Автор: Dudgeon Piers Название: Real Peter Pan ISBN: 1849547904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849547901 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Michael Llewelyn Davies was the fourth of five brothers who provided the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's characters Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Darling brothers.
Barrie struck up an intense friendship with the children and their parents when he encountered them playing in London's Kensington Gardens, an area that would become the Neverland of his most enduring work. Something of the innocence of Michael, who stood out even among his brothers, went on to influence the creation of Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan. Such was Barrie's closeness to the Llewelyn Davies family that he became trustee and guardian to the boys following the deaths of their parents.
Theirs was an enduring relationship, particularly that between Barrie and Michael, to whom he wrote daily, but it was punctuated by the fiercest of tragedies. Throughout the heart-rending saga of Barrie's involvement with the Llewelyn Davies brothers, it is the figure of Michael, the most original and inspirational of their number, and yet also the one whose fate is most pitiable, that stands out. The Real Peter Pan is a captivating true story of childhood, friendship, war, love and regret.
Автор: Dudgeon Piers Название: Barbara Taylor Bradford: The Biography ISBN: 1900064537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781900064538 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2500.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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'Astonishing... A fascinating and obsessively close look at one of the great rags-to-riches stories of our time.' Sunday Express
From working-class dreamer on the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to one of the world's most successful authors on the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, the rise of Barbara Taylor Bradford is by any standard extraordinary.
In this incredible story of suffering, loss and triumph over adversity, fact and fiction proceed side by side in a unique collaboration, the first time that Taylor Bradford has participated in a memoir of any kind, and one that has turned out to be as much a revelation to her as it will certainly be to her readers.
'A woman of Real substance: the amazing story of how Barbara Taylor Bradford discovered she was the secret grandchild of a philandering aristocrat.' The Mail on Sunday
'Enthralling - a story no less gripping than any of her blockbusters.' You Magazine
'Dudgeon is a fine writer with a dogged determination to find out what makes his subject tick.' The Glasgow Herald
