My Animals & Other Family by Clare Balding is a funny brave tender story of self-discovery'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog & suspect I had aged in dog years' Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household Her father a champion trainer she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses mares foals & ponies as well as an ever-present pack of boxers & lurchers As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef & take breakfast with the Queen She & her younger brother came very low down the pecking order Left to their own devices they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the animals & through their adventures in the stables & the idyllic Hampshire Downs From the protective Candy to the pot-bellied Valkyrie & the frisky Hattie each horse & each dog had their own character & their own special part to play The running family joke was that women ain't people Clare had to prove them wrong to make her voice heard
- but first she had to make sure she had something to say' Moving funny & larger than life' Michael Morpurgo' Magical enchanting riotously eccentric' Daily Mail' Funny & unexpectedly wise Balding has lots of good stories to tell It is impossible not to admire her honesty Mail on Sunday' The reading equivalent of snuggling by the fire with a labrador' The Guardian Clare Balding is an award-winning broadcaster & writer She has been a lead presenter for the Olympics Paralympics Winter Olympics & Commonwealth Games For more than twelve years she has hiked across the countryside for the BBC Radio 4 series Ramblings Clare has presented Countryfile Britain's Hidden Heritage Britain By Bike Crufts & Famous & Fearless & has appeared on QI Have I Got News for You & Sport Relief She has been voted RTS Sports Presenter of the Year & Racing Broadcaster of the Year She lives in West London with her partner Alice their wayward Tibetan Terrier Archie & a cat who couldn't give a damn called Itty My Animals & Other Family is Clare's first book
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During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa our talk kept returning to a central figure a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago More than any other person we remembered this girl seemed to mean to us the country the conditions the whole adventure of our childhood His mind was full of her that day He made me see her again feel her presence revived all my old affection for her'MY ANTONIA is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the Nebraska plains seen through the eyes of her childhood friend Jim Burden The beautiful free-spirited wild-eyed girl captured Jim's imagination long ago & haunts him still embodying for him the elemental spirit of the American frontier ...

' As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country as the water is the sea The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed somehow to be running' My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape rich ethnic mix of immigrants & native-born Americans & communities who share life's joys & sorrows Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda whose family settle in Nebraska from Bohemia Together they share childhoods spent in a new world Jim leaves the prairie for college & a career in the east while Antonia devotes herself to her large family & productive farm Her story is that of the land itself a moving portrait of endurance & strength Described on publication as 'one of the best novels that any American has ever done' My Antonia paradoxically took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists as the same time that it celebrated the provinces & mythologized a period of American history that had to be lost before its value could be understood ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

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A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day Charles ' Charlie' Chaplin's My Autobiography is an incomparably vivid account of the life of one of the greatest filmmakers & comedians with an introduction by David Robinson As a child Charlie Chaplin was awed & inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home & from then on he never lost his ambition to become an actor Chaplin's film career as the Little Tramp adored by the whole world is the stuff of legend but this frank autobiography shows another side Born into a theatrical family Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother unable to bear the poverty suffered from bouts of insanity From a childhood of grinding poverty in the south London slums Chaplin found an escape in his early debut on the music hall stage followed by his lucky break in America the founding of United Artists with DW Griffith & Douglas Fairbanks the struggle to maintain artistic control over his work the string of failed marriages & his eventual exile from Hollywood after personal scandals & persecution for his left-wing politics during the Mc Carthy Era Sir Charles ' Charlie' Chaplin (1895-1976) was born in Walworth London Best known for his work in silent film his most famous role was The Little Tramp a universally recognisable & iconic character who appeared in films such as The Kid (1921) The Gold Rush (1925) & City Lights (1931) His other films include Modern Times (1936) a commentary on the Great Depression & The Great Dictator (1940) a satirical attack on Hitler & the Nazis If you enjoyed My Autobiography you might like Andy Warhol's The Philosophy of Andy Warhol also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Tells so much about this curious difficult man a wonderfully vivid imagination' The New York Times' The only genius to come out of the movie industry' George Bernard Shaw ...

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