Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361155334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"Noughts and Crosses" by way of Arthur Quiller-Couch. It is a dystopian younger person novel that explores issues of racism, prejudice, and societal inequality. Set in a trade reality where African human beings (Crosses) keep societal and political strength over the white populace (Noughts), the unconventional follows the lives of Sephy, a Cross, and Callum, a Nought, as they navigate an international wherein racial divisions dictate everything of their lives. The story unfolds towards a backdrop of political turmoil, rebellion, and personal struggles. Sephy and Callum proportion a complex and forbidden love that challenges the deeply ingrained prejudices of their society. As they grow older, their dating will become increasingly entangled with the larger political and social problems plaguing their international. Arthur Quiller-Couch "Noughts and Crosses" is a thought-upsetting and emotionally charged exploration of race, identity, and the impact of systemic discrimination. The novel has been praised for its effective storytelling and its capacity to spark conversations about racism and social justice.
Noughts And Crosses Stories, Studies And Sketches
Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361155334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"Noughts and Crosses" by way of Arthur Quiller-Couch. It is a dystopian younger person novel that explores issues of racism, prejudice, and societal inequality. Set in a trade reality where African human beings (Crosses) keep societal and political strength over the white populace (Noughts), the unconventional follows the lives of Sephy, a Cross, and Callum, a Nought, as they navigate an international wherein racial divisions dictate everything of their lives. The story unfolds towards a backdrop of political turmoil, rebellion, and personal struggles. Sephy and Callum proportion a complex and forbidden love that challenges the deeply ingrained prejudices of their society. As they grow older, their dating will become increasingly entangled with the larger political and social problems plaguing their international. Arthur Quiller-Couch "Noughts and Crosses" is a thought-upsetting and emotionