John Barleycorn: 'Alcoholic Memoirs' (London Jack)(Paperback)

John Barleycorn: 'Alcoholic Memoirs' (London Jack)(Paperback)

Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available

John Barleycorn - Jack London - e-kniha

eBook: Není mnoho románů, které i po více než sto letech předkládají v každé kapitole tak dramatické a působivé obrázky ze života jednotlivce i společnosti, líčí humorné příběhy a zároveň obsahují i docela aktuální filozofické úvahy tak, jak to činí Jack London ve

Bellevue Memoirs (Beaulieu John A.)(Paperback)

Bellevue Memoirs is a collection of Dr. John Beaulieu's stories of patients and the experiences of working with them as a researcher and therapist at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital. After years of being with patients inside and outside the hospital, he realized Bellevue is Everywhere. Bellevue

Memoirs of Montparnasse (Glassco John)(Paperback)

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father

Smoke Chase (Callan Jack)(Paperback)

A bomb goes off at the Tobacco Market, London. John Chase, ex-Fusilier and Red Marine, is wrongly arrested. Along with Burns, a union official who has confessed to the bombing, he is taken to The Warrior, a prison hulk moored on the Thames. Discovering that he and Burns are to be murdered, Chase

Blue Watch (Harvey John)(Paperback)

1940. Like most of his London contemporaries, 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated into the countryside to escape a city menaced by bombardment. But Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his father, an auxiliary fireman with 'Blue Watch', and experiences the London

Ashland & Vine (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history - a lost lover, a family scarred by war - but of the American century

One of the Few: The Memoirs of Wing Commander Ted 'Shippy' Shipman Afc (Shipman John)(Paperback)

The Iron Heel (London Jack)(Paperback)

Drinking Life (London Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Cleland John)(Paperback)

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, commonly known as Fanny Hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed it in 1749. The Bishop of London called the work 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners' and James Boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and

Mank: An Original Screenplay (Fincher Jack)(Paperback)

David Fincher's Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane. Starring Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz, Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies, Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst and Tom Burke as Orson

Mies In London (SELF JACK)(Paperback / softback)

Survey of London (Stow John)(Paperback / softback)

John Stow first published his 'Survey of London' in 1598 during the reign of Elizabeth I. His detailed description of the city and its suburbs was an immediate success when it first appeared and has remained a popular classic of English history ever

Straight White Male (Niven John)(Paperback / softback)

Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid

The Road (London Jack)(Paperback)

During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others-homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of

Call of the Wild (London Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Acorn-Planter & Tales of the Fish Patrol (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from

Park Life: The Memoirs of a Royal Parks Gamekeeper (Bartram John)(Paperback)

'Retire? You can't retire ' Sir David Attenborough told John Bartram, when the man who has been gamekeeper and senior wildlife officer for Richmond Park for the past 30 years announced his intention to step away from the role, bidding farewell to the iconic park which has been his home, the

Unspeakable: The Autobiography (Bercow John)(Paperback)

Candid. Controversial. Gripping. The fascinating memoirs of the former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, one of the most famous people in politics in the last

Once Were Warriors (Duff Alan)(Paperback / softback)

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the

The People of the Abyss (London Jack)(Paperback)

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London's poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss bears witness to the difficulties faced by hundreds and thousands of people every day in one of

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Cleland John)(Paperback)

Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from

Business Biographies and Memoirs: 6 Manuscripts: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson (MacGregor Jr.)(Paperback)