books by Chatto&Windus     books:       Godric19 reviews Frederick Buechner Chatto and Windus, 1981 Moving, Funny, Poignant, Poetic Everyone points out that this little novel is graceful and poetic, and they couldn't be more correct. Throughout the novel, I marveled at the simple beauty of the words and the way they are put together, and it wasn't until later that I realized why. This novel is so meticulously put together that each sentence is written in iambs. I think that fact kind of holds within how wonderful this novel ...             HENRY V: A Screen Adaption By Kenneth Branagh18 reviews William SHAKESPEARE Chatto & Windus, 1989 A popular play in an edition fabulously rich in helps This play is best known for the St. Crispian's Day "Band of Brothers" speech given by King Henry just before the battle at Agincourt. It is a powerful speech that rallies people at all times and everywhere. Sir Lawrence Olivier made a film version in 1944 during WWII and Kenneth Branagh made another as recently as 1989. You can count on there being more versions. Epecially so when computers ...             The Other Side of the Bridge25 reviews Mary Lawson Chatto and Windus, 2006 VERY BEAUTIFUL "They sat on in silence, or almost silence; if you listened closely you could just hear a faint thrumming from thousand of wings. Beyond the dragonflies the sun was sinking slowly, casting its rays across the lake, on either side, everything as far as the eye could see was slowly dissolving into the haze. Ian thought, If I live to be a hundred years old, I will always remember this." Mary ...             Gift from the Sea107 reviews Anne Morrow Lindbergh Chatto and Windus, 1979 A Joy Forever What more can be said about this lovely collection of thoughts? Even as it celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is as fresh as the day it was penned. This book is a keeper if ever there was one, a volume to be read and re-read and handed down to one's children, which is what I intend to do with the most recent Gift from the Sea that I bought.             Isaiah Berlin: A Life17 reviews Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 1998 A solid biography of a modern master This is the life- story of the most important historian of ideas of the twentieth century. The story is told with clarity and sympathy . And something is caught of the tone and spirit of the person considered to be ' the greatest talker the English language had ' since Coleridge. Berlin was a person not only of remarkable learning, but of tremendous intellectual enthusiasm. His understanding of ...             The Power of the Dog19 reviews Thomas Savage Chatto and Windus, 1984 Cruel, stunning, haunting A completely unexpected and disturbingly powerful character study of a small group of characters in the West, circa 1940s. The prose here is incredible, and the plot unfolds slowly and myteriously. Palpable tension-- the author knew precisely what he woas doing-- with an ending I truly didn't see coming. One of the most remarkable books I've ever read.             Time Regained11 reviews Marcel Proust Chatto & Windus, 1970 Literary peerlessness "Time Regained" is a dark ending to the "In Search of Lost Time" cycle, as Proust, sickly like his fictional narrator, unknowingly nears the end of his own life but senses its imminence. France, like the most of the rest of the world, is now a very different place. The Dreyfus affair is receding into the past under the shadow of the new war that has descended upon Europe, with Germany having ...             In Ruins10 reviews Christopher Woodward Chatto & Windus, 2001 Before you Travel anywhere, read this book Its' difficult to describe this book, or even what its about...but I couldn't put it down for two days (The time it took to read it). I suppose the best way to describe reading it is that is was like sitting down at a nice pub by the fire and listening to a very, very interesting person speak. Woodward has that all too rare combination of being extraordinarily intelligent, thinking and ...             Old Filth16 reviews Jane Gardam Chatto & Windus, 2004 Gardam's "Loss," Our Gain? As is unanimously pointed out in the other reader reviews, OLD FILTH is a mordant, brilliantly written book that will impress even the most discriminating reader. The character profile that author Jane Gardam draws of its venerable protagonist is nuanced and thoroughly convincing, and the book is also evocative in its depictions of life in Malaysia and wartime Britain. My continued praise for ...             Hunting and Gathering9 reviews Anna Gavalda Chatto and Windus, 2006 Quite Simply an Amazing and Remarkable Book. . . I don't know how else I can describe this book except to say that I disliked absolutely nothing about it. Except that it had to end. These last few weeks have been enjoyable, and thought provoking, getting to know these strangers as they met and came together, all of them sad and yet hopeful in their own ways. The Parisian setting had its own appeal, but that was not the story. The story ...             The powers that be13 reviews David Halberstam Chatto and Windus, 1979 Amazing Book--Must Reading for All I read this book years ago and it still sticks with me. As a reporter in Vietnam, Halberstam was a thorn in the side of the Johnson and Nixon administration. He was watched by Nixon's plumbers and the FBI; Nixon thought he was a subversive. What he is is an exceptionally perceptive historian. In this book he follows the growth of the media industry from newsprint to magazines, radio and ...             Golden Warrior11 reviews Hope Muntz Chatto and Windus, 1947 The Terrible Promise Not a whole lot is known about English King Harold, the loser of the momentous battle of Hastings in 1066. After all, he was only king for about nine months, and, well, he lost. Not only do the winners write the history, as we know, but they often obliterate the histories of those they vanquished. However, what little is known makes for fascinating conjecture, and this great novel by Hope ...             Hunting of the Snark (Chatto Pocket Library)12 reviews Lewis Carroll Chatto and Windus, 1993 Agony? Hardly! Nonsense poems can easily miss the mark Yet, this masterpiece has that spark. "How do you kill a _____?", you ask To find the answer was the hunters' task. "What was their fate?", you wonder Did they ever catch their elusive plunder? A paragon of haunting Carollian lore Be in no doubt that you'll finish wanting more. This poem is just great!             THE SHORE OF WOMEN.12 reviews Pamela. Sargent Chatto&Windus, 1987 Intelligent, Imaginative, Beautifully Wrought--And OOP Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women works out in persuasively anthropological detail--almost Geertzian "thick description," if you will--a post-apocalyptic world in which women rule with space-age technologies from walled citadels, exiling male children into literal stone age societies of isolated bands clad in animal skins, where lives are nasty, brutish, and short. The violence of Sargent's ...             Samuel Johnson10 reviews W.Jackson Bate Chatto and Windus, 1978 The most moving and inspiring biography I have ever read. I read this book over 20 years ago. It was my introduction to Samuel Johnson. The book inspired my deep devotion to Johnsonia. The subject, I now know, is fascinating; for over two centuries biographies of Johnson have never been out of print. But this book caught my attention and fixed it. It is a moving portrait of a person like all of us except with greater disabilities and greater ...             From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers9 reviews Marina Warner Chatto and Windus, 1994 Excellent Marina Warner's _From the Beast to the Blonde_ is a wonderful and engaging work concerning the cultural history of fairy tales. Warner explores the "stock characters" and stories of traditional tales, and in the process creates an excellent work of scholarship and criticism in an area of literature that has been relegated to the nursery, but didn't start there.              search for books adaption, beast, berlin, blonde, branagh, bridge, chatto, fairy, filth, gathering, godric, golden, hunting, isaiah, johnson, kenneth, library, pocket, power, powers, regained, samuel, screen, shore, snark, tales, tellers, their, warrior, women books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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