Bess Of Hardwick, Paperback

Garnering great reviews, this biography of one of the most remarkable women of Tudor England is now published in paperback. Lovell brings her subje...

Reducere. In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more ...

DescriptionThis edited collection of new essays focuses on Bess of Hardwick, one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was ...

'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that...

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Eli...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Elizabeth HardwickNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 19Cover ...

The Lovely Bones meets the Wild, Wild West in this haunting tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption inspired by the true story of a much-sought-a...

The letters of the writers Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell across the final seven years of Lowell's life and the end of the pair's marriage. A...

DescriptionThe shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are ...

Reducere. "A western story set in a small town in Nebraska on 'the rim of the prairie.' The characters include a tantalizing heroine made more attractive by ...

Reducere. This volume is the first of an intended series of comedic fiction, based on observations and reflections on the world as we create and perceive it ...

Reducere. "Opening these pages is like stepping through a secret doorway to discover a menagerie of wonders, impossibly beautiful. There are sentences here s...

Reducere. Remake al aceluiasi titlu, din 2011, Miss Bala este povestea unei castigatoare a unui concurs de frumusete care se vede fortata sa lucreze pentru u...

Reducere. Nicknamed the Queen of the Blues, Bessie Smith rose up from poverty in the American South to become one of the most famous and respected recording ...

A marvellously macabre look at how some of the world's favourite historical figures got even more interesting past their expiration dates with thei...

Reducere. A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland's National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and no...

These magnetic essays are nothing less than a reckoning, dissecting relations between the sexes, women and writing, work and life. Hardwick's provo...

'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin'[Jackie Kay] offe...

Reducere. In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old m...

Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers, spinsters and celebrities,...

Reducere. Twelve-year-old budding scientist Lucy Lavender loves exploring. After Dad dies, Mom pieces jobs together and struggles to provide a home for Lucy....

Reducere. Winner: Kirkus Reviews, Best Historical Teen Book of 2016 Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continenta...

Reducere. Stock up for Black History Month and Women's History Month As a young black woman in the 1920s, Bessie Coleman's chances of becoming a pilot were s...

Reducere. She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admir...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Louise HardwickNumber of pages: 288Collection: Contemporary French and Francophone CulturesPublicat...

Bess was the other Duchess, Georgiana's best friend, who with Georgiana and her husband, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, formed the infa...

Fetitele indiene - Sylvia Hardwick

The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semi-autobiographical novel Sleepless Ni...

Reducere. Remake al aceluiasi titlu, din 2011, Miss Bala este povestea unei castigatoare a unui concurs de frumusete care se vede fortata sa lucreze pentru u...

DescriptionA history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have yo...

Reducere. Ten Moons - The Inner Journey of Pregnancy, Preparation for Natural Birth A unique guide to pregnancy and birth. Written by a homebirth midwife, mo...

Focuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creati...

Reducere. Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to ...

The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To The Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to fo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Bessie Coleman in a simple, age-ap...

Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer ex...

Reducere. Elizabeth Bessie Coleman was always being told what she could and couldn't do. In an era when Jim Crow laws and segregation were a way of life, it ...

Expanded and updated collection of short stories using Head's 'Tales of Tenderness and Power' as a basis.

Reducere. This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps that certain groups of Native Americans have used to express their dance ideas - fro...

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My Soul Speaks in large part expresses my journey through life. When my mind is challenged, I write notes to myself. Looking back, I realized that ...

Aunt Bessie wonders if a holiday is a good idea. Thomas and Amy Rockwell have had something of a shock. When Doona suggests a holiday to Lakeview H...

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Reducere. DescriptionAunt Bessie assumes that she'll have the beach all to herself on a cold, wet, and windy March morning just after sunrise, then she stumb...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. Porgy and Bess / Act 1 / Scene 1 / Introduction 2. Porgy and Bess / Act 1 / Scene 1 / Summertime 3. Porgy and Bess / Act 1 / Scene 1 / See...

Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated ...

Reducere. The short stories in this collection invite you to walk alongside characters in the midst of their journeys. Meet the Black high school student who...

Reducere. In the midst of a water shortage, a mango vendor weighs her sexual desire for a taxi driver against wanting to bathe first. Protesting an illegal e...