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Author
Publisher
T. Fisher Unwin
Pub. Date
1900.
Language
English
Description
This 1900 comedy was part of the Irish Literary Revival movement. It was produced by the Irish Literary Theater in Dublin. The play features a commercial-and romantic-rivalry between the towns of Northhaven and Southhaven: allegorical names for Ireland and England, with Northhaven feeling deceived by the powerful Southhaven.
282) Orwell: the life
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles George Orwell's life-changing service to the British crown in India, the literary world he inhabited, his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and his works.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about...
Author
Publisher
Smith, Elder and Co
Pub. Date
1867.
Language
English
Description
This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated and maligned with equal vigor, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-documented artistic coterie in twentieth-century literature. The novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, the artists Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, and the economist John Maynard Keynes were among this charmed circle that emerged in London before the First World War and came to exercise a complex, lingering influence on English art and letters. Theirs was a world...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating exploration of A.E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness"--
"A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been...
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1912.
Language
English
Description
This 1912 drama, subtitled "A Fantasy," is a sharp satire on the hypocrisies of those who set themselves up to help the less fortunate but who are really pursuing selfish agendas. Here Christopher Wellwyn, an artist of limited means, generously shares all that he has with anyone in need of it, alienating his practical daughter, Ann.
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1922]
Language
English
Description
Loyalties is a 1922 play by the British writer John Galsworthy. It was staged at St Martins Theatre and ran for over a year. Galsworthy described it as "the only play of mine which I was able to say, when I finished it, no manager will refuse this". The film addresses the theme of anti-Semitism. The film was part of an increased trend depicting mistreatment of Jews in British films during the 1930s, tied to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Nazi...
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Under the headings of 'Narrative of Law and Crime' and 'Narrative of Accident and Disaster' may be found an astonishing catalogue of terrible, grisly and most dreadful Victorian events. Fires and railway disasters abound, shipwrecks, floods and 'horrible affairs' leap from every page. Some of the crimes would surprise even the most ardent fan of crime fiction - it is doubtful that so many cases of such shocking violence and awful ingenuity have been...
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