Search results for ""Author Rose Macaulay""
Alpha Edition Dangerous Ages
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Forgotten Books Milton Classic Reprint
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Read Books Fabled Shore From the Pyrenees to Portugal
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Editorial Minuscula, S.L.U. Las torres de Trebisonda
Book SynopsisLas torres de Trebisonda cuenta las peripecias de un estrambótico grupo, formado por Laurie, la narradora, su inimitable tía Dot, el intolerante padre Chantry-Pigg y un camello loco, que parte de Inglaterra rumbo a Oriente Medio movido por distintos intereses que van desde un heterodoxo proselitismo anglicano al puro placer del viaje. Ingeniosa y a la vez melancólica, desenfadada y sutil, esta novela descubre una ciudad de fábula, una Trebisonda reflejo de inquietudes espirituales, metáfora del carácter esquivo de la verdad. Un relato satírico y en ocasiones absurdo, de un humor chispeante, tras el que se esconden las sombras del desengaño, los dilemas religiosos y el recuerdo de un amor perdido.
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Little, Brown Book Group The World My Wilderness
Book SynopsisIt is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild with the Maquis, experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, Barbary finds it hard to adjust to the drab austerity of postwar London life.Confused and unhappy, she discovers one day the flowering wastes around St Paul''s. Here, in the bombed heart of London, she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.Trade ReviewThe World My Wilderness . . . had a powerful effect on me as a young reader, growing up in post-war London. Its landscape of bombed churches and derelict streets powerfully expresses Macaulay's sense of desolation during and after the war, for herself and for Europe * Guardian *Poignant and inspiring * Sunday Telegraph *Her penultimate novel, The World My Wilderness (1950), an elegiac, evocative depiction of the aftermath of the Second World War . . . A book born of loss and destruction. It deals in the grim realities of a civilization that's brought itself to the brink * Paris Review *
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Daunt Books They Went to Portugal: A Travellers' Portrait
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MIT Press Ltd What Not
Book SynopsisAn early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England.In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares author Rose Macaulay’s own ambivalent attitude, gets involved in the Ministry’s propaganda efforts, which the novel details with an entertaining thoroughness. (The alphabetical caste system dreamed up by Macaulay for her nightmare world would directly influence Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia Brave New World.) But when Kitty falls in love with the Minister for Brains, a man whose genetic shortcomings make a union with her impossible, their illicit affair threatens to topple the government. Because it ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, the planned 1918 publication of What Not was delayed until after the end of World War I.
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British Library Publishing Keeping Up Appearances
Book SynopsisRose Macaulay's novel, first published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we twist our identities to fit, delivered in an intelligent and innovative style.
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British Library Publishing Dangerous Ages
Book SynopsisRose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rose Macaulay Gender and Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulayâs attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing transcended and celebrated the characteristics of genre, reflecting Macaulayâs responses to modernity. The bookâs focus moves from the interiorized self and the psycheâs relations with the body, to gender identity, to the role of women in society, followed by how women, and Macaulay, use language in their strategies for generic self-expression, and the environment in which Macaulay herself and her characters lived and worked. Macaulay was a particularly modern writer, embracing technology enthusiastically, and the evidence of her treatment of gender and genre reflect Macaulayâs responses to modernism, the historical novel, ruins and the relationships of history and structure, ageing, and the narrative of travel. By presenting a wide range of approaches, this book shows how Macaulayâs fiction is integral to modern British literature, by its aesthetic concerns, its technical experimentation, her concern for the autonomy of the individual, and for the financial and professional independence of the modern woman. There are manifold connections shown between her writing and contemporary theology, popular culture, the newspaper industry, pacifist thinking, feminist rage, the literature of sophistication, the condition of âinclusionaryâ cosmopolitanism, and a haunted post-war understanding of ruin in life and history. This rich and interdisciplinary combination will set a new agenda for international scholarship on Macaulayâs works, and reformulate contemporary ideas about gender