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Peter Quennell (1905–1993)

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The Colosseum (1971) 291 exemplaren
London's Underworld (1950) — Redacteur — 142 exemplaren
Who's who in Shakespeare (1973) 138 exemplaren
Mayhew's London (1951) — Redacteur — 131 exemplaren
A history of English literature (1973) 58 exemplaren
Byron: The Years of Fame (1778) 58 exemplaren
Mayhew's Characters (1960) — Redacteur — 53 exemplaren
Four portraits: Studies of the eighteenth century (1945) 51 exemplaren
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922 : A Centennial Volume (1971) 51 exemplaren
Shakespeare, a biography (1963) 48 exemplaren
Byron: Selected Verse and Prose Works Including Letters and Extracts From Lord Byron's Journals and Diaries (1949) — Redacteur; Redacteur — 47 exemplaren
Byron in Italy (1941) 41 exemplaren
Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world: A tribute (1979) 39 exemplaren
Hogarth's Progress (1955) 37 exemplaren
The Marble Foot: An Autobiography 1905-1938 (1976) 28 exemplaren
Samuel Johnson; his friends and enemies (1972) 28 exemplaren
Illustrated Companion to World Literature (1986) 27 exemplaren
The Day Before Yesterday : A Photographic Album of Daily Life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (1978) 26 exemplaren
Byron: The Years of Fame, and, Byron in Italy (1974) 25 exemplaren
The Wanton Chase: An Autobiography From 1939 (1980) 23 exemplaren
The Pursuit of Happiness (1988) 22 exemplaren
Alexander Pope: The Education of Genius, 1688-1728 (1968) 21 exemplaren
Customs and Characters: Contemporary Portraits (1982) 20 exemplaren
Romantic England: Writing and Painting, 1717-1851. (1970) 18 exemplaren
Shakespeare: The Poet and His Background (Shakespeare Library) (1963) 18 exemplaren
The Sign of the Fish (1950) 13 exemplaren
Caroline of England: An Augustan Portrait (1939) 13 exemplaren
Casanova in London (1971) 12 exemplaren
The Profane Virtues (1945) 12 exemplaren
John Ruskin : the portrait of a prophet (1956) 12 exemplaren
Affairs of the Mind: The Salon in Europe and America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century (1980) 11 exemplaren
Victorian Panorama : a survey of life and fashion from contemporary photographs (1937) 11 exemplaren
The past we share; an illustrated history of the British and American peoples (1960) 11 exemplaren
A Superficial Journey through Tokyo and Peking (Oxford Paperback Reference) (1987) 8 exemplaren
Selected Essays (1960) — Introductie — 8 exemplaren
Baudelaire and the symbolists (1954) 7 exemplaren
Genius in the drawing-room: The literary salon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1980) 7 exemplaren
A lonely business : a self-portrait of James Pope-Hennessy (1981) — Redacteur — 6 exemplaren
Byronic Thoughts: Maxims, Reflections, Portraits, from the Prose and Verse of Lord Byron (1960) — Redacteur — 6 exemplaren
Quotations from Shakespeare (1971) 6 exemplaren
Masques and poems (1922) 5 exemplaren
History Today 4 exemplaren
Inscription on a fountain-head (The Ariel poems) (1905) 4 exemplaren
Spring in Sicily (1952) 4 exemplaren
Byron 4 exemplaren
The Phoenix-Kind (1932) 3 exemplaren
Diversions of History 3 exemplaren
The singular preference ; Portraits & essays (1952) 2 exemplaren
Mayhew's London + Mayhew's Characters + London's Underworld — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
John Ruskin . Writers And Their Work: No. 76 2 exemplaren
"To Lord Byron" : feminine profiles based upon unpublished letters, 1807-1824 — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Poems and Prose of Lord Byron 1 exemplaar
NOVELS BY THE BRONTE SISTERS. 1 exemplaar
History Today 1956 vol. VI 1 exemplaar
Edward Lear in Southern Italy (1964) 1 exemplaar
Byron. Selected Poems (1949) — Samensteller — 1 exemplaar
HISTORY TODAY - July 1974 1 exemplaar
The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey 1 exemplaar
History Today. April 1951 (1951) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
Memoirs of William Hickey 1 exemplaar
Oxford Poetry -1924 (2006) 1 exemplaar
BYRON A SELF PORTRAIT 1798- 1824 (1950) 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXIV, 1974. 1 exemplaar
History Today. Volume XI, nº 08, August 1961 1 exemplaar
A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXII, 1972. 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXVIII, 1978. 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXIII, 1973. 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXV, 1975 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXVI, 1976. 1 exemplaar
History today. Volume XXVII, 1977. 1 exemplaar
History Today, August 1970 1 exemplaar
History Today, November 1954 1 exemplaar
History Today. Volume XIII, nº 06, June 1963 1 exemplaar
History Today, November 1959 1 exemplaar
History Today, December 1956 1 exemplaar
History Today, October 1954 1 exemplaar
History Today, February 1956 1 exemplaar
History Today, May 1960 1 exemplaar
History Today, March 1972 1 exemplaar
History Today - Volume XXII, No. 4 1 exemplaar
History Today January 1971 1 exemplaar
History Today, August 1958 1 exemplaar
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Byron: A Self-Portrait, Vol 1 (1950) — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Byron: A Self-Portrait: Letters and Diaries 1798 to 1824, Volume 2 (1950) — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren

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The Wanton Chase door Peter Quennell
Articulate, interesting individual who interlards his autobiography with mini portraits of many of his famous friends.
 
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The Wanton Chase door Peter Quennell
Articulate, interesting individual who interlards his autobiography with mini portraits of many of his famous friends.
 
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Karen74Leigh | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 31, 2019 |
A history of English literature door Peter Quennell
This well worn volume was published in 1973 and it lacks the more recent PC language
relating to racism, sexism, or animal cruelty.

Though I've never read a reference book straight through, this was interesting enough to continue
from the compelling "Anglo-Saxon Prelude" to the mid-twentieth century.

The range of the enlightening illustrations make the more repetitious or boring entries more lively.

And some of the stronger opinions remain disputable:

"A far finer artist than Hardy, and a much more conscientious and celebrate craftsman was HENRY JAMES..."

...who can be more dismally boring than any of Hardy.

Still, it is a decent reference with fun pictures.… (meer)
 
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m.belljackson | Dec 8, 2017 |
Colosseum, The; Wonders of Man Series
Excellent history of the Colosseum with pictures.
 
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