epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Claire Tomalin [Tomalin, Claire]

16 Twenty-five Anyone arriving at their twenty-fifth birthday with three outstanding novels to their name looks well embarked on the road to success; fame, riches, happiness all within easy reach, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alastair Campbell

August holiday We had a house in Puyméras, a little village on the other side of Ventoux. We had an OK time, though there were too many party people around ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Gillian Gill

The Greatest Show on Earth … HE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE DID NOT SPEND THEIR WHOLE YEAR ON their private estates, and they had far less leisure than most of ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Willis

As intelligence officer at 257, Geoff Myers was responsible for informing the next of kin, including Lancelot Mitchell’s fiancée, Margery. Mitchell had used to talk about her late into the ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Carlos Calle [Calle, Carlos]

Your sketch does help me to understand it. So the bending-of-light prediction was confirmed? Yes, that prediction was confirmed by the British astronomical expedition of 1919. This measurement isn’t easy ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Black

The emphasis on personal readiness for self-sacrifice in this letter was both a reflection of George's sense of duty and also somewhat typical of the often overblown rhetoric of the ...

epub |eng | 2002-03-28 | Author:Hugo Vickers [Vickers, Hugo]

23. Alice Itinerant Alice brightened considerably after her transfer to Merano. In October 1932, Louise was relieved to hear that Alice liked being there, and Victoria told Dr Binswanger that ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:David Malcolm & Peter E. Crabtree

29 A Felon in the Family In July 1880, some six months after the Links Road was laid, posts connected by chains were erected, designating the limits of the ‘golfing ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eric Metaxas

In his speech, Wilberforce did not humiliate the wicked men who had given these descriptions as he might have, and if ever anyone had been given the gifts with which ...

epub |eng | 2001-02-20 | Author:JAMES FOX

* * * Phyllis crossed the Atlantic in January 1917, risks and all, bringing Winkie. Of Peter, left at school, she wrote, “I don’t like putting the ocean between us.” ...

azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Kempe, Margery [Kempe, Margery]

Chapter 65 Our Lord Jesus Christ said to this creature, ‘Daughter, you shall well see when you are in heaven with me that no man is damned unless he is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sam Pivnik

Plan of Fürstengrube. Based on a drawing by Hermann Josef, 1965. None of us realised our new situation or fully grasped its significance. We were now part of a labour ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlo D'Este

The last British soldier at Dunkirk the morning of June 3, 1940, was an aristocratic, unflappable Guards officer in charge of the British rear guard. Major General Harold Alexander, best ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jason Roberts

YOUNG JAMES WOULD remember the next year and a half only as a blur, “crammed with geography, astronomy, algebra, geometry, navigation, et cetera.” The Exeter apothecary shop was a memory. ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Peter Ford & Michael Howell [Ford, Peter & Howell, Michael]

CHAPTER 9 ‘Such a Gentle, Kindly Man, Poor Thing!’ Even during the early days following his admission to the London Hospital, the case of Joseph Merrick began to attract the ...