Alms For Oblivion Volume Ii
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Alms For Oblivion Volume Ii
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-08-26
Alms For Oblivion Volume Ii written by Simon Raven and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Fiction categories.
'Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness' TLS Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on. Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows 'The Alms for Oblivion series steers its way its stylish course somewhere between Fleming and Waugh' Guardian
Alms For Oblivion Volume Iii
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-08-26
Alms For Oblivion Volume Iii written by Simon Raven and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Fiction categories.
'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' Evening Standard 'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' Observer The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex - draws to a close with two novels about death and retribution. But Simon Raven's achievement and the conflicted, colourful or uniquely vile characters he created are not easily forgotten after the last page is turned. Volume III includes Bring Forth the Body and The Survivors 'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous Alms for Oblivion cycle' Guardian
Alms For Oblivion Volume I
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-08-26
Alms For Oblivion Volume I written by Simon Raven and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Fiction categories.
'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' Daily Telegraph '[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' Observer Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage to adultery and back again. Volume 1: The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron and Fielding Gray 'There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous Alms for Oblivion cycle' Guardian
The Rich Pay Late
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Rich Pay Late written by Simon Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with England categories.
Examines the lives of a group of upper and upper-middle class individuals in the mid-50s, on the eve of the Suez crisis.
Alms For Oblivion
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Author : Peter Kemp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-28
Alms For Oblivion written by Peter Kemp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-28 with categories.
Asia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings that extend over thousands of miles, the Allies still have much intense fighting ahead. Freed from a Soviet dungeon by diplomatic happenstance as the European theatre closes is Peter Kemp. Kemp was a young law student who volunteered to fight for the Nationalists against the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Recruited by the elite British Special Operations Executive for his extensive irregular warfare experience and enormous bravery, Kemp was a commando raider then spy in the Balkans and Poland before being betrayed, along with his comrades, by the advancing Red Army. Recognizing him as one of their best operatives, the British redeploy Kemp to the South Pacific. Although initially tasked with mopping up the Japanese remnants, after the surrender Kemp finds himself struggling to bring order to the chaos as anti-colonial sentiment surges, first in French Indochina and then the Dutch East Indies. With the United States indifferent or hostile to its allies' extended empires, Kemp is forced to lead Japanese troops and a smattering of European holdouts against a phantom army of guerrillas. Kemp published his story in 1961, one of only a few to offer a first-hand look at the little-explored aftermath of World War Two in the Pacific. The book has been out-of-print for decades, but joins Kemp's first two books, Mine Were of Trouble (recounting his Spanish Civil War experiences) and No Colours or Crest (following him through Europe in WW2) back in wide release again.
Alms For Oblivion
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1999
Alms For Oblivion written by Simon Raven and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with England categories.
Youngblood Hawke
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Author : Herman Wouk
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Youngblood Hawke written by Herman Wouk and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Fiction categories.
Aspiring writer Arthur Youngblood Hawke moves from Hovey, Kentucky, to New York City with nothing but a manuscript and a dream: to make it as a novelist. When, impossibly, his manuscript is sold - and becomes an overnight success - Hawke finds himself instantly famous and wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He gives himself over to the high life, enjoying everything fame, fortune and New York City can offer. But Hawke, like so many dreamers before him, will discover that fame and fortune are dangerous friends.
The World Of Simon Raven
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The World Of Simon Raven written by Simon Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Although he gained fame with his classic novel series, Alms for Oblivion, which chronicled the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 60s, Simon Raven is also recognized as a brilliant travel writer, an unblinking reporter of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a hilarious commentator on the sexual mores of gay London. His demise in 2001 robbed English letters of one of its most colorful characters. Expelled from Charterhouse “for the usual thing,” he was, for a time, an officer in the British Army. He gambled heavily on the horses for years, was often in debt, drank too much, and had a rich and uncommonly varied sex life. He was said to possess “the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel,” and this selection of his writing contains a magnificent array of pieces on army life, sex, school days, and travel. The quality of his writing and his fearless descriptions of the habits of the English, and indeed of all mankind, will come as a revelation.
Fielding Gray
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Author : Simon Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Fielding Gray written by Simon Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Popular literature categories.
The Face Pressed Against A Window
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Author : Tim Waterstone
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2019-02-07
The Face Pressed Against A Window written by Tim Waterstone and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the Year Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling business throughout the country. Tim explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street name. Candid and moving, The Face Pressed Against a Window charts the life of one of our most celebrated business leaders.