Author: Neville Cardus
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285641026
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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In this, another collection of classic cricket writing by Sir Neville Cardus, he urges that the game itself is more important than winning, players should fully express themselves in the game and he writes about those players who delight the senses: Hurst and Hutton, McCabe and Compton. There are essays on the Indians, West Indians and the 1948 Australians who Cardus considered the best team ever to visit England. An outstanding article describes an innings by Compton that he believed to be 'champagne for the connoisseur, ginger pop for the boys'.
Author: Neville Cardus
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285641018
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings. Chosen and introduced by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Cardus on Cricket features a range of writings from 'Cricket', 'Days in the Sun', 'The Summer Game', 'Good Days', 'Australian Summer' and 'The Manchester Guardian'.
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Una McGovern
Publisher: Webster's New World
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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One of the most comprehensive collections of its kind features more than 21,000 quotes from 3,500 authors, arranged alphabetically by author with a complete keyword index, mini-biographies of the authors, and notes on source and historical context.
Author: Duncan Hamilton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 147366182X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education. Infatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended. Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renown. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.
Author: Sir Neville Cardus
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Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: School Library Association
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Category : School librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Derek Birley
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This book interweaves sporting developments with the social, political and cultural background of the period, offering insights into the changing nature of Britain's obsession with sport.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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