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Melvyn Bragg is a British writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of mostrar mais which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the latest being The Book of Books about the King James Bible. In 2015, his book The Adventure of English became a New York Times bestseller. He lives in London and Cumbria. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Obras por Melvyn Bragg

Credo (1996) 443 exemplares
12 Books That Changed the World (2006) 354 exemplares
The Soldier's Return (1999) 347 exemplares
Richard Burton: A Life (0189) 245 exemplares
Jesus Christ Superstar [1973 film] (1973) — Screenwriter — 199 exemplares
A Son of War (2001) 179 exemplares
A Time to Dance (1900) 122 exemplares
The Maid of Buttermere (1987) 120 exemplares
Crossing the Lines (2003) 119 exemplares
In Our Time (2009) 93 exemplares
Remember Me... (2008) 86 exemplares
Speak for England (1663) 47 exemplares
Crystal Rooms (1992) 46 exemplares
Now is the Time (1656) 45 exemplares
Grace and Mary (1600) 39 exemplares
The Hired Man (1969) 32 exemplares
Laurence Olivier (1984) 26 exemplares
For Want of a Nail (1965) 24 exemplares
Back in the Day: A Memoir (2022) 24 exemplares
The Cumbrian Trilogy (1984) 23 exemplares
A Place in England (1970) 22 exemplares
Love Without End (2019) 22 exemplares
Josh Lawton (1972) 21 exemplares
Without a City Wall (1970) 21 exemplares
Land of the Lakes (1983) 18 exemplares
The Silken Net (1974) 15 exemplares
The Second Inheritance (1966) 15 exemplares
The Nerve (1971) 15 exemplares
Autumn Manoeuvres (1978) 13 exemplares
Kingdom Come (1980) 11 exemplares
Our Christmas Child (1976) 8 exemplares
The Apostles (2003) 5 exemplares
Love and glory (1983) 5 exemplares
The Music Lovers [1970 film] (1991) — Screenwriter — 4 exemplares
The South Bank Show: Final Cut (2010) 3 exemplares
Christian Boltanski [VHS] (1996) 2 exemplares
The "South Bank Show" (2010) 1 exemplar
Wilfrid (634-709) 1 exemplar
Roy Lichtenstein [VHS] (1996) 1 exemplar
Howard Hodgkin [VHS] (1997) 1 exemplar
Jane Eyre 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Canterbury Tales (0014) — Prefácio, algumas edições21,848 exemplares
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (0731) — Introdução, algumas edições3,426 exemplares
O Oficial Prussiano (1914) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições407 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren (2008) — Introdução — 148 exemplares
Conversations with John le Carré (2004) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Coleridge Walks the Fells: A Lakeland Journey Retraced (1991) — Prefácio, algumas edições12 exemplares
A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope (2019) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares

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Like oxygen, the English language is an invisible and highly under appreciated part of our lives. Take an audible journey through its history in this most interesting work. English is very much alive and constantly changing. Appreciate the voyage to today's version before it becomes as dated as Chaucer's Middle English. The audible version richly rewards you with all the varied dialect pronunciations.
 
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jemisonreads | 34 outras críticas | Jan 22, 2024 |
A pretty fun history of the language from its early Scandinavian roots to world dominance today. Gets a little draggy sometimes (Bragg would like that I went to the trouble to choose the word), but all in all an engaging read.
 
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mikeolson2000 | 34 outras críticas | Dec 27, 2023 |
Read for Book club. I am not a fan of Richard Burton but I enjoyed reading about his extraordinary life. From very poor, working class mining family in Welsh valleys to the pinnacle of stardom, married to Elizabeth Taylor and mixing with royalty and cream of the acting and literary world. Bragg uses large portions of Burton’s own journal entries to allow his thoughts about his world tell the story.
 
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simbaandjessie | 5 outras críticas | Nov 18, 2023 |
The first book in a quartet. The book captures the everyday lives of a returned serviceman, his wife and young son in the 1946 post wwii England. A fourth character is the provincial town and its inhabitants. This book superbly captures ordinary people coping in difficult times . The author captures the times and the emotions wonderfully as well as the more then common inability of families to communicate their fears, ambition and desires.
 
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Daniel_M_Oz | 6 outras críticas | Nov 3, 2023 |

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Obras
62
Also by
14
Membros
4,988
Popularidade
#5,023
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
90
ISBN
297
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
5

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