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Virago Reprints and Modern Classics

Author : D-M Withers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108865224
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Virago Reprints and Modern Classics written by D-M Withers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three historical textures within British culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s – History, Remembrance and Heritage – that enabled Virago's reprint publishing to become a commercial and cultural success. With detailed archival case studies of the Virago Reprint Library, Testament of Youth and the Virago Modern Classics, it elaborates how reprints were profitable for the publisher and moved Virago's books - and the Virago brand name - from the periphery of culture to the centre. Throughout Virago's reprint publishing - and especially with the Modern Classics - the epistemic revelation that women writers were forgotten and could, therefore, be rediscovered, was repeated, again and again, and made culturally productive through the marketplace.

84, Charing Cross Road

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140143505
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book 84, Charing Cross Road written by Helene Hanff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.

The Last Of Summer

Author : Kate O'Brien
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349008825
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Last Of Summer written by Kate O'Brien and published by Virago. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1939, the last summer before the outbreak of war. French actress Angele Maury abandons a group of friends travelling through Ireland and takes herself to picturesque Drumaninch, birthplace of her dead father. She has come to make sense of her past. Self-conscious with her pale, exotic beauty, Angele braves the idiosyncratic world of the Kernahans: her enigmatic aunt Hannah, her ridiculous but loveable uncle Corney and her three cousins - Martin, charming, intense; Tom, devoted to his mother, and their bright sister Jo, who combines religious faith with a penchant for gambling. But is there some mystery surrounding the past? History threatens to repeat itself as Angele finds herself seduced by the beauty of Ireland, and by the love of two men...First published in 1943, The Last of the Summer is a perfectly structured psychological love story.

Temptresses

Author : Shahrukh Husain
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349004269
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Temptresses written by Shahrukh Husain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Women. Every culture has them. Religions have banned and branded them. Men find them terrifying and fascinating. Women secretly admire them. An eye cast over the impressive if frightening array of characters reveals baby-thief Lamia, a fertile deity from Greek mythology with a serpent's tail who seduced mortals and bred beautiful monster-children; Morgan le Fay, fairy sister to King Arthur, who according to Celtic legend tried to wrest the throne from him using her black magic powers; Medea who wreaked terrible revenge on Jason when he left her for a younger woman; Lilith, Eve, the Queen of Sheba, Delilah, Jezebel, Kali - all wicked women whose names have been with us for centuries as demons and sirens and troublemakers.

A Bite of the Apple

Author : Lennie Goodings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828756
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book A Bite of the Apple written by Lennie Goodings and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politics, imagination, feminism, and business was the air we breathed . . .' A Bite of the Apple is part-memoir, part history of Virago, and part thoughts on over forty years of feminist publishing. This is the story of how the authors and staff who, driven by passion, conviction and excitement, have made Virago Press one of the most important and influential English-language publishers in the world. Lennie Goodings has been with the iconic press founded by Carmen Callil almost since the start. First a publicist and then for over twenty years, publisher and editor, she has worked with extraordinary authors: Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Naomi Wolf and Maya Angelou among many others. Virago has been a life-changer for Lennie Goodings - but certainly not only for her. Following the chronology of the press and the enormous breadth of the Virago titles published over these years, she sets her story in the context of feminism, and segues into thoughts on editing, post-feminism, reading, breaking boundaries, and the Virago Modern Classics. Virago lives within the tension between idealism and pragmatism; between sisterhood and celebrity; between watching feminism wax and wane at the same time as knowing so many of the battles are still to be won. This book is about how it felt to be there. A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing, and of reading.

Adam's Breed

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Wylie Press
ISBN 13 : 9781473311916
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Adam's Breed written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Wylie Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Adam's Breed' is a novel about a waiter that becomes disgusted with his job and goes to live in the forest as a hermit. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Devoted Ladies

Author : M. J. Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devoted Ladies written by M. J. Farrell and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica and Jane have been living together for six months. They are devoted friends--or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cruelty of total possessiveness. Jane is rich, silly, and drinks rather too many brandy-and-sodas. Watching from the sidelines, Sylvester regrets that she should be loved and bullied and perhaps even murdered by that frightful Jessica, but decides it is none of his business. When the Irish gentleman George Playfair meets Jane, however, he thinks otherwise--he entices Jane to Ireland where the battle for her devotion begins. A studied satire of art deco decadence and louche behavior, "Devoted Ladies" is a sharp and glittering satire on female love.

