The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between an unknown and certainly unqualified speech therapist called Lionel Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman—he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless, it was Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into a man who was capable of being king. Had Logue not saved Ber...

VI. György, a dadogását rendkívüli erőfeszítéssel fejlesztő brit uralkodó II. Erzsébet apja és elődje volt. Beszédhibáját, amely súlyosan korlátozta volna a nyilvánosság előtti szereplésekkor, egy tapasztalt, ám felettébb furcsa módszereiről híres logopédus segítségével küzdötte le. Kettejük története, amely A király beszéde című könyv és a belőle készült, Oscar-díjas film révén vált világhírűvé, a második világháborúban is folytatódott: Lionel Logue, a tanár továbbra is bejáratos volt a B...

The King's Speech is het nooit eerder vertelde verhaal van de opmerkelijke vriendschap tussen spraaklereraar Lionel Logue en de onder zijn spraakgebrek gebukt gaande toekomstige koning George VI van Groot-Brittannië. Het werpt een bijzonder licht op de intieme band tussen beide mannen en op de rol die de vrouw van de koning, wijlen koningin Elizabeth, speelde door hen bij elkaar te brengen om de reputatie en het koningschap van haar man te redden. Het boek biedt een verbluffende inkijk in ...

Lionel Logue was a self-taught and almost unknown Australian speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love for Mrs Simpson.The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue and the haunted future King George VI, written with Logue's grandson and drawing exclu...

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'.Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York ...

A boy, his grandfather, and a baby dragon set off on an international adventure that takes them from the Midwest to Iceland in this children's fantasy novel perfect for fans of When You Trap a Tiger and How To Train Your Dragon.Johan is off to visit his Grandpa Siggy—a charismatic, impetuous Icelander with a big secret: He took a dragon egg with him when he immigrated to America. As fate would have it, Dreki hatched just a few hours after Johan wa...