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Publication date: 1987-10-15
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Review Faber and Faber  / Chronicle of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman
Authors
  • Isaak Glikman
  • Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Creator: Anthony Phillips
Publication date: 2001-10-22
Dewey code: 808
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Review Dover Publications Inc.  / Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69 Publication date: 1996-07-31
Dewey code: 914.947
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Review Jonathan Cape  / Arthur Ransome on Fishing Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-02
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Review Leonie Press  / A Bull by the Back Door: How an English Family Find Their Own Paradise in Rural France Creator: Patricia Kelsall
Publication date: 1997-10
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Review Methuen Drama  / Theatre@risk (Diaries, Letters and Essays) Publication date: 2000-05-11
Dewey code: 792.0232092
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Review Manchester University Press  / Charles Darwin's Creator: Jeff Wallace
Publication date: 1995-04
Dewey code: 575.0162
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Review Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays (Texts in Culture) / Manchester University Press:


Review Weidenfeld & Nicolson  / Tito: The Story From Inside: The Story from the Inside Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-20
Dewey code: 949.7023092
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Review Clarendon Press  / Women's Writing on the First World War Creator: Judith Hattaway
Publication date: 1999-12-16
Dewey code: 808.80358
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Review Loeb  / Epistulae Morales: Letters I-LXV v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) Publication date: 1989-07-01
Dewey code: 920
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Review University of California Press  / In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: Panegyrici Latini - Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage): ... (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) Publication date: 1995-10-18
Dewey code: 875.0108
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Review In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: Panegyrici Latini - Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage): ... (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) / University of California Press:


Review Vintage  / A Small Place Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-10-09
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Publication date: 1997-10-23
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Review Penguin Books Ltd  / Character Parts Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1987-11-19
Dewey code: 920
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Review John Murray Publishers Ltd  / Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979-1981 Creator: Michael Bloch
Publication date: 2000-10-26
Dewey code: 920
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Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-02
Dewey code: 828.91209
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Review On the Stage-and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor / Sutton Publishing Ltd:


Review Virago Press Ltd  / The Diaries of Beatrice Webb Creator: Lynn Knight
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-12-05
Dewey code: 808
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Review Abacus  / Letters Between a Father and Son: Early Correspondence Between V.S.Naipaul and Family Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-07
Dewey code: 808
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Writing to his eldest son Vidia in Oxford in 1950, Seepersad Naipaul observed: "Your letters are charming in their spontaneity. If you could write me letters about things and people-especially people-at Oxford, I could compile them in a book: Letters Between a Father and Son or My Oxford Letters. Nearly fifty years later, the father's desire has been fulfilled by the son with the publication of VS Naipaul's Letters Between a Father and Son. The collection covers the period between Naipaul's departure from his native Trinidad in 1950 to study at Oxford, to the untimely death of his father in 1953 at the age of 47. Alongside the letters between father and son are those between Naipaul and his older sister, Kamla, a student at the Benares Hindu University in India, who is advised by her 17-year-old brother to watch your personal effects carefully; the Indians are a thieving lot. At the heart of the book lies Naipaul's undergraduate life at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son, as he strives to maintain his own writing career whilst he watches his son's own literary talent flower. The minutiae of Naipaul's college life offers a fascinating account of the genesis of the querulous, fussy and patrician Naipaul. Letters are full of stories of Naipaul's endless rounds of tea parties, writing for the Oxford journal Isis, flirting with European women and endless requests for cigarettes from home. But the most revealing and moving dimension of the collection is the love and friendship between father and son. Seepersad both vents his own literary frustrations upon his son, whilst at the same time assuring Naipaul of his own unconditional support: "I feel so darned cocksure that I can produce a novel within six months-if only I had nothing else to do. [+]
This is impossible. But I want to give you this chance. " Seepersad's sudden death is very affecting, as is Naipaul's telegraphed response home: "Everything I owe to him. " This is a deeply revealing collection of one of the most enigmatic writers of the post-war period, which offers an absorbing insight into Naipaul's early fiction, particularly The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street. -JerryBrotton.

Review Graywolf Press,U.S.  / Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Memoir) Publication date: 1989-07
Dewey code: 818.5403
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Review LOEB  / The Correspondence: v. 2 (Loeb Classical Library) Creator: C.R. Haines
Publication date: 1929-12
Dewey code: 937
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Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850, Chronicle of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69, Arthur Ransome on Fishing, A Bull by the Back Door: How an English Family Find Their Own Paradise in Rural France, Theatre@risk (Diaries, Letters and Essays), Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays (Texts in Culture), Tito: The Story From Inside: The Story from the Inside, Women's Writing on the First World War, Epistulae Morales: Letters I-LXV v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library), In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: Panegyrici Latini - Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage): ... (Transformation of the Classical Heritage), A Small Place, Webster's World, Character Parts, Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979-1981, On the Stage-and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor, The Diaries of Beatrice Webb, Letters Between a Father and Son: Early Correspondence Between V.S.Naipaul and Family, Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Memoir), The Correspondence: v. 2 (Loeb Classical Library)

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