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Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher :
Release Date : 1943
ISBN 10 : UVA:X001105808
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 ( users)
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-12
ISBN 10 : 9780349141480
Pages : 640 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (349 users)
Download Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky PDF Full or another Format written by Patrick Hamilton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s. This is a world where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars - a world of twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.
Author : Jonathon Shears
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020
ISBN 10 : 9781789621198
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (789 users)
Download The Hangover PDF Full or another Format written by Jonathon Shears and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ahangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us aboutthe way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out toanswer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' fromthe Renaissance to the present day.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-09-25
ISBN 10 : 9780141926582
Pages : 1024 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (141 users)
Download 'Have You Seen...?' PDF Full or another Format written by David Thomson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked – or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of funny, vigorous, wayward prose later, we are all the happy beneficiaries of his deranged labour. Always unexpected, never repetitive, ‘Have You Seen...?’ can be read consecutively – from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to Zabriskie Point – or dipped into over many years, and it is a masterclass in how to write about films and how to love them. Sometimes Thomson will be interested in the director, sometimes in the culture that made such a film possible at such a time, sometimes in the stars (always in the stars, to be honest), and sometimes even in the outrageous cynicism and corruption of most financial backers. ‘Have You Seen...?’ is crammed with great love stories, westerns, musicals, war stories, comedies, and dramas. It is as in awe of film noir as of silent farce, and adores Hollywood but also favours British, Japanese and European cinema: camp disasters, kitsch and pretention hold no fears. If Thomson has a bottom line it is his incredulity that so much that is so enjoyable and moving and worthwhile was ever made at all – and that thanks to DVD we can now watch it forever. ‘Have You Seen...?’ will redirect how you spend your evenings for the rest of your life – for the better.
Author : Dave Welsh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9781846312236
Pages : 321 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (846 users)
Download Underground Writing PDF Full or another Format written by Dave Welsh and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground/ Tube was "mapped" by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of the World War II, "underground writing" created an imaginative world beneath the streets ofLondon. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking- glass or as place of safety and security. The book is a chronological study from the opening of the first underground in the 1860s to its role in WW2. Each chapter explores perspectives on the underground in a number of writers, starting with George Gissing in the 1880s, moving through the work of H. G. Wells and into the writing of the1920s and 1930s including Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. It concludes with its portrayal in the fiction, poetry and art (including Henry Moore) of WW2. The approach takes a broadly cultural studies perspective, crossing the boundaries of transport history, literature and London/urban studies. It draws mainly on fiction but also uses poetry, art, journals, postcards and posters to illustrate. It links the actual underground trains, tracks andstations to the metaphorical world of "underground writing" and places the writing in a social/political context.
Author : Charlotte Charteris
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-04
ISBN 10 : 9783030024147
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (3 users)
Download The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose PDF Full or another Format written by Charlotte Charteris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term ‘queer’ in its many senses. Whilst it is informed by the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe, it is also profoundly concerned with what Christopher Isherwood termed ‘the market value of the Odd.’ Drawing, for its methodology, on the work of Raymond Williams, it traces the impact of the Great War on the development of language, examining the use of ten ‘keywords’ in the prose of Christopher Isherwood, Evelyn Waugh and Patrick Hamilton, and that of their respective literary milieux, in order to establish how queer lives and modern sub-cultural identities were forged collaboratively within the fictional realm. By utilizing contemporary perspectives on performativity in conjunction with detailed close readings it repositions these authors as self-conscious agents actively producing their own queer masculinities through calculated acts of linguistic transgression.
Author : Laura Frost
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-09
ISBN 10 : 9780231526463
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (231 users)
Download The Problem with Pleasure PDF Full or another Format written by Laura Frost and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. She considers pop cultural phenomena and the rise of celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Gypsy Rose Lee against contemporary sociological, scientific, and philosophical writings on leisure and desire. Throughout her study, Frost incorporates recent scholarship on material and visual culture and vernacular modernism, recasting the period's high/low, elite/popular divides and formal strategies as efforts to regulate sensual and cerebral experience. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture.
