The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Author: Rupert Brooke
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 24
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Author: Rupert Brooke
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jill Dawson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2009-01-22
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1848941439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him. What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure - and curse - of charisma.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781857996562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Archer
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mike Read
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1849548668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRupert Brooke, strikingly good-looking, effortlessly charming and prodigiously gifted, has become the tragic embodiment of the generation lost between 1914 and 1918. Upon the poet's tragic untimely death, Winston Churchill declared that 'we shall never see his like again', yet Brooke immortalised himself in his own poignant verse: 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'. Brooke died serving king and country on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, St George's Day 1915, en route to fight at Gallipoli. As the tributes poured in and the war gathered momentum, the press heralded him as a hero - a focal point for the nation's grief. Already an acclaimed poet and dramatist in his youth, his romantic war poetry contrasts starkly with the work of some of his more disillusioned contemporaries. But the private letters of 'the handsomest man in all of England' reveal a far more troubled, and often misunderstood, individual... In this updated edition of Forever England, Mike Read, founder of the Rupert Brooke Society, explores the poet's fascinating life and legacy. From a tangled web of secret affairs, literary circles, mental illness and a previously unknown lovechild emerges the intriguing personality and enduring poetry of Rupert Brooke - the voice of a country torn apart by war.
Author: Nigel Jones
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781860661778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as this book shows, the truth about Brooke was both more shocking and a lot more interesting. Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of it unpublished, this new biography brings out the full story behind one of the century's most enduring literary legends.
Author: Dr Leo Ruickbie
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2020-01-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781472139597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309. As Arthur Conan Doyle explained, 'The deaths occurring in almost every family in the land brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the life after death. People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible with the dear ones they had lost.' From the Angel of Mons to the popular boom in spiritualism as the horrors of industrialised warfare reaped their terrible harvest, the paranormal - and its use in propaganda - was one of the key aspects of the First World War. Angels in the Trenches takes us from defining moments, such as the Angel of Mons on the Front Line, to spirit communication on the Home Front, often involving the great and the good of the period, such as aristocrat Dame Edith Lyttelton, founder of the War Refugees Committee, and the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University. We see here people at every level of society struggling to come to terms with the ferocity and terror of the war, and their own losses: soldiers looking for miracles on the battlefield; parents searching for lost sons in the séance room. It is a human story of people forced to look beyond the apparent certainties of the everyday - and this book follows them on that journey.