The Golden Age Of British Short Stories 1890 1914

Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141992211

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The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher Pdf

'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday Times The quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership. The great writers of the age produced some of their finest work, and literary genres - the ghost story, science fiction - took shape. This richly varied, endlessly entertaining anthology brings together authors from Katherine Mansfield to Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce to Saki, H. G. Wells to Rebecca West. It celebrates a teeming, innovative world of literary achievement. Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher

Author : Aimée Gasston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030785444

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Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Aimée Gasston Pdf

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories’ form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 2282 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : William B. Thesing
Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004400623

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British Short-fiction Writers, 1880-1914 by William B. Thesing Pdf

Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.

Author : Sheila Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526635792

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How to Gut a Fish by Sheila Armstrong Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR ALCS TOM-GALLON TRUST AWARD 'Unsettling, unpredictable, and brilliant' Roddy Doyle 'In sumptuous and evocative prose, Sheila Armstrong writes stories that are unnerving and unsettling. Stories which make you go, wait, wait, what was that? ' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous. Villagers, one by one, disappear into a sinkhole beneath a yew tree. A nameless girl is taped, bound and put on display in a countryside market. A man returning home following the death of his mother finds something disturbing among her personal effects. A dazzling and disquieting collection of stories, how to gut a fish places the bizarre beside the everyday and then elegantly and expertly blurs the lines. An exciting new Irish writer whose sharp and lyrical prose unsettles and astounds in equal measure, Sheila Armstrong's exquisitely provocative stories carve their way into your mind and take hold. 'Dark, devilishly well written and full of atmosphere, How to Gut a Fish is one of the most original and affecting short story collections I've read in years' Jan Carson, author of The Fire Starters

Author : Deborah Mattinson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785906145

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Beyond the Red Wall by Deborah Mattinson Pdf

The last general election saw the Conservatives win their highest vote share in forty years, while Labour slumped to their lowest seat total since 1935. At the heart of this electoral earthquake was the so-called 'Red Wall', some sixty seats stretching from the Midlands up to the north of England. Who are the Red Wall voters and why did they forgo their long-standing party loyalties? Did they simply lend their votes to Johnson to get Brexit done – or will he be able to win them over more permanently? And as the Labour Party licks its wounds, how were those votes thrown away and what, if anything, can be done to win them back? And how will the pandemic and the government's reaction to it change the voter's outlook on party politics in the future? Will everything be the same after it has passed? This book sets out to answer those questions by putting them to the people who will decide the next election.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034636152

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The Standard Index of Short Stories, 1900-1914 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Esme Miskimmin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : British literature
ISBN : 9781137319029

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100 British Crime Writers by Esme Miskimmin Pdf

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349209873

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Figure On The Carpet: Detective Fiction And Literature by Martin Priestman Pdf

Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486809076

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Homefront Horrors by Jess Nevins Pdf

Anthology of horror stories and supernatural fiction from the World War I era includes Beerbohm's "Enoch Soames," Blackwood's "The Wings of Horus," Dunsany's "Thirteen at Table," plus tales by Saki, M. R. James, E. Nesbit, others.

Author : LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618104

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After Sherlock Holmes by LeRoy Lad Panek Pdf

The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Holmes and the advent of the Golden Age of the detective story during World War I. Both British and American detective writers of the period are surveyed--as well as writers who turned to gentleman burglars and master criminals.

Author : William F. Naufftus
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017180873

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British Short-fiction Writers, 1880-1914 by William F. Naufftus Pdf

Information on the lives and works of some of the outstanding British writers who published short fiction in the romantic tradition during the years 1880-1914.

Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141979281

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The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 by Philip Hensher Pdf

TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out. This volume takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Hensher, the award-winning novelist, critic and journalist.

Author : Andrew Maunder
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816074969

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The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story by Andrew Maunder Pdf

A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.

Author : Emily Bullock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911427199

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Inside the Beautiful Inside by Emily Bullock Pdf