Author : Anna Cottrell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781474425674
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (474 users)
Download London Writing of the 1930s PDF Full or another Format written by Anna Cottrell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensity
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2001-05-03
ISBN 10 : 9780141926636
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (141 users)
Download Orwell's England PDF Full or another Format written by George Orwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including The Road to Wigan Pier 'No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell' New York Review of Books Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England. In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as 'suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated class distinctions and an obsession with sport'. The Road to Wigan Pier, his blistering account of poverty in the north of England, and many of his essays, attack what he called 'the most class-ridden country under the sun', while other writings here ruminate on the merits of cricket, gardening, roast dinners, pubs, tea and seaside postcards. Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Ben Pimlott
Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-10-25
ISBN 10 : 9781476710365
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (476 users)
Download Books to Die For PDF Full or another Format written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology featuring the world's greatest mystery authors writing about theworld's greatest mystery novels.
Author : Stephanie Downes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-30
ISBN 10 : 9780192523655
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (192 users)
Download Feeling Things PDF Full or another Format written by Stephanie Downes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been of increasing significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research. The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or across cultural and geographical space. Feeling Things addresses the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the analysis of objects and emotions in European history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting emotional valencies of objects from the past to the present, and from one place and cultural context to another. The collection draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles. Many of these have been preserved in international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have changed over time. The chapters consider the ways in which emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing 'emotional objects' of significance and agency. Such objects can be harnessed to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction of cultural, communal, and national identities.
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Release Date : 2008-07-01
ISBN 10 : 1590172736
Pages : 566 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (172 users)
Download Names on the Land PDF Full or another Format written by George R. Stewart and published by NYRB Classics. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life. Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t. Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
Author : John Harding
Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : IND:30000110548066
Pages : 103 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (3 users)
Download Patrick Hamilton PDF Full or another Format written by John Harding and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an appraisal of Hamilton's major novels as well as his successful stage plays, Rope and Gaslight. This title draws on the views of a variety of commentators, including Michael Holroyd, Doris Lessing, Claud Coburn and many others as well as considering how Hamilton's political beliefs affected his work.
Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : McSweeneys Books
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015062569838
Pages : 143 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download The Polysyllabic Spree PDF Full or another Format written by Nick Hornby and published by McSweeneys Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares selections from the author's column in "The Believer" that comment on literature he has found interesting, and features passages from the material discussed.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105023189298
Pages : 676 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)
Download A Kind of Compulsion, 1903-1936 PDF Full or another Format written by George Orwell and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1998 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with Orwell's letters home from St. Cyprian's Preparatory School from the age of eight. Orwell illustrated many of these letters and the edition reproduces his simple but charming drawings. Whilst at Eton he contributed to several college publications and these, with several of his early stories, are printed here. It was also a time when he wrote poetry and all the poems of these years are included. Whilst in Burma he wrote sketches and draft that were lead to Burmese Days; all are now published here. Reprinted for the first time since their publication in Paris in 1928 - 1929, and now with English translations, are the articles he wrote to expose the sufferings of the unemployed, tramps and beggars, the imperialist exploitation of other people, a literary essay and an essay on censorship, all of which would be centres of concern for Orwell throughout his life. In 1930 Orwell had published the first of his 379 reviews of some 700 books, plays and films. In 1931 'A Hanging', the first of his most important essays, was published. The volume includes the text of his school play, King Charles II, which features (as Charles 1) in A Clergyman's Daughter.
Author : Rosemary Erickson Johnsen
Publisher :
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : MSU:31293015796083
Pages : 614 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (312 users)
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Author : Ladislaus Löb
Publisher :
Release Date : 1962
ISBN 10 : UCAL:B3435568
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (3 users)
Download Mensch und Gesellschaft bei J. B. Priestley PDF Full or another Format written by Ladislaus Löb and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
