2012, ISBN: 9780613286213

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Orchard Books. Good. 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches. Hardcover. 1994. 154 pages. Ex-library<br>A fictional account of the experiences o f Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhous… More...

Orchard Books. Good. 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches. Hardcover. 1994. 154 pages. Ex-library<br>A fictional account of the experiences o f Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in 1860's London and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's ragged children.A novel based on the life of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in London in the 1860s a nd survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's ragged children Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Homele ssness is the central topic of this grim and gripping novel set i n Victorian England. Doherty (Dear Nobody) builds her plot around the few facts known about Jim Jarvis, the London urchin who is s aid to have inspired Thomas Barnardo to establish his homes for d estitute boys, the first such asylums in Britain. No longer able to afford the rent on the squalid tenement room they call home, J im, his sisters and his sick, widowed mother are turned out into the inhospitable streets of London. The next way-station on Jim's downward spiral is the workhouse. There Jim's mother's dies, and Jim seems destined to become like the other inmates, broken-spir ited paupers who answer to pious-speaking sadists. After much har dship, Jim escapes, and spends what prove to be his happiest days on the street. His idyll ends when, for a single coin, he is sol d into servitude to the cruel drunkard Grimy Nick, captain of a s mall coal ferry. Until his lucky encounter with Barnardo, every a dult Jim meets is either kindly but powerless or greedy and heart less; his only friends are other street children, and even they a re not entirely to be trusted. With its sootily authentic atmosph ere and its earnest reformist message, this tale calls to mind th e ambience of Charles Dickens's novels. Ages 8-12. Copyright 199 4 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Gr ade 5-8-Set in Victorian England, this story of life on the stree ts has enough action to keep children reading. The book opens wit h Jim's desperately poor, fatherless family being evicted; within a day his sisters are in domestic service, his mother is dead, a nd Jim is on his own. After a year in the workhouse, he escapes. Eating and sleeping where and when he can, he is more or less sol d to a cruel taskmaster with a coal boat, who reacts to Jim's att empt to flee by tying a rope around his neck. Ever resourceful, t he boy finally gets away and returns to the London slums where he finds a friend dying from hunger. Realizing that he must do some thing to avoid a similar fate, he seeks out a man who runs a scho ol for poor children and finds a home. The novel is based on a re al boy, Jim Jarvis, and the teacher who saved him was Dr. Bernard o, who, inspired by the boy's plight, went on to establish homes for destitute children. Doherty has written a Dickensian tale wit h compassion and insight while creating a likable hero with the c ourage, persistence, and instinct to survive in a harsh, inhospit able world. Several of the supporting characters are also based o n real people and are finely drawn. With the number of homeless c hildren today, this story has relevance to contemporary society a s it shows not only the price paid when poor people are dismissed as unimportant, but also the strength of the human spirit and th e difference that one committed, caring person can make. Jane Gar dner Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia Copyright 199 4 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Gr. 5-7. Drawing on the dark wet shelterless midnight streets that inspired Olive r Twist, Doherty tells a stark story of a poor child in Victorian London who escapes from the brutal workhouse and tries to find a home. Alone, hungry, and freezing, Jim Jarvis barely survives in the noisy, crowded slums, stealing scraps of food, sleeping on r ooftops, and bonding when he can with other orphan boys he thinks of as his bruvvers. He's kidnapped and forced to slave for a har sh master shoveling coal on a river barge until he runs away agai n and finally finds shelter in a home for destitute children. Doh erty says in a note that Jim Jarvis was a real boy whose story in spired the famous Dr. Barnardo to set up refuges for runaway chil dren. She has imagined Jim's story with bleak realism. Readers wi ll be drawn as much by the social conditions as by Jim's picaresq ue adventures. They might read this with contemporary stories of runaway children, such as Virginia Hamilton's Planet of Junior Br own (1971) and Paula Fox's Monkey Island (1991), about a boy alon e in New York City. Hazel Rochman ., Orchard Books, 1994, 2.5, London: Lutterworth Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1968. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Ex-Library ."This book consists of a series of articles entitled An Outline of Christian Belief which appeared in The British Weekly from October, 1966 to June, 1967 as part of the educational section, School for Laymen." