The Unspeakable Skipton
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The Unspeakable Skipton
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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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The Unspeakable Skipton
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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Unspeakable Skipton written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Fiction categories.
'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', delve into the sparkling and satirical world of Pamela Hansford Johnson with this wickedly funny tragicomedy about a destitute English author living in Bruges. 'A maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and loft pretensions.' TLS ****************** Daniel Skipton is a literary genius - at least, that's what he'll tell you. A tortured artist living in Bruges on money donated by others (a distant relative, the daughter of his landlady, his exasperated, long-suffering publishers), he dreams of the time his talent will once again be truly appreciated and spends days working on his masterpiece. Between charitable bequests, he preys on tourists, accepting hospitality and tricking them into parting with their money; and when an Italian aristocrat arrives, he recognises an opportunity to earn even more. But is it time for the conman to be conned? A wickedly funny novel, and one in which you will always find yourself on the side of the undeniably unspeakable Skipton. 'Very funny' Independent 'If this is not a great book, then I don't know what greatness is.' Edith Sitwell ****************** Praise for Pamela Hansford Johnson: 'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess 'A remarkable craftswoman' A.S. Byatt 'Hansford Johnson at her wittiest is Waugh mingled with Malcolm Bradbury Ruth Rendell 'A writer whose memory fully deserves to be kept alive' Jonathan Coe
The Unspeakable Skipton
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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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Night And Silence Who Is Here
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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Night And Silence Who Is Here written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Following his appearance in The Unspeakable Skipton, Matthew Pryar returns as the hero of Pamela Hansford Johnson’s novel, Night and Silence, Who is Here? On any count, Pryar is a memorable character, and his experiences as a Visiting Fellow of Cobb, a liberal arts college in New Hampshire, U.S.A., will delight all who appreciate satirical comedy and brilliantly entertaining writing. Pryar arrives at Cobb to assume his Visiting Fellowship in a mood of expectant complacency. He expects to spend a comfortable, fruitful year completing his long-deferred monograph on the work of the celebrated and awful poetess Dorothy Merlin and to be mildly lionized in the process. He reckons without the nightmare quality of the domestic arrangements, the profusion and variety of the eccentricities of his colleagues and the unheralded and unwanted descent of the poetess herself. The complexities of the situation are considerable and they are compounded by Pryar’s newly-born ambition to abandon belles-lettres in favour of college administration. Pamela Hansford Johnson, as one would expect, handles her narrative and her marvellous cast of characters with such dexterity and wit that this New Hampshire winter story has all the pace and gaiety of Carnival in high summer.
Happily Ever After
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Author : Niamh Baker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-10-20
Happily Ever After written by Niamh Baker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-10-20 with Fiction categories.
This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960. It examines the myth of the fairy tale ending and what changes the postwar period has wrought in subverting stereotypes.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Author : Deirdre David
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Pamela Hansford Johnson written by Deirdre David and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C. P. Snow. Forced to leave school at sixteen, she trained as a shorthand typist, worked for four years in the mid 1930 for a West End Bank, and conducted a tumultuous romance with the then 19-year old poet Dylan Thomas. Thomas having persuaded her she would become a better novelist than a poet she published a scandalous first novel in 1935 and went on to publish close to thirty more in her career. A passionate defender of the narrative traditions of the British novel, she contributed many essays and reviews on contemporary fiction to periodicals and newspapers; in her own fiction, in the nineteenth-century traditions of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens, she focused on the domestic everyday, the moral questions facing a rapidly-changing society, and the challenges and pleasures of urban life. She was very much a novelist of the city, particularly London. She also gained praise and criticism for her writings about violence and pornography, especially in her well-known analysis of the notorious Moors murder trial. With C. P. Snow, she travelled many times to the United States and the Soviet Union and at the time of her death in 1981, she was still at work on her last novel. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life, and this biography restores Johnson's work to the critical distinction it received when it was published.
The Uncollected Essays Of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2022-05-24
The Uncollected Essays Of Elizabeth Hardwick written by Elizabeth Hardwick and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.
Twentieth Century Fiction
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Author : George Woodcock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1983-04-01
Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Encyclopedia Of British Women S Writing 1900 1950
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Author : Ashlie Sponenberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Encyclopedia Of British Women S Writing 1900 1950 written by Ashlie Sponenberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.
Cork Street Next To The Hatter S
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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Cork Street Next To The Hatter S written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Cork Street, Next To The Hatter’s is part of Pamela Hansford Johnson’s ‘Dorothy Merlin Trilogy’, along with The Unspeakable Skipton and Night and Silence, Who Is Here? Described as ‘A novel in bad taste’, the story follows a reluctant don, Tom Hariot, taken to the theatre by Cosmo Hines, husband to the once-notorious Dorothy, to see the latest and least lovely in the current wave of plays. Appalled, Tom’s surprising reaction is to devote himself to the academic exercise of writing a play of such unparalleled obscenity and sadism that no manager or theatre would dare or wish to present. Innocent that he is, he thinks there can be a limit and strives to be the one that defines it.