Cockleshell Heroes

History

CE LUCAS PHILLIPS

Military

Heinemann: london

The Edge of Sleep

Literature & Fiction

Wiltse, David

Contemporary

This is a book about the military and political developments of the Soviets, Japan, and China from 1921-1931.

After Imperialism

Barratt Brown, Michael

Dictionary Johnson, the middle years of Samuel Johnson

Clifford, James L.

Reference

Sartre : A Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen-Solal, Annie

Philosophy

The Island Pharisees

<p>John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family.  His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister and being called to the bar in 1890.  However, Law was not attractive to him and he travelled abroad becoming great friends with the novelist Joseph Conrad, then a first mate on a sailing ship.  In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper, the wife of his cousin Major Arthur Galsworthy. The affair was kept a secret for 10 years till she at last divorced and they married on 23rd September 1905.  Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”.  For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn.  It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he published as John Galsworthy.  His first play, The Silver Box in 1906 was a success and was followed by “The Man of Property" later that same year and was the first in the Forsyte trilogy.   Whilst today he is far more well know as a Nobel Prize winning novelist then he was considered a playwright dealing with social issues and the class system.   Here we publish Villa Rubein, a very fine story that captures Galsworthy’s unique narrative and take on life of the time.  He is now far better known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family of the same name. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although always sympathetic to his characters, he reveals their insular, snobbish, and somewhat greedy attitudes and suffocating moral codes. He is now viewed as one of the first from the Edwardian era to challenge some of the ideals of society depicted in the literature of Victorian England.  In his writings he campaigns for a variety of causes, including prison reform, women's rights, animal welfare, and the opposition of censorship as well as a recurring theme of an unhappy marriage from the women’s side. During World War I he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly after being passed over for military service.  He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend.  John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.</p>

The island Pharisees

GALSWORTHY, JOHN

"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last."―Chicago Sunday TribuneA past dispute ... When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir apparent. They are convinced he will prove to be a sadly vulgar person, but nothing could have prepared the beleaguered family for the arrival of Major Hugo Darracott ... A present deception...His clever and beautiful cousin Anthea is sure there's more to the gentle giant than Hugo's innocent blue eyes and broad Yorkshire brogue would lead one to believe. But even she doesn't guess what he's capable of, until a family crisis arises and only Hugo can preserve the family's honor, leading everybody on a merry chase in the process ...  What Readers Say:"What Heyer does best: comedy, engaging characters, and excellent writing.""A very enjoyable romp with a positively masterly denouement.""Georgette Heyer reaches the pinnacle of her skill with this book.""Among the best of Heyer's Regency novels ? very, very funny.""The pitch-perfect comedy, as the Ajax takes the reins of the family, is fantastic."

Unknown Ajax

Heyer,Georgette

Genre Fiction

John Webber is called out of retirement to investigate the suspicious death of a couple in France and finds that in the world of English pottery there is a secret worth killing for

The Elberg Collection

Anthony Oliver

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes   in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe.  Asher Lev is an artist who   is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him   to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s   passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject   only to the imagination. Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in   postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe.   But in time, his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he   adores.  As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait   of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.

My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Literary

Fifty years of Unilever, 1930-1980

Reader, William Joseph

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