Book Description
For the first time ever all three Horatio Stubbs novels in one volume.
Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007490496
For the first time ever all three Horatio Stubbs novels in one volume.
Author : Brian Wilson Aldiss
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction in English - 1945- - Texts
ISBN : 9780586060315
Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007462514
The final volume of the Horatio Stubbs trilogy, available as an ebook for the first time.
Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007462530
The second book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy, available for the first time on ebook.
Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher : Independent Voices
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Masturbation
ISBN : 9780285635166
It was the first British novel to explore, frankly and with a gleeful honesty, the sexual awakening of a teenage boy. It was regarded as so outrageous that thirteen publishers initially refused to publish it. The Hand-Reared Boy no longer shocks, instead, it stands as the classic novel of teenage self-discovery and the realisation of a young boy of love, and the fact that other people are more than sexual objects.Depicting the preoccupations common to all young boys as they reach puberty, The Hand-Reared Boy is a delightfully funny account of burgeoning sexuality, marked by self-revelation, self-mockery and a complete absence of prurience. It was shortlisted for the Lost Booker Prize in 2010.
Author : Brian Wilson Aldiss
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Brian Wilson Aldiss
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The first British novel to explore, frankly and with unabashed honesty, the sexual awakening of an adolescent boy and to describe his youthful preoccupation with masturbation in such explicit terms. A classic study of a journey of self-discovery, it can be enjoyed as a witty portrayal of experiences common to all young males as they reach puberty and embark on the stormy voyage to adulthood.
Author : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 1989-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780246122124
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1990-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199763313
Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds," and Lionel Trilling called it simply "one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time." In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. Fussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty." Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding.
Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497608260
Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this “adult Lord of the Flies” by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the “Accident,” all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth’s population lives in spread‐out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man‐eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coast with the hope of finding something better.