Twentieth Century Epic Novels
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Twentieth Century Epic Novels
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Author : Theodore Louis Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2005
Twentieth Century Epic Novels written by Theodore Louis Steinberg and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Every age that has produced literary epics has also produced variations on the elements that constitute the epic. 'Twentieth-Century Epic Novels' examines the most popular 20th-century manifestations of epic sensibilities by looking closely at five major examples of the 20th-century epic novel.
To The End Of The War
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Author : James Jones
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-10-11
To The End Of The War written by James Jones and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Fiction categories.
Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience. Jones’s AWOL period was brief, but he returned to the novel at war’s end, bringing him to the attention of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Jones would then go on to write From Here to Eternity, the National Book Award–winning novel that catapulted him into the ranks of the literary elite. Now, for the first time, Jones’s earliest writings are presented here, as a collection of stories about man and war, a testament to the great artist he was about to become. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.
The Twentieth Century Epic Classic Reprint
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Author : Reuben Brodie Garnett
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-18
The Twentieth Century Epic Classic Reprint written by Reuben Brodie Garnett and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Self-Help categories.
Excerpt from The Twentieth Century Epic In writing this poem I have no malice in my heart for a single human being on earth; and, if in any way I have touched upon any of your pet notions or sacred ideas, and thereby wounded your feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peking
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Author : Anthony Grey
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media Books
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Peking written by Anthony Grey and has been published by Open Road Media Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Fiction categories.
This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" (Financial Times). In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism. But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long March, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Soon, powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith--and entrap him forever in the vast country's tortured destiny. Once held hostage by Red Guards in Peking for more than two years, author Anthony Grey traces the path of China's Communist party from its covert inception through purge and revolution. He crafts a portrait of China as a land of great beauty and harshness--of triumph and tragedy--in a sweeping narrative, rich in historical and cultural revelations. "Well-written and exciting." --Library Journal "A magnificent epic novel of modern China . . . The book is worth reading solely as a factual reminder of the chaos and calamity of China, as a quarter of the world's people struggled and suffered toward modernity in the stormy and cruel decades between 1920 and 1980." --Toronto Star "Skillfully narrated, the book is a parable of China and the West's love affair with it." --Far Eastern Economic Review "Anthony Grey's gripping fiction, based on meticulously attributed sources, is part epic, part blockbuster. . . . A moving chronicle." --The Times (London) "Grey's depth of feeling makes Peking a compelling epic." --The Sunday Telegraph "Outstanding . . . Balance, sanity, serenity and realized human love in the face of a shifting and violent and mostly hateful world." --The Sunday Record Anthony Grey became a foreign correspondent with Reuters after beginning his career in journalism in Norfolk, England, where he was born and educated. He reported on the Cold War from East Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Sofia, and Bucharest for two years before being assigned to China to cover the Cultural Revolution. There, his imprisonment by Red Guards in a house beside the historic Forbidden City of China's emperors attracted worldwide headlines for over two years. After his release, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to journalism, and was named UK Journalist of the Year. He has gone on to become a radio and television broadcaster, bestselling historical novelist, independent publisher, and frequent public speaker.
The Cambridge Companion To Twentieth Century Russian Literature
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Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-17
The Cambridge Companion To Twentieth Century Russian Literature written by Evgeny Dobrenko 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 2011-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.
Edge Of Eternity
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Author : Ken Follett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Edge Of Eternity written by Ken Follett and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
Amnion
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Author : Stephanie Sy-Quia
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Amnion written by Stephanie Sy-Quia and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Poetry categories.
'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions 'Unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the touch' - Will Harris, author of RENDANG, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection What does it mean to be a person of multitudinous countries and heritages? Amnion excavates migratory histories, colonialism and class, moving from England to France, the United States, Spain, Germany, Libya and the Philippines. In this chronicle of a family's history divided by geography and language, Stephanie Sy-Quia explores the reverberations that the actions of one generation can have on the next, through acts of bravery and resistance, great and small. Simultaneously mapping and undoing ideas of the self, everything here is contested. Undefinable in form, combining aspects of fiction, epic poetry and the lyric essay, and merging classical thought and contemporary life to show the joy in living and art, Amnion's broad intellect and undulating emotional landscape is a testament to the families we are given and those that we choose. A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'Kaleidoscopic... A powerful, hybrid song charged with ferocity and fragility' - the Guardian
The Twentieth Century Epic
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Author : Reuben Brodie Garnett
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-10-29
The Twentieth Century Epic written by Reuben Brodie Garnett and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The American Epic Novel In The Late Twentieth Century
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Author : W. Gilbert Adair
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2008
The American Epic Novel In The Late Twentieth Century written by W. Gilbert Adair and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with American fiction categories.
Great Russian Short Stories Of The Twentieth Century
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Author : Yelena P. Francis
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Great Russian Short Stories Of The Twentieth Century written by Yelena P. Francis and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Fiction categories.
This dual-language anthology features more than a dozen, 20th-century tales translated into English for the first time. Contents include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" by D. Mamin-Sibiryak, and "The Life Granted" by Alexander Grin, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Alexander Kuprin, Arkady Gaidar, and others.