Download or read book Memoirs of Montparnasse written by John Glassco and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.
Download or read book A Gentleman of Pleasure written by Brian John Busby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, a self-described "great practitioner of deceit."
Download or read book The Heart Accepts it All written by John Glassco and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after his death, John Glassco (1909-1981) remains Canada's most enigmatic literary figure. The Heart Accepts It All: SelectedLetters of John Glassco draws back the curtain on this self-described 'great practitioner of deceit.' We see the delight he took in revealing his many literary hoaxes to friends, and the scorn he had for literary fashion. The letters reflect his convictions about literature, other writers and his own talent, while documenting struggles with publishers, pirates and censors. Born into one of Montreal's wealthiest families, Glassco turned his back on privilege for a life in letters. At age eighteen, having been published in Paris, his voice suddenly went silent. His unexpected return to the literary scene in 1957 coincided with the great flowering of Canadian literature. In the years that followed, he produced a unique body of work that encompasses poetry, memoir, translation, and several bestselling books of pornography. Collected here are the few surviving letters from his youthful adventures in France and three previously unpublished poems. Amongst his correspondents were Maurice Girodias, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, Ralph Gustafson, Leon Edel and Margaret Atwood.
Download or read book The English Governess written by Miles Underwood and published by olympiapress.com. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet John Glassco wrote a great many unusual and eccentric works during his career, and ranks among the finest Canadian authors of the 20th Century. This particular title, published under the pseudoym "Miles Underwood," has achieved status as a must-have in your BDSM library. It is the account of Harriet Marwood, summoned to tutor the son of a 19th Century Victorian businessman, Arthur Lovel, whose wife has died, in the proper way to conduct himself, and to quit what is wonderfully termed "self-effacing." Our Ms. Marwood soon takes over the house, leaving the businessman free to consort with Kate, his whore, and the boy, young Richard, at her mercy, where he most wants to be.
Download or read book Fetish Girl written by Sylvia Bayer and published by Blue Moon Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula is a twenty-seven year old woman with a penchant for black latex. When she meets a swimmer who shares her fetish, she is then introduced to his gay lover. Together they engage in mastery and submission, satisfying each other with delicious pleasures of the flesh.
Download or read book The Essential John Glassco written by John Glassco and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his reputation as Canada’s dandy-poet and his approach to writing as ‘a challenge best overcome by panache’, John Glassco’s poems demonstrate a seemingly incongruous preoccupation with rural life and an intense interest in decline, dilapidation and despair. Plagued by chronic self-doubt and the fear of wasting literary effort, Glassco explored, through his poems, ‘graveyards minding their business’, buildings ‘long in standing, longer still in falling’, and the toil of ‘hope battered into habit, and a habit / Running to weariness’. The result is a selection of work that features syntactic daring, a somewhat anachronistic pleasure in constructedness and a compulsion to turn feelings of unsuitability into art. The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential John Glassco is the twenty-third volume in the increasingly popular series.
Download or read book Forever Yours Marie Lou written by Michel Tremblay and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tremblay's penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
Download or read book Bonjour L Bonjour written by Michel Tremblay and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.
Download or read book Break Away written by Sylvain Hotte and published by Break Away. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexandre McKenzie lives on North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. In summer he rides the logging trails on his quad. Come winter he is a promising young hockey star who seeks solitude at a bush camp by the frozen lake. But when he plunges into a relationship with a girl plagued by tragedy, things turn ugly. Fighting his own demons Alex fights to hold his head high, like the bull moose that haunts him from the moment he meets Jessie. Break Away, Jessie on my mind tells of friendship, family, pride and love. It?s a story that could happen wherever winter, hockey, and young people come together."--
Download or read book The Measure of Paris written by Stephen Scobie and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas as social history and personal memoir. The result is a wide-ranging discussion of the city's history in 20th century literature and thought, which will appeal to all those who love Paris, or who have ever walked on its streets.
Download or read book The Essential John Glassco written by John Glassco and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his reputation as Canada’s dandy-poet and his approach to writing as ‘a challenge best overcome by panache’, John Glassco’s poems demonstrate a seemingly incongruous preoccupation with rural life and an intense interest in decline, dilapidation and despair. Plagued by chronic self-doubt and the fear of wasting literary effort, Glassco explored, through his poems, ‘graveyards minding their business’, buildings ‘long in standing, longer still in falling’, and the toil of ‘hope battered into habit, and a habit / Running to weariness’. The result is a selection of work that features syntactic daring, a somewhat anachronistic pleasure in constructedness and a compulsion to turn feelings of unsuitability into art. The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential John Glassco is the twenty-third volume in the increasingly popular series.
Download or read book Reflections written by K. Peter Stich and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an in depth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature. Published in English.
Download or read book John Glassco A Point of Sky written by John Glassco and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Geniuses Together 1920 1930 written by Robert McAlmon and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1968 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Glassco written by John Glassco and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasscos Selected Poems won him the Governor Generals Award. This collection includes examples of his translations, excerpts from his erotic poetry, and three short prose commentaries.
Download or read book Writing Between the Lines written by Agnes Whitfield and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada's most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process of literary exchange between francophone and anglophone literatures in Canada. Containing original, detailed biographical and bibliographical material, Writing between the Lines offers many new insights into the literary translation process and the diverse roles of the translator as social agent. The first text on Canadian anglophone translators, it makes a major contribution in the areas of literary translation, comparative literature, Canadian literature, and cultural studies.
Download or read book The Nightinghouls of Paris written by Robert McAlmon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the changes undergone by Canadian youths John Glassco and his friend Graeme Taylor during their (mis)adventures in Paris while trying to become writers. There they meet Robert McAlmon, who guides them through the city’s cafes, bistros, and nightclubs, where they find writers and artists including Kay Boyle (with whom Glassco has a fling), Bill Bird, Djuna Barnes, Claude McKay, Hilaire Hiler, Peggy Guggenheim, and Ernest Hemingway. Fleeing France in late 1940, Robert McAlmon lost his notebook manuscripts and drafted The Nightinghouls of Paris from memory. Till now, it has existed solely as a typescript held by Yale University. Unlike most memoirs of American expatriates in the ‘20s, The Nightinghouls of Paris centers not only on writers, but also encompasses the racial, national, and social mélange they encountered in everyday life.
