Kilverts Diary

Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1784875716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's Diary written by Francis Kilvert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of passionate delight in the natural world and the glory of the changing seasons, his diaries are as generous, spontaneous and vivacious as Kilvert himself. He is an irresistible companion. This new edition of William Plomer’s original selection contains new archival material as well as a fascinating introduction illuminating Kilvert’s world and the history of the diaries. ‘One of the best books in English’ Sunday Times 'Kilvert has touched and delighted (and mildly shocked) readers of his diaries ever since they were first published. New readers are in for a treat' Alan Bennett

Author : DK
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0744020433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Diaries written by DK and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringing together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks, Remarkable Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most interesting people of the last two thousand years. Discover what it was like to build a pyramid, sail the seas with Magellan, travel into the heart of Africa, or serve on the Western Front. Find out how writers and artists planned their masterpieces, and how scientists developed their groundbreaking theories. Arranged chronologically, Remarkable Diaries takes you into the pages of the world's greatest diaries, notebooks, and letters, including those of Samuel Pepys, Henry-David Thoreau, the Goncourt brothers, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Frank. Stunning reproductions of the original notebooks and manuscripts are complemented by extracts and quotations, and illustrated features set the diaries in their cultural and historical context. Essential reading for everyone who is passionate about history and literature, Remarkable Diaries provides a fascinating insight into the everyday lives, thoughts, and feelings of men and women through the centuries.

Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447499395
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the REV. Francis Kilvert written by William Plomer and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938–40) Kilvert’s Diary has become established as a minor classic. Its recognized place among the very best of English diaries has been gained by special qualities. It is the work of a man with a watchful eye and a clear style: Kilvert has the uncommon gift of making one see vividly what he describes. His detailed picture of life in the English countryside in mid-Victorian times is unmatched, and every sentence he writes helps to build up a self-portrait so personal and intimate that one gets to know him like a friend. Kilvert reveals himself as an essentially modest, innocent, truthful and unworldly young man, sociable, and with a strong love of life and of landscape, with a sense of drama and a good vein of humour. His life was strongly affected by two things–his susceptibility to the beauty of young women and girls, and his lack of money and of what used to be called prospects. As a faithful country clergyman, he moved with equal ease among people of both the landowning and labouring classes, and by both was welcomed equally. His good nature and good manners, his vitality, his love of children, and his practical sympathy with the unfortunate, won him much affection. If he did not question the values of his own class, he was never indifferent to sufferings which they permitted, and did what he could, with his evidently magnetic presence and voice, to lessen those sufferings. He knew that not far from the convivial and copious dinners and picnics, the lively croquet and archery parties, could be found loneliness, squalor, and hunger, and sometimes murders and suicides.

Author : David Lockwood
Publisher : Border Lines
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francis Kilvert written by David Lockwood and published by Border Lines. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407048309
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Secret Diary written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully written and engaging teenage memoir: read all about Jacqueline's problems with her family, her first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager; learn all about the music and books she loved, her troubled school life and her parents' difficult relationship. Written in Jacqueline's usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating reading for her fans, and for anyone who's interested in what life in the UK was like in the fifties and sixties.

Author : Anthony Jennings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441118055
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Rectory written by Anthony Jennings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pevsner described the pairing of church and parsonage as a feature of the English village unparalleled on the Continent. John Betjeman saw the design of rectories and vicarages as highly influential on our architecture. Forsaken by the Church but coveted by the private buyer, this is the story of these quintessentially English houses, with their combination of fine architecture, charm and character, large gardens and often splendidly rural locations. The Old Rectory examines their history, their evolution through the centuries, their many and varied styles of architecture, and their place in our heritage. It also explores the contribution made to our culture by the clerical families who once occupied these houses, and the famous people and eccentrics who have been associated with them. Finally, it considers their current role, and what the future might hold.

Author : Kilvert's diary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's diary written by Kilvert's diary and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's Diary written by Robert Francis Kilvert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099528753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's Diary written by Francis Kilvert and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries- gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. The worthy heir to Pepys and Dorothy Wordsworth, Kilvert is an irresistible companion.

Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Francis Kilvert written by Robert Francis Kilvert and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: