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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667
by Samuel PepysSeptember 1667 diary of the English writer.
Diary of Samuel Pepys -- Volume 01: Preface and Life
by Samuel PepysRichard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appetite for living. “As a human document the Diary is literally unique,” notes Le Gallienne. “It will have a still greater value for its historical importance.”
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume 8
by Samuel PepysThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Diary Of Section VIII, Of The American Field Ambulance Service
by Anon."As the quick transportation of wounded from the front to the nearest hospital is so great a factor in saving their lives, the American Ambulance Field Service was organized soon after the beginning of the war, and during the subsequent two years its achievement has fully demonstrated the value of its purpose. It has now in the field more than 300 motor ambulances. These are driven by young American volunteers, most of whom are graduates of American universities. To them has been successfully entrusted the vitally important matter of bringing the wounded in the shortest possible time from the trenches to places where the first surgical help can be given. Upon this first surgical help largely depends, naturally, the chance of the wounded surviving long enough to reach the base hospitals. These ambulances are grouped in sections of twenty to thirty cars, and attached to the French Armies. They carry wounded between the front and the Army Hospitals within the Army Zone.The French Army has cited these Sections more than twenty times for distinguished services; has conferred the Croix de Guerre, for bravery, on sixty-six members of the Service, and upon two, the Médaille Militaire, the highest honor for military valor in France."--From the American Ambulance Service Leaflet included in the book.
A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor
by Rachel JohnsonRachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.'Appointed editor of The Lady - the oldest women's weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you've never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants?Will Rachel save The Lady - or sink it?'Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing' Sunday Times'She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis' Mrs Julia Budworth, co-owner, The Lady'A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described' Guardian'HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about The Lady for reasons other than nannies' Piers MorganRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin.
Diary Of An Undocumented Immigrant
by Ramón Tianguis" Pérez Dick J. ReavisThis autobiographical account of survival as a "wetback" or "mojado," affords the reader an unexpurgated look at the United States, its economy and culture from the perspective of the undocumented worker.
A Diary to My Babies: Journeying through Pregnancy Loss
by Carmen GroverA six-year journey: six losses and three beautiful angels. After losing her son Jude in August 2020, a spark was ignited in Carmen Grover as she read through every diary that she kept for each of her babies. Rather than have them remain stacked under her bed, Carmen decided that her journals would make a difference. The result has been an honest and poignant compilation of the ups and downs of Carmen' s experience with pregnancy loss, from rolling in the grass and convulsing on the kitchen floor in her cycle of grief, to seeing the strength she could gain in the signs and special moments all around her. A Diary to My Babies: Journeying Through Pregnancy Loss shines a light on the darkness of pregnancy loss, while also showing there is no right way to grieve. And through her incredible journey, Carmen hopes the story of her family and her babies just might help others to heal.
Días de perros: Cuentos reales sobre divertidas experiencias perrunas
by Leroy Vincent Michelle Vergara R.Días de perros es un libro lleno de historias de personas reales sobre experiencias perrunas, divertidas y vergonzosas. Este libro es excelente para cualquier persona que busque reír o recordar a su perro favorito. Te reirás y podrás decir “a mí me pasó eso”.
Dias Divertidos com Cães: Contos Reais de Experiências Engraçadas com Cães
by Leroy Vincent Glaubert BarrosFun Dog Days é um livro cheio de histórias verdadeiras de histórias de pessoas reais sobre experiências engraçasdas e constrangedoras envolvendo cães. Este livro é ótimo para qualquer um que procure boas risadas ou lembrar seu cachorro favorito. Você vai rir e talvez até dizer "isso aconteceu comigo".
