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Author : Kay Dick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Ivy & Stevie written by Kay Dick and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Paderewski
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3842365225
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Dicey Brawl written by Kenneth Paderewski and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes us back to New York in the 1950s where, within a few short city blocks, a tug-of-war is going on among four engaging people - two Guys and two Dolls - not able to strike a sensible balance between matrimony and gambling, navigating their individual priorities tenaciously, even perilously, in "The Dicey Brawl."
Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108307698
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Suicide Century written by Andrew Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but incessantly baffling phenomenon. Discussing works by a number of major authors from the long twentieth century, the book explores the way that suicide makes and unmakes subjects, assumes and disrupts meaning, induces and resists empathy, and insists on and makes inconceivable our understanding of ourselves and of others.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489975
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book In Black and Gold written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black and Gold indicates that opposed styles of poetry reveal subterranean correspondences that occasionally meet and run together. Austerity or tomfoolery are two of the many valid responses to the human condition that create the contiguous traditions that cannot help touching and reacting to each other. The poetry discussed in this book deals with the relation of individuals to strange or to familiar landscapes, and what this means to their own sense of displacement or rootedness; with the use of history as an escape from or as a challenge to an apparently failing present; and with the role of nationalism either as a refuge for angry frustration, or as a weapon against the affronting world, or as an ambivalent loyalty that needs to be scoured, or as all three. Here we find poetry as a means of discovering true or false allegiances and valid or invalid public and private identities; poetry as a medium for exploring the uses of the demotic in confronting the breakdowns and injustices of modern democracy; poetry as play in the midst of private and public woe; poetry as a spiritual quest, as a spiritual scourging, as a wrestling with spiritual absences; and poetry as an intermittent and sporadic commemoration of the triumphs and delights of epiphanic encounters with the physical world.
Author : Luanne Rice
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553587242
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Beach Girls written by Luanne Rice and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about—the Connecticut shore—to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one another. Beach Girls explores the complex and contradictory territories of love, family and friendship. Luanne Rice's sensuous prose and unforgettably rich and textured characters guide us toward a truth that lies within and sometimes beyond our dreams—an enduring strength that we all must embrace to find our way home and into the hearts of those we cherish most. Beach Girls is an enthralling novel of haunting beauty that will resonate long after the final page is turned.
Author : Shanora Williams
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 1496731107
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Ruin written by Shanora Williams and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams, a riveting novel of domestic suspense about the close relationship between two women: a severely troubled twenty-something and the mega-successful, billionaire CEO she's determined to destroy."--
Author : Alison Light
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135629919
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Forever England written by Alison Light and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars. From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, Forever England traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective, yet modernising in outlook. In a series of literary anaylses, the author suggests some of the tones and accents of this new version of Englishness; in particular she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the `whodunit', the burgeoning of historical romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture in the period. Forever England evokes a powerful sense of period and of the pleasures of reading, providing an intimate picture of interwar life from inside the English middle classes. As a feminist inquiry, it argues from a different kind of social and political history; one which makes connections between the interior structures of private life and their more public national forms. Controversially, it also urges that feminism deal with conservative, as well as radical, desires and their place in women's lives.
Author : Shanora Williams
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 1496736753
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Ruin: Chapter Sampler written by Shanora Williams and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Extended Excerpt Sneak Peek! Get ahead of the curve by being one of the first to snag a sneak peek of the newest thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams, a tale of revenge served ice cold—and a warning to be careful what you scheme for . . . A brutal tragedy ended Ivy Hill’s happy family and childhood. Now in her twenties and severely troubled, she barely has a life—or much to live for. Until the day she discovers the name of the woman who destroyed her world: Lola Maxwell—the mega-wealthy socialite with a heart, Miami’s beloved “first lady” of charity. Accomplished, gorgeous, and oh-so-caring, Lola has the best of everything—and doesn’t deserve any of it. So it’s only right that Ivy take it all away . . . Little by little, Ivy infiltrates Lola’s elite circle, becomes her new best friend—and plays Lola’s envious acquaintances and hangers-on against her. But seducing Lola’s handsome, devoted surgeon husband turns into a passionate dream Ivy suddenly can’t control. And soon, an insidious someone will twist Ivy’s revenge into a nightmare of deception, secrets, and betrayal that Ivy may not wake up from . . . "You're going to pick a side, make no mistake. And then you won't put it down until you know the truth. A shocking, sensual thriller with sharp twists." —Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author of The Wives
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016585
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Modern British Women Writers written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : K. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375820
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book ‘Modernist’ Women Writers and Narrative Art written by K. Wheeler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-08-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions about life, literature, and society. While examining the literary conventions and the innovations of various texts, Kathleen Wheeler is careful to respect the particularity and individuality of each of these writers.
