Download or read book Artist Among the Missing written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olivia Manning written by Deirdre David and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the Middle East, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucharest, Olivia Manning arrived in Romania on the 3rd September 1939, the fateful day when Allied forces declared war on Germany. For the duration of World War Two, she kept one step ahead of invading German forces as she and her husband fled Romania for Greece, and then Greece for the Middle East, where they stayed until the end of the war. These tumultuous wartime years are the subject of her best-known and most transparently autobiographical novels, The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Olivia Manning refused to be labelled a 'feminist,' but her novels depict with cutting insight and sardonic wit the marginal position of women striving for independent identity in arenas frequently controlled by men, whether on the frontlines of war or in the publishing world of the 1950s. However, she did not just write about World War Two and women's lives. Amongst other things, Manning published fiction about making do in Britain's post-war Age of Austerity, about desecration of the environment through uncontrolled development, and about the painful adjustment to post-war British life for young men. As the author of thirteen published novels, two volumes of short stories, several works of non-fiction, and a regular reviewer of contemporary fiction, she was a visible presence on the British literary scene throughout her life and her work provides a detailed insight into the period. Grounded in thorough research and enriched by discussion of previously unexamined manuscripts and letters, Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is a timely study of Olivia Manning's remarkable life. Deirdre David integrates incisive critical analysis of Manning's writing with extensive discussion of the historical contexts of her fiction.
Download or read book Olivia Manning written by Neville Braybrooke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia manning was born in Portsmouth to a naval family in 1908 and she made an independent if penurious life for herself as a young woman, painting furniture and reading film scripts for MGM. Her first novel was published in 1937. Olivia married Regiie Smith a lecturer in the British Council and they resided in Bucharest. After the war she was at the centre of the London literary scene.
Download or read book Artist Among the Missing written by Olivia Manning and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who s Who of Twentieth Century Novelists written by Tim Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel.
Download or read book Who s Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing written by Gabriele Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible guide to lesbian and gay literary culture. Featuring authors of works with lesbian or gay content as well as known lesbian and gay writers, it offers an invaluable guide to a rich and varied literary culture.
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Download or read book The Great Fortune written by Olivia Manning and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. As Guy's world collides with that of his new bride, Harriet realises how little she knows the man she has married. Manning's masterpiece, alive with exhilarating characters, is a haunting evocation of young love and the uncertainty of war.
Download or read book Narratives of Memory written by V. Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in narrative, during and immediately after the war. Authors include Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and Denton Welch.
Download or read book A People s History of English and American Literature written by Eugene V. Moran and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Modern Writer and His World written by George Sutherland Fraser and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in World History written by Anne Commire and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical profiles of significant women from throughout the history of the world, each with birth and death dates when known, a time line, quotation, and references; arranged alphabetically from Maa-Mei.
Download or read book Twentieth century Epic Novels written by Theodore Louis Steinberg and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Niamh Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book British Fiction After Modernism written by M. MacKay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.
