Найти книгу: "Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life"

An engaging, wickedly funny and splendidly anecdotal memoir of a career spent among writers, agents, publishers and bookmen and women of every stripe.Jeremy Lewis's first memoir, 'Playing for Time', was hailed by James Lees-Milne as 'the funniest and best written book I've read for years.' His second, 'Kindred Spirits', was described by John Carey as 'sheer pleasure from start to finish'. Now he has written a third autobiographical account of his encounters with literary figures over the last two decades which fittingly caps the previous two.A rich sense of the absurd and a profound understanding of the extreme comicality of life, together with a delight in the oddities of human behaviour, are the hallmarks of Jeremy Lewis's world. Bumbling figures of the book trade and eccentric luminaries of Grub Street alike are grist to his mill; his characterisations of Andre Deutsch, James Lees-Milne, Alan Ross, Richard Cobb, Barbara Skelton and dozens of others – are written with huge warmth and affection.Seldom has modern literary life been described with such a sense of relish and enjoyment; and seldom has the reader been so richly entertained by a gallery of eccentric portraits.

Content

Foreword

Introduction to boost technology

Lessons from history

Turbochargers: past and present

Nitrous oxide: from the beginnings to the present day

Aspiration: theory and basic principles

What you should know about turbochargers

Turbocharger boost pressure control

The strategy to prevent the turbocharger turboyam

What you should know about turbochargers

Cooling the intake charge

Injection water and other alternative solutions

Fuels and fuel additives

Fuel

Air intake system

Injection of nitrous oxide

Exhaust system

The process of combustion and ignition system

The engine management system

Increased engine durability

Lubrication system

Cooling system

Modification of the factory engine supercharged

Testing theory in practice and a few thoughts

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Scenes contemporaines : Scenes nouvelles / Laissees par feue madame la Vicontesse de Chamilly».

Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the institution of the society for the establishment of the literary fund : The constitutions and transactions of the society L a list of the subscribers : and the cash accompt of the fund to may 1815».