Author : Noreen Masud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895893
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Stevie Smith and the Aphorism written by Noreen Masud and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aphorism, therefore, is a form in which dangerous ideas and emotions can be safely displayed and, simultaneously, effaced. Because aphorism's style defuses the imperative to act on what is clearly known, writers like Stevie Smith can use the form to stage a withdrawal from the burden of making an impact on the world. This book finds that Smith's use of aphorism and its related forms (proverb, epitaph, caption, and fragment) offers a route into her texts. With her disconcerting pen-and-ink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith's poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently or identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode of clearly-declared revelation which, at the same time, makes itself unusable.
Author : Ian Scott-Kilvert
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poets written by Ian Scott-Kilvert and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1998 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 148803754X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Next Best Thing written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a man should be simple, especially when you aren’t expecting romance! Lucy Lang wants a husband. She’s not looking for anyone special, just someone decent and reliable—but definitely not a man she’ll fall in love with. A young widow, Lucy already loved and lost her soulmate, and she doesn’t want to risk that kind of heartbreak again. But sick of being lumped in with her cursed “Black Widow” aunts, Lucy is motivated to give up her casual and completely inappropriate relationship with Ethan Mirabelli, her handsome neighbor, and search for something more dependable. Having been friends with Lucy for years, Ethan knows what she needs better than anyone else—and that’s him. But convincing her that their relationship is more than a “friends with privileges” arrangement will be a long, complicated process. Luckily, Ethan has always been patient… Previously published
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019165504X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Olivia Manning written by Deirdre David and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the Middle East, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucharest, Olivia Manning arrived in Romania on the 3rd September 1939, the fateful day when Allied forces declared war on Germany. For the duration of World War Two, she kept one step ahead of invading German forces as she and her husband fled Romania for Greece, and then Greece for the Middle East, where they stayed until the end of the war. These tumultuous wartime years are the subject of her best-known and most transparently autobiographical novels, The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Olivia Manning refused to be labelled a 'feminist,' but her novels depict with cutting insight and sardonic wit the marginal position of women striving for independent identity in arenas frequently controlled by men, whether on the frontlines of war or in the publishing world of the 1950s. However, she did not just write about World War Two and women's lives. Amongst other things, Manning published fiction about making do in Britain's post-war Age of Austerity, about desecration of the environment through uncontrolled development, and about the painful adjustment to post-war British life for young men. As the author of thirteen published novels, two volumes of short stories, several works of non-fiction, and a regular reviewer of contemporary fiction, she was a visible presence on the British literary scene throughout her life and her work provides a detailed insight into the period. Grounded in thorough research and enriched by discussion of previously unexamined manuscripts and letters, Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is a timely study of Olivia Manning's remarkable life. Deirdre David integrates incisive critical analysis of Manning's writing with extensive discussion of the historical contexts of her fiction.
Author : M. MacKay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230801390
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)
Download or read book British Fiction After Modernism written by M. MacKay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.
Author : K. Bluemel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137043733
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics written by K. Bluemel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of a group of four 'radical eccentrics' - the Tory anarchist poet Stevie Smith, the Marxist Indian nationalist Mulk Raj Anand, and the glamour-girl-turned-socialist Inez Holden - who formed a friendly circle around the famously radical and eccentric George Orwell. Demonstrating that Smith, Anand, and Holden matter for literary history just as they mattered for Orwell, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics gives name and shape to a neglected movement within interwar and wartime English writing. It focuses on the lives and texts of Smith, Anand, and Holden in order to argue that these three writers throw into question limiting assumptions about art and politics-about standard relations between literary form and sex, gender, race, class, and empire-in ways that their group's most influential radical, Orwell, cannot. Embarking upon a kind of biographical-political-cultural-literary criticism, this book brings the radical eccentrics' vital, potentially transformative conversation to the attention of scholars of English literature for the first time, suggesting fascinating new approaches to the study of literary London during the thirties and forties.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Human World written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
