Книга: Lodge, David «A Man of Parts»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...` Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent`s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, `H. G.` to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, `the man who invented tomorrow`; now he feels like yesterday`s man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic common touch which brought him into contact with most of the important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love, and energetic practice of it. Arguing with himself about his conduct, he... ISBN:9781846554971 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)
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Источник: Lodge, David
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man of parts — a talented or gifted man : a man of notable endowments or capacity no man of parts … would accept so feeble a role H.S.Truman not in the nature of a man of parts to stick to the same plodding trade Harriette Wilson … Useful english dictionary
man of parts — {n. phr.}, {literary} A man who has several different skills, talents, or qualities. * /The pianist is a man of parts. He wrote the piece he played, and he also plays the organ and paints well./ … Dictionary of American idioms
man of parts — {n. phr.}, {literary} A man who has several different skills, talents, or qualities. * /The pianist is a man of parts. He wrote the piece he played, and he also plays the organ and paints well./ … Dictionary of American idioms
man\ of\ parts — n. phr. literary A man who has several different skills, talents, or qualities. The pianist is a man of parts. He wrote the piece he played, and he also plays the organ and paints well … Словарь американских идиом