A reading from John Wain's the smaller sky
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 95
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Published: 1975
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wain
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David E. Gerard
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wain
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781939140319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: University of Reading. Library
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Hill
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-08-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1847652638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howards End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
Author: Elizabeth Hatziolou
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marjorie Boulton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1317936345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel. Marjorie Boulton deals systematically with the major elements of plot, character, authorial conventions, narrative structure, and dialogue and distinguishes different types of fiction. The emphasis is on the mainstream novel, with examples and arguments illustrated by quotations from five classics. Of particular value to students of English Literature, this reissue aims to help the reader ‘not only to read novels more discerningly and to discuss them more profitably, but also to relish the reading more’.
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 570
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