[PDF] The Middle Parts Of Fortune eBook

Author : Frederic Manning
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"The Middle Parts of Fortune" is a wartime story by Frederic Manning. In the 1920s the demand for writing on the First World War started to grow, the catalyst being the play 'Journey's End' written by R. C. Sherriff. A friend urged Manning to use his undoubted talent to write a novel about his own intense wartime experiences. To capture the moment, Manning worked rapidly, with little opportunity for second drafts and revisions. The result was "The Middle Parts of Fortune", published anonymously in a numbered limited edition of 520 copies in 1929, which are now collectors' items.

Author : Frederic Manning
Publisher : Random House
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448190223

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'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.' Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known. Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously in 1929. The honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war inspired Ernest Hemingway to read the novel every year, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them.

Author : Frederic Manning
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 192192196X

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Hailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author’s own experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune is a breathtaking account of the Great War and the men who fought it.

Author : Lauren Bjorkman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805089519

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Erin, a non-Chinese teenager living in San Francisco's Chinatown, ghostwrites an online advice column, but when a reply to her ex-best friend backfires, Erin's carefully constructed life takes a crazy spin.

Author : Jehanne Wake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451607636

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The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2003-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429954183

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New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny in Sons of Fortune. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife. During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer. Fletcher, meanwhile, graduates from Yale University with a bachelor's and a law degree, going on to distinguish himself as a criminal defense lawyer. At various times in their lives, both men are confronted with challenges and obstacles, tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, before they both decide to run for governor, unaware they are brothers.... In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men -and how they eventually discover the truth-and its tragic consequences.