Los días grises: La memoria de un niño de la guerra
by Isasi-Isasmendi, AntonioLos días grises reconstruye unos años de lucha desde la mirada de un hombre que entonces experimentaba como niño la pérdida de la inocencia. Todo el mundo tiene derecho a su memoria. Cada individuo la ejerce libremente, legitimado por la experiencia de las horas vividas, de los momentos pasados, del tiempo que se consume y que para uno mismo siempre son historia. En esta ocasión el cineasta Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi ha creído que era bueno manifestar la suya propia, ahora que su oficio de hacer películas queda lejos, ahora que está sentado frente al mar de Ibiza en compañía de su perro, aunque sólo sea para convertir la nostalgia en melancolía, la imaginación del pasado en la belleza de un tiempo que regresa y que dibuja tímidas sonrisas. El presente de aquellos días grises de la guerra que habitan entre sus recuerdos y que se proyectan sobre las olas. Y junto a sus hermosas palabras, llenas de emoción y experiencia,rememoramos en su compañía los pequeños avatares que constituyen el tejido de la vida y que alcanzan toda su profundidad en la escalera de casa, en la esquina del barrio, en el rostro de los vecinos, en la ropa íntima femenina colgada en los tendederos del patio o en los juegos eróticos con una niña en el rellano. Todas las cosas grandes están hechas de cosas pequeñas. Mediante esta urdimbre cotidiana de sensaciones primarias Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi atraviesa la Guerra Civil y la guerra europea, involucradas en la propia pubertad sin saber si era más importante el desembarco de Normandía que la primera caricia femenina aceptada con todo el sabor del pecado. «Los días grises en Barcelona desde 1936 hasta 1945, donde Antonio Isasi pasó la niñez, es una memoria histórica. Después de tantas calamidades, un placer.»Manuel Vicent
Días simétricos
by Bob PopTras el éxito de Maricón perdido, Premio Ondas a la mejor serie de comedia 2022, Bob Pop vuelve a la narrativa con su diario más personal. «Bob Pop es nuestra Fran Lebowitz». Laura Barrachina, El Ojo Crítico «Escribe como habla, habla como piensa y piensa muy bien». Andreu Buenafuente Dice El País que «Roberto Enríquez, el hombre que hay tras Bob Pop, es un ejemplo perfecto de que eso que llamamos identidad está hecha de lo que hemos leído, de las pelis que hemos visto o de las canciones que hemos oído en bucle en la misma medida que de las muescas que nos dejaron los que nos amaron y los que no». Estos diarios llegan para confirmarlo, hechos de lecturas, reflexiones, películas, trabajo, dinero, sexo y enfermedad. Bob Pop firma aquí una defensa feroz de la memoria y del derecho a la posteridad. Un relato tan crudo como lleno de estallidos de esplendor sobre la vida real, el dolor físico y emocional y una insaciable curiosidad intelectual. Un homenaje, también, a todos los creadores que le han inspirado. La crítica ha dicho:«Un creador que, de una forma brillante, se ha desnudado delante de todos: [...] un ser tocado por la inteligencia, la mordacidad, la sutileza y una dialéctica digna de admiración».José Luis Latorre «Un acorde de autenticidad a la vez dramático, conmovedor, lúdico y lúcido».Ignacio Echevarría Sobre Mansos:«El arte de narrar apenas seis horas de una noche que concentra la vida anterior y la vida exterior, la de la piel del personaje. Escrita al modo de una tragedia ligera, no escarnece a los personajes sino que los comprende y así sugiere entre líneas una rectificación, la difícil sabiduría para un tiempo diferente».Belén Gopegui «Supongo que lo último que se hace en una sauna gay es sentarse a reflexionar sobre lo que es justo y decente. Bob lo hace en este libro y su autoanálisis es despiadado, lúcido y tremendamente humano. [...] Un libro tremendamente original, socialmente tiene un valor incalculable y la escritura es maravillosa».Christina Rosenvinge «Ahora Roberto y Bob se han encontrado y están en paz. [...] Con Mansos y Maricón perdido, conformamos, al otro lado del espejo, un juego de múltiples caras en el que es posible que Bob invente mucho, pero todo es verdad. Una verdad difícil, dura, llena de violencia, en la que al final prevalece el amor, la ternura y la belleza».Laura Barrachina, Las mañanas de RNE«Con un lenguaje ágil y preciso hasta rozar el vértigo, Enríquez narra el periplo nocturno de un joven acomodado, entre el vodevil y la epifanía, en una sauna gay de Madrid».Carlos Primo, El País «Un ejercicio de honestidad».David Noriega, ElDiario«Bob Pop son dos palíndromos breves que encierran lo mucho vivido y lo mucho imaginado».Héctor Llanos Martínez, El País
The Diaspora Sonnets
by Oliver de la PazLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America. In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Oliver de la Paz’s father, in a last fit of desperation to leave the Philippines, threw his papers at an immigration clerk, hoping to get them stamped. He was prepared to leave, having already quit his job and having exchanged pesos for dollars; but he couldn’t anticipate the challenges of the migratory lifestyle he and his family would soon adopt in America. Their search for a sense of “home” and boundless feelings of deracination are evocatively explored by award-winning poet de la Paz in this formally inventive collection of sonnets. Broken into three parts—“The Implacable West,” “Landscape with Work, Rest, and Silence,” and “Dwelling Music”—The Diaspora Sonnets eloquently invokes the perseverance and bold possibilities of de la Paz’s displaced family as they strove for stability and belonging. In order to establish her medical practice, de la Paz’s mother had to relocate often for residencies. As they moved from state to state his father worked to support the family. Sonnets thus flit from coast to coast, across prairies and deserts, along the way musing on shadowy dreams of a faraway country. The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts—from the restrained use of rhyme in “Diaspora Sonnet in the Summer with the River Water Low” and carefully metered “Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father’s Uncertainty and Nothing Else” to the hybridized “Diaspora Sonnet at the Feeders Before the Freeze.” A series of “Chain Migration” poems viscerally punctuate the sonnets, giving witness to the labor and sacrifice of the immigrant experience, as do a series of hauntingly beautiful pantoums. Written with the deft touch of a virtuoso and the compassion of a loving son, The Diaspora Sonnets powerfully captures the peculiar pangs of a diaspora “that has left and is forever leaving.”