The Land of Spices

Author : Kate O'Brien
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran 1941.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Spices written by Kate O'Brien and published by Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran 1941.. This book was released on 1941 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mother Superior of an Irish convent reviews her life in flashbacks and makes a psychological study of herself.

Writers as Readers

Author : Virago Press
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780349008622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Frost In May

Author : Antonia White
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748127488
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Frost In May written by Antonia White and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends. Books in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Anne of Green Gables

Author : L. M. Montgomery
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180943853
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Anne of Green Gables written by L. M. Montgomery and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the lively and imaginative Anne has captivated generations of readers, transporting them to the quaint setting of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farmstead outside Avonlea in Canada. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are two aging unmarried siblings who have decided to adopt a boy to assist them with the work on the farm. However, when Matthew goes to the station to pick up the boy, instead, there stands an eleven-year-old red-haired girl. It is not at all what they had in mind, but before they can reconsider, Anne has won their hearts. Anne of Green Gables is the first book in the series about Anne of Green Gables. L. M. MONTGOMERY [1874-1942] was a Canadian author. She grew up with her grandparents in Cavendish and began writing at an early age. In 1908, her debut novel, Anne of Green Gables, was published, marking the first installment in what would become one of the most beloved children’s and young adult book series ever. The book has been translated into around 36 languages and sold over 50 million copies.

Crossriggs

Author : Mary Findlater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossriggs written by Mary Findlater and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bobbin Up

Author : Dorothy Hewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646370255
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Bobbin Up written by Dorothy Hewett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after its first publicaton and several European translations Bobbin Up, a classic of industrial fiction, is coming home. This document of urban working-class life in 1950s Australia is also a remarkably well crafted novel, combining the shifting narrative viewpoint pioneered by Modernism with a relentless realist mode. Well before the upsurge of feminism Dorothy Hewetthomed in on embattled female lives. The book abounds with portraits of working women, married and unmarried, middle-aged and young, zestful and tired. These varied existences form the collective hero(ine) of a novel whose social message has lost nothingof its urgency. Unemployment, experienced or dreaded, haunts people's lives now as then. At the end of the twentieth century the appalling working and living conditions of the poor described here in graphic detail still obtain, not only in the Third World but also in the sweatshops and depressed areas of the First - H.Gustav Klaus

Up The Junction

Author : Nell Dunn
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405529113
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Up The Junction written by Nell Dunn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN 'Distinctive, pared-down style' DAVID EVANS, INDEPENDENT 'Unflinching look at the lives of working-class women' DAILY MAIL Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary writing. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked sketches; and the result is pure alchemy. In this novel, we witness clip-joint hustles, petty thieving, candid sexual encounters, casual birth and casual death. She has a superb gift for capturing colloquial speech and the characters observed in these pages convey that caustic, ironic, and compassionate feeling for life, in which a turn of phrase frequently contains startling flashes of poetry. Battersea, that teeming wasteland of brick south of the Thames, has found its poet in Nell Dunn and Up the Junction is her touchingly truthful and timeless testimonial to it.

Vanishing Cornwall

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 074811467X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Cornwall written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA An eloquent elegy on the past of a county she loved so much - The Times 'There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone . . . I for this, and this for me.' Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination, and many of her works are set there, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek. In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history and its people, eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation.

The Beth Book

Author : Sarah Grand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Beth Book written by Sarah Grand and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At Mrs Lippincote's

Author : Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book At Mrs Lippincote's written by Elizabeth Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's honesty and sense of humor prevent her from taking her role as seriously as her husband might wish; for Roddy, merely love cannot suffice--he needs homage as well as admiration. And Julia, while she may be a most unsatisfactory officer's wife, is certainly no hypocrite.