Author: George Tolman
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ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Wright's Tavern
Author: George Tolman
Publisher:
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Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Concord
Author: George Bradford Bartlett
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Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Sea View Has Me Again
Author: Patrick Wright
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1912248751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening Post. "Charles" was the name he offered to his new acquaintances. But this unexpected immigrant was actually Uwe Johnson, originally from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR, and already famous as the leading author of a divided Germany. What caused him to abandon West Berlin and spend the last nine years of his life in Sheerness, where he eventually completed his great New York novel Anniversaries in a house overlooking the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary? And what did he mean by detecting a "moral utopia" in a town that others, including his concerned friends, saw only as a busted slum on an island abandoned to "deindustrialisation" and a stranded Liberty ship full of unexploded bombs? Patrick Wright, who himself abandoned north Kent for Canada a few months before Johnson arrived, returns to the "island that is all the world" to uncover the story of the East German author's English decade, and to understand why his closely observed Kentish writings continue to speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit. Guided in his encounters and researches by clues left by Johnson in his own "island stories", the book is set in the 1970s, when North Sea oil and joining the European Economic Community seemed the last hope for bankrupt Britain. It opens out to provide an alternative version of modern British history: a history for the present, told through the rich and haunted landscapes of an often spurned downriver mudbank, with a brilliant German answer to Robinson Crusoe as its primary witness.
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1912248751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening Post. "Charles" was the name he offered to his new acquaintances. But this unexpected immigrant was actually Uwe Johnson, originally from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR, and already famous as the leading author of a divided Germany. What caused him to abandon West Berlin and spend the last nine years of his life in Sheerness, where he eventually completed his great New York novel Anniversaries in a house overlooking the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary? And what did he mean by detecting a "moral utopia" in a town that others, including his concerned friends, saw only as a busted slum on an island abandoned to "deindustrialisation" and a stranded Liberty ship full of unexploded bombs? Patrick Wright, who himself abandoned north Kent for Canada a few months before Johnson arrived, returns to the "island that is all the world" to uncover the story of the East German author's English decade, and to understand why his closely observed Kentish writings continue to speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit. Guided in his encounters and researches by clues left by Johnson in his own "island stories", the book is set in the 1970s, when North Sea oil and joining the European Economic Community seemed the last hope for bankrupt Britain. It opens out to provide an alternative version of modern British history: a history for the present, told through the rich and haunted landscapes of an often spurned downriver mudbank, with a brilliant German answer to Robinson Crusoe as its primary witness.
Souvenir and Guide to Historic Concord and Lexington
Author: John W. Craig
Publisher:
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Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher:
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Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens
Author: Paul Kruty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252023668
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Built in Chicago in 1914, and demolished in 1929, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the first to focus solely on Midway Gardens, Paul Kruty traces the project's history. 218 photos. 20 linecuts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252023668
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Built in Chicago in 1914, and demolished in 1929, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the first to focus solely on Midway Gardens, Paul Kruty traces the project's history. 218 photos. 20 linecuts.
Old-time New England
Author: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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America's Historic Inns & Taverns
Author: Irvin Haas
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780870520259
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780870520259
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Story of Concord Told by Concord Writers
Author: Josephine Latham Swayne
Publisher:
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Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Adventures ... of that notorious fence, and receiver of stolen goods, Isaac Solomons ... together with the ... apprehension, trial, and subsequet transportation of Mrs. Solomons ... By a former Police Officer
Author: Ikey Solomons
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Americana
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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