Behind The Mirror Valancourt 20th Century Classics

Author : Robin Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943910243

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Behind the Mirror (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Robin Maugham Pdf

A film company is making a movie about Daphne Moore, a famous actress of the 1920s, but to proceed they must secure the permission of Norman Hartleigh, a former diplomat once deeply involved with the star. So far, the reclusive Hartleigh has ignored all communications, so scriptwriter David Brent is sent to East Africa to track him down. When Hartleigh refuses to cooperate, Brent resolves to learn why and must uncover the details of his relationship with Daphne Moore, the real reason for his abrupt resignation from the Foreign Office in 1928, and the true nature of his involvement with his young companion, Bill Wayne. In a dramatic climax, the whole truth of what lies "behind the mirror" is exposed, with shattering consequences ... Robin Maugham (1916-1981), who at the height of his career was one of the most popular authors in England, is best known today for his novella "The Servant" (1948), "The Wrong People" (1967), a controversial novel and classic of gay fiction, and his writings about his famous uncle, W. Somerset Maugham. "Behind the Mirror" (1955), the first of his explicitly gay-themed novels, is both a page-turning mystery and an acutely insightful psychological thriller. This new edition reproduces the original jacket art by John Minton. "One of Lord Maugham's best novels." - Francis King, "Spectator" "Never ceases to be entertaining." - "New Yorker" "Exciting and compelling ... This is one of those small books that says a lot more than many bulkier volumes." - "Saturday Review"

Author : Keith Waterhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941147771

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Jubb (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Keith Waterhouse Pdf

C. L. Jubb is thirty-six, married, gainfully employed, and active in his community, both in local government and as a volunteer youth leader working with disadvantaged boys. But as he narrates the story of his downfall, we begin to see that he is other things as well: a voyeur, a fetishist, a racist, an admirer of Mussolini, and above all, a man obsessed by his sexual fantasies. With its unforgettable protagonist - odious yet pitiable, vile yet oddly sympathetic - Keith Waterhouse's third novel is both a gripping case study of a social and sexual misfit and an unsettling but wickedly funny social satire. "Jubb" (1963) was a departure from Waterhouse's first two novels, the classic of childhood "There is a Happy Land" and the comic masterpiece "Billy Liar," but like those works it was widely acclaimed by critics, who compared it favorably with Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita." This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by Alice Ferrebe and a reproduction of the original dust jacket art. 'Magnificent ... an achievement that puts Mr. Waterhouse above all his contemporary novelists.' - "Washington D.C. Star" 'An important book and one of the finest in months ... a fascinating novel.' - "Cleveland Plain Dealer" '[A]dmirable . . . indeed a very funny book.' - "New York Times"

Author : Keith Waterhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941147542

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Billy Liar on the Moon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Keith Waterhouse Pdf

In this sequel to Waterhouse's Billy Liar, Billy Fisher may be thirty-three but still hasn't grown out of his propensity for lying. Stuck in a loveless marriage in a dismal town, where he has a dead-end job in local government, Billy seeks escape through his affair with Helen, who is also unhappily married. But once again he finds himself in danger of being undone by his lies: vodka martinis charged to his expense account, a wise-cracking alter ego named Oscar, a false police report about a stolen set of nonexistent golf clubs, an imaginary cat named 'Mr Pussy-paws' . . . Now the all-important town festival is approaching, but instead of doing the planning, Billy is busy trying to keep ahead of the suspicions of his wife, the police, and Helen's jealous husband.

Author : Robin Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749000503

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The Servant by Robin Maugham Pdf

Author : James Purdy,J. B. Priestley,Charles Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 194840513X

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The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume Three by James Purdy,J. B. Priestley,Charles Beaumont Pdf

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the past 250 years. In this third volume of horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and one macabre poem) - all by Valancourt authors - for this new collection featuring horror from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This volume features a previously unpublished contributions by Steve Rasnic Tem, Eric C. Higgs, and Hugh Fleetwood, as well as thirteen other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted. In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, black magic, monsters, demonic babies, and vengeful spirits. Stories of the strange and sinister, of a boy who unwisely disobeys his grandfather's warning never to go up the stairs, a man whose apparently irrational terror of fire proves all too justified, an unpopular man who discovers a shocking new way of making friends, an ancestor who exerts a chilling influence from beyond the grave. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly humorous, by a lineup of authors that includes both well-known masters of horror fiction and acclaimed authors of literary fiction, this is a horror anthology like no other.

