novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in ...
In addition to the stage, Kirby began to appear on screen. She made herfilmdebut in 2010 with a minor role in theromanticdramaLove/Lossand her television debut in 2011 with appearances in three episodes of theBBC’sThe Hour, a newsroom drama series. For the latter, she was thrilled to ...
Louise Erdrich is an American author whose principal subject is the Ojibwe people of the northern Midwest. Her notable books include Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and The Night Watchman, the last of which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Heroines of the Tudor Worldtells the stories of the most remarkable women from European history in the time of the Tudor dynasty, 1485-1603. These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love.Heroines of the Tu...
Series First Quarto Subject Love Genre Shakespearean tragedy Setting Italy (Verona and Mantua) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. ...
My rating:3 of 5 stars That’s my 3-step approach to planning, structuring and writing a chapter. Or a book. Or an essay for that matter. I write narrative nonfiction: biography and cultural history. I’m often trying to capture a time in history, or a particular person’s contribution...
His famous works include the Encounter, the Night at Sheep Cot, Cavalry Biography, The Love Story of a Young Monk, An Event Happening in Danao, and more. More than 70 collections of essays and novels have been published at home and abroad. Wang Zengqi Collected Works(5 volumes) and ...
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky: Directed by Paul Cox. With Derek Jacobi, Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Hans Sonneveld. Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ball
The Look of Love: Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Jennifer Ellis, Steve Coogan, Nick Hopper, Paul Popplewell. The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.
When I first discoveredMelvyn Bragg, I was told he was something like a national treasure here in the UK. And after reading theAdventure of English: The Biography of a Language(nonfiction), I was sold.The Adventure of Englishrevealed the tiniest sliver of at least a hundred stories I wanted...