A gripping unpublished diary from the bestselling diarist & biographer, with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century`s great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between Engl&, Irel&, Italy & America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own. With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more & more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador, she writes of the turmoil, the danger, & the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 1939-1940. Published for the first time, A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italy`s stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author of The Pike, & an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo, this is the gripping precursor to Origo`s bestselling classic diary War in Val d` Orcia. ...

Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century`s great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between Engl&, Irel&, Italy & America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own. With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more & more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador, she writes of the turmoil, the danger, & the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 1939-1940. Published for the first time in paperback, A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italy`s stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author of The Pike, & an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo, this is the gripping precursor to Origo`s bestselling classic diary War in Val d` Orcia. ...

Lisa & Helen have travelled across China in search of amazing street food. The recipes are truly accessible
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present & future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas & the people all around him. With a light-hearted introduction by bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, creator of the highly successful Alex Rider novels, most recently Snakehead. ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens” Every idiot who goes around with ` Merry Christmas` on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding” Charles Dickens`s tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits & learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens`s other Christmas writings, a lasting & significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity & memory. The Penguin English Library
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Every Christmas, the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens` A Christmas Carol with its detailed emendations, deletions & insertions in Dickens` h&. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, is a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan`s chief literary curator on the history of the story & a new foreword by Colm Toibin celebrating its timeless appeal. ...

Charles Dickens` classic Christmas story, unabridged & fully illustrated. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited old man who hates everything
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Charles Dickens`s much loved tale of the Christmas spirit is beautifully presented in this deluxe newly illustrated edition. Contemporary artist & illustrator Yelena Bryksenkova has created enchanting watercolour artwork to accompany Dickens`s classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge & the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future-evoking the magic of a Victorian Christmas, while at the same time infusing this timeless text with a touch of modern-day whimsy. With gilded page edges & a satin ribbon marker, this lavish keepsake volume is tomorrow`s cherished family heirloom; an essential Christmas treasure to read around the fire, under the tree, or after the plum pudding year after year. ...

Part of ” Penguin`s” beautiful hardback ” Clothbound Classics” series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading ” Christmas Carol”, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was ”seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality” & threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting & significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, & about the season as a time for celebration, charity, & memory. ...

John Leech`s original magnificent illustrations to ”A Christmas Carol” have been beautifully h&-coloured by Barbara Frith. A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption & a critique on Victorian society, Dickens` atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as `humbug`. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley & the spirits of Christmas past, present & future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery & evocative language, the message of ”A Christmas Carol” remains as significant today as when it was first published. ...