Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal And Other Stories
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Author | : H.E. Bates |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448215242 |
First published in 1961, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories is a collection full of light and shade, setting sensitive character studies against Bates's signature vibrant, delicate imagery. A fussy and obsessive golfer encounters a troubled young woman at a wind-swept beach in 'Lost Ball', a retired Colonel, isolated and suffering from dementia, suddenly rejects the friendship of his charming neighbour when she acquires a television in 'Where the Cloud Breaks'. The title story, 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal,' takes its name from a Tennyson poem and is a picture of social change in post-war rural England. It draws a portrait of a sheltered and uncultured butcher's wife exposed to a new tenant in the countryside – a flamboyant homosexual who delights in throwing large parties. Of the collection as a whole, the Times Literary Supplement says the stories 'all confirm Mr Bates's position in the first rank of contemporary short-story writers.' Also included in this collection is bonus story 'The Grace Note', first published in the Fortnightly in 1936. It is a humorous tale of the Chipperfields, a family of brass players devoted to music, but whose jealousy and stubbornness dashes their dreams of a Chipperfield band and tears the family apart.
Author | : H. E. Bates |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780758193735 |
Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780855946524 |
Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Michel Faber |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847678939 |
Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
Author | : Dean R. Baldwin |
Publisher | : Susquehanna University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780941664240 |
Reevaluates the accomplishments of the British writer within the context of major literary movements and cross-currents. It considers all areas of his work including his stories of country life; war stories and novels; his best work, Love for Lydia; and his highly acclaimed nonfiction on environmental issues.
Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1983-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349170666 |
Author | : Christopher Riches |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1431 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 019251850X |
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
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Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Dominic Head |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1082 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316739147 |
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.