Penguin Modern Classics Under The Volcano

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141190679

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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics. It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him, the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. His story, the image of one man's agonised journey towards Calvary, became a prophetic book for a whole generation. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherine's College, Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand, an experience which gave him the material for his first novel, Ultramarine (1933). After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White (1936). Under The Volcano was begun in Hollywood, coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes, and eventually finished in Dollarton, British Columbia. If you enjoyed Under the Volcano, you might like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A Faustian masterpiece' Anthony Burgess

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451132130

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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

Author : Malcolm Lowry,Chris Ackerley
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776621807

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In Ballast to the White Sea by Malcolm Lowry,Chris Ackerley Pdf

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 2282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780241441619

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The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot Pdf

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Sea stories
ISBN : UOM:39015002138587

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Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141968551

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Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye' In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a Psychiatric hospital to suffer his recovery, Lowry writes with eloquent ferocity on the delusions of madness, and the true meaning of sanity.

Author : Faculté des lettrres et des sciences humaines. Société conradienne française
Publisher : Presses Univ. Limoges
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2842871693

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Conrad et Lowry by Faculté des lettrres et des sciences humaines. Société conradienne française Pdf

Ce numéro de L'Époque Conradienne rassemble la plupart des communications présentées lors du colloque international organisé en septembre 1999 à l'Université Lumière - Lyon II sur le thème : Conrad and Lowry : l'esth-éthique de la fiction. Les comparaisons, rapprochements éthiques et divergences esthétiques entre ces deux auteurs dominent donc dans cette livraison et enrichissent notre vision de deux œuvres majeures du XXe siècle. Conrad, moins omniprésent que d'habitude, profite cependant de ces regards croisés qui soulignent, une fois de plus, son rôle fondamental dans l'éclosion de la modernité.

Author : Gordon Bowker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810822830

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Apparently Incongruous Parts by Gordon Bowker Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays and memoirs about Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), one of the century's great novelists.

Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231067267

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No, Not Bloomsbury by Malcolm Bradbury Pdf

This first volume of Bradbury's collected critical writings concentrates on British fiction since 1945. It is written from the center of the field it surveys: Bradbury is a writer who is also a critic, a critic who is also a writer. He often feels a conflict between the two roles, but writes in a personal, lucid, and amusing style, alert to modern critical theory yet at the same time deeply involved as a creative novelist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780141970318

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Penguin Modern Classics: The Complete List by Anonim Pdf

'A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers' from Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Penguin Modern Classics have been shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961. This 50th anniversary catalogue offers a complete list of all the titles in print across the Modern Classics list, from Chinua Achebe to Stefan Zweig via George Orwell and everything else in between. It also contains Italo Calvino's inspiring essay on what makes a classic a classic.

Author : Chris Ackerley,Lawrence Jon Clipper
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0774801999

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A Companion to Under the Volcano by Chris Ackerley,Lawrence Jon Clipper Pdf

An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure detailsof Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes coveringsome 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in thePenguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. Theappendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and anindex of motifs. In their comprehensive but unpedantic commentary on the novel'scomplexities, the authors' emphasis is on the narrative level. Allpoints of obscurity are followed by an interpretation of fact. Thusreferences are noted to films, books, places, foreign languages, andnational and tribal histories. Special attention is given to theliterary, mystical, and Mexican background.

Author : Lawrence J. Clipper,Christopher Ackerley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780774845038

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A Companion to Under the Volcano by Lawrence J. Clipper,Christopher Ackerley Pdf

An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure details of Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes covering some 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in the Penguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. The appendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and an index of motifs. In their comprehensive but unpedantic commentary on the novel's complexities, the authors' emphasis is on the narrative level. All points of obscurity are followed by an interpretation of fact. Thus references are noted to films, books, places, foreign languages, and national and tribal histories. Special attention is given to the literary, mystical, and Mexican background.

Author : Harald Zapf,Klaus Lösch
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : 3823360442

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Cultural Encounters in the New World by Harald Zapf,Klaus Lösch Pdf

Author : Miguel Mota,Paul Tiessen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780774844710

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The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry by Miguel Mota,Paul Tiessen Pdf

To a remarkable extent the filmscript of Tender is the Night, which Malcolm Lowry wrote in 1949-50 with the help of Margerie Bonner Lowry, is less an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel than an extension of Lowry's own fiction. As Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen show, Malcolm Lowry's script contains important passages which are really "cinematic" restatements of parts of Lowry's novel Lunar Caustic, and of short stories such as "Through the Panama" and "Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession." The editors note also the many direct and indirect allusions to elements from Lowry's master-work, Under the Volcano (1947), a novel that is regarded by many critics as one of the most "cinematic" prose works of the twentieth century. A close study of the text reveals that Lowry took on the Tender is the Night project partly as a means of reopening his Under the Volcano narrative, of re-exploring its plot and problems and its characters and themes, and of carrying as far as possible the "cinematic" style he had begun to examine in that work. Lowry's Tender is the Night manuscript is important, then, not only as a completed, 455-page text in its own right but also as a text having a direct bearing on Lowry's own reading of Under the Volcano and of his sense of artistic direction after that work. Indeed, the editors consider the significance of the filmscript as a key - hitherto almost entirely overlooked - to understanding his projected multiple volume work, The Voyage That Never Ends. This scholarly edition of Lowry's script presents 38 passages of varying length - from less than one page to over 100 pages - in which Lowry writes with a freedom and creativity that lead to a text narratively and stylistically quite separate and distinct from Fitzgerald's original. It excludes passages where Lowry adheres more or less slavishly, at 37 intervals, to Fitzgeralds' novel, though it provides brief narrative summaries of and comments on those omitted sections. Lowry's achievement in his filmscript demonstrates the nature of his life-long commitment to and extensive knowledge of the international cinema from the 1910s to the 1950s and also the nature of his view of the novelist's responsibility to participate in the development of film as an art. The script also illustrates Lowry's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald as one in a series of literary kinships, and as the editors point out, the work becomes a criticism and analysis of both Fitzgerald's novel and of Fitzgerald himself.

Author : Iain Gately
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781440631269

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Drink by Iain Gately Pdf

A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day. Drink further documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, the Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, the slave trade, and the failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the world's most famous drinks-and the world's most famous drinkers. Packed with trivia and colorful characters, Drink amounts to an intoxicating history of the world.