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Openings & outings : an anthology / David Pryce-Jones.
Van Pelt Library PR6066.R88 O64 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pryce-Jones, David, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essays.
- Essais.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 365 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Openings and outings
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Criterion Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with many stops in between, Openings & Outings presents over fifty years of insight, from a writer with endless scope and perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Temps perdu
- Tangier
- May Day in Piest'any
- When the Nazis Stole My Painting: And the Austrians Didn't Much Care
- The Dark Lord
- TV Tale of Two Windsors
- The Girl with the Most Famous Cello in the World
- Solti Conducts
- Moses with a Machine-Gun
- The Vanishing World of Mr Thesiger
- The Bete Noire of France's Left
- Milosz Among the Ruins
- Elie Kedourie's Achievement
- The Anti-Historian
- An Unwritten History of the British Empire
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Jerk
- Cracked by a Sound
- Poet of Self-Pity
- Eric Hobsbawm: Lying to the Credulous
- Time Stops at Tassili
- Gifts of the Desert
- No Paella Please. We're British
- A Redundant General and a "Temporary" President
- Samarkand
- Czech Rule of Lawlessness
- The Long Wait of Frau Ilse Hess
- A 20th Century Career
- Not Their Finest Hour
- Enough Said
- Thoughts of an Arabist
- Here Be Dragons: Robert Fisk at Loose in the Gulf
- The Palestinian Pattern
- The War of the Arabs
- The Other Jubilee
- European Union
- A Disaster in the Making
- The Islamization of Europe?
- Europe's "Terrible Transformation"
- What's in a Boycott?
- On the Frontlines of Free Speech
- The Trouble with Nark's Work.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pryce-Jones, David, 1936- Openings & outings.
- ISBN:
- 9781641772570
- 1641772573
- OCLC:
- 1280275212
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