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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...

Eric Partridge

As the last edition to feature original work by Partridge himself, its place in the history of the lexicography of slang is assured.
Frances Partridge: The Biography

Frances Partridge: The Biography

Anne Chisholm

Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century.
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan

I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan

Steve Coogan

A literary tour de force, I, PARTRIDGE: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ALAN charts the incredible journey of one of our greatest broadcasters.
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

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By Michael Stephen Partridge. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA, 1989, viii & 240 pages, 12 illustrations, 8 maps. Price £44.95. ISBN 0-31328871- 1. In this extremely well researched volume Dr Partridge considers the changing  ...
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler

Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler

Peter Wolfe

Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him “a serious artist and a very considerable novelist,” while praising him as “one of the finest novelists of his time.” Peter Wolfe ...
The New Hampshire Reports

The New Hampshire Reports

New Hampshire. Supreme Court

Partridge. by the law of this State, in order to maintain trespass an actual entry is not necessary, and an heir, or devisee, or lessee may maintain ... Leonard Hatch and Ira were tenants in common till Leonard conveyed to Stephen Partridge.
The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons and the ...

The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons and the ...

E. O. Jameson

They resided in East Medway. Mr. Stephen Partridge died March 1o, 1742. .Mis. Marv Partridge married 1Abner Ellis. The children were : Marv, b. June 2o, 1738, m. Joseph Baxter. A/un.v, b. April 16, 1742, Dec. 25, 1765. Aaron Gardner, res. in  ...
Gladstone

Gladstone

Michael Partridge

Michael Partridge provides a new survey of Gladstone's life and career, placing him firmly in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, and covering both his intriguing private life and his public career.
Slang: To-Day and Yesterday

Slang: To-Day and Yesterday

Eric Partridge

... Gilbert impinged powerfully on English slang almost as long as did Charles Dickens, John Mills, and James Greenwood. ... And as for that figure beloved of the Press, the novelist, Gilbert discovers him— in clumsy snuffy suit, In seedy glove, ...
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ...

New Hampshire. Supreme Judicial Court

Partridge. by the law of this State, in order to maintain trespass an actual entry is not necessary, and an heir, or devisee, or lessee may maintain ... Leonard Hatch and Ira were tenants in common till Leonard conveyed to Stephen Partridge.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court ...

New Hampshire. Superior Court of Judicature

Partridge. in Stratford, on the 1st of January, 1837, being one undivided third part of the Noah Hatch farm, and from that time to ... Shortly before the November term , 1846, of the court of common pleas, Stephen Partridge brought a suit against ...
Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom, ...

Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom, ...

Michael Partridge

Military planning for the defense of the United Kingdom, 1814-1870 / by Michael Stephen Partridge. p. cm.— (Contributions in military studies, ISSN 0883-6884 ; no. 91) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-313-26871-1 (alk. paper) 1.
Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Lacey Kohlmoos

Sources and Additional Reading Sources Bolton Street Synagogue, NPR commentator Eric Weiner sponsored by breathbooks Eric Weiner Books, Bio Book Reporter, Biography: Eric Weiner The Globalist, Eric Weiner World Database of ...
The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts ...

The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts ...

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Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts Siân Echard, Stephen Partridge. Introduction Varieties of Editing: History, Theory, and Technology SIAN ECHARD AND STEPHEN PARTRIDGE Texts and their editions are produced for  ...
American Indians and Popular Culture

American Indians and Popular Culture

Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman

Breaking Seals by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth) Plastic Fred by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth). 158 Literature, Arts, and Resistance.
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

Eric tells his story as it is, hiding nothing, with a directness and searing honesty that will make this book one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton

Now for the first time, Eric tells the story of his personal and professional journeys in this pungent, witty and painfully honest autobiography. But the rock star lifestyle has had a darker side too.
Somerset Airman

Somerset Airman

Eric Gardner

Eric Gardner grew up in Frome on a small family farm. At the age of 19 he joined the RAF. He finished the manuscript for this book just days before his sudden death at the age of 82 and so, sadly, Eric never saw it in print.
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

Michael Eric Dyson

DYSON. “Such is the genius of Dyson. He flows freely from the profound to the profane, from popular culture to classical literature.” —WASHINGTON POST THE MICHAEL ERIC DYSON READER ALSO BY MICHAEL ERIC DYSON.
The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

Eric Schneider

Eric Schneider was one of the young victims in the notorious Boy Scout sexual abuse case that rocked Boston in the mid-1980s. By his teens, Eric was a drug dealer, arsonist, and small-time thief.

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