Piccole gelosie che montano fino a far scricchiolare matrimoni all'apparenza inossidabili, figli che non arrivano e scappatelle in camere d'albergo fatiscenti, e ancora, incontri mancati dopo giornate passate ad attendere mentre il Tamigi esonda e nottate in bianco a orecchiare cosa succede nella stanza accanto quando ci si dovrebbe godere la propria luna di miele. Le storie di Elizabeth Taylor sono così: una continua ed elusiva ricerca di una felicità possibile. Tutti questi racconti ci parlano delle prerogative dell'amore, fra uomini devoti perlopiù al lavoro e donne «infelici ma mai passive», animate da uno spirito che ancora oggi ce le rende vicine e sorelle. Questa raccolta del meglio delle sue storie curata e tradotta da Paola Moretti ci porta dritti dentro alle mura domestiche e nei segreti dell'alcova, davanti al bancone di pub che hanno visto tempi migliori e nella provincia inglese pettegola e immutabile, facendoci leggere una scrittrice che ha dato voce ai pensieri più sussurrati e ha messo a nudo imbarazzi e slanci di generazioni di uomini e donne.

Un anno della vita di un bambino, Mossy Trotter, con tutto il bagaglio di piccole avventure, innocue bugie e involontari guai. Mossy osserva e commenta il mondo con sguardo attento e acuto ma sempre affettuoso. Nel suo unico romanzo per ragazzi Elizabeth Taylor riesce a raccontare le esperienze e i pensieri di un bambino come solo i grandi autori per ragazzi sanno fare. Età di lettura: da 11 anni.

Nick, pittore di mezz'età, e Amy, sua moglie, sono a Istanbul per una breve vacanza che dovrebbe ricompensare le sofferenze patite da entrambi per una grave malattia di cui Nick è stato vittima. Ma la sua morte improvvisa interrompe bruscamente il viaggio e precipita Amy nella più assoluta inerzia, dalla quale prova a soccorrerla Martha, una giovane scrittrice americana appena conosciuta. Accudita da Martha, Amy rientra a Londra, dove ritrova ad accoglierla il figlio James con la moglie e le figliolette, il maggiordomo Ernie e il dottor Lloyd, un amico di famiglia. Dapprima riluttante, Amy accetta senza entusiasmo la presenza esuberante di Martha, non fosse altro perché con lei il tempo immobile della vedovanza sembra scorrere almeno un po'. Come Amy, anche gli altri personaggi che le ruotano intorno sono stati avari nella vita. Tutti, tranne la stravagante Martha, l'unica capace di gesti tanto impulsivi e gratuiti, quanto sinceri e generosi, e forse per questo giudicata un'intrusa, un'inopportuna: sentimento prevalente in Amy insieme a un fastidioso e insistente senso di colpa, che si troverà a condividere con Simon, il marito di Martha, quando un nuovo, tragico evento li metterà di fronte alla loro desolata e funesta inadeguatezza.

Un gruppo di eccentrici vecchi All'Hotel Claremont vive un gruppo di eccentrici anziani che hanno in comune due grandi nemici: la noia e la morte. Rimasta vedova, Mrs Palfrey decide di andare a passare i suoi ultimi anni in albergo e così approda al Claremont, dove intende rimanere almeno un mese, ma forse, si dice, per sempre. Un giorno, in seguito a una caduta durante una passeggiata, viene soccorsa da Ludo, un giovane che ambisce a diventare uno scrittore. Tra i due nasce un'intesa, che aiuterà Mrs Palfrey a fare un bilancio della propria esistenza e Ludo a capire quanto sia importante vivere pienamente. Anche per scrivere un romanzo che rende giustizia alla vecchiaia.

Camp Forrest was a training, induction, and combatant prisoner-of-war (POW) facility located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, Tennessee. It was a self-sustaining city where over 70,000 soldiers were stationed and approximately 12,000 civilians were employed throughout World War II. In 1942, the camp transitioned to an enemy alien internment camp and was one of the first civilian internment camps in the United States. By the middle of 1943, it had transitioned into a POW camp and housed primarily German and Italian prisoners. After the war ended, the base was decommissioned and dismantled in 1946. In 1951, the area was recommissioned and expanded into the US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Few remains of this important World War II facility exist today; however, the images within provide a glimpse into the effects and realities of a global war on American soil.

""Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing--an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants--but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram. Taylor's novel is a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses"--

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Nearly forty years after her death, Elizabeth Taylor is only beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the finest English writers of the postwar period, notwithstanding the praise she has received from writers as different as Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. For Taylor, however, unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but right at home. It is in the living room, playroom, and bedroom that Taylor stages her unforgettable dramas of alienation and impossible desire.

In 2012, NYRB Classics reissued two of Taylor’s finest novels, and The New York Times Book Review hailed the reemergence of this wonderful neglected author. Now, for the first time in more than a quarter century, Taylor’s stories, in many ways the heart of her achievement, will be available to readers in the United States, presented in a revelatory new selection by Margaret Drabble. In Taylor’s extensive body of short fiction, the bulk of which was originally taken by the legendary editor and writer William Maxwell for The New Yorker, her range of feeling and the power of her writing are evident as nowhere else.

Many adults attend financial education classes to help them make more informed financial decisions, based on their

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This volume brings together scholars from the fields of adult education and financial literacy and covers topics that reveal the interrelatedness of the two fields. They show how concepts and knowledge about adult education can be utilized in and illuminate financial education, and they offer insights about how financial education, as an eminently practical subject, shows adults learning and putting their new knowledge into action.

This is the 141st volume of this Jossey-Bass series. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

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Perhaps every novelist harbors a monster at heart, an irrepressible and utterly irresponsible fantasist, not to mention a born and ingenious liar, without which all her art would go for naught. Angel, at any rate, is the story of such a monster. Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother's grocery shop in a dreary turn-of-the-century English neighborhood, but spends her days dreaming of handsome Paradise House, where her aunt is enthroned as a maid. But in Angel's imagination, she is the mistress of the house, a realm of lavish opulence, of evening gowns and peacocks. Then she begins to write popular novels, and this fantasy becomes her life. And now that she has tasted success, Angel has no intention of letting anyone stand in her way—except, perhaps, herself.

Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. But things are not at all as they used to be. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life.
      One of the finest twentieth-century English novelists, Elizabeth Taylor, like her contemporaries Graham Greene, Richard Yates, and Michelangelo Antonioni, was a connoisseur of the modern world's forsaken zones. Her characters are real, people caught out by their own desires and decisions, and they demand our attention. The be-stilled suburban backwaters she sets out to explore shimmer in her books with the punishing clarity of a desert mirage.

What's red and green and a sticky, mushy mess? The legendary Jelly Bean Row no less! How did the colorful row houses (which remind us of jelly beans) on one of the oldest streets in North America get their name? Here's a slaphappy tale nestled inside dozens of bright, rainbow-drenched illustrations that will tickle the imagination and bring a sparkle to the eye of codgers and kids alike. You're invited to meet some of the colorful characters from one of the most extraordinary streets in North America. So, don a pair of hip-waders and join in the foolishness, fuss and fun. Everyone is welcome and entertainment is supplied!