Térence - Libros y biografía

"De grands esprits ont exprimé la mélancolie qui a saisi l'Occident à partir du XIXe siècle. Schopenhauer bien sûr, Leopardi, Senancour qui baptisa son vague à l'âme "le mal du siècle", ou Kierkegaard...

Within the genre of financial selfhelp, 'Trusts A Practical Guide' is an invaluable and rare resource for financial experts and members of the public alike who need a reference work on a subject that...

We are familiar with the theory of diversification - asset allocation, but in a volatile market environment, the practice is very different.  This book summarizes the most important findings from research...

Owen Keane, failed seminarian, once hoped to find cosmic answers in human mysteries, but he's traded that quest for a 9-to-5 job at a New York law firm and a quiet life. Quiet, that is, until a cryptic...

How do you top your best work? In Hollywood, you make a sequel. That's the plan in 1947 when filming begins on a follow-up to the wartime romance Passage to Lisbon. The screenwriter is accused of being...

Two years after witnessing a devastating suicide that left him splattered with blood, Owen Keane, failed seminarian turned metaphysical detective, travels to Kenya to help Philip Swickard, an old classmate....

Owen Keane, former seminarian turned metaphysical detective, is in over his head at the Jersey shore. Hired to help a grieving widower who refuses to rejoin the world, Keane finds himself in a resort...

Owen Keane, a seminarian in the wilds of southern Indiana, is at risk of failure. When an insightful priest offers him a chance at redemption by asking him to find a runaway classmate, mystery addict...

Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. In the play, Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a formidable lady...

A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF bomber pilot Teddy...

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.The play opens with the failed suicide...

A double bill by Terence Rattigan, featuring two plays of striking contrast that display his astonishing range as a writer.A rarely seen comic gem, Harlequinade follows a classical theatre company whose...

Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney)...

Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since, including...

Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of Rattigan's birth.Written with his fellow student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford, First...

Terence Rattigan's sparkling comedy about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions, French Without Tears ran for over a thousand performances in...

A true and compelling story of two people who discovered their deep passionate love for Africa and for each other, set in the mid 1960's and 1970's. This love drove them on to such diverse and fascinating...

The Real German War Plan, 1904–14 fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before the First World War. On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German...

Like the Battle of Verdun, the Battle of the Frontiers has often been ignored by military historians, who assumed that the French lost the first battles of the World War I because they launched suicidal...

Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia.Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an...

Conventional histories of the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid rifle fire mowed down rows of German troops: the staggering...

Choc des cultures entre le Moyen-Orient et l'Amérique L’odyssée de la famille Ward en Iran à la recherche d’un être cher ressemble à un rêve éveillé. Avec pour seuls indices une photo jaunie, un nom propre...

Eles estão presentes nas ruas das médias e das grandes cidades do Brasil. Um contingente populacional desassistido cujo número, embora crescente, torna-se invisível aos nossos olhos. E não nos importamos...

The book is a comprehensive guide offering essential insights, practical strategies, and valuable resources to navigate extensive travel in countries across the globe, with an in-depth understanding of...

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During the Second World War, two young Irishmen served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany, swearing the oath of the Waffen-SS and wearing the organisation's uniform and even its distinctive blood group...

The Tenant's Tale is a fascinating chronicle of life in rural Ireland during the 19th century. This narrative spans virtually the whole of the 19th century, a period that has been the most traumatic in...

World  Travel (encompassing the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres of the Globe) can be a memorable and joyful experience.  Some travel experiences can last a "lifetime."  However, that...

The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends today’s...