The Dreaming Suburb

Author	: R. F. Delderfield
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2011-11-24
ISBN 10	: 9781444732511
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (447 users)

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Download or read book The Dreaming Suburb written by R. F. Delderfield and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Carver: a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife dead. Archie Carver: Jim's eldest son, smart, ruthless, he has a quick eye for financial profits and beautiful women. Elaine Frith: beautiful and ambitious, she uses her charms to snare any man she thinks will bring her wealth. The First World War ends and the soldiers return to the peaceful Avenue. On the surface their homes look just the same, but behind the carefully tended front gardens everything has changed, and their families' lives in the next twenty years will be as turbulent as any they have known.

The Dreaming Suburb

Author	: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1973
ISBN 10	: OCLC:258502860
Pages	: 470 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (258 users)

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The Dreaming Suburb

Author	: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1958
ISBN 10	: OCLC:560105424
Pages	: 479 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (56 users)

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The experience of suburban modernity

Author	: Michael John Law
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 2014-12-01
ISBN 10	: 9781847799425
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (477 users)

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Download or read book The experience of suburban modernity written by Michael John Law and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class suburbanites enjoyed driving at speed on new arterial roads, visiting roadhouses for a transgressive night out, taking five-shilling flights from the local airport, and joining cycling and motorcycle clubs. All this fun came at a price for some in the form of thousands of deaths in road accidents, plane crashes on suburban housing and in the despoiling of the countryside through road development. This book will be welcomed by academics and students working in suburban studies, historical geography and interwar British history and can also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of London.

Expanding Suburbia

Author	: Roger Webster
Publisher	: Berghahn Books
Release Date	: 2001-02-01
ISBN 10	: 9781800735149
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Expanding Suburbia written by Roger Webster and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.

Invincible Green Suburbs Brave New Towns

Author	: Mark Clapson
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 071904135X
Pages	: 241 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (413 users)

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Download or read book Invincible Green Suburbs Brave New Towns written by Mark Clapson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the phenomenon of the mass movement of people away from town and city centres to live in new estates and towns built since World War II. Using sociology, town-planning materials, oral history and other sources, this book examines the making of modern suburbia.

Dreaming Suburb

Author	: R. F. Delderfield
Publisher	: Ballantine Books
Release Date	: 1971-12-12
ISBN 10	: 0345226283
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (262 users)

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Download or read book Dreaming Suburb written by R. F. Delderfield and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1971-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Listen in terror

Author	: Richard Hand
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 2015-11-01
ISBN 10	: 9781526102577
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (261 users)

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Download or read book Listen in terror written by Richard Hand and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance examining key areas such as writing, narrative, performance practice and reception throughout the history of that most unjustly neglected of popular art forms: radio drama and ‘spoken word’ auditory cultures. The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful interviews with significant writers, producers and actors. The book offers detailed analysis of major radio series such as Appointment with Fear, The Man in Black, The Price of Fear and Fear on Four as well as one-off horror plays, comedy-horror and experimental uses of binaural and digital technology in producing uncanny audio.

Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture

Author	: Rupa Huq
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2013-08-15
ISBN 10	: 9781780932248
Pages	: 230 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture written by Rupa Huq and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK.

All the Tiny Moments Blazing

Author	: Ged Pope
Publisher	: Reaktion Books
Release Date	: 2020-10-07
ISBN 10	: 9781789143089
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (891 users)

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Download or read book All the Tiny Moments Blazing written by Ged Pope and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith’s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.

Lower Middle Class Nation

Author	: Nicola Bishop
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2020-12-10
ISBN 10	: 9781350064379
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Lower Middle Class Nation written by Nicola Bishop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday. Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduates and scholars working in media and social history, literature, popular culture, cultural studies and sociology, Lower-Middle-Class Nation represents a new direction in cultural histories of work, labour, and leisure.

Making a New World

Author	: Rajesh Heynickx
Publisher	: Leuven University Press
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9789058679093
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (586 users)

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Download or read book Making a New World written by Rajesh Heynickx and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heavily illustrated study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities.

The Avenue Story As Told in The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War

Author	: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1964
ISBN 10	: OCLC:560104757
Pages	: 1032 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (56 users)

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The Dreaming Suburb 1919 1940

Author	: Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1964
ISBN 10	: OCLC:566216683
Pages	: 470 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (566 users)

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Download or read book The Dreaming Suburb 1919 1940 written by Ronald Frederick Delderfield and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

R F Delderfield

Author	: Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher	: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Release Date	: 1988
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015041893853
Pages	: 144 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book R F Delderfield written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Something to Crowe About

Author	: E.W. NICKERSON
Publisher	: Trafford Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-09
ISBN 10	: 9781490712734
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (97 users)

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Download or read book Something to Crowe About written by E.W. NICKERSON and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British and Canadian governments want the people of the world, particularly France, to be reminded of the French Vichy government's involvement and active participation in the Final Solution during World War 2, a simple plan of communication turns into dangers never anticipated. Special consultant to MI6 Ed Crowe, along with his special friend and CSIS operative Pat W., spend their August 1985 'honeymoon' in Paris in order to communicate the details of the Vichy's proactive involvement. The success of the plan leads to international headlines and the identification of neo-Nazi groups in both France and Britain, including their importation of illegal drugs into Britain. The ensuing activity results in the reluctant involvement of Scotland Yard and the enthusiastic involvement of the CIA. While the work is dangerous and deadly, it only serves to deepen the love between Ed Crowe and Carolyn Andrews, daughter of Lord Stonebridge, the head of the British Secret Service, MI6.

Devonshire s Own

Author	: John Van der Kiste
Publisher	: The History Press
Release Date	: 2007-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9780752493664
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (524 users)

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Download or read book Devonshire s Own written by John Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elizabethan explorers Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh were all Devonians, as were party leaders Michael Foot and David Owen. Devonshire's Own, by renowned local author John Van der Kiste, features mini-biographies of all these and many more.