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Author: Robert Mullen Publisher: Envelope Books ISBN: 1915023289 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
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A comic first novel, about a Chinese school teacher who dreams himself back a thousand years, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Buddhist literature the wry humour of Carrollian satire.
Author: Robert Mullen Publisher: Envelope Books ISBN: 1915023289 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
A comic first novel, about a Chinese school teacher who dreams himself back a thousand years, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Buddhist literature the wry humour of Carrollian satire.
Author: Robert Mullen Publisher: ISBN: 9781838172046 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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All roads lead to the Celestial City and when schoolmaster Po Cheng drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng reaches the imperial capital, rising up through the giddy ranks of the Chinese civil service to become Prime Minister. Good fortune appears endless, not least when Miss Ling reappears as an artist's model who has changed her name to Precious Pearl so she can pose in the Forest of Brushes Academy of Art without her parents finding out. But what Heaven--and alcohol--hand out, they can also claw back. Trouble is brewing inside and outside the city walls, and Po Cheng's eminence means he must now take the rap and face consequences inevitable from the start. Mustard Seed Itinerary is a brilliant first novel by an important new voice, bringing to the formal conventions of traditional Chinese literature the wry humour of Carrollian satire. As Mullen says, 'In Daoism and Buddhism, dream journeys serve as voyages of discovery from which only a blockhead would return none the wiser. And Po Cheng is no blockhead.'
Author: Robert Best Publisher: Envelope Books ISBN: 1915023335 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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For those of "advanced" tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. Massed housing of the 1920s and 30s was as untutored as the products of light industry and both operated far from the enlightened thinking coming out of Central Europe that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress. Robert Best, the only British industrialist to have trained at art school, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by the methods of Modernism's propagandists, for reasons that they found hard to understand. If "the few" knew better than "the many", and "the many" were incapable of raising their own standards, was it not reasonable for "the few" to impose those standards from above? And if they did not do so, were they not betraying their enlightenment and their obligation to help elevate the less capable? Best did not think so, and in this extraordinary memoir, written in the early 1950s but never published, he explores his own growing concerns about the sense of noblesse oblige that directed such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in 1944, to raise the quality of British manufacturing and its saleability. This overdue book needs to be read widely to understand what lay behind the idealism of the design world in the second quarter of the 20th century. With an introduction by Stephen Games, biographer of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
Author: William Keeling Publisher: Envelope Books ISBN: 1915023343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry. Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire. Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle sets out to explore Gaia’s culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption that goes to the heart of Regency Bath’s judicial system. In doing so, he struggles to retain the commitment of his German “cousin”, and Princess Victoria—not yet Queen—persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression. Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles!
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