LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donald measham

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  • Jane Austen
    Donald Measham
    Bicentenary rewriting by Donald Measham of his ’Jane Austen out of the blue’, with due regard to Austen’s last long sentence in her final work of fiction.From the Manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished SANDITON:'Charlotte had leisure to look about & to be told by Mrs Parker that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed above the Mantelpiece, caught the eye...
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    13,34 €

  • Jane Austen out of the blue
    Donald Measham
    Towards the end of January 1817 a lady novelist, less well-known then than she is now begins a novel on an unusual subject: the rise of ’Sanditon’ as a sea-side resort. She dies with only a quarter of it written. What was going on in the writer’s mind? What could have happened in her story next? Sanditon is a place where anyone (real or fictitious) may turn up for the water cur...
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    19,71 €

  • A Dream of Fair Women
    Donald Measham
    The book stems from John Ruskin’s experience of the years 1877 and 1878. It has been read with interest and enjoyment by a notable Ruskin scholar, a successor of his as Master of the Guild of St George. It is a novel - in which everything that is said to have been written by the real-life characters is true; and everything that they say, invented - but plausible; based on resea...
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    31,15 €

  • Fourteen Revisited
    Donald Measham
    Includes the entire text of Donald Measham’s ’Fourteen: Autobiography of an Age Group’ (Cambridge University Press 1965) one of the classic collections of the UK Children’s Writing movement. It was widely reviewed: ’D C Measham, an understanding and perceptive teacher in a British secondary school has given us all a warm and touching view of young people. In vigorous straightf...
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  • Jane Austen and the Polite Puzzle
    Donald Measham
    This is a Jane Austen entertainment, part documentary; part well-grounded conjecture. You are asked to entertain an idea; the idea that Jane Austen as a girl played a lost (but genuine) card game called ’The New impenetrable Secret or Polite Puzzle.’ You will find yourselves involved in a Jane Austen Discovery - appreciating the double significance of this phrase, as you see th...
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    24,95 €