Download or read book Hurry on Down written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday Times Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century.
Download or read book Young shoulders written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smaller Sky written by John Wain and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Winter in the Hills written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English philologist in North Wales, intending to become fluent in the language, becomes involved with the locals whose exploits have a lasting and surprising effect on his life.
Download or read book Nuncle written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Travelling Woman written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where the Rivers Meet written by John Wain and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1988 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life Guard written by John Wain and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1972 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis Wain s Cats written by Chris Beetles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century's most recognisable image in cat art. During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race and the Seaside, celebrating at Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This is a titillating world of cats at play, uninhibited and slightly dangerous, with most group activities likely to turn into mishap, mayhem and catastrophe. This is Wain's world, funny, edgy and animated: a whole cat world. The first comprehensive exhibition of Wain's work was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1972 and, since then, Louis Wain has steadily become more fashionable, and collected worldwide. This biography contains 300 plates of richness and variety, all of which are reproduced faithfully from the original artwork. This book is jointly published by Chris Beetles Ltd and Canongate Books.
Download or read book The Artistic Genius Of Louis Wain written by John C Rigdon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Wain was one of the most popular commercial illustrators in the history of England. Born in 1860, his portrayals of cats captured the imagination of the citizens, and his work helped to elevate the profile and popularity of cats to unprecedented heights. H.G. Wells once remarked. "He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. Cats who do not live and look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." His illustrations were so popular that throughout the beginning of the twentieth century, most homes had at least one of his famous cat annuals and many nurseries had Wain posters hanging on their walls. In the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race and the Seaside, celebrating at Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This book tells Wain's story with full color high resolution reproductions of some of his drawings.
Download or read book Sprightly Running written by John Wain and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1962 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 35 a British writer examines his life and makes a self-assessment.
Download or read book A John Wain Selection written by John Wain and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories:The life guard ; Manhood ; King Caliban ; I love you, Ricky ; Christmas at Rillingham's ; Rafferty ; The valentine generation ; A message from the pig-man ; Down our way ; Goodnight, Old Daisy.
Download or read book The Movement Reconsidered written by Zachary Leader and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement writers - Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, and Donald Davie - but of less-familiar contemporaries.
Download or read book Weep Before God written by John Wain and published by London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Common Sky written by Anthony David Nuttall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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