|
Showing 1 - 21 of
21 matches in All Departments
The acclaimed poet Christopher Reid distils Charles Boyle's six
books of poems into The Disguise: Poems 1977-2001, recovering a
notable one-time poet, now known as a publisher and writer of
fiction and non-fiction, from poetic neglect. Charles Boyle
established a reputation as a sharp, wry, disabused observer of
social mores. Paleface, published by Faber, was shortlisted for the
Forward Prize, and The Age of Cardboard and String, also from
Faber, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread
Award. But in 2001 the well ran dry. Since the first year of the
twenty-first century he has not put poetic pen to paper even once.
The poems remain vital and fascinating, but they have about them
also a kind of archaic cast: here we find the quintessential white
male Englishness from the late twentieth century on display as if
in a museum. Here too is the excitement of abroad (North Africa
especially), and there are ghosts, absences, exile and evasions: in
hindsight, these poems offer clues to their own disappearance after
thirty notable years spent partly in the sun.
There is gridlock on the M40 and a banana skin on every pavement.
Lovers are disturbed in bed and my father becomes a rain god.
Complacency is mocked. Death hovers. Shit happens. How the
messiness of life is translated into fiction is considered and no
conclusions are reached. Why, anyway, setting out from A, am I so
sure that B is where I want to get to? Interruptions push back,
disrupting the status quo or derailing progress. 99 Interruptions
attempts to take them in its stride.
The third in a series of annual anthologies, "The Best British
Short Stories 2013" reprints the cream of short fiction, by British
writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in
magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from
various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections.
They appeared online at "3: AM Magazine," "Fleeting" and elsewhere.
This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Regi Claire,
Laura Del-Rivo, Lesley Glaister, MJ Hyland, Jackie Kay, Nina
Killham, Charles Lambert, Adam Lively, Anneliese Mackintosh, Adam
Marek, Alison Moore, Alex Preston, Ross Raisin, David Rose, Ellis
Sharp, Robert Shearman, Nikesh Shukla, James Wall and Guy Ware.
The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations - from both
male and female points of view - in the present, but sometimes with
a backdrop of several decades. Stories of desire and confusion -
other men and other women - sit alongside stories of art -
galleries, studios, allusions to painters - which gets in the way
as least as often as it illuminates. Choices are made, in the
knowledge that distractions may be the most important things of
all.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library
(Oxford)T143379Pp.289-294 misnumbered 261-266. Includes: 'A short
account of Dr. Bentley by way of index'.London: printed for M.
Cooper; Mr. Clements, at Oxford; and Mr. Merril, at Cambridge,
1745. 10],266 i.e.294], 4]p.; 8
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Praefatio Lectori Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Editio Altera
Gottfried Heinrich Schaefer.
Praefatio Lectori Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Editio Altera
Gottfried Heinrich Schaefer.
Praefatio Lectori Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Editio Altera
Gottfried Heinrich Schaefer.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text.
|
|