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Chapters: C. Northcote Parkinson, Dirk Bogarde, Alexander Wilkinson, Reginald Dyer, Ian Freeland, William Hacket Pain, Hubert Hamilton, Roland Gwynne, Geoffrey Wheeler, Norman Cohn, George Paget Thomson, Peter Lewis, Reginald Dorman-Smith, George Giffard, Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet, Andrew Leith Hay, Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet, David Napley, Clifford Wilcock, Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens, Wilkinson Bird, David Lloyd Owen, Henry William Stisted, John Richardson, George Pomeroy Colley, John Hamilton, Wallace Duffield Wright, Christopher Bushell, Kenneth Lockwood, Clement Robertson, Neville Tufnell, Benton Fletcher, Alexander Beattie, George Chatterton, Edward Selby Smyth, Alec George Horwood, A. R. Rawlinson, George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley, Henry V. M. Langtry, Roy Thomas Harris. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 159. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921 8 May 1999) was a British actor and novelist. Initially a matinee star in such films as Doctor in the House (1954) and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art house films like Death in Venice (1971). He also wrote several volumes of autobiography. Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish, Dutch and Scottish ancestry, and baptised on 30 October at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn. His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham), was the art editor of The Times and his mother Margaret Niven was a former actress. He attended University College School , the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow (a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account) and later studied at the Chelsea College of Art ... Read more

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Chapters: Alfred Jules Ayer, Audrey Hepburn, Nigella Lawson, Jane Seymour, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Dirk Bogarde, John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Nick Clegg, Carol Vorderman, Denise Van Outen, George Blake, Kevin Nolan, Stephen Bartlett Lakeman, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, Piet de Jong, Rafael Merry Del Val, Julius Beerbohm, Andrew Loog Oldham, Matthew Maty, Stuart Zender, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Patricia Roc, Rudi Vis, Samuel Holland, Dominic Lawson, Anneke Wills, Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet, Esther Vanhomrigh, Constance Beerbohm, Saskia Reeves, Malcolm Guthrie, Sir Gerard Vanneck, 2nd Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 231. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929) 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Born in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Netherlands, during the Second World War. She studied ballet in Arnhem and then moved to London in 1948, where she continued to train in ballet and worked as a photographer's model. She appeared in a handful of European films before starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi. Hepburn played the lead female role in Roman Holiday (1953), winning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for her performance. She also won a Tony Award for her performance in Ondine (1954). Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with such notable leading men as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Peter O'Toole, and Albert Finney. She won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963), and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=52139 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee star in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art house films like Death in Venice. He also wrote several volumes of autobiography. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dutch-english Translators, Dirk Bogarde, John Betjeman, Willem Siebenhaar, Carolus Clusius, Shirley Kaufman, John Fletcher Hurst, Yoshio Kōsaku, Christopher Levenson, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir John Betjeman, CBE (pronounced ; 28 August 1906 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate to date and a much-loved figure on British television. Betjeman was born "John Betjemann", which was changed to the less Teutonic "Betjeman" during the First World War. He started life at Parliament Hill Mansions in Highgate in North London. His parents Mabel (née Dawson) and Ernest Betjemann had a family firm which manufactured the kind of ornamental household furniture and gadgets distinctive to Victorians. His father's forebears had come from the Netherlands, more than a century earlier, setting up their home and business in Islington, London. In 1909, the Betjemanns left Parliament Hill Mansions, moving half a mile north to more opulent Highgate. From West Hill they lived in the reflected glory of the Burdett-Coutts estate. Here from my eyrie, as the sun went down,I heard the old North London puff and shunt,Glad that I did not live in Gospel Oak. Betjeman's early schooling was at the local Byron House and Highgate School, where he was taught by the poet T. S. Eliot. After this, he boarded at the Dragon School preparatory school in North Oxford and Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire. In his penultimate year, he joined the secret 'S...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=155287 ... Read more

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Thoroughly Charming Autobiography/Travelogue
Revered British actor Bogarde narrates this utterly fascinating and highly readible story of his later years, living in the French countryside...working in the final film projects of his distinguished career...and attending to the needs of himself and his aging companion.

Beautifully, lyrically written it seemlessly segues from flamboyant prose about life in the country to a serious, evocative chronicle about the love of life and the journey entailed when faced with its end.

Timeless and touching.A great read. ... Read more