Author : Basil Copper
Publisher : 20th Century
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939140382

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The Great White Space by Basil Copper Pdf

"The best writer in the genre since H. P. Lovecraft." - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner "Outstanding in the genre." - August Derleth "In the same class as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood." - Michael and Mollie Hardwick "One of the last great traditionalists of English fiction." - Colin Wilson Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of "The Great White Space," described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe. Plowright, Scarsdale, and the rest of their crew embark on the Great Northern Expedition, traversing a terrifying and desolate landscape to the Black Mountains, where a passageway hundreds of feet high leads to a lost city miles below the surface of the earth. But the unsettling discoveries they make there are only a precursor of the true horror to follow. For the doorway of the Great White Space opens both ways, and something unspeakably evil has crossed over-a horrifying abomination that does not intend to let any of them return to the surface alive . . . One of the great British horror writers of the 20th century, Basil Copper (1924-2013) was best known for his macabre short fiction, which earned him the World Horror Convention's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. The Great White Space (1974) is a tale in the mode of H. P. Lovecraft and is recognized as one of the best Lovecraftian horror novels ever written. This edition, the first in more than 30 years, includes a new introduction by Stephen Jones.

Author : Dan Krier,Mark P. Worrell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438477756

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Capital in the Mirror by Dan Krier,Mark P. Worrell Pdf

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics. Aesthetic objects, crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit, are simultaneously theorized and theorizing. In Capital in the Mirror, eminent critical theorists explore the aesthetic dimension for reflective visions of capital that are difficult to obtain through even the most rigorous statistical analyses. Chapters address inequality, alienation, ideology, warfare, and other problems of contemporary capitalism through the cultural prisms of Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Charles Dickens, J. W. Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Walt Whitman, Bertolt Brecht, and science-fiction cinema. Famous narrative elements in their works, such as Ahab’s pursuit of the white whale in Melville’s Moby-Dick, demonic production and perverse desire in Mann’s Doctor Faustus, socially electrified bodies of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and dystopian projections of current sci-fi cinema, are theorized as stylistically distorted reflections of social life within capital. The authors reveal theoretical powers latent within these condensed images that prefigure the dark dynamics of capitalism. Focusing on dark images of domination and also prophetic images of transformation, the book points the way toward emancipation, social regeneration, and human flourishing. “This book makes a very important contribution to critical theory and the critical ‘human sciences’ and is a model of how to do a larger analysis of contemporary capitalist cultural products.” — Jeffrey A. Halley, coeditor of Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

Author : John Blackburn,Michael McDowell,Francis King,Richard Marsh,Stephen Gregory,John Trevena,Michael Blumlein,Mary Cholmondeley,Bernard Taylor,Christopher Priest,Florence Marryat,M. G. Lewis,Charles Birkin,Forrest Reid,Hugh Fleetwood,Hugh Walpole,Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Valancourt Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943910526

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The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by John Blackburn,Michael McDowell,Francis King,Richard Marsh,Stephen Gregory,John Trevena,Michael Blumlein,Mary Cholmondeley,Bernard Taylor,Christopher Priest,Florence Marryat,M. G. Lewis,Charles Birkin,Forrest Reid,Hugh Fleetwood,Hugh Walpole,Gerald Kersh Pdf

In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature​ – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin

Author : J. B. Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941147216

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The Thirty-First of June by J. B. Priestley Pdf

Arthurian characters from the medieval world and the personnel of a modern advertising agency switch back and forth in a burlesque involving magic mirrors and television.

Author : Michael McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939140455

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The Amulet by Michael McDowell Pdf

When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son's mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion. Sarah believes the amulet has something to do with the rising body count, but no one will believe her. As the inexplicable murders continue, Sarah and her friend Becca Blair have no choice but to track down the amulet themselves, before it's too late . . .

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:367470334

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Night and the City by Gerald Kersh Pdf

Author : Keith Waterhouse
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241973646

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Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Pdf

The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.

Author : Michael McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Death
ISBN : OCLC:1008712595

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Toplin by Michael McDowell Pdf

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781169476

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The Islanders by Christopher Priest Pdf

A stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you. The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. THE ISLANDERS serves both as an untrustworthy but enticing guide to the islands, an intriguing, multi-layered tale of a murder and the suspect legacy of its appealing but definitely untrustworthy narrator.

Author : Alexander Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12847626

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The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing Pdf