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These Poor Hands
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Author : Bert Lewis Coombes
language : en
Publisher: London, V. Gollancz, Limited
Release Date : 1939
These Poor Hands written by Bert Lewis Coombes and has been published by London, V. Gollancz, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Coal miners categories.
These Poor Hands
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Author : Bill Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2002-11-09
These Poor Hands written by Bill Jones and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates Coombes' desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline. Long out of print, "These Poor Hands" has been recognised for over sixty years as the classic miner's autobiography.
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales 1939
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Author : Bert Lewis Coombes
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales 1939 written by Bert Lewis Coombes and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales
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Author : B. L. Coombes
language : en
Publisher: Clarke Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales written by B. L. Coombes and has been published by Clarke Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THESE POOR HANDS The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales -- CHAPTER ONE-- I WAS fascinated by that light in the sky. Night after night I watched it reddening the shadows beyond the Brecknock Beacons, sometimes fading until it only showed faintly, then brightening until it seemed that all the country was ablaze. The winter wind that rushed across the Herefordshire fields where the swedes rotted in heaps, and carried that smell of decay into the small farmhouse which was my home, seemed to encourage the burning, until the night sky would redden still more. Sometimes I felt sure that I could see these flames and feel their warmth, but it could only have been fancy, for they were more than sixty miles away from us. Then in the cold and wetness of the winter evenings, when we had finished feeding the animals and had cut enough chaff for the next day, we crowded near the fire of damp logs that Mother was coaxing into flame with the bellows. I would look at our feeble fire and think, with longing, of the heat and brightness that must be about those distant flames. We could not get a good enough price for our swedes to make it worth the six miles of cartage to the station, and the grass was spoiled in the orchard where the unwanted apples had fallen, but every night we shivered in our damp clothes because coal was too dear for us to buy. We did get some before each Christmas, because some years before a lady had left a sum of money sufficient for eight poor families to be given one half-ton of coal each and the carter thereof to have one ton for his services . We had the contract to be the carter thereof, so we had coal at Christmas time and as long after as carefulness madepossible. I can remember how I stood minding the horses while my father loaded the coal at the station, and how I pushed my hands under the horses collar so that my fingers would keep warm. I was astounded to see several full trucks of coal and was puzzled as to how they managed to get it into a truck. I asked the porter about this mystery, and he did not seem to be any more of an expert on coal-loading than myself. By the time I was eighteen years old I had decided that I must get away somewhere. There was plenty of work at home, but little pay. It was a very dear holding that we rented, and all ready money had to be saved for rent. New clothes were very rare, and pocket-money was something to imagine. This did not suit my ideas of life. I wanted good clothes, money to spend, to see fresh places and faces, and-well, many things. I had a deal of advice about my future from our two nearest neighbours. They were time-expired soldiers, and lived next door to one another about half a mile from our place. Both were bachelors, and did their own house-work-occasionaIly. They were often at our place, and it was usually about four oclock in the morning when they arrived, laden with as many dead rabbits as they could carry. I have seen them bring seventy between them. They would throw them into the back of the pony-trap, and my father would get away early to town to sell them. They always called before he returned, and it was my job to give them some weak cider to soothe their thirsts until father returned and brought the money for them to have a real drink at the Comet Inn. During one of these waits I told them of my determination to go away...
These Poor Hands Etc Left Book Club Edition
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Author : Bert Lewis COOMBES
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
These Poor Hands Etc Left Book Club Edition written by Bert Lewis COOMBES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with categories.
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales
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Author : B. L. Coombes
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-12-05
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales written by B. L. Coombes and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Coombes' title These Poor Hands first published in 1939, was an instant best-seller, catapulting the author to the forefront of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for a large part of his in the Vale of Neath, South Wales, and as the economic problems of the 30s worsened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the news of the plight of miners and their communities to the wider world. He presented the daily life of miners in documentary fashion, with special attention to the damaging lockouts of 1921 and 1926, These Poor Hands retains the power to astonish readers with its description of the ways that unfettered capitalism can lay waste to pure human potential.
Hand To Mouth
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Author : Linda Tirado
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Hand To Mouth written by Linda Tirado and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 — Esquire "I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself – if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado’s life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." —from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like—on all levels. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why “poor people don’t always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.”
Poor S Hand Book Of Investment Securities
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Poor S Hand Book Of Investment Securities written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Finance categories.
I Know This Much Is True
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Author : Wally Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-03
I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-03 with Fiction categories.
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
The Romances Of Alexandre Dumas
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Romances Of Alexandre Dumas written by Alexandre Dumas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.