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| Author | : Edward Upward |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-07-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1907587314 |
A legendary figure among the 'Auden generation' of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward continuted writing into his late nineties. This selection of his best short stories spans a literary career of almost eight decades, and was published to celebrate his centenary in 2003. Beginning in 1928 with the fantastical world of Mortmere in The Railway Accident, the stories continue through the era of political engagement in the Thirties to the reflective and poignant studies of old age that have underpinned his revival in the past decade. Together they represent a lifetime of achievement in modern literature.
| Author | : George Bibel |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2012-10-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1421405903 |
Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails
| Author | : Benjamin Kohlmann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317145658 |
Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during the twentieth-century age of extremes. At the same time, Upward’s work shows the inherent tensions of a life committed at once to writing and to politics. The full range of Upward’s work and a wealth of unpublished materials are examined, including his early fantastic stories of the 1920s, his Marxist fiction of the 1930s, the extraordinary semi-autobiographical trilogy The Spiral Ascent and his formally and thematically innovative later stories. The essays collected here reevaluate Upward’s central place in twentieth-century British literary culture and assess his legacy for the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Thomas Mann |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1473559375 |
A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the artist's tentative position in the harsh world, the realization of one's true nature.
| Author | : Henry Eliot |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 2282 |
| Release | : 2021-11-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0241441617 |
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
| Author | : Janet Montefiore |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134915004 |
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West
| Author | : Edward Upward |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Includes stories that features protagonists who are threatened by a malevolent state and socio-political violence, but sustained by visions of a better future and the restorative of sexual love.
| Author | : Wariāma Siṅgha Sandhū |
| Publisher | : Sahitya Akademi |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788126019571 |
| Author | : Peter Widdowson |
| Publisher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0746311044 |
Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers, having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely read by students and general public alike. Waterland has become a modern classic, and Last Orders won the Booker prize for fiction in 2006. This study covers all Swift's novels to The Light of Day: it offers a close reading of each of the novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland. For the most part set in an urban, middle-class, claustrophobic and loveless present, and focused on usually fraught relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, these recognisably postmodern novels are seen here as symptomatic of contemporary Britain: a world where, in the shadow of the nuclear holocaust, we approach 'the End o
| Author | : Peter Widdowson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2013-03-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134701640 |
This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature: * offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins * illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term 'literary' * provides a definition of the 'literary' for the twenty-first century With Literature Peter Widdowson provides a thought-provoking essay on the contemporary relevance of the 'literary' for students.
