Broken Bargain
- 440 stránok
- 16 hodin čítania
A history of major financial crises--and how taxpayers have been left with the bill
Kathleen Dayus Knihy
Kathleen Dayusová bola anglická autorka, ktorej dielo sa ponára do hlbín spomienok na detstvo v robotníckej Anglicku. Prostredníctvom svojich autobiografických románov vykresľuje živé obrazy života v robotníckej triede, zachytáva špecifiká a atmosféru svojho rodného mesta. Jej štýl je prenikavý a autentický, čím čitateľom ponúka intímny pohľad do minulosti. Dayusová je cenená pre svoju schopnosť preniesť čitateľov do doby, ktorá je už dávno preč, a sprostredkovať tak autentický zážitok z iného sveta.
A new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William Woodruff's Nab End series.
Omnibus
- 746 stránok
- 27 hodin čítania
This volume collects Dayus' four books of autobiography. In it she recalls her Edwardian childhood, growing up in the slums of Birmingham, her adolescence as a munitions worker during World War I, early widowhood and the Depression, which forced her to give up her children.
The Ghosts of Yesteryear
- 246 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Kathleen Dayus revisits her childhood and young adult life before marriage, bringing to life the people and places her readers have come to know from her earlier volumes of autobiography. Here are stories of her schooldays; her first working experiences; her sister Lisa's theft of money her mother was sending to the Front; and experiences with boyfriends and dirty old men. All are told in the fresh and unsentimental prose for which Dayus is renowned.
