(Elizabeth Bowen is undoubtedly one of the major writers of this century. Born in 1899 into an Anglo-Irish family of the old Protestant ascendancy, Elizabeth Bowen's heritage lent a special complexity to both her life and her work. Intelligent, vital, independent and generous, she could also be haughty, authoritative and caustic. She was immensely sociable and -her numerous friends included Virginia Woolf, Lord David Cecil, Isaiah Berlin, Rosamond Lehmann and Sean O'Faolain. Among her many novels the best-known and most widely-read are The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day and she also had a particular genius for short-story writing. A natural talent for social comedy combined with an electrifying evocation of atmosphere and an incisive insight into the wellsprings of human behaviour, give her work its imaginative originality. Elizabeth Bowen conducted her life with stylishness and integrity and, as Patricia Craig reveals in this perceptive study, she always displayed 'an artist's impulse and a wish for everyone to live at full height')

Elizabeth Bowen (Lives of Modern Women)

Biographies & Memoirs

Craig, Patricia

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

`School', wrote Henry Green, `is no odder than the world outside, only more concentrated.' It is also an experience that everyone has to undergo, and many people have left accounts of their schooldays inspired either by repugnance or regret. The old school, whether you compare it to a Fasciststate (as W.H. Auden famously did), a hothouse, a prison, or a place of lost content, remains with you for the rest of your life. Drawing on fiction, memoirs, autobiography, poetry, and letters Patricia Craig presents an enthralling selection of attitudes to schools and schooling.All manner of institutions are described, from village schools to state comprehensives, charity schools, public schools, private schools and grammar schools, with some (usually) fond reminiscences of primary schools for good measure. But the emphasis is on individual experience - on the playingfield, in the classroom, making friends and enemies, encountering inspiring or eccentric schoolmasters. Pupils and teachers have their say, Miss Jean Brodie alongside Dr Arnold, Winston Churchill rubbing shoulders with Nicholas Nickleby. Through it all run the anarchic exploits of the heroes andheroines of the school story - Billy Bunter and the Greyfriars mob, Stalky and Co., William Brown, Tom Brown, and the creations of T.B. Reed and Angela Brazil.Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, and focusing on Great Britain and Northern Ireland, this anthology sheds incidental light on attitudes to children, educational systems, and the divisions of British society. It will strike a chord with every pupil, past or present, inrevealing the glories and defects of British education.

The Oxford Book of Schooldays

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The lady investigates: Women detectives and spies in fiction

In the early chapters of this book, the authors examine the crime novels of Wilkie Collins, George R. Sims, Grant Allen, and Anna Katherine Green, and discover the splendid and daunting lady detective Miss Van Snoop. Later on, they explore the period in this century in which women writers made the detective story their own - Christie, Sayers, Allingham, Marsh, and many more.

The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction

Drawing on fiction, memoirs, autobiography, poetry and letters, this anthology presents an engrossing selection of attitudes to schools and schooling, from the 16th century to the present day. Placing schooldays classics by Angela Brazil, Frank Richards and Richmal Crompton alongside memoirs by Winston Churchill, George Orwell, Iona Opie and many others, this book will strike a chord with every pupil, past or present, in revealing the glories and defects of a British education.

Oxford University Press

Probes the genre of detective fiction to examine the changing roles of women as author, victim, and investigator

CADOGAN, Mary

History & Criticism

St Martins Pr

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology

From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular biology on the campus of Stanford University. This fourth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution considers the beginnings of ecology, complexities of photosynthesis, great mid-century evolutionary synthesis and the start of the plant molecular revolution.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Cambridge University Press

A set comprising five volumes detailing the histories of the established departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Geophysical Laboratory, the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Embryology. A century of experiment, discovery and evolution is revealed.

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Hardback Set

History

Sandage, Allan

Brown, Louis

Maienschein, Jane

Allen, Garland E.

Yoder, Hatten S.

Glitz, Marie

Americas

Probes the genre of detective fiction to examine the changing roles of women as author, victim, and investigator

V. Gollancz

Brian Moore : A Biography

'The only wise prediction to make about a new Brian Moore novel is that it will be unpredictable and wise,' wrote Christopher Ricks reviewing BLACK ROBE, one of the 20 magnificent novels which put Brian Moore into the first rank of world writers. Northern Ireland may have shaped him, as he grew up one of nine children in a Catholic doctor's Belfast household, but World War II took him to Africa and war-ravaged Europe, and Canada freed him to become a writer. London took the chance in 1955 and published THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE, the first of many novels which lead steadily to international critical acclaim. The United States became his home, though he was no more likely to be pigeon-holed by a single country than to write the same novel under a different guise. He was a writer's writer, baffling contemporaries with how he pulled off his literary feats and yet also a highly accessible novelist everyone could read - one who could wield a marvellous plot, create characters - male, and perhaps especially female - who would burst into life and who could kindle atmospheres of haunting tension, historical vividness or metaphysical mystery. Patricia Craig, who began this fascinating authorised biography with the help and blessing of Brian Moore himself, and his wife Jean, impeccably pieces together the colourful and peripatetic life that lay behind the novels. She also reveals the droll, romantic, cant-hating, affable and brilliant man who so disarmingly enhanced 20th century letters.

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

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Elizabeth Bowen (Lives of Modern Women)

The Oxford Book of Schooldays

The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction

The Oxford Book of Schooldays

The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Hardback Set

The lady investigates: Women detectives and spies in fiction

Brian Moore : A Biography

Brian Moore : A Biography