Fools, Knaves and Heroes
Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1694 |
Release | : 1998-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0788173928 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1694 |
Release | : 1998-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0788173928 |
Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Politics in literature |
ISBN | : 9780330316026 |
Author | : Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9780312458157 |
Author | : Jack Glenn Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Victoria Schofield |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300182147 |
Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political operators. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the inter-war years and knew all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He also was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI's official biographer, he met and interviewed all the major leaders in the post-war period, including Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and members of the Royal Family; he also supervised young Jack Kennedy's master's thesis. With the first biography of Wheeler-Bennett Victoria Schofield has written a book tha will fascinate anyone interested in twentieth-century European history.
Author | : Thomas GILBERT (Fellow of Peter-House, Cambridge.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1747 |
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Author | : Dick Francis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393031027 |
A collection of fourteen classic horse racing stories.
Author | : Vicki K. Janik |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1998-05-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313033579 |
Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466817461 |
From "one of the top ten storytellers in the world" (Los Angeles Times), Jeffrey Archer's The Fourth Estate sees two power-hungry men prepared to risk everything in a battle to control the largest newspaper empire in the world. Richard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler's atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits—skills that served him well in peacetime. Having turned a struggling Berlin newspaper into a success story seemingly overnight, Armstrong made a name for himself—and more than a few enemies along the way... Meanwhile, young Keith Townsend enters the international arena, armed with a world-class education and a sense of entitlement to match. Charged with growing his father's newspaper business into a global media force, he and Armstrong are bound to become sworn rivals—until they arrive at the edge of collapse and will do whatever it takes to stay alive in the game...or die trying.
Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250172519 |
Heads You Win is international #1 bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel, with a final twist that will shock even his most ardent of fans. Leningrad, Russia, 1968: From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin... In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow Alexander through triumph and defeat as he sets out on parallel lives as Alex in New York and Sasha in London. As this unique story unfolds, both come to realize that to find their destiny they must face the past they left behind as Alexander in Russia.