The Chink in the Armour
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1912
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel
Author : John Russell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820322025
Book Description
Nonfiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" writers of the 1960s such as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Yet this form has long commanded a key position in the literary canon, as John Russell now reveals. Russell identifies eleven major works not usually thought of as nonfiction novels, such as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa and E. E. Cummings's The Enormous Room, to create a new definition of the genre. He shows that journalistic writing is characterized by a reporter's proprietary stance, which undermines reciprocity with subjects, while true nonfiction novels feature greater reciprocity and also employ such techniques as circular narrative and bricolage.Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel contributes to ongoing explorations of literary forms and offers wise commentary on how writing about real life can become art.
Chink
Author : Lavinia Greacen
Publisher : Lume Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781839012679
Book Description
Chink is the acclaimed biography of the brilliant soldier who outwitted Rommel at the First Battle of Alamein and helped turn the tide for the British army - only to fall into disgrace and obscurity. It is the larger-than-life story of the man who inspired Hemingway's imagination.
The Lodger
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2022-04-30T17:06:09Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detective. Lowndes first wrote The Lodger as a short story published in McClure’s Magazine, then later published the novelization in the Daily Telegraph as a serial. It was very successful, with over a million copies sold within a few decades. Writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein praised it, with one contemporary reviewer calling it “the best novel about murder written by any living author.” It has since been adapted to other media, notably as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s first movies. Today the novel is still considered the best fictional adaptation of the Jack the Ripper legend. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Curious Warnings
Author : M.R. James
Publisher : Arcadia
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857388061
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated collector's edition containing all the supernatural tales ever written by M.R. James, the undisputed father of the modern ghost story. 'James is clearly the best that's ever been' MARK GATISS M.R. James is one of the finest authors of supernatural fiction in the English language and revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. Many of his stories were originally written as Christmas entertainments and were read aloud by the author to selected gatherings of friends. 'There are all sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. James wrote the best ghost stories. He may well have created the ghost story in its current form. Nobody can do what he did as well as he could' NEIL GAIMAN Authorised by the writer's estate, Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories is the only volume that collects together all of James' much-loved supernatural tales - including the classics, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', 'A Warning to the Curious' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' - together with his novel The Five Jars, story fragments, essays and poetry. Illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards and featuring an extensive historical Afterword by editor Stephen Jones, this is the ultimate collection for fans of M.R. James and the classic British ghost story.
The Spectator
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1912
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349813664
Book Description
While the Gods Grinned
Author : John Hastings Turner
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Silence of the Shaggy Rug
Author : Daniel Jacob
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912969343
Book Description
In the long tradition of the anti-hero in English literature, award-winning author Daniel Jacob has created a whole bunch of them - each able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Flashman or anyone from the pages of a Waugh novel. With the touch of a Tom Sharpe for grand farce, the grotesque Crooke-Wells siblings trace their mean, mendacious and downright nasty steps through a series of plots and pitfalls in their attempt to accumulate unearned and entirely unmerited wealth. Standing like a beacon in this sea of iniquity is the mother, whose string of illicit love affairs seems positively honest by comparison. This is the story of an upper-crust English family which is part of a sub-group known as The Hereditary Rich. Beautifully written and splendidly wicked, The Silence of the Shaggy Rug is not for the faint-hearted or politically correct.
The Statist
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Commerce
ISBN :