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall ., Lutterworth Press, 1968, 3, London: Macmillan Children's Books. Very Good. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light cover creases and shelf wear, lighty sunned spine. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo by Bob Langrish ; The Riding School Series; Vol. 2; 128 pages; Emma can't wait for the Brook House Own-a-Pony Week. It's a dream come true to look after her favourite pony for a whole week. But trouble looms in the form of Craig, her awful Pen Pal. Emma suddenly has to face the possibility of being banned from Brook House for ever. ., Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, 3, Pan, 1981. Standard. Paperback. Acceptable. Outline:- This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>`I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.` In Unreliable Memoirs, the first instalment of Clive James`s memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. His adventures are hilarious, his recounting of them even more so, in this - the book that started it all . . . Continue Clive`s story with more of his memoirs: Falling Towards England, May Week Was In June, North Face of Soho, and The Blaze of Obscurity.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Pan The date of this copy is 1981 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Pan, 1981, 2.5, Modern Essays selected & edited by John Milton Berdan, Hewette Elwell Joyce & John Richie SchultzPublisher : The Macmillan Company 1921 (copyright 1915)Berdan, John Milton, Joyce, Hewette Elwell Schultz, John Richie 1884-1947, editor., Joyce, Hewette Elwell , joint ed., Schultz, John Richie 1884-1947American & English essaysHardcover5 x 7.7 inches, 448 pagesEnglish professor, John Milton Berdan. In his classes he encouraged his students to communicate to a mass audience. Hadden remembers him saying: "Your job is to write for them all." He argued that the most important thing for a writer was to observe the world, "to see for oneself". Berdan added that you kept the reader's attention by communicating with "brevity, clarity and wit".He cut-up the New York Times and separated the articles into topics. At the end of the week, they extracted the main events and rewrote the stories in their own words. Luce and Hadden showed these mock-ups to their former English professors, Henry Seidal Canby and John Milton Berdan. Canby thought the writing was "positively atrocious" and "telegraphic". Berdan was more sympathetic and accepted that the style was essential if they were to compete with movies, radio shows and billboards. Despite his criticism of the writing, Canby advised the men to continue with the project.------------------------------------Hewette Elwell Joyce Jr., passed away in Hanover, New Hampshire, on December 3, 2012. Born in Hanover in 1921, he was the son of Eleanor Russell Joyce and Professor Hewette Joyce, a member of Dartmouth's English Department for 40 years.Hugh grew up in Hanover and later attended the Choate School in Connecticut where he developed a keen interest in history, tennis, and hockey. Entering Yale in 1940, Hugh majored in history. After graduating in 1943, he joined the Marine Corps. While serving in the Pacific, he was wounded on Okinawa's notorious Sugarloaf Hill, which changed hands many times. All but five of his platoon were killed or wounded. Mr. Joyce received the Purple Heart and a Presidential Unit Citation, and later took part in the initial landing at Yokosuka, Japan.Hugh spent his career in publishing, first with Scott Foresman Co. and later with Houghton Mifflin Co., editing and marketing texts in business and economics. He retired back to Hanover, New Hampshire.----------------------John Richie Schultz, former dean of men, will be inaugurated as the 14thPresident of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania at ceremonies conductedin Montgomery gymnasium at 2:30 p. m., Saturday, October16, 1943. William Pearson Tolley. former president and Chancellorof Syracuse University, was one of the principalspeakers., Macmillan Company, 1921, 2.5, New York / San Diego: A Harvest Book / Harcourt Inc., 2004. First edition. 1st printing, this edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight short lower front dent. Slight single spine crease.. Fineberg, Roberta (Nonstock photo by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Audience: General/trade. First novel by LA Weekly film critic and columnist, and Alberta, Canada, native. Set in Los Angeles, a movie critic sick of her job turns to writing the story of a woman found dead in her own bathtub, a film school grad with a screenplay, now missing. A disgraced LAPD detective wants to stop her. The victim's work is about a 1944 murder of another woman. Two killers spanning decades, connected events, makes for a smart story., A Harvest Book / Harcourt Inc., 2004, 3, GUTS! BRAINS! EYEBALLS!Only one more week until Book #5 in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series comes out. When it does, Stink will be first in line at the bookstore to buy his copy and join the town's Midnight Zombie Walk!Until then, Stink and his friends keep busy, working on zombie costumes and racking up points for the race to One Million Minutes of Reading.With all that talk