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Quanto può durare un ricordo? Tina se lo chiede ogni sabato, davanti ai vestiti usati che lei vende per beneficenza. E se lo chiede quando, in una vecchia giacca, trova una lettera che risale agli anni '40. E che non è mai stata spedita. Chi saranno mai Chrissie, la destinataria, e Billy, l'uomo che nella lettera implora il suo perdono? Qual è la storia che li unisce? E che ne è stato di loro? Inseguire quel ricordo ingiallito diventa ben pres...

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Any understanding of George Eliot's mature art must begin with an appreciation of the rich, difficult family dynamic out of which it was forged. Her friends and relations understood this, and went into print with their own accounts of the process by which George Eliot's early recollections became the basis, not just for her fiction, but also for her philosophic conservatism. The past - and memory of that past - was the cornerstone on which Eli...

Quanto può durare un ricordo? Tina se lo chiede ogni sabato, davanti ai vestiti usati che lei vende per beneficenza. E se lo chiede quando, in una vecchia giacca, trova una lettera che risale agli anni '40. E che non è mai stata spedita. Chi saranno mai Chrissie, la destinataria, e Billy, l'uomo che nella lettera implora il suo perdono? Qual è la storia che li unisce? E che ne è stato di loro? Inseguire quel ricordo ingiallito diventa ben pres...

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: 1st, University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff, course: BA (Hons) Dance, language: English, abstract: This study investigates, through a detailed movement analysis of several choreographic works, whether Hofesh Shechter has created a new technique within contemporary dance today. The analysis utilises elements from both Adshead's (1988) model for movement analysis an...

Discover the novel that has broken a thousand hearts...Tina Craig works all the hours she can and volunteers in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it - a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever.Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right...

The Kindle bestselling author returns with her second novel, The Secret - a beautiful, tearjerking novel which will be cherished by all those thousands of readers who lost their hearts to The Letter.

A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body, by a highly-regarded social historian and biographer. Hughes's two most recent books, "The Short Life & Long Times Of Mrs Beeton" and "George Eliot: The Last Victorian", were turned into major dramas by the BBC.

The First World War claimed over 995, 000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Bradford offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it describes local reaction to the outbreak of war,

Kathryn Hughes sympathetically explores the irony behind Mrs Beeton's public and private image in this highly readable and informative study of Victorian style. Far from being a stoical, middle-aged matron, Bella Beeton in fact was only 25 years old when she created the guide to successful family living, and sadly died at the age of 28 from (contrary to her parents' belief) bad hygiene.

In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton's Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva of the modern age--and explores the life of the book itself. Isabella Beeton was a twenty-on...

Brings the Victorians back to life in this groundbreaking and eye-opening account that helps us to understand how the Victorians lived their lives. From Queen Victoria's hygiene problem to Darwin and his iconic beard.

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