The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth

Author : Nicholas Murray
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748112425

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The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth by Nicholas Murray Pdf

The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves as well as the struggle of the artist to live fully and to bear witness in the annihilating squalor of battle. Bringing into sharp focus the human detail of each life, using journals, letters and literary archives, Murray brings to life the men's indissoluble comradeship, their complex sexual mores and their extraordinary courage. Poignant, vivid and unfailingly intelligent, Nicholas Murray's study offers new and finely tuned insight into the - often devastatingly brief - lives of a remarkable generation of men.

Author : Nicholas Murray
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 1408700042

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The Red Sweet Wine of Youth by Nicholas Murray Pdf

* A group portrait of the poets of the First World War, seen in their full historical and biographical context

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810410

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The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

A sweeping, immersive epic story of love and war set in England in the first half of the twentieth century. In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic, eccentric household in the countryside, with their "pals" the Pitts boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are destined to be followed by the apocalypse of the First World War that will overwhelm them as they come to adulthood. For Rosie, the path ahead will be full of challenges. Torn between her love for two young men--one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace--she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she and her sisters build new lives out of both the egalitarian opportunities and devastations that follow the war? This magnificent novel follows an unforgettable cast of characters as they strike out for what happiness can be salvaged from the ruins of the old world.

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297859147

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Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Pdf

This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

Author : Catherine Halsall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725258990

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I Glanced Out the Window and Saw the Edge of the World by Catherine Halsall Pdf

This book is about WAR—not the causes and results, not the planning and the campaigns, not the artillery and the bombs. It is about the heinous crimes committed by the combatants, the horrifying experiences of civilians, the devastation of cities and villages, the killing and the dying, the glory leading to revulsion and guilt, and the assimilation of suffering that either ends in death or in the triumph of the soul. It looks at the struggle of the church to remain faithful and the servants of the church who seek to bring sense and solace to the victims. It discusses antisemitism, racism, and war itself from biblical perspectives. It reveals the unjustifiable reasons for engaging in war and how this brings catastrophic results for all peoples—the mental instability of the survivors and the loss and grief of those on the home front. In war, how can men and women carry out the actions that they do? As Viktor Frankl writes: “After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Virago
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748118410

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Because You Died by Vera Brittain Pdf

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, Because You Died is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.

Author : Alistair Watts
Publisher : Aykay Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780473560362

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New Zealand's France by Alistair Watts Pdf

In New Zealand’s France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective — one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand became British in the 1840s owes much, Dr Watts contends, to that other great colonial power of the time, France. The rich history of British antagonism towards the French was transported to New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s as part of the British colonists’ cultural baggage, to be used in creating an old identity in a new land. Even as the British colonists sought a new beginning, this defining anti-French characteristic caused them to override the existing Māori culture with their own constructs of time and place. Leaving their signature names in the cities of Wellington and Nelson and naming their streets after Waterloo and Collingwood, the British colonisers attempted to establish a local antithesis of France through a bucolic Little Britain in the South Pacific. It was this legacy, as much as the assumed bicultural origins of modern New Zealand, that produced a Pacific country that still relies on the symbolism of the Union Jack embedded in the national flag and the totemic constitutional presence of the British Crown to maintain its national identity. This is the story of how this came about.

Author : Margaret Vandercook
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547657736

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The Red Cross Girls on the French Firing Line by Margaret Vandercook Pdf

"The Red Cross Girls on the French Firing Line" by Margaret Vandercook. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Patrick Deer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199239887

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Culture in Camouflage by Patrick Deer Pdf

Examines how literary writers including Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, James Hanley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and others countered the war culture promoted by mass media, war planners, and military historians.

Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547309468

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Shandygaff by Christopher Morley Pdf

Shandygaff is about the life and adventures of newspaper editor Kenneth Stockton. Excerpt: "SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but some will abide no other tipple."

Author : Mark Connelly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933273

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The Great War, Memory and Ritual by Mark Connelly Pdf

This title seeks to question the modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned twenties and thirties. It concentrates on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials.

Author : Wyatt Bonikowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317055563

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Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination by Wyatt Bonikowski Pdf

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski shows how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed by the literary imagination. Situating his study with respect to Freud’s concept of the death drive, Bonikowski reads the repetitive symptoms of shell-shocked soldiers as a resistance to representation and narrative. In making this resistance part of their narratives, Ford, West, and Woolf broaden our understanding of the traumatic effects of war, exploring the possibility of a connection between the trauma of war and the trauma of sexuality. Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier, and Mrs. Dalloway are all structured around the relationship between the soldier who returns from war and the women who receive him, but these novels offer no prospect for the healing effects of the union between men and women. Instead, the novels underscore the divisions within the home and the self, drawing on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other.

Author : G. Wilson Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351390668

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Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971) by G. Wilson Knight Pdf

First published in 1971, Professor Knight’s book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of the foremost seers of the modern age. A comprehensive review of the work of Francis Berry claims to establish him as our foremost living poet. Professor Knight urges, and goes far to prove, that modern literary criticism up until the 1970s failed to touch upon the richer meanings of contemporary literature – he stresses the relation between such acclaimed poets as Yeats and Eliot and the spiritualistic movements of contemporary times. Knight regards youth-revolts as a sign of a healthy dissatisfaction with an irreligious and directionless culture, and believes that hope lies in the neglected powers pressing for acceptance.

Author : Russell Carey,Anne Fairhall,Tom Rank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107467927

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A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book by Russell Carey,Anne Fairhall,Tom Rank Pdf

Created specifically for the AQA A/AS level English literature A specification for first teaching from 2015, this print student book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding for those who need it. Helping bridge the gap between GCSE and A level, the unique three-part structure focuses on texts within a particular time period and supports students in interpreting texts and reflecting on how writers make meaning.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 071901879X

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Happiest Days by Jeffrey Richards Pdf