Strangers brothers volumes

Buy Strangers and Brothers 3 Volumes By: C. P. Snow **Complete set** for R1,000.00

Paperback. English. Penguin. 1967. In good condition. The fourth in the Strangers and Brothers series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms.

 Profusely illustrated by Sir John Gilbert.  Engraved by Brothers Dalziel.  Description:  C. Arthur Pearson, 1860.  First edition thus.  3 Volumes.  Hard cover, blue cloth boards and gilt page tops.  Gilt lettering on spine and gilt crest on front boards.  Ex Library copies.   A fair amount of foxing and library stamps on prelims and end papers and scattered throughout.  Foxed page edges. .Insect damage to rear ep's and cracked hinges to vol one.  Some water stains and blemishes throughout.  I have also tried to document the damages in pics below.  This is a handsome, tightly bound set, copiously and attractively illustrated throughout, containing the complete works of Shakespeare.   Heavy set, POSTAGE R65.00.                                

Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward by Paul Johnson, 2010 Softcover, 228 pages Published 2010 by Harper The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history. In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of commanding figures from the annals of Western history. Now Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing insight to the finest wits of the Western world. His is a selective survey across history and includes a diverse cast of legendary humorists who got a grand kick out of life, including Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W. C. Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber. Including darkest humor, broad satire, bawdy wit, biting sarcasm, and more, this entertaining and erudite collection showcases some of our sharpest minds reflecting on the human condition's follies, pretensions, and foibles with that greatest of gifts: humor.

“All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules...” It’s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice? Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970's Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan. But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers; how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others. The Great Wide Open is an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself. This product ships within 3-5 working days.