[PDF] A Kestrel For A Knave eBook

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014190383X

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Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141958022

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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.

Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521654197

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Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780435232887

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The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this dramatization of Barry Hines's novel, 15-year-old Billy trains a kestrel for whom he learns to feel great affection.

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Canon (Literature).
ISBN : 9780415182232

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This account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to analysis. It shows the role of class in literary constructions of the social, and the relations between class and culture.

Author : Jacob Leigh
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9781903364314

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"The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People examines the linking of art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film director. Loach's films manifest recurrent themes over a long period of working with various collaborators, yet his handling of those themes has changed throughout his career. This book examines those changes as a way of reaching an understanding of Loach's style and meaning. It evaluates how Loach incorporates his political beliefs and those of his writers into his work and augments this thematic interpretation with contextual information gleaned from original archive research and new interviews."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kath Jordan
Publisher : Letts and Lonsdale
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781843157670

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Presented in a clear and accessible way, the 'Key Stage 3 Success Workbooks' cover everything students need to know for Key Stage 3, providing different styles of questions to test students' knowledge on any given subject.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521669665

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In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head's study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.

Author : Dave Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780719051784

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Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, television, feature film, music and sport, this book assesses the portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of Englishness. The relationship between these cultural forms and the construction of regional identity has received only limited consideration and this fascinating work provides not only much new information, but also a map for future writers. The North, although seen ultimately as other and the subject of much critical comment, is also shown here as capable of stimulating the creative imagination and invigorating English culture in sometimes surprising ways.