Diciembre otra vez
by Santiago CruzUn testimonio honesto y emotivo de la vida intensa y azarosa de Santiago Cruz, uno de los artistas más destacados del panorama musical. Detrás de las canciones, de los conciertos, del estrellato y de inolvidables anécdotas hay una verdad menos glamurosa: la historia de un hombre que se ha enfrentado a los abismos que surgen con las adicciones, a frustraciones y pruebas difíciles, a situaciones que han llegado, incluso, a poner en riesgo su vida y la de su familia. Estas son las experiencias de alguien como usted, como yo; de una persona que comprende que cada episodio de la vida cobra mucho sentido cuando se mira en retrospectiva; estas son las memorias de un hombre que, a sus escasos 45 años, comparte su historia para inspirar a otros y de alguna manera hacerles saber que no están solos.
Dick Enberg: Oh My!
by John Mcenroe Dick Enberg Jim PerryHow did the most recognizable voice in broadcasting get his start? By asking for a mop. In this humorous, poignant, and well written autobiography, Dick Enberg shares the stories behind the voice of sports in America. A tireless worker whose boyish enthusiasm for athletics has never diminished, Enberg ?rst walked into a radio station in 1956 to apply for a janitorial position. He wound up on the air instead and a legend was created. In the half-century that Enberg has been in the sportscasting business he has called everything from the World Series to the Super Bowl. Traveling across the country and around the world, Enberg has called football games in weather so frigid that his coffee froze before he could drink it, been challenged to a ?ght by an irate baseball player, led the Notre Dame band in a rendition of "The 1812 Overture," and been threatened with ejection at Wimbledon because he was shouting too loudly into his microphone. Those stories and hundreds more are told in Dick Enberg: Oh My! with wit and candor, as Enberg not only relives some of sports' greatest moments, but takes readers into the booth and behind the camera. "Sportscasting is a kid's dream come true," he says, "which is one of the reasons that I keep doing it. I can't let my dream go. I'm still in love with what I do."
The Dick, Kerr's Ladies
by Barbara JacobsIn 1917 a new sport was born in the munitions factories of Britain. Within two years women's football had become one of the most popular spectator sports, and the most famous team was the Dick, Kerr's Ladies, of Preston, Lancashire. The factory girls became media stars, touring France, and then America, where they found themselves teamed against men. Abruptly, in 1921, the Football Association banned the sport, fearing that it detracted from the popularity of the men's game: the prohibition lasted for half a century. Dick, Kerr's Ladies survived, but its glory years were 1917-22, when its star players were Alice Woods, a calm but competitive world-class sprinter and miner's daughter from the politically active mining community of St Helens, and Lily Parr, who was taller than most men by the time she was 14. Barbara Jacobs, who shares their birthplace, St Helens, tells the story of the two women and the team, and what lay behind the runaway success of their sport - the closure of men's League games in the Great War, the charitable nature of the game, the need to provide sporting activities for munitionettes. She reveals too, the political and social issues that led to its shameful and carefully orchestrated demise. Intertwining the history of the tough Lancashire women with a vibrant commentary on their daily lives, Jacobs introduces us to the Lancastrian love of a 'reet good do', Blackpool and brass bands, pickled eggs and tripe and onions, and much more in a charming yet clear-eyed book that captures the true spirit of dissidence, hope, and laughter.
