Real England

Real England
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Publisher : Portobello Books
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781846274336
ISBN-13 : 1846274338
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Real England by : Paul Kingsnorth

We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafs and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen and the inhabitants of Chinatown, Paul Kingsnorth reports on the kind of conversations that are taking place in country pubs and corner shops across the land - while reminding us that these quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.

England, England

England, England
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780307555953
ISBN-13 : 030755595X
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis England, England by : Julian Barnes

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funny” novel (The New York Times) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when things go awry, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.

The Lost King of England

The Lost King of England
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Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781637100608
ISBN-13 : 1637100604
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lost King of England by : R.J. Batchelor

Living his life oblivious to his heritage, an unknown prince and the rightful heir to the throne of England finds the truth about his birthright in a most unexpected way. His new love interest discovers his link to the royal family with physical proof that starts him on a journey of self-discovery and deception, revealing the extent the shadow group surrounding the monarchies will go to keep their secrets. Spanning three generations, The Lost King of England uncovers facts kept hidden and revealing events of World War I and World War II and how they should have been written. It will make you question everything you have been told.

1066 and All That

1066 and All That
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Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Total Pages : 132
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1014250234
ISBN-13 : 9781014250230
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis 1066 and All That by : W C Sellar

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Think of England

Think of England
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780743234979
ISBN-13 : 0743234979
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Think of England by : Alice Elliott Dark

N rural eastern Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod is writing a book about the happy family she desperately wishes she had. Her mother, Via, is dissatisfied and petulant, always resentful of the time Jane's father, Emlin, a heart surgeon, must spend with his patients at the hospital. One night in 1964, the family (including Jane's two younger brothers and sister and Via's homosexual brother, Uncle Francis) gathers to watch the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. All goes well until Emlin discovers that someone has taken the phone off the hook, so that he can't receive emergency calls. Angrily, he accuses Via (who accuses Jane) and rushes off to the hospital. He is killed in an automobile accident. Fifteen years later, Jane has moved to London, where she's become friends with bohemians Nigel and Colette. A political bombing and an affair with aloof (and married) American writer Clay West lead Jane to confront her long-buried guilt over her parents' unhappiness and father's death.

The Rise and Fall of Merry England

The Rise and Fall of Merry England
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 396
Release :
ISBN-10 : 019285447X
ISBN-13 : 9780192854476
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Merry England by : Ronald Hutton

Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.

True Relations

True Relations
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780812244854
ISBN-13 : 0812244850
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis True Relations by : Frances E. Dolan

Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict.

The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
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Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781615198153
ISBN-13 : 1615198156
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) by : James Hawes

How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.

Gentlemen from England

Gentlemen from England
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B56973
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Gentlemen from England by : Maud Hart Lovelace

English gentry go in for bean farming in Minnesota after the Civil War.