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28 de set. de 2004 · The dying woodcock at the shooting party was so strong for me. 'The girl in red', so central to the action, was less clear in her first appearance anyway. But the one that does stand out so strongly, so forbodingly, was the lake that at times 'roared' - I'm not actually sure how a lake can roar - perhaps it was in the mind of the narrator only.
- Anton Chekhov
The Shooting Party is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913, less than a year before the beginning of the First World War, and shows a vanishing way of life amongst English aristocrats, focusing on a shooting party gathered for pheasant shooting.
24 de mai. de 1985 · SOMEWHERE toward the middle of ''The Shooting Party,'' set on a great English estate in the autumn of 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby (James Mason), the host for the fashionable country weekend, has a ...
While Europe stands on the brink of World War I in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.
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1 de mai. de 2009 · Just as the world of the landed gentry of 1913 ended in death in the Great War, so too does the Nettleby Park shooting party of October 1913 end in death. That fact is announced on the first page of the novel, and the suspense over whose death it will be propels the novel. But THE SHOOTING PARTY is much, much more than a mystery.
- Isabel Colegate
4 de jan. de 2007 · ISBN: 9780141188676. Number of pages: 224. Weight: 168 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. Show more. Buy The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate, Julian Fellowes from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
15 de jun. de 2010 · The Shooting Party: A Novel Paperback – June 15, 2010. It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt.
