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Author : Frederick James Harries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Famous Writers and Wales written by Frederick James Harries and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Harries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Famous writers and Wales, by Frederick J. Harries written by Frederick J. Harries and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323421
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Pulpit written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.
Author : Katie Gramich
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323391
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Kate Roberts written by Katie Gramich and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Welsh writer Kate Roberts died in 1985 at the age of 94, the Times obituary noted that 'she was felt by many to rank with Maupassant as one of the leading European short story writers'. Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and ardent political campaigner to the attention of the wider world audience that the sheer quality of her writing deserves.
Author : Dylan H. Jones
Publisher : Di Manx Cases
ISBN 13 : 9781912175024
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Anglesey Blue written by Dylan H. Jones and published by Di Manx Cases. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the thrilling new DI Tudor Manx series.
Author : Mark Rees
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969229
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Welsh Culture written by Mark Rees and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know? Richard Burton claimed that he would rather have played rugby for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic. Local rivalries between choirs in the 'land of song' used to be so fierce that fights would break out following singing competitions. Roald Dahl was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War, and a near-death crash landing inspired his first published work. The Little Book of Welsh Culture is a fast-paced, fact-filled journey through the cultural heritage of Wales, crammed full of myths, traditions and personalities. Experience the country's immense artistic legacy as never before, from the medieval legends surrounding King Arthur and The Mabinogion to its modern-day transformation into a thriving filming location for big-screen blockbusters. Discover the truth behind the ancient druidic rituals of the National Eisteddfod, separate the facts from the fiction that surround Dylan Thomas' infamous lifestyle, and learn how Wales successfully regenerated the Doctor Who franchise – and unearth some fascinating secrets and hidden gems along the way.
Author : Oliver James Padel
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326587
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature written by Oliver James Padel and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the Middle Ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum dating from the ninth century. By the twelfth century, Arthur was a renowned figure wherever Welsh and her sister languages were spoken. O. J. Padel now provides an overall survey of medieval Welsh literary references to Arthur and emphasizes the importance of understanding the character and purpose of the texts in which allusions to Arthur occur. Texts from different genres are considered together, and shed new light on the use that different authors make of the multifaceted figure of Arthur – from the folk legend associated with magic and animals to the literary hero, soldier and defender of country and faith. Other figures associated with Arthur, such as Cai, Bedwyr and Gwenhwyfar, are also discussed here.
Author : Trezza Azzopardi
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138590
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Hiding Place written by Trezza Azzopardi and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores Gauci, the youngest daughter in a family of six, watches as her father gambles away the family's money and eventually their lives.
Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393088731
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Skagboys written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Author : MIKE. CHARLES JENKINS (ERIC NGALLE. GLYN, IFOR AP.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845277512
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book 3 MOLAS, THE. written by MIKE. CHARLES JENKINS (ERIC NGALLE. GLYN, IFOR AP.) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Cordell
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473603587
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Rape of the Fair Country written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cripple their people. Rape of the Fair Country launched the bestselling career of Alexander Cordell in 1959 and went on to sell millions of copies in seventeen languages throughout the world.
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202084
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Quite Early One Morning written by Dylan Thomas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1954 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of prose from one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century.
Author : Lindy Brady
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526115751
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England written by Lindy Brady and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
Author : Kit de Waal
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527471
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Common People written by Kit de Waal and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175921
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Old Devils written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize Winner A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing—and complaining—in this “sharp and funny” English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post). Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement—a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century”—The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
Author : Owen Sheers
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385541759
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Pink Mist written by Owen Sheers and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men return to the women in their lives—a wife, a mother, a girlfriend—all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of military service. Written from the points of view of each soldier, Sheers explores not only their experiences in the field of battle, but also the grueling process of recovery following a debilitating injury, the strain of PTSD on a new marriage, and the emotional toll of survivor's guilt among soldiers and their loved ones at home. Drawing on interviews with soldiers and their families, Pink Mist illuminates the enduring human cost of war and its all too often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its orbit. A work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity, and emotional intensity.
Author : Claire Andrea Flay-Petty
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 070832441X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Dorothy Edwards written by Claire Andrea Flay-Petty and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by newly available diaries and correspondence, here is the first comprehensive biographical and critical study of this enigmatic writer whose tragic suicide at the age of thirty-one served to plunge her fascinating body of work into obscurity.
