Jane Elizabeth: 131 books

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

A dead war hero’s lingering influence follows his family from World War II–era London to the 1950s English countryside   At the height of World War II, while her husband, Julius, was away at the front, Esme, the mother of two young children, fell in love for the first time. Her lover, a poet...

The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I   The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who’s an incurable romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a...

An aging con man sets his sights on a twice-burned, sixtyish woman in this suspenseful novel from the author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Harry Kent is the caretaker of a houseboat on the English canal where he lives, subsisting on a nightly dinner of tinned steak and kidney pudding....

Four beautifully observed novels from the international bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles and a “compelling storyteller” (The Guardian). Best-known for the five novels that comprise her million-selling Cazalet Chronicles, which was made into a BBC television series, British novelist...

A short story anthology of thrills, chills, and the impulses and longings that drive us, from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.   In this dazzling collection, author Elizabeth Jane Howard mines the rich terrain of the heart with her trademark wit and style, as well as a Hitchcockian...

From the much-loved author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's first children's book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, following the magical journey of a mouse who wishes to be anything but himself. The trouble was that Freddie really did not like being a mouse....

...E alla fine sono arrivati gli anni Cinquanta. Il capitolo conclusivo della saga dei Cazalet si apre con una perdita significativa: la Duchessa viene a mancare. Andandosene, porta via con sé gli ultimi frammenti di un mondo che sta scomparendo: quello della servitù domestica, della classe sociale,...

EL ÚLTIMO GRAN CLÁSICO DE LA NOVELA INGLESA DEL SIGLO XX «Los años ligeros es una joya literaria escondida para el lector español, la cima de la sofisticación británica».  Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC «Los inolvidables Cazalet nos dan una lección de belleza y verdad como solo la literatura...

New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how...

È il 1945 e la guerra è finita. Il momento tanto atteso e sognato dai Cazalet per anni è finalmente arrivato. Eppure, l’eccitazione di fronte alla notizia che le armi sono state deposte è ormai sopita, e l’Inghilterra è ancora paralizzata nella morsa della privazione. Mentre l’impero si...

È il 1942: da quando abbiamo salutato i Cazalet per l’ultima volta è trascorso un anno. I raid aerei e il razionamento del cibo sono sempre all’ordine del giorno, eppure qualcosa comincia a smuoversi: per le giovani Cazalet la lunga attesa è finita e finalmente Louise, Polly e Clary fanno il...

Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance combines a student focus with state-of-the-art theory and research to help readers understand and adjust to life in a context of continuous change, challenge, and opportunity. Incorporating existential and third wave behavioral psychology...

Londra, anni Sessanta. Sono trascorsi vent’anni da quando Julius è venuto a mancare, ma il suo ultimo gesto eroico ha lasciato un segno indelebile nelle vite di chi gli era vicino. Emma, la figlia minore, ventisette anni, lavora nella casa editrice di famiglia e non mostra alcun interesse verso...