Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 0141181648
The Slaves of Solitude
Patrick Hamilton
The Slaves Of Solitude
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The Slaves of Solitude
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141558
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
'All his novels are terrific, but this one is my favourite' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, where she lives with half a dozen others, is as grey and lonely as its residents. For Miss Roach, 'slave of her task-master, solitude', a shaft of not altogether welcome light is suddenly beamed upon her, with the appearance of a charismatic and emotional American Lieutenant. With him comes change - tipping the precariously balanced society of the house and presenting Miss Roach herself with a dilemma.
A Woman Named Solitude
André Schwarz-Bart
Author : André Schwarz-Bart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015024075825
A Woman Named Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart Pdf
Like Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement and humiliation, and survival -and produces one of the most extraordinary heroines in black literature.
The Slaves of Solitude
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Constable Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036777048
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141956404
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.
Craven House
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141527
Craven House by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
'All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own. Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work. The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism. The generational conflicts of Hamilton's own youth thread throughout the narrative, with hair bobbing and dancing as the battle lines. That perennial of the 1920s bourgeoisie, the 'servant problem', is never far from the surface, and tensions crescendo gradually to a resolution one climactic dinnertime.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141480
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s. This is a world where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars - a world of twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.
Angelique
Lorena Gale
Author : Lorena Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106015834309
Angelique by Lorena Gale Pdf
A period play that presses on a contemporary conscience.
Twopence Coloured
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141619
Twopence Coloured by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and cast-off genteel!' Patrick Hamilton was acutely conscious that his third novel (first published in 1928) was longer and 'much grimmer' than his previous and well-received productions. Twopence Coloured is the story of nineteen-year-old Jackie Mortimer, who leaves Hove in search of a life on the London stage, only to become entangled in 'provincial theatre' and complex affairs of the heart with two brothers, Richard and Charles Gissing. The novel, unavailable for many years, is a gimlet-eyed portrait of the theatrical vocation, and fully exhibits Hamilton's celebrated gift for conjuring London - the 'vast, thronged, unknown, hooting, electric-lit, dark-rumbling metropolis.
Plant Dreaming Deep
May Sarton
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781497646322
Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton Pdf
The author’s tribute to the 18th-century New England farmhouse she called home: “[A] tender and often poignant book by a woman of many insights” (The New York Times Book Review). In Plant Dreaming Deep, Sarton shares an intensely personal account of transforming a house into a home. She begins with an introduction to the enchanting village of Nelson, where she first meets her house. Sarton finds she must “dream the house alive” inside herself before taking the major step of signing the deed. She paints the walls white in order to catch the light and searches for the precise shade of yellow for the kitchen floor. She discovers peace and beauty in solitude, whether she is toiling in the garden or writing at her desk. This is a loving, beautifully crafted memoir illuminated by themes of friendship, love, nature, and the struggles of the creative life. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
Monday Morning
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141657
Monday Morning by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. 'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours of Youth's adventure, he didn't quite know what his novel was going to be about.' Monday Morning wryly tells the story of Anthony, a young man taking his passionate first steps in life, in London, and in love. Not yet worn down by the world, Anthony is determined to write the novel that will bring him fame and fortune - and to marry the beautiful Diane. Patrick Hamilton's witty, playful first novel introduces us to the grimy world of metropolitan boarding houses and provincial theatrical digs that would be the setting for his later masterpieces Hangover Square and The Slaves of Solitude, and the hopes, dreams and regrets those who live there.
The House by the Sea
May Sarton
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497646353
The House by the Sea by May Sarton Pdf
The author and poet’s graceful elegy about life, love, work, and growing older: “The most moving and the most thoughtful [of her] journal-memoirs” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). When May Sarton uprooted her life after fifteen years in the refurbished New Hampshire house with the garden she tended so lovingly, she relied solely on instinct. And something told her it was time to move on. Accompanied by her wild cat, Bramble, and Tamas, a Shetland shepherd puppy—the first dog she ever owned—Sarton embarked on the next chapter of her life. The house she chose by the sea in the Maine village of York is completely isolated except during the summer months. Surrounded by nothing but endless ocean, woods, and vast skies, Sarton experiences a rare sense of peace. She creates a new garden and fears that in this tranquil state, she may never write again. But in her solitude—with its occasional interruptions for trips away and visits from friends—she realizes that creativity is constantly renewing itself. This journal offers fascinating insight into a remarkable woman and the work and friendships that form the twin pillars of her life. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
Through a Glass Darkly
Nigel Jones
Author : Nigel Jones
Publisher : Black Spring Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0948238399
Through a Glass Darkly by Nigel Jones Pdf
Penetrating biography of a fascinatingly contradictory writer who, despite a privileged background and early and sustained success, became increasingly embittered with the world. Doris Lessing calls him 'a marvellous novelist', Keith Waterhouse 'A riveting dissector of English life' and Nigel Jones makes excellent use of Hamilton's own letters and notes as well as his own highly perceptive insights. The Literary Review called Through a Glass Darkly 'One of the most stimulating biographies for years'.
Gaslight
Patrick Hamilton
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349141596
Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton Pdf
This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her.
The Slaves of Solitude
Nicholas Wright
Author : Nicholas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848426992
The Slaves of Solitude by Nicholas Wright Pdf
'I don't know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating people is another. Perhaps sex is too.' 1943, Henley-on-Thames. Miss Roach is forced by the war to flee London for the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, a place as grey and lonely as its residents. From the safety of these new quarters, her war effort now consists of a thousand petty humiliations, of which the most burdensome is sharing her daily life with the unbearable Mr Thwaites. But a breath of fresh air arrives in the form of a handsome American lieutenant and things start to look distinctly brighter. Until a new boarder moves into the room next to Miss Roach's - outwardly friendly, she soon starts upsetting the precarious balance in the house. Nicholas Wright's play The Slaves of Solitude weaves a fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy from Patrick Hamilton's much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain. The play premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in October 2017.
