies Med. This book was released on 2022 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs Chaucer as a lens to argue that Anglo-French translation of formes fixes poetry helped rebuild cultural ties between England and Continental Europe during the Hundred Years' War.

Author : Gretchen Gerzina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749003135
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black England written by Gretchen Gerzina and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of black people in England in the 18th century. In Shakespeare's England, black people were numerous enough for Elizabeth I to demand they all leave the country but by the eighteenth century blacks could be found in pubs and clubs. There were churches for blacks, balls held for blacks only and organizations to help blacks in trouble or out of work. Some were wealthy and respected but many more were servants or beggars. Then there were the slaves and the dark business of kidnapping blacks and exporting them to the West Indies.

Author : Martin Parr
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think of England written by Martin Parr and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic, opinionated and affectionately satirical photographs of England by the Magnum photographer.