Madder Music, Stronger Wine

Madder Music, Stronger Wine
Author: Jad Adams
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2000-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Ernest Dowson was one of the major poets of the romantic late-Victorian Decadent period. This biography examines Dowson's obsessions and explores his life and work in the context of the social mores and attitudes of his era.

Cynara

Cynara
Author: Ernest Christopher Dowson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1907
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Nine hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed.

Hideous Absinthe

Hideous Absinthe
Author: Jad Adams
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780299200008

Mysterious, sophisticated, alluring and almost Satanic, absinthe was the drink of choice of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired Degas, Manet and Picasso and was thought to have led to the demise of many of Paris' fin-de-siecle inhabitants. Jad Adams recounts the drink's history.

Tony Benn

Tony Benn
Author: Jad Adams
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1849542562

Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams's classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn's private records, and describes the long and turbulent career of one of the most charismatic politicians of the last hundred years. The first biography to have been written with full access to the Benn archives chronicles the behind-the-scenes story of Benn's bitter battles with every leader of the Labour Party since Gaitskell. It details his service in the governments of Wilson and Callaghan, his role as a champion of the left during the Labour Party's long period in opposition, his retirement from Parliament, to spend more time involved in politics in 2001, and his subsequent emergence as a leading figure of the British opposition to the war in Iraq.

Walter Pater and Persons

Walter Pater and Persons
Author: Stephen Cheeke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019892027X

Walter Pater and Persons investigates the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater, a major influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Stephen Cheeke explores the intersections of the person, persona, and personality in Pater's work; re-examines arguments about his famously personal prose style; traces Pater's ambivalent fascination with impersonality and asceticism; considers the poetics of personification in his writings about Greek myth and religion, in the divine logos of early Christianity, and in the theory of Platonic Universals; and explores his fascination with metempsychosis (the many persons through whom the individual soul transmigrates). Cheeke also explores the networks in which Pater was interpreted and misinterpreted by different persons and personalities, such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and W.B Yeats. Their (mis)readings of Pater, and rebellions against his work from Decadent, antinomian, and 'mystical' perspectives, reveal the ways in which Pater's writing had always been in a critical dialogue with its own thinking, as well as a prescient one in relation to his reception. The philosophical question of 'what is a person?'--a crucial one for the nineteenth century, and with an increasing urgency in our own times--is illuminated throughout this work.

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
Author: Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2007-09-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0316029025

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance -- from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say?

The Far East Trilogy

The Far East Trilogy
Author: Stephen Becker
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504041488

Three thrillers set in WWII-era Asia by a New York Times–bestselling author who writes “like a cross between Joseph Conrad and James Clavell” (Houston Chronicle). “A master of terse, ironic dialogue,” the author of A Covenant with Death presents a trilogy that journeys from the Gobi Desert to Peking to Burma in the chaotic years following the Second World War (Kirkus Reviews). The Chinese Bandit: An American ex-marine must run for his life in the cutthroat atmosphere of postwar China, pursued by both a dangerous criminal and Chiang Kai-shek’s forces. This one “will keep readers turning pages through the night” (Los Angeles Times). The Last Mandarin: An American mercenary chases a Japanese war criminal through the war-torn streets of Peking in this “fascinating . . . exciting” adventure (ThePhiladelphia Inquirer). The Blue-Eyed Shan: The battle between East and West explodes in a remote corner of Burma, as an anthropologist in an isolated mountain village finds himself fighting to save the people he loves from the Chinese Red Army and a fearsome tribe of headhunters. A thriller “as exciting as Raiders of the Lost Ark” (Publishers Weekly). Described as “absolutely ripping adventure” by Time and “sublime entertainment” by John Irving, the Far East Trilogy is an unforgettable saga filled with suspense, epic scope, and rich historical atmosphere.

Inventions of the March Hare

Inventions of the March Hare
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780156005876

Presents over fifty poems written by the author in his twenties, including early drafts of famous poems, and extensive critical notes on the works.