Staring at God: Britain in the First World War, Heffer, Simon

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880-1914
ISBN: 009959224X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099592242
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Описание: `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . .

The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times`A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce.

Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface.

In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history.

He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H.

G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E.

Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges.

`A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . .

disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times`You won't put it down . . .

A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: High Minds
ISBN: 0099558475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099558477
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people - politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers - who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society.

Автор: Heffer Simon
Название: Great British Speeches
ISBN: 0857383272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857383273
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 1972.00 р.
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Описание: A stirring anthology of speeches from every period of British history.

Автор: Heffron, Jack
Название: Writer`s idea book
ISBN: 158297179X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781582971797
Издательство: David & Charles
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Описание: This title is designed to help writers jump start their creativity and develop original ideas. Four sections offer unique approaches to "freeing the muse", including how to banish inhibitions to get words flowing, discovering writing material from reader`s own lives and refining existing material.

Автор: Kinney Jeff
Название: Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood
ISBN: 0141345152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141345154
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you`ve had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you`ve had a go at drawing yourself. Now imagine it all - on screen. This title tells the story of Greg Heffley from the cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen.

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: Strictly english Pb
ISBN: 0099537931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099537939
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Описание: The author`s incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegraph" about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over the years. In this book, he makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing.