Bøger af John Sparrow

"Tickets Please" is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence. It is set during the First World War, when men in Britain were deployed in large numbers as soldiers, and women were engaged in employment roles that they had not previously undertaken. The main characters in the story are Cissy Meakin, Annie Stone, Nora Purdey and Laura Sharp employed as conductresses, and John Thomas Raynor employed as an inspector, for the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company. This adaptation of the story for the stage, highlights the models of working practice adopted by the women, alongside the conflicted nature of gender in that socio-cultural context. The play reveals the consequences for Cissy and Annie of their respective romantic relationships with John Thomas, together with the range of reactions of all of the women in the story, as they seek to address his behaviour.

Automatically Driven is the truly unique memoir of John Sparrow, who worked as a Director and Senior Executive for Land Rover, BMW and Honda in a career spanning fifty years.

Fortune is a story of four lifelong friends with very different personalities. The paths they have taken in their lives, so far, have given each of them their own way of dealing with life.But what happens when fortunes radically change?How do they cope with changes in health, relationships, business and lifestyle?Major changes in fortune challenge the priorities they have held in their lives. They find that their longstanding approaches aren't working for them or the others they seek to support.As they question themselves and each other, they jeopardise their wellbeing and friendship, until they can come to a new understanding of what they each mean by success.

Mr Sparrow traces the development of the inscription as a literary form in Renaissance and post-Renaissance Europe. He attributes the Renaissance concern with the visual presentation of words to the profound interest in epigraphy aroused by the rediscovery of classical inscriptions.

Mark Pattison was Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1861 to 1884, and a rival of Jowett in the promotion of university reform. His strongly marked personality served as a model for several characters in Victorian fiction, including Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's Middlemarch.