Dick Turpin: Fact & Fiction
by Jonathan OatesWhy does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefully researched study, was radically different. He was a robber, torturer and killer, a gangster whose posthumous reputation has eclipsed the truth about his life. In the early 1700s Turpin progressed from butcher’s apprentice and poacher to become a member of the Gregory gang which terrorized householders around London by robbery and violence. Then came his two-year career as a highwayman robbing travelers, his partnership with Matthew King whom he may have killed in Whitechapel, his murder Thomas Morris in Epping Forest, and his eventual capture and execution. Jonathan Oates recounts the episodes in Turpin’s short, brutal life in dramatic detail, basing his narrative on contemporary sources – trial records and newspapers in particular – and he traces the development of the Turpin legend over 250 years through novels, ballads, plays, television and film. The Dick Turpin who emerges from this rigorous and scholarly biography is in many ways a more interesting man than the legend suggests.
Dick Van Dyke: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book Biographies)
by Christy WebsterDream big with a Little Golden Book biography about the beloved TV and movie star, Dick Van Dyke who has been entertaining audiences for more than 70 years. It's the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages!This Little Golden Book about Dick Van Dyke—the multi-talented star of movies including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the classic TV comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show—is an inspiring read-aloud for young kids as well as fans of any age!Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: • Julie Andrews • Carol Burnett • Mel Brooks • Keanu Reeves • Lucille Ball
Dick Vitale's Living A Dream: Reflections on 25 Years Sitting in the Best Seat in the House
by Dick Weiss Mike Krzyzewski Dick VitaleSince joining ESPN in 1979, Dick Vitale has become the senior spokesman for college hoops. In Living A Dream, Vitale reveals details about his start at ESPN and shares his feelings about the most important people in the college basketball world. A must-have for any basketball fan.
Dick Waterman: A Life in Blues (American Made Music Series)
by Tammy L. TurnerGrowing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century. A close proximity to Greenwich Village in the 1960s fueled Waterman's growing interest in folk music and led to an unlikely trip that resulted in the rediscovery of Delta blues artist Son House in 1964. Waterman began efforts to revive House’s music career and soon became his manager. He subsequently founded Avalon Productions, the first management agency focused on representing black blues musicians. In addition to booking and managing, he worked tirelessly to protect his clients from exploitation, demanded competitive compensation, and fought for royalties due them. During his career, Waterman befriended and worked with numerous musicians, including such luminaries as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. During the early years of his career, he documented the work of scores of musicians through his photography and gained fame as a blues photographer. This authorized biography is the crescendo of years of original research as well as extensive interviews conducted with Waterman and those who knew and worked with him.
Dickens: A Biography (Princeton Legacy Library #1541)
by Fred KaplanThe engaging biography of one of the most celebrated and enduring authors of Western literature Charles Dickens grew up in harsh poverty and became one of the world&’s most beloved authors. Biographer Fred Kaplan takes a brilliant, multifaceted approach in his examination of Dickens&’s life: his fraught marriage and relationships; the ever-present effects of his humble beginnings; his extensive, but carefully managed, public life; and his friendships with famous writers. Dickens unearths the complex passions that drove both the man and his work, illuminating why the legendary author—just like the characters in his fiction—has remained a mammoth figure in Western literature.
Dickens and Christmas
by Lucinda HawksleyDickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically to strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor mans child, and it began the Victorians obsession with Christmas.This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickenss most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas. It takes the readers through the seasonal short stories he wrote, for both adults and children, includes much-loved festive excerpts from his novels, uses contemporary newspaper clippings, and looks at Christmas writings by Dickens contemporaries. To give an even more personal insight, readers can discover how the Dickens family itself celebrated Christmas, through the eyes of Dickenss unfinished autobiography, family letters, and his childrens memoirs.In Victorian Britain, the celebration of Christmas lasted for 12 days, ending on 6 January, or _Twelfth Night_. Through Dickens and Christmas, readers will come to know what it would have been like to celebrate Christmas in 1812, the year in which Dickens was born. They will journey through the Christmases Dickens enjoyed as a child and a young adult, through to the ways in which he and his family celebrated the festive season at the height of his fame. It also explores the ways in which his works have gone on to influence how the festive season is celebrated around the globe.
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
by Nick Hornby&“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o&’ the Times.&” —VogueFrom the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star PrinceEvery so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it&’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince.Equipped with a fan&’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries—each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time.When Prince&’s 1987 record Sign o&’ the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren&’t on the original— Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music.Examining the two artists&’ personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries &“lit up the world.&” In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art.