Some Men In London : Queer Life, 1945-1959 /anglais

Peter Parker

Penguin Uk

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 /anglais

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930`s generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood`s death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood`s papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived.Isherwood`s travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood`s relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood`s complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century`s most significant writers.

Isherwood

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Picador

<p>Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930`s generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood`s death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood`s papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood`s travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood`s relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood`s complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century`s most significant writers.</p>

Arts & Literature

Ackerley: A Biography of J.R.Ackerley

Cardinal Books

Housman Country: Into the Heart of England

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, 2nd Impression. Very Thick Royal 8vo. 446pp. + lxiii. Illustrated endpapers, portrait frontispiece. In good white lettered blue cloth with bump to head of spine, together with original unclipped colour pictorial dustwrapper, rubbed with short light surface loss to upper leading corner, gently rubbed to spine, all else good. In tis evocation of English countryside, twarted love and yearning for things lost, Houseman's A Shropshire Lad is one of the best lovedvolumes of poetry in the language.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Little,Brown

<p>How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings?These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin.Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening. It allows us to find our way around nurseries; it sorts out confusions when two plants have the same English name; and it gives us all kinds of information about how big or small a plant will grow, what shape or colour it will develop, and what habitat it prefers.In his lively survey, Parker agues that Botanical Latin is not merely useful, but fun. The naming of plants draws upon geography, social and medical history, folklore, mythology, language, literature, the human body, the animal kingdom and all manner of ancient beliefs and superstitions.The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.</p>

Little Book Of Latin For Gardeners

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