about the undead, Stink starts to wonder: is he being haunted by zombies?, Candlewick Press, 2012, 3, Cookery Course: Bk. 5 by Robert CarrierPublisher: Sphere Books (1976)ISBN-10: 0722121652ISBN-13: 97807221216584.2 x 7 inches, 254 pagesRobert Carrier McMahon (November 10, 1923 June 27, 2006), usually known as Robert Carrier, was an American chef, restaurateur and cookery writer. His success came in England, where he was based from 1953 to 1984, and then from 1994 until his death.Robert Carrier McMahon was born in Tarrytown, New York, the third son of a wealthy property lawyer father of Irish descent; his mother was the Franco-German daughter of a millionaire. After his parents went bankrupt in the 1930s Great Depression, they maintained their lifestyle by firing their servants and preparing their own elaborate dinner parties.Educated in New York City, Robert took part-time art courses and trained to become an actor. He had a part in the Broadway revue New Faces, before touring Europe with a rep company, singing the juvenile lead in American musicals. After returning to America, Robert often stayed at weekends with his beloved French grandmother in upstate New York. She taught him to cook, making biscuits and butter-frying fish caught in a nearby stream.In 1957 Carrier wrote his first article on food, which he sold to Harper's Bazaar editor Eileen Dickson. He was soon writing regularly for the magazine before becoming a contributor to Vogue and then writing a weekly column for the colour supplement of the Sunday Times. This column brought him celebrity; the articles were collected and expanded to create his first cookery book, the lavishly illustrated Great Dishes of the World, in 1963. Although priced at 70/-, the present day equivalent of around £100, it sold 11 million copies.Assured of publicity, Carrier opened the eponymous restaurant Carrier's in 1966 in Camden Passage, Islington, then developed an international chain of cookshops, with the first in Harrods in 1967. His recipes were printed on wipe-clean cards (a convenient innovation), and were more specific in their quantities and directions than some of those of his competitor Elizabeth David; they made it feasible for an amateur to prepare food that would satisfy the eye and palate of even demanding dinner guests.In 1971, he saw a full-page advertisement in Country Life for Hintlesham Hall near Ipswich, Suffolk and bought it, unsurveyed, for £32,000. He planned to renovate it slowly as a country retreat but, realising its vulnerability and near dereliction with rotten floors and ceilings, he decided to save it all immediately. He employed 60 people to restore the house and opened it as a hotel and restaurant in August 1972. He also revived the Hintlesham Festival.A few years later, Carrier met a woman who lived near his Paris apartment. He thought her a remarkable cook but a poor businesswoman; so, when she got into financial difficulties over non-payment of tax, he offered to set her up as a cookery teacher at Hintlesham if she would learn to speak English. He invested about £300,000 converting the 16th-century outbuildings into a modern school. The school had a double auditorium and two classrooms, each with 12 cooking stations. The woman never learned English so he ran the school himself. He presented beginners' and intermediate courses. The mornings were devoted to generic cooking skills and, in the afternoons, students cooked recipes from the Hintlesham Hall restaurant menu. The school attracted people from throughout the anglophone world, but Carrier was disappointed to find that many were attracted more by his celebrity than by an interest in cookery. He found the repetitive work of teaching onerous and dull.In the late 1970s, Carrier began presenting a television series, Carrier's Kitchen, based on the cooking cards from his Sunday Times articles. After the more traditional British fare often presented by British TV cooking programme host Fanny Cradock in her black and white shows, Carrier in colour television format introduced British TV viewers to a more exotic range of Continental cooking. With a highly theatrical and camp style, and "a penchant for superlatives ("Gooorgeous Adooorable Faaabulous!"), he "attracted viewers as much for his drawling American vowels and shameless self-promotion". His later followed this with three other series, titled Food, Wine and Friends, The Gourmet Vegetarian and Carrier's Caribbean. From this greater publicity flowed a substantial magazine published weekly by Marshall Cavendish between 1981 and 1983., Sphere Books, 1976, 3, London: Independent Magazines (Publishing) Ltd, 1975. First thus. paperback. G-. 4to. 39pp Slim magazine containing various articles incl: Cameo Glass of the Northwood school. Some spotting and minor creasing to covers, loss of front cover corner and browning to page edges,., Independent Magazines (Publishing) Ltd, 1975, 2.5, Turtleback Books. SCHOOL & LIBRARY BINDING. 0613286219 There is a name written on the first page. Otherwise, the book appears to be brand new. Ships, well packaged and very quickly, from MI. A detailed description is coming soon. The condition selected for the item is accurate and consistent with our other listings of the same general condition. 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