With his trademark wit and honesty, Peter Sheridan has written an enthralling account of his parents' relationship, from their first encounter over a poker game in a Dundalk canteen to their final, happy days together in retirement. But all was not as straightforward as it appeared for when Peter's father died suddenly, it became painfully evident that an awkward situation needed to be resolved. Since the 1940s, Peter's father had maintained a relationship with another woman, Doris. Their correspondence spanned five decades and Doris had long harboured the secret hope that Peter's father would one day be hers. Someone would have to tell her about the death of her old friend . . . At turns humorous and heartbreaking, Forty-Seven Roses is the unforgettable tale of a love that can transcend even overpowering odds. It's the account of a marriage dogged by a shadowy third partner, of fierce family pride and of how sometimes the pain of grief can re-ignite the vital spark of love. 'Sheridan's writing is in a class of its own . . . this is a memoir to make you laugh and cry' - Sunday Express
When Peter Sheridans father died unexpectedly, the loss devastated his close-knit family but, in the midst of their grief, it soon became apparent that an awkward situation would have to be resolved. For many more than forty-seven years, Peters father had maintained a relationshipmainly on paperwith another woman, Doris. She had first met him in the 1940s and determinedly kept up a correspondence that would span five decades, secretly hoping that eventually Peters father would be hers. Doris would need to be told about the death of her old friend.
Tokyo Seven Roses' is set in Japan during the waning months of WWII and the beginning of the Occupation. It is written as a diary kept from April 1945 to April 1946 by Shinsuke Yamanaka, a fifty-three-year-old fan-maker living in Nezu, part of Tokyo's shitamachi (old-town) district. After the war, Shinsuke learns by chance that the Occupation forces are plotting a nefarious scheme: in order to cut Japan off from its dreadful past, they intend to see that the language is written henceforth using the alphabet. To fight off this unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture, seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand.
One of the best-known figures in Irish contemporary literature recounts the loving, awkward, and heartbreaking years at 44 Seville Place, Dublin. Sharp, jazzy, hilarious, and often painful . . . You'll rejoice in this wild song of a book.--Frank McCourt.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Combined Maze" by May Sinclair. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The forgotten modernist, May Sinclair was close friends with Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Frost and prominent figures of the London literary scene. She was the first critic to use the term “stream of consciousness” to describe a literary technique. Quick to assimilate new ideas of the Modernist movement, she wrote the stirring and formally experimental Bildungsroman ‘Mary Olivier’ (1919). A critically-respected and popular novelist, Sinclair was also a poet, philosopher, translator and critic, whose works span from the late 1880’s up until the late 1920’s. This comprehensive eBook presents May Sinclair’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sinclair’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 19 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Sinclair’s chilling ghost stories * Includes Sinclair’s rare and complete poetry – available in no other collection * Sinclair’s important essay on ‘Feminism’ – digitised here for the first time * Her landmark study on the Brontë sisters * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, three novels and two story collections cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Audrey Craven (1897) Mr and Mrs Nevill Tyson (1898) The Divine Fire (1904) The Helpmate (1907) The Immortal Moment (1908) The Creators (1910) The Flaw in the Crystal (1912) The Combined Maze (1913) The Three Sisters (1914) The Belfry (1916) The Tree of Heaven (1917) Mary Olivier (1919) The Romantic (1920) Mr. Waddington of Wyck (1921) Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) A Cure of Souls (1924) Arnold Waterlow (1924) The Rector of Wyck (1925) The Shorter Fiction Two Sides of a Question (1901) The Judgment of Eve (1907) The Return of the Prodigal (1914) Uncanny Stories (1923) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry Collections Nakiketas and Other Poems (1886) Essays in Verse (1892) The Dark Night (1924) The Non-Fiction The Three Brontës (1912) Feminism (1912) A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
You’ve seen the headlines about him. Knox Rivers is music’s out of control, all over TMZ, and under the impression that he’s God’s gift to the female population bad boy. He steals hearts with his music and then breaks them with his behavior. And I'm his new assistant stuck traveling across the world with him on tour. I would’ve never taken the job if I weren't desperate. I’m the daughter of a rock legend who grew up around men like him. But with each passing mile, I find myself more drawn to him. I fight to keep our relationship professional while he pushes to prove there's more to him than you see plastered all over the tabloids. Desire starts defeating my rationality. I’m throwing my rules out the window. I’ll deal with the consequences when the tour bus's gas tank runs dry. This story was previously published as Pop Rock.
Unlike many in Depression-era Kansas, 23-year-old, single, Sara McGurk has a comfortable life, but a trip to the doctor reveals she is with child. The results are banishment from home and a violent argument with her lover that leaves her bleeding and abandoned in front of a forbidding limestone house. A group of social outcasts takes her in. Now, Sara must face the future and protect her child while coping with her strange fellow residents. What will happen to her baby? Can she make peace with her father and escape her shame to find love and hope again?
Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Seán O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature.
