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Download or read book Hurry on Down written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday Times Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century.
Download or read book A Travelling Woman written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young shoulders written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuncle written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Winter in the Hills by : John Wain
Download or read book A Winter in the Hills written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English philologist in North Wales, intending to become fluent in the language, becomes involved with the locals whose exploits have a lasting and surprising effect on his life.
Download or read book The Smaller Sky written by John Wain and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Wain written by Elizabeth Hatziolou and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Where the Rivers Meet by : John Wain
Download or read book Where the Rivers Meet written by John Wain and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1988 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unexpected Professor by : John Carey
Download or read book The Unexpected Professor written by John Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship. He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times. This is a book about the joys of reading - in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.
Download or read book John Wain written by Dale Salwak and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Download or read book John Wain written by David E. Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on Literature and Ideas by : John Wain
Download or read book Essays on Literature and Ideas written by John Wain and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Sprightly Running written by John Wain and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1962 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 35 a British writer examines his life and makes a self-assessment.
Book Synopsis The Artistic Genius Of Louis Wain by : John C Rigdon
Download or read book The Artistic Genius Of Louis Wain written by John C Rigdon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Wain was one of the most popular commercial illustrators in the history of England. Born in 1860, his portrayals of cats captured the imagination of the citizens, and his work helped to elevate the profile and popularity of cats to unprecedented heights. H.G. Wells once remarked. "He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. Cats who do not live and look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." His illustrations were so popular that throughout the beginning of the twentieth century, most homes had at least one of his famous cat annuals and many nurseries had Wain posters hanging on their walls. In the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race and the Seaside, celebrating at Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This book tells Wain's story with full color high resolution reproductions of some of his drawings.
Book Synopsis A John Wain Selection by : John Wain
Download or read book A John Wain Selection written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories:The life guard ; Manhood ; King Caliban ; I love you, Ricky ; Christmas at Rillingham's ; Rafferty ; The valentine generation ; A message from the pig-man ; Down our way ; Goodnight, Old Daisy.
Book Synopsis Death of the Hind Legs and Other Stories by : John Wain
Download or read book Death of the Hind Legs and Other Stories written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
