Young Tom Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Young Tom Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Author : Forrest Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Young Tom Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by Forrest Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Fiction categories.
'One of the most original and most perfect works of imagination of our time' - Edwin Muir, "The Listener" 'A unique achievement in modern literature' - John Boyd 'It has a charm and freshness, it is beautifully written' - James Hanley, "New English Weekly" "Young Tom" (1944) completes the trilogy of novels featuring Tom Barber, which began with "Uncle Stephen" (1931) and "The Retreat" (1936), and it is probably Forrest Reid's finest achievement. Acclaim from contemporary critics was unanimous, and the book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the best novel of the year. In many ways, ten-year-old Tom is like other boys: his life centres on his parents, school, and his best friend Pascoe. But he also has another existence, equally real, in his dreams and imagination. In this novel, we follow him as he plays with his three canine companions, Barker, Pincher and Roger, befriends and communicates with a rat and a squirrel, and tries to find out what happened to Ralph Seaford, the dead boy whose ghost now haunts Tom's grandmother's attic. In exquisite prose, without sentimentality, exaggeration, or a single false note, Reid brings to life Tom, his greatest creation, and accomplishes the difficult feat of allowing readers to revisit and experience anew the wonders and mysteries of childhood. This edition features a new introduction by Andrew Doyle and a selection of never-before-published photographs.
Cold Hand In Mine
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Cold Hand In Mine written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Fiction categories.
'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece ShearsmithAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Cold Hand in Mine, first published in 1975, stands as one of Aickman's finest collections and contains eight tales including 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' which won the World Fantasy Award. 'He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving.' Christopher Fowler, Independent
Ritual In The Dark
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Author : Colin Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Ritual In The Dark written by Colin Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
The Ha Ha
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Author : Jannifer Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Ha Ha written by Jannifer Dawson and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Saville
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-25
Saville written by David Storey and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with Fiction categories.
Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
The Black Cloud
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Author : Fred Hoyle
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-09-02
The Black Cloud written by Fred Hoyle and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Fiction categories.
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.
The Expendable Man
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Author : Dorothy B. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2012-07-03
The Expendable Man written by Dorothy B. Hughes 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 2012-07-03 with Fiction categories.
“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
Gilded Needles Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Author : Michael McDowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-30
Gilded Needles Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by Michael McDowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Originally published by Avon Books in 1980.
Figures In A Landscape
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Author : Barry England
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-07-16
Figures In A Landscape written by Barry England and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Fiction categories.
'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets you go' Damien Lewis Two men are on the run. They have four hundred miles to go across hostile territory. Soldiers on the ground track them day and night, a helicopter circles above, life becomes a second-by-second fight for survival. Each muscle movement, drop of sweat, glance and instinct matters. Every second counts. Through long slogs across country, risky raids for supplies, moments of sheer panic, and under the intense pressure to survive, an unbreakable bond between two men is forged. This stunningly written, adrenaline-pumping novel is a little-known classic of its genre. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE IN 1969 ‘England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding... a brilliant achievement’ The Times
Left To Themselves
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Author : Edward Irenaeus Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-28
Left To Themselves written by Edward Irenaeus Stevenson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-28 with categories.
Edward Prime-Stevenson (1858-1942) has been described by one critic as "the first modern gay American author," and his novel Imre: A Memorandum (1906) has been cited as the first openly gay American novel. But fifteen years earlier, Stevenson published another milestone work, Left to Themselves (1891), a young adult novel described by its author as "homosexual in essence," the first such book ever published.