My Secret PlanetA&C Black, 16.07.2012 - 350 Seiten In this autobiography, Denis Healey reveals the breadth of his interests and his knowledge of the arts. In this book, he takes time to look at the literary influences that have shaped his life - his comments are interlaced with quotations from poetry, fiction, philosophy and history, providing a guide to help readers rediscover books he or she may once have read, following onto new authors. |
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... tell me what girls were like. The William books, all of which I read more than once, did not paint an encouraging picture. Violet Elizabeth, with her constant threat to 'thcream and thcream' till she's sick, seemed all too credible ...
... tell me what girls were like. The William books, all of which I read more than once, did not paint an encouraging picture. Violet Elizabeth, with her constant threat to 'thcream and thcream' till she's sick, seemed all too credible ...
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... straight to the hill-tops.' He handed me the half-sheet of notepaper. On it were written three words – 'Kasredin', 'cancer' and 'V.I'. 'That is the only clue we possess,' he said. 'I cannot construe it, but I can tell you the story. We.
... straight to the hill-tops.' He handed me the half-sheet of notepaper. On it were written three words – 'Kasredin', 'cancer' and 'V.I'. 'That is the only clue we possess,' he said. 'I cannot construe it, but I can tell you the story. We.
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... tell a tale. But they find out many things, and they count the game worth the candle. They have told us of the star rising in the West, but they could give us no details. All but one – the best of them. He had been working between Mosul ...
... tell a tale. But they find out many things, and they count the game worth the candle. They have told us of the star rising in the West, but they could give us no details. All but one – the best of them. He had been working between Mosul ...
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... Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering.
... Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering.
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... tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Finally I won my scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford and prepared to take my first step into the adult world ...
... tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Finally I won my scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford and prepared to take my first step into the adult world ...
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OXFORD | |
THE | |
POLITICS | |
THE ARTS | |
NATURE | |
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | |
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DEATH | |
THE SPIRIT | |
Epilogue | |
Postscript | |
A Note on the Author Footnote | |
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artists beauty bloody Bloomsbury set called century cloud colour D-Day Dodgers D.H. Lawrence dark death described doth dream earth Emily Dickinson eyes face father fear feel flowers friends Gerard Manley Hopkins green hand happy head hear heart heaven Heine Heinrich Heine hill Hopkins human Immanuel Kant Kant Labour later light live look Lukeria man’s master mind morning mother mountains moved nature never night o’er once Oxford painter painting philosophy play pleasure poem poetry poets politician politics Quentin Bell seemed Shakespeare sing songs soul sweet T.S. Eliot thee there’s things Thomas Traherne thou thought Timothy Winters Tom Paulin Traherne trees Virginia Woolf walk Wendy Cope William Blake wind woman women words writing wrote Yeats young