Author: Matthew JarronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900019562
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Independent & Individualist"
Author: Matthew JarronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900019562
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Dundee's Literary Lives
Author: Andrew Murray ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dundee (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Dundee's Literary Lives: Fifteenth to nineteenth century
Author: Andrew Murray ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The author explores working class poets and hundreds of self-styled writers as well as the newspapers and magazines which made Dundee such an important cultural center. These volumes are intended to be a concise reference work, a guide to the numerous writers, poets and playwrights who have contributed to Dundee's imaginative view of itself. It is intended as a useful affirmation of the city's voyage of discovery into the new millennium.
The Other Woman
Author: Brenda NovakPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426836643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. Now she's focusing on her new business and raising her two kids. Carter Hudson isn't part of her plan. When he's introduced to Liz by well-meaning friends, her dislike is instant. But as she spends time with him, Liz realizes she likes having Carter in her life—more than likes it. However, Carter has secrets in his past that he can't seem to escape, secrets that apparently involve a woman. Liz is sure of one thing—she'll never be "the other woman" again!
The Crescent
Author: Ian CampbellPublisher:
ISBN: 9789798505416
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When John Murphy is sentenced to six months hard labour in Perth Prison for fighting, his wife Annie is left to raise his children in poverty in the tenements of the crescent. She relies on a pittance from her jute mill wages and handouts from the Parish until her husband is released and tries to break the poverty trap by bare-knuckle fighting in the boxing booths and beer tents. His hard drinking, hard-man style is reduced to that of 'kettle-biler' at home, like thousands of other men in Dundee who are out of work. Meanwhile, Westminster and the Whitehall war-rooms are booming, thanks to the growth of the British Empire and the realisation that gold and diamonds in South Africa are ready for the taking. The 'Kettle-Bilers' are perfect fodder for the Black Watch recruiting sergeants in Dundee who are swamped with men eager to escape the grimy oppression of the jute mills or the dole. The Boer War takes them to the brink of life and death in a faraway land that the real people of Dundee had never heard of before the call to arms. But what happens to the women left at home? Will the Dundonians ever return from the Boer War? Can the poverty-stricken, alcohol-fuelled, neglectful generation cycle ever be stopped? Find out all this and more in this heart-wrenching, gritty story of hardship, tragedy, hurt and violence, based on the author's true story of his Dundee family's origins.
Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A Chancer
Author: James KelmanPublisher: Polygon
ISBN: 9781846970405
Category : Drifters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, living with his sister and brother-in-law, betting shops, and casinos. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses. But gambling gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he seeks from life since society offers no prospect of a more fulfilling alternative.
Recollections of a Literary Life
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Factory Lives
Author: James R. Simmons, JrPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 146040341X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.
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