An Ivory Trader in North Kenia: The Record of an Expedition Through Kikuyu to Galla-Land in East Equatorial Africa, Arkell-Hardwick A.

Автор: Arkell, Reginald
Название: Old Herbaceous
ISBN: 0812967380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812967388
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Back in print after fifty years
"Old Herbaceous" is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener “Old Herbaceous,” the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, “so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, "Old Herbaceous" is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by
Penelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.

Автор: Lovell,Mary S
Название: Bess of hardwick
ISBN: 0349115893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349115894
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: * A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in England.

Автор: Hardwick, Elizabeth
Название: To The Point
ISBN: 1681371545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681371542
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature--Melville, James, Wharton--and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers' lives--women writers, rebels, Americans abroad--and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick's work from 1953 to 2003. "For Hardwick," writes Pinckney, "the poetry and novels of America hold the nation's history." Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.

Автор: Hardwick, Joseph
Название: Anglican british world
ISBN: 0719087228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719087226
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century -- .