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Author : John Innes Mackintosh Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0417021909
Author : John Innes Mackintosh Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0417021909
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133543
'Professor Sanctuary favours the immediate launching of an appeal . . .' And so it begins . . . In J.I.M. Stewart’s superbly melding of wit, mystery, observation and literary prowess a gripping novel develops that will enthral the reader. A surveyor's report is alarming and the Governing Body is awed by the dimensions of the crisis.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133468
Lady Cameron and Hornett had been married fifty years ago, but he has forgotten about it. Embarrassment is evident when they meet whilst holidaying in Greece. In other stories there is an unknown Wordsworth manuscript and a sensational development concerning Coleridge. We also travel to Vienna where the identity of an arsonist is revealed.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755148110
A boy is kind with unexpected consequences. A lover gives a ring to his girl, but doesn’t appreciate its history and value. In Oxford, the Bodleian is mysteriously empty, whilst a don becomes a bestselling author. In another tale, a cruel ending brings the absurdity of death into focus. All of the stories focus on life’s ironies and absurdities.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133642
Gloria Montacute is in Venice, having inherited a great collection of art treasures. Dealers gather and one of them sends a handsome young man to pursue her. Jake, her cousin, and Henry, a neighbour, also arrive. Gloria harbours her suspicions of all. The finale, however, is as much a surprise as we have come to expect from Stewart’s novels.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133482
Duncan Pattullo is thinking of re-marrying, although his former wife causes difficulties. His intended is also providing gossip for the college, but that is as nothing compared with Watershute, who abandons his family, conducts an affair in Venice, and is drunk at High Table. Things get very serious when he appears to be involved in treason.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133437
Tobias, or Toby, was fostered and then adopted as the Feltons’ heir after he had miraculously survived the sinking of a ship by a U-Boat. Then, someone who is clearly Toby’s twin turns up as an under-gardener. He had been fostered by a couple, now dead. There is general and disturbed confusion on everyone’s part – including the boys themselves.
Author : G.R. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857730251
A generation or so ago, the Inklings - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams - met regularly in an Oxford pub to encourage one another in the writing of fictions set in fantasy worlds... Philip Pullman's Gyptians live on an Oxford canal and it is from Oxford that his characters gain entry to another world... It is true that Oxford is a world to itself, a village where everyone stops in the Broad or the High to exchange local gossip... The visitor walking among the golden colleges may still see students setting off for examinations dressed in black and white... But encounters in the street are as likely to grapplings with politics (local, national and international) as exchanges about a point of scholarly detail... The 'reality' of Oxford is that it is not at all a land of faery.'
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755147960
T Willard Quail, an American citizen, re-visits Oxford many years after leaving so as to pursue the Fontaney Journals. Quail’s motive and purpose may not be immediately apparent, but with his usual wit and skill J.I.M. Stewart leads the reader to the story’s satisfying conclusion. As for Quail, he returns to New York. Mission accomplished?
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755148011
Phil Tombs's wins almost a quarter of a million pounds. Many try to take for a ride and relieve him of his new found fortune, but Phil is no fool, and he makes an enterprising and amusing hero as he learns the social nuances and the power of money, going from one adventure to another with what has been described as ‘proletarian gusto’.
Author : J.I.M. Stewart
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755133628
Robin Hayes breaks the news that his father is guilty of embezzlement and has been sentenced to two years. Complications arise when a junior pupil at his school turns out to be the grandson of the judge who passed sentence. This, however, is only the background to a typical Stewart mystery. There is a double kidnapping, and many sub-plots.
Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000650594
The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect literary, historical, and sociological aspects of modern British universities. It shows that the culture celebrated in British university fiction represents a particular view of humane education which has its origins in the values of Oxbridge. Threats are seen to come from the ‘redbrick’ and ‘new’ universities, from proletarians, scientists (including sociologists), women, and foreigners. This exhilarating book makes a nonsense of sociology’s reputation for turgid and plodding analysis. Sharp-witted, shrewd, and penetrating, it will be of interest to students of sociology, literature, and for the same wide audience that appears to have an insatiable appetite for stories about university life.
Author : John Dougill
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0472107844
As "the English Athens," Oxford has long been seen as central to England's intellectual life. For over six centuries the city has been lauded, slighted, and cited in the pages of English literature. While it has been hailed as the embodiment of excellence, beauty, and truth on the one hand, it has also been attacked for its elitism, insularity, and traditionalism on the other. Oxford in English Literature provides for the first time an overview of these literary representations, ranging from Chaucer's account of medieval students to modern-day detective stories set in the city. The book begins with the early university, possibly founded by an eighth-century princess named Frideswide. The volume moves on through the Middle Ages with Chaucer's clerks and Foxe's martyrs. Oxford in English Literature touches on more recent centuries with Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland, Matthew Arnold, Max Beerbohm and Evelyn Waugh, and the "Infamous St. Oscar." Following the rise of the colleges, the literature becomes characterized by a sense of insulation, for the closed collegiate structure led to elitism and eccentricity. The notion of the university as a paradise of youth, beauty, and intelligence led to the so-called Oxford myth and the backlash against it after World War II. The underlying argument of John Dougill's work is that the defining symbol of Oxford is not so much the dreaming spire as the college wall. In Oxford literature the college is depicted as a world of its own--secluded, conservative, and eccentric, driven by its own rituals. Idealized, it becomes a cloistered utopia, an Athenian city-state, a fantasy wonderland, or an Arcadian idyll. Exclusivity led to resentment from those on the outside, as is evident in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. With the advent of democratic and egalitarian values in the twentieth century, the privilege and elitism of the university has come under increasing attack, as has the whole notion of the "English Athens." Oxford in English Literature is aimed at the general reader interested in the literature and history of a very unusual town. Its familiar subject and the inclusion of numerous rare and specially commissioned illustrations and photographs make this a compelling book. John Dougill is Associate Professor of English Literature, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. He is an Oxford graduate and author of The Writers of English Literature.
Author : Keith D. M. Snell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351894012
Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.