The Slaves Of Solitude
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The Slaves Of Solitude
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-12
The Slaves Of Solitude written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with Fiction categories.
'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.
The Slaves Of Solitude
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Author : Nicholas Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Slaves Of Solitude written by Nicholas Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Drama categories.
'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.
The Slaves Of Solitude
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Slaves Of Solitude written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with England categories.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-12
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with Fiction categories.
'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.
A Woman Named Solitude
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Author : André Schwarz-Bart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
A Woman Named Solitude written by André Schwarz-Bart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Africa, West categories.
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.
Impromptu In Moribundia
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-12-06
Impromptu In Moribundia written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with Fiction categories.
'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. Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the 'Asteradio') into a parallel universe on a far-off planet where the 'miserably dull affairs of England' are mirrored and transformed into an apparent idyll of bourgeois English imagination. Moribundia is the 'physical enactment of the stereotypes and myths of English middle-class culture and consciousness.' Yet the narrator comes to discover that he has stumbled among a people characterised by 'cupidity, ignorance, complacence, meanness, ugliness, short-sightedness, cowardice, credulity, hysteria and, when the occasion called for it . . . cruelty and blood-thirstiness.
Gaslight
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-02
Gaslight written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Fiction categories.
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 Matchmaker
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Author : Elin Hilderbrand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Matchmaker written by Elin Hilderbrand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Married women categories.
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
Hangover Square
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-08-04
Hangover Square written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-04 with Fiction categories.
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. '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. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head and he realises, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton brilliantly evokes a seedy, fog-bound world of saloon bars, lodging houses and boozing philosophers, immortalising the slang and conversational tone of a whole generation and capturing the premonitions of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war.
Craven House
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Author : Patrick Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Abacus
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Craven House written by Patrick Hamilton and has been published by Abacus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Fiction categories.
'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.