Download or read book Queer Classics 10 Novels Collection written by Oscar Wilde and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 2728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents the classics of queer literature by the most authentic and controversial authors of the past: Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet
Download or read book Queer Classics 10 Novels Collection written by Oscar Wilde and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 2901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents the classics of queer literature by the most authentic and controversial authors of the past:_x000D_ Orlando by Virginia Woolf_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde_x000D_ Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop_x000D_ Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall_x000D_ Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu_x000D_ Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor_x000D_ This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh_x000D_ Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller_x000D_ The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul_x000D_ The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens _x000D_ The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet
Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Well of Loneliness" is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".
Download or read book A Queer Kind of Death written by George Baxt and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York detective Pharoah Love believes that the death od a young, handsome actor-model-hustler was no accident. But who killed him in his bathtub - his ex-lover? The literary agent? The society wit? It might be one of these but Pharoah Love has to learn just how you outsmart an ingenious killer.
Download or read book Orlando written by Virginia Woolf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando: A Biography, is a fictional work published in 1928. Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period. The novel is semi-biographical based and dedicated to Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West. Well regarded for it's impact on gender studies and the stylized approach in which it portrays women. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding novels. Woolf allowed neither time nor gender to constrain her writing. The protagonist, Orlando, ages only thirty-six years and changes gender from man to woman. This pseudo-biography satirizes more traditional Victorian biographies that emphasize facts and truth in their subjects' lives. Although Orlando may have been intended to be a satire or a holiday, it touches on important issues of gender, self-knowledge, and truth with Virginia Woolf's signature poetic style.
Download or read book Law of Desire written by José Quiroga and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). In the twenty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. Taking his cue from the golden age of Latin American, American, and European melodrama, Almodóvar created a sentimental yet hard-edged film that believes in the utopian possibilities for new relationships that redeem people from their despair. Since its release, Almodóvar has become an Oscar-winning filmmaker who regularly delves into issues of sexuality, gender, and identity. This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.
Download or read book Unmarriageable written by Soniah Kamal and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This inventive retelling of Pride and Prejudice charms.”—People “A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society.”—NPR Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles” Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Told with wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood. Praise for Unmarriageable “Delightful . . . Unmarriageable introduces readers to a rich Muslim culture. . . . [Kamal] observes family dramas with a satiric eye and treats readers to sparkling descriptions of a days-long wedding ceremony, with its high-fashion pageantry and higher social stakes.”—Star Tribune “Thoroughly charming.”—New York Post “[A] funny, sometimes romantic, often thought-provoking glimpse into Pakistani culture, one which adroitly illustrates the double standards women face when navigating sex, love, and marriage. This is a must-read for devout Austenites.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book Paris Is Burning written by Lucas and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Queer Film Classic on the stunning 1991 documentary about New York's drag subculture in the 1980s.
Download or read book The Hakawati written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.
Download or read book Giovanni s Room written by James Baldwin and published by Signet. This book was released on 1957 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Will Aitken and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel about a middle-aged man (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes its cultural impact and provides a vivid portrait of the director, an ardent Communist and grand provocateur. Will Aitken's novels include Realia and Terre Haute. Arsenal's Queer Film Classics series cover some of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people.
Download or read book Peter Darling written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queer, transgender retelling of Peter Pan in which Pan returns to Neverland after a decade of growing up in the real world - only to be entangled in its youthful violence and a fraught, sensual relationship with his old enemy, Captain Hook.
Download or read book The Queer Art of Failure written by Jack Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
Download or read book Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature written by David M. Robinson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in late sixteenth- through mid-eighteenth-century British and French literature. The author also uncovers and analyzes long-term continuities in the representation of same-sex love, sex, and desire. Covering multiple genres (poems, plays, novels) and modes (such as satire, scandal, and pornography), this study engages with the historiography of sexuality as a whole.
Download or read book Trash written by Jon Davies and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol. The film Trash is a down-and-out domestic melodrama about a decidedly eccentric couple: Joe, an impotent junkie (played by Warhol film regular Joe Dallesandro), and Holly, Joe's feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend (played by trans Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn). Joe is the hunky yet passive center around whom proud Holly orbits; while Morrissey intended to show that "there's no difference between a person using drugs and a piece of refuse," Woodlawn's incredible turn reverses his logic: she makes trash as precious as human beings. The book examines the film in the context of Morrissey and Warhol's legendary partnership, with a special focus on Woodlawn's acclaimed performance: a glorious embodiment of "trash" and glamour that was so stunning, director George Cukor led a campaign (albeit unsuccessful) to win her an Oscar nomination.
Download or read book The Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Download or read book Queer written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs’s only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.
