كتاب
The street philosopher
| العنوان: | The street philosopher |
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| المؤلفون: | Plampin, Matthew, 1975- |
| بيانات النشر: | London : Harper, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| وصف مادي: | 487, 16 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Journalists -- Great Britain -- Fiction., Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Fiction., Historical fiction., Fiction. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction. |
| الوصف: | "Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark." - - Book Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home -- the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused -- and the first on which the media had a major influence. The Street Philosopher -- the nineteenth-century term for a society writer, a gossip columnist -- captures this scene brilliantly. Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by artist Robert Styles, he sets about exposing the incompetence of the army generals. Two years later, as Sebastopol burns, Thomas returns to England under mysterious circumstance. Desperate for forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he takes a job as a 'street philosopher', a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, as Manchester prepares to welcomeQueen Victoria, Thomas's past returns to haunt him in the most horrifying way. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn263294091 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-00-727244-0 978-0-00-727243-3 0-00-727244-8 0-00-727243-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Originally published: London: HarperCollins. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012011727.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780007272440 9780007272433 0007272448 000727243X |
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