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This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)—the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran. For Jones, the twentieth century was a period of crisis, an age of conflict,...
BABOONAuthor: David Jones Publisher: Chicken House Ltd Category: Children's General Story Books Age Group: 9+ Book Format: Paperback A plane crash. A mysterious transformation. An adventure unlike any other. Fourteen-year-old Gerry and his parents are returning to their research camp in the African...
MELTDOWNAuthor: David Jones Publisher: Chicken House Ltd Category: Adventure Books for Kids, Sci Fi Books for Kids Age Group: 12-17 Book Format: Paperback Orbiting the sun, fourteen-year-old Bart is a novice in The Prominence, a space abbey. As well as learning the rules of the Order, he is also...
Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last fifty years of his life, editing and arranging Jones’ correspondence with a linking commentary to form a biographical portrait.
Both his books — like his paintings — have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic stone-carvings or the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux caves.’ Kathleen Raine
The first published biography of the architect of London’s Tower Bridge
The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout'I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done' Dylan Thomas
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This collection of occasional writing ‘reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition .
Jones’s visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist’s original design.
Offers a unique analysis of globally iconic and cult favourite television show, Columbo.
David Jones’s In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was himself soaked in both poetry and history and...
Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones’ work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work. Unpacking the distinct corporeality in the work of Welsh modernist maker, poet, painter, and engraver, David Jones (1895-1974) that...
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.
Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones's The Grail Mass,the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece The Anathemata – a work described
Suitable for a group of climbers of mixed ability, this title can also be useful for families, groups of friends, and especially university groups and climbing clubs. It includes: location maps; boulders; photo topos; and action photographs. Also includes an additional 17 individual children’s...
The extraordinary history of the hidden civilizations of the first peoples of the South American Andes, with over 200 photographs and illustrations.
David Attenborough: explorer, broadcaster, natural historian. Explorethe beauty of the world we inhabit with national treasure, DavidAttenborough.
This updated, second edition of Kostenberger and Jones’s landmark work tackles the latest debates and cultural challenges to God’s plan for marriage and the family and urges a return to a biblical foundation.
Who is the Bride of Christ? The Bride is the hidden treasure at the heart of God's creation. She is the precious mystery concealed in the oracles of God. The sacred writings begin with the creation of the Bride and conclude with her revelation.The ultimate destiny of every Christian is wrapped...
