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Melvyn Bragg
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Language
English
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Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war-against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the...
2) A son of war
Author
Series
Soldier's return quartet volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A Son of War presents Melvyn Bragg's second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls "one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain." Continuing the story of the Richardson family begun in the award-winning The Soldier's Return, this powerful novel depicts how the terrible upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed. After returning from the campaign in Burma, Sam Richardson was determined to leave his small hometown...
Author
Series
Soldier's return quartet volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Scarred by memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job.
Author
Series
Soldier's return quartet volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Following The Soldier's Return, heralded as "a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs" by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn Bragg brings "one of the finest sagas of postwar Britain" (London Sunday Telegraph) to a stunning conclusion. Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. Alive with a wide cast of characters, Crossing...
Author
Language
English
Description
The second volume of a trilogy that began with The Soldier's Return.
After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family-Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe-settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, Sam and Ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting...
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Language
English
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"The tale Heloise and Abelard has captivated the attentions of romantics since the twelfth century. Heloise was a woman beyond her time: educated, fierce, and unafraid to be herself. When Peter Abelard, a radical philosopher determined to reform the archaic practices of the Church from within, becomes her private tutor, the attraction is overwhelming. Their passionate love affair soon becomes dangerous, as enemies and opportunists hide in every shadow....
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Melvyn Bragg hosts a panel of experts that explore the 1,500-year history of the English language and answer questions such as: How did it grow from a relatively insignificant Germanic dialect to become the premier language of culture, commerce, and diplomacy around the globe? Includes guide for group discussions, avenues for further learning, biographies, web extras, and much more.
Author
Series
Ke xue zhi volume 009
Publisher
Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
1999
Language
中文
10) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
15) Jackson Pollock
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Combines archival footage of Jackson Pollock's life and work with reminiscences from his contemporaries, and explores the truth and legends surrounding this controversial painter.
17) Chagall
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[c1985]
Language
English
Description
This film portrait, made shortly before the death of Chagall in 1985, takes the viewer on a journey through time and place on the trail of this enigmatic artist. Eventually to become the grand old man of French painting, Chagall began life in a Jewish ghetto in Russia. He escaped the restrictions of his background and moved to Paris, where he rubbed shoulders with artists such as Matisse, Leger and Dufy. There he began to create the floating surrealistic...
Publisher
LWT and RM Arts
Pub. Date
c2002, c1991
Language
English
Description
In this definitive film profile, a camera crew shares a year in the life of Dame Kiri as she performs throughout the world. It includes extensive performance pieces with arias by Cilea, Puccini, Handel and Mozart, a specially staged sequence of the closing scene from Capriccio and songs by Richard Strauss.
19) Play dirty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel in charge is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission 400 miles behind German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive. The real leader of the group doesn't need or want the British officer, who's supposed...
