Author: Shane LesliePublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This novel follows a young officer from Gallipoli to France where he is participant in a tragedy.
The Oppidan
Author: Shane LesliePublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This novel follows a young officer from Gallipoli to France where he is participant in a tragedy.
Report
Author: Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues and management of certain colleges and schools, and the studies pursued and instruction given thereinPublisher:
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Playing Fields
Author: Eric ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Eton College Chronicle
Author: Eton CollegePublisher:
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Category : Eton College
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship
Author: Francis Scott FitzgeraldPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In a substantial introduction to the volume, Matthew J. Bruccoli positions Fitzgerald as a case history for the profession-of-authorship approach to American literary history formulated by William Charvat. Bruccoli notes that more is known about the professional life of Fitzgerald than about that of any other major American author, and, drawing on that wealth of information, he challenges familiar myths about Fitzgerald's squandering of fortunes and literary genius. Bruccoli exposes the error of segregating Fitzgerald's magazine and movie work from his novels, suggesting instead that a symbiotic relationship exists among these works and ties them together.
The Cornhill Magazine
Author: Evidence, pt. 1
Author: Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues and management of certain colleges and schools, and the studies pursued and instruction given thereinPublisher:
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Road to Armageddon
Author: Cecil D. EbyPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307754
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery and death. In The Road to Armageddon Cecil Eby shows how the widely admired writers of English popular fiction and poetry contributed, at least in England, to a romantic militarism coupled with xenophobia that helped create the climate that made World War I seem almost inevitable. Between the close of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the opening guns of 1914, the works of such widely read and admired writers as H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, and Rupert Brooke, as well as a host of now almost forgotten contemporaries, bombarded their avid readers with strident warnings of imminent invasions and prophecies of the collapse of civilization under barbarian onslaught and internal moral collapse. Eby seems these narratives as growing from and in turn fueling a collective neurosis in which dread of coming war coexisted with an almost loving infatuation with it. The author presents a vivid panorama of a militant mileau in which warfare on a scale hitherto unimaginable was largely coaxed into being by works of literary imagination. The role of covert propaganda, concealed in seemingly harmless literary texts, is memorably illustrated.
Cyril Connolly
Author: Jeremy LewisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446499707
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
`In one of tje funniest biographies I have ever read, Lewis assembles all the excellently entertaining anecdotes about this deeply loved, much mocked, sometimes reviled figure whose departure has robbed the litarary world of its social smartness and any worthwhile eccentricity . . . [An] excellent, wildly funny and informative biography. `Auberon Waugh, Literary Review. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, The Unquiet Grave and Enemies of Promise, are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. As witty in person as he as in his prose, he was notoriously slothful and greedy; he was married three times, abd his dealings with women were bedevilled by a lifelong tendency to be in love with two or more people at once.
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