A Short Walk From Harrods

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448208319
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, A Short Walk from Harrods is volume six of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs Forced to return to London because of his manager and his partner's rapidly deteriorating health, Bogarde learned to re-adapt to life in the west London neighbourhoods that groomed him as an aspiring young actor. With his fame fading and his descent into old age, the entire process had become rather difficult to endure. He writes of stalking the streets like an 'apologetic turtle' and avoiding society, announcing that he would, from then on, only do 'matinees' because he is too tired to go out in the evenings. Although this memoir finds Bogarde at his most vulnerable, he retains the lucidity and charm that makes his writing so enjoyable. As ever, he expresses a deep sentimentality that ensures no detail goes unnoticed or unfelt.

Author : Phyllis McGinley
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670642373
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Phyllis McGinley and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1951-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745135816
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This part of the author's autobiography describes events in an area of France which is now altered almost beyond recognition. This is his tribute to a time and area that he greatly loved. It is also a tribute to the memory of a valiant and courageous man who loved it with an equal passion.

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Orderly Man written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Engelse (film)acteur, betreffende de periode 1970-1982

Author : John Coldstream
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780221746
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirk Bogarde written by John Coldstream and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. As an actor Dirk Bogarde was a Rank contract artist and matinee idol who became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working on films such as Death in Venice, The Servant and Providence. Fiercely protective of his privacy, and that of his partner of 40 years, he left England in the 1960s to live abroad, where he carved a second career for himself as a bestselling author. Although Bogarde destroyed many of his papers, John Coldstream has had unique access to his personal archives and to friends and family who knew him well. The result is a fascinating biography of a complex and intriguing personality.

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208270
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Take-Off written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the seventh and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs During his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also felt, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the war's end, when these youthful, but hardened comrades-in-arms were dispersed to find their feet in a traumatised world. Less than a year after demob, Bogarde found himself starring in his third feature film with car, chauffeur and five-storey house in Chester Row. He had somehow 'arrived' in the movies.

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678030
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirk Bogarde written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles. Beginning with an expose of gay life in post-war Britain and his relationship with partner/manager, Anthony Forwood, each chapter explores Bogarde's performances by genre--his juvenile delinquent movies, his military roles, his contribution to Basil Dearden's overtly gay thriller Victim (1961), and his "outsider" roles in such films as The Servant (1963), The Fixer (1968) and Despair (1978). Bogarde's "camp" cinema, espionage thrillers and various roles as artists are also examined, along with the misogyny of the Doctor films and his later television work.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0375704884
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Being Once Done written by Ruth Rendell and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own. A compelling story of mysterious identity and untimely death, Murder Being Once Done is Rendell at her most sublime. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208297
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Time Being written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Such a companionable writer you just don't want to let him go' - The Times _______________ First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together Dirk Bogarde's published work outside of his novels and autobiographies. In 1988, Dirk Bogarde returned from two idyllic decades in France to live in England, due to his partner's serious illness. Shortly afterwards, the then literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, admiring the 'lucid frankness' of Bogarde's memoirs, invited him to review some books for the newspaper. This collection includes the famous article 'A Short Walk from Harrods', which Bogarde wrote for the Independent on Sunday soon after returning to London. In it he describes what it feels like to walk among familiar ghosts and to dine with those he considers 'the living dead'. A momentous review of three Holocaust books is accompanied by an article in which he describes the extraordinary postbag he received from its readers. In another piece which had a profound impact, he gives forceful vent to his support for euthanasia. It stands as a testimony to a wonderfully varied life, a wide range of interests and sympathies, and a remarkable gift for writing.