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  • Passageways

    The story of a New Zealand family

    de Ann Thwaite ...
    The author's eight great-grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate and Oliver. She looks at their reasons for migration, how they fared once settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching and surveying. Both of her parents were graduates of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Secret Garden

    The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson)

    de Ann Thwaite ...
    The definitive and revealing biography of the author of The Secret Garden.Frances Hodgson Burnett’s favourite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she emigrated with her family to Tennessee because of the financial problems caused by the cotton famine. From a young age she published her stories to help ... Leer más

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  • Goodbye Christopher Robin

    A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

    The true story of the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and his son, the real-life Christopher Robin, now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award–winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers.After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a ... Leer más

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    Goodbye Christopher Robin

    A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

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    5 hora 47 minutos

    Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers.After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Beyond the Secret Garden

    The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

    de Ann Thwaite ...
    Narrado por Anne Flosnik ...

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    12 hora 18 minutos

    Frances Hodgson Burnett's favorite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she emigrated with her family to Tennessee because of the financial problems caused by the cotton famine. From a young age she published her stories to help the family make ends meet. Only after she married did she publish Little Lord ... Leer más

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    The Castle on Sunset

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    **The definitive—and salacious—history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” —Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild**Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second ... Leer más

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    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused and inspired readers in all languages since their original publication in the nineteenth century, and have been adapted countless times for the stage and screen.Dickens: History in an ... Leer más

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  • The Perfect Summer

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    A "sparkling social history" that brings the twilight of the Edwardian era to life ( Entertainment Weekly).The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer just over a century ago, when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. That summer of 1911, a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks ... Leer más

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  • P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

    The definitive edition of the letters—many previously unpublished—of England’s greatest comic writer.P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic masterpieces of all time. So, naturally, we find the same humor and wit in his letters. He offers hilarious accounts of living in England and France, the effects of prohibition, and how to deal with publishers. He even recounts cricket matches played ... Leer más

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