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Book Death of a Hero

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Aldington
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-02-26
  • ISBN : 1101602937
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Death of a Hero written by Richard Aldington and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Lawrence of Arabia

Download or read book Lawrence of Arabia written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Aldington  Selected Critical Writings  1928 1960

Download or read book Richard Aldington Selected Critical Writings 1928 1960 written by Richard Aldington and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alister Kershaw, Aldington's closest friend from 1947until his death in 1962, here presents ten trenchant and refreshing essays, not previously published in book form, by perhaps the last of the great literary critics to come to grips with the "jubilant illiteracy" of these times. In his highly personal and reflective Introduction, Kershaw discusses Aldington's deep involvement in life, the catholicity of his interests, and his con­siderable erudition, which gave his writing an unusual quality of spontaneity and eloquence.

Book An Imagist at War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Aldington
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780838639528
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book An Imagist at War written by Richard Aldington and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time all the war poems of Richard Aldington have been brought together. This collection is intended to reaffirm Aldington's position as a significant voice in the literature of the First World War.

Book Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia

Download or read book Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia written by Fred D. Crawford and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred D. Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence. In two years of research, Aldington made major discoveries, including the extent to which Lawrence had cooperated with Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves, and B. H. Liddell Hart in the creation of the "Lawrence legend". For this and other reasons, Aldington concluded that Lawrence was a charlatan, a poseur, and a fraud. Upon learning of Aldington's antagonism to Lawrence a year before Aldington's book appeared, a powerful group including B. H. Liddell Hart, Robert Graves, A. W. Lawrence, and other Lawrence partisans worked behind the scenes to suppress and denigrate Aldington's biography. These attempts, Crawford notes, reveal a great deal about how private interests can determine what the public is allowed to read.

Book Life for Life s Sake

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  • Author : Richard Aldington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Life for Life s Sake written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Aldington

Download or read book Richard Aldington written by Vivien Whelpton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author of the bestselling war novel, Death of a Hero (1929), takes place against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent and creative years of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton provides a remarkably detailed and sensitive portrayal of the writer from early adolescence. His life as a stalwart of the pre-war London literary scene, as a soldier, and in the difficult aftermath of the First World War is deftly rendered through a careful and detailed analysis of the novels, poems and letters of the writer himself and his close circle of acquaintance. The complexities of London's Bohemia, with its scandalous relationships, social grandstanding and incredible creative output, are masterfully untangled, and the spotlight placed firmly on the talented group of poets christened by Ezra Pound as 'Imagistes'. The author demonstrates profound psychological insight into Aldington's character and childhood in her nuanced analysis of his post-war survivor's guilt, and consideration of the three most influential women in his life: his wife, the gifted American poet, H.D.; Dorothy Yorke, the woman he left her for; and Brigit Patmore, his brilliant and fascinating older mistress.Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover vividly reveals Aldington's warm and passionate nature and the vitality which characterised his life and works, concluding with his triumphant personal and literary resurrection with the publication of Death of a Hero.

Book Images 1910 1915

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  • Author : Aldington Richard
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2019-03
  • ISBN : 9780526521937
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Images 1910 1915 written by Aldington Richard and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book All Men are Enemies

Download or read book All Men are Enemies written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic idealist and his love for a beautiful Austrian girl.

Book War and Love  1915 1918

Download or read book War and Love 1915 1918 written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HERmione

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilda Doolittle
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 1981-11-17
  • ISBN : 0811222330
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book HERmione written by Hilda Doolittle and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1981-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “H. D's wit, sense of rhythm, and control of language prove the inadequacy of the imagist label that is so often applied to this writer.” —Library Journal This autobiographical novel, an interior self-portrait of the poet H. D. (1886-1961) is what can best be described as a "find,' a posthumous treasure. In writing HERmione, H.D. returned to a year in her life that was "peculiarly blighted." She was in her early twenties––"a disappointment to her father, an odd duckling to her mother, an importunate, overgrown, unincarnated entity that had no place… Waves to fight against, to fight against alone…'I am Hermione Gart, a failure’––she cried in her dementia, 'l am Her, Her, Her."' She had failed at Bryn Mawr, she felt hemmed in by her family, she did not yet know what she was going to do with her life. The return from Europe of the wild-haired George Lowndes (Ezra Pound) expanded her horizons but threatened her sense of self. An intense new friendship with Fayne Rabb (Frances Josepha Gregg), an odd girl who was, if not lesbian, then certainly of bisexual bent, brought an atmosphere that made her hold on everyday reality more tenuous. This stormy course led to mental breakdown, then to a turning point and a new beginning as her own true self, as "Her”––the poet H.D. Perdita Schaffner, H.D.'s daughter, who can remember back to the time in 1927 when her mother was barricaded with her typewriter behind a locked door, working on this very novel, has provided a charming and telling introduction.

Book Des Imagistes

Download or read book Des Imagistes written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remy de Gourmont

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Aldington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Remy de Gourmont written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romance of Casanova

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  • Author : Richard Aldington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Romance of Casanova written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Verse Revolutionaries

Download or read book The Verse Revolutionaries written by Helen Carr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets.

Book The Private Life of the Marshal Duke of Richelieu

Download or read book The Private Life of the Marshal Duke of Richelieu written by Duke Of Richelieu and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

Book Bid Me to Live

Download or read book Bid Me to Live written by H. D. and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the riveting and intense Bid Me to Live, H.D. documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies, including a stillborn child, the end of her marriage, and her pained relationship with D. H. Lawrence. This critical edition returns the novel to print for the first time in a generation ... Bid Me to Live is a roman à clef based on H.D.'s interactions with luminaries Richard Aldington, John Cournos, Dorothy Yorke, Lawrence, Cecil Gray, and Sigmund Freud, to name a few"-- back cover.