Download or read book Great Glasgow Characters written by John Burrowes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few cities in the world to rival Glasgow and the extraordinary happenings that have occurred there, and in this engrossing sequel to Great Glasgow Stories, more of the finest of these are recounted. From the story of the biggest youth movement the world has ever known to the life and crimes of Scotland's most colourful criminal, Johnny Ramensky, whom even the police dubbed 'Gentle Johnny', a vivid picture of the city's eventful history emerges. Elsewhere, the hilarious scenes that greeted the most sensational visitor Glasgow ever had - Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess - are recounted, and the shocking case of one of BBC radio drama's best-known personalities, who was found brutally murdered in his flat in Govan, is explored. Read, too, about doomed pugilist Jackie Peterson, dubbed 'the second Benny Lynch', and about the accidental death in 1931 of Celtic's 'Prince of Goalkeepers', John Thomson, which shocked the city and remains the saddest event in the club's history. These are just some of the highlights to be found in this compelling collection of stories about the great city of Glasgow and its myriad entertaining characters.
Download or read book Glasgow and Its Clubs Orglimpses of the Condition Manners Characters and Eddities of the City During the Part and Present Century written by John Strang and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glasgow Characters written by Peter Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Girl in Pieces written by Kathleen Glasgow and published by Ember. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book."—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from. And don’t miss Kathleen Glasgow's novels You’d Be Home Now and How to Make Friends with the Dark, both raw and powerful stories of life.
Download or read book Glasgow Characters Classic Reprint written by Peter MacKenzie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Glasgow Characters He has the rare tact of wiping off the repulsive dust and rust of olden events, and presenting them with the freshness of novelties. 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.
Download or read book Glasgow and Its Clubs written by John Strang and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow written by Ashley Andrews Lear and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ashley Lear examines the relationship between two pioneers of American literature who broke the mold for women writers of their time. Pulitzer Prize–winning novelists Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow had divergent careers in different locations, Rawlings in backcountry Florida and Glasgow in urban Virginia, yet their correspondence on life and writing reveals one of the great literary friendships of the South. Rawlings felt such admiration for Glasgow that she spent the last year of her life compiling materials for Glasgow’s biography, a work she never completed. Lear draws on the documents Rawlings collected about Glasgow, Rawlings’s personal notes, and letters between the two writers to describe the experiences that brought them together. Lear shows that Rawlings and Glasgow shared a love of nature and social activism, had complex relationships with their parents and siblings, and prioritized their professional lives over romantic attachments. They were both classified as writers of regional works and juvenilia by critics, and Lear traces their discussions about how to respond to the opinions of book reviewers. Both were also forced to confront a new, quickly modernizing America, which at times clashed with their traditional values and naturalistic lifestyles. This is a fascinating portrait of a friendship that sustained two women writers in a time of social upheaval and changing norms in the American South.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland written by Peter Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland written by Peter Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glasgow written by Alan Taylor and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Scottish city as seen by its residents and visitors: “It’s a fine treasure-house—and even Glaswegians may learn something new from it.” —Scotsman This is the story of the fabled former Second City of the British Empire, from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium. Arranged chronologically and introduced by journalist and Glasgowphile Alan Taylor, the book includes extracts from an astonishing array of writers. Some, such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Dirk Bogarde, and Evelyn Waugh, were visitors and left their vivid impressions as they passed through. Many others were born and bred Glaswegians who knew the city and its inhabitants—and its secrets—intimately. They come from every walk of life and, in addition to professional writers, include anthropologists and scientists, artists and murderers, housewives and hacks, footballers and comedians, politicians and entrepreneurs, immigrants and locals. Together they present a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world’s great cities in all its grime and glory—a place at once infuriating, frustrating, inspiring, beguiling, sensational, and never, ever dull.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Linda W. Wagner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work. A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background. But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved “beyond convention” to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow’s best novels, then—Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life—came late in her life, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Glasgow’s increased self-assurance as writer and woman led to a far greater awareness of craft. Her style became more highly imaged, more suggestive, as though she wished to widen the range of resources available to move her readers. She became a writer both popular and respected. Her novels appeared as selections of the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and one became a best seller. At the same time she was chosen as one of the few female members of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1942 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life.
Download or read book The Scottish Pulpit written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographia Scoticana Or a Brief Historical Account of the Lives Characters and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies from Mr Patrick Hamilton who was Born about the Year of Our Lord 1503 to Mr James Renwick who was Executed at Edinburgh Feb 1688 Together with a Succinct Account of the Lives of Other Seven Eminent Divines and Sir R Hamilton of Preston Also an Appendix Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives of Some of the Most Remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution By J Howie Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Glasgow written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Notices and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents Characters and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott Bart written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glasgow Voice written by Christine Amanda Müller and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on James Kelman, a leading Scottish author, and his use of language. It examines how Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his stories while breaking down the traditional distinction made between speech and writing in literature. Three main themes are explored: the use of Glaswegian/Scots language, the inclusion of working-class discourse features, and an expressive preference for spoken over written forms. Kelman’s writing is approached through an examination of his use of punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, swearing, and body language. Throughout, examples from Kelman’s writing are analysed and statistical comparisons are made between his writing and the Scots Corpus of Texts and Speech. In summary, the reader will find a detailed and systematic analysis of Kelman’s use of language in literature, showing linguistic patterns, identifying key textual strategies and features, and comparing these to the standards that precede him and those that surround his work.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow written by Philosophical Society of Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