and genre in twentieth-century British literature. Table of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgments 1 Introduction, Kate MacdonaldPart I: The Body and the Mind2 Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: Gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others, Jessica Gildersleeve3 The dangerous ages of Rose Macaulay, Cynthia PortPart II: Public and Private Gender Identity4 ‘Imprisoned in a cage of print’: Rose Macaulay, journalism and gender, Sarah Lonsdale5 ‘Mentally neutral’: An improbable tale of gender in Geneva, Juliane RömhildPart III: Women in Society6 "Thought is everything": Women’s work in Rose Macaulay’s First World War novels, Melissa Edmundson7 The domestic modern, the primitive and the middlebrow in Crewe Train, Ann Rea8 Constructing a public persona: Rose Macaulay’s non-fiction, Kate MacdonaldPart IV: Genre in Language9 ‘Ghosts of words’: gendering history, language and pleasure in They Were Defeated (1932), Diana Wallace10 The Towers of Trebizond. Language and the joys and paradoxes of the modern world, Maria Stella FlorioPart V: Landscapes in Genre11 A catastrophic imagination: Rose Macaulay and the cosmopolitan Pleasure of Ruins, Christina Svendsen12 Rose Macaulay’s ‘Turkey Book’: The Towers of Trebizond as ironic travelogue,Lisa Regan13 Annotated Bibliography of works by and about Rose Macaulay, Kate MacdonaldWorks CitedIndex
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Handheld Press Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe
Book SynopsisIn 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects include: Bed (Getting Into It) Booksellers Catalogues Christmas Morning Driving a Car Flattery Heresies Not Going to Parties Shopping Abroad Writing While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
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Little, Brown Book Group Crewe Train Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisDenham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of ''civilised'' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay''s wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.This bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the book''s first publication in 1967.Trade ReviewRose Macaulay is ripe for rediscovery * The Times *One of her very wittiest books * Observer *A pleasure and a triumph -- Eric LinklaterRose Macaulay, who is probably the cleverest of our novelists, has given us yet another of her glittering novels * Country Life *One of the few authors of whom it may be said she adorns our century -- Elizabeth Bowen
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DuMont Buchverlag GmbH Ein unerhrtes Alter Roman
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Aviva Was nicht alles
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Handheld Press Non-Combatants and Others: Writings Against War
Book SynopsisAll Rose Macaulay’s anti-war writing, collected together in one fascinating and thought-provoking volume. Her novel Non-Combatants and Others (1916) is a classic of pacifist writing, and was one of the first novels to be written and published during the First World War that set out the moral and ideological arguments against war. It’s scathing and heart-breaking, yet finds a way for pacifists to work for an end to conflict. Her journalism for The Spectator, Time & Tide, The Listener and other magazines from the mid-1930s to the end of the Second World War, details the rise of fascism and the civilian response to the impending war. Witty, furious and despairing in turn, these forgotten magazine columns reveal new insights into how people find war and its tyrannies creeping up on them. These are supported by Macaulay’s two inter-war essays on pacifism,`Apeing the Barbarians’ and `Moral Indignation’. Macaulay’s only wartime short story, `Miss Anstruther’s Letters’, is a devastating account of the loss of her flat and all her possessions in the Blitz. But more desperate a loss than her books were the letters from her secret lover, who had just died. The Introduction is by Jessica Gildersleeve of the University of Southern Queensland. The cover illustration, `Peace Angel’, is by the Norwegian caricaturist Olaf Gulbransson, published in the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus in 1917.
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Handheld Press Potterism
Book SynopsisRose Macaulay’s 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants and Others: Writings Against War (ISBN 9781912766307). Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the First World War and into the 1920s. When Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy, and wants more than society will let her have. Mrs Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls’ magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium to try to find the truth about the murder of her son-in-law, she wreaks terrible damage. Arthur Gideon works for Mr Potter as an editor. He respects his employer’s honesty while he despises the populist newspapers he has to produce. His turbulent campaigning spirit, and his furious resistance to anti-Semitic attacks, make him unpopular, and becomes an unwitting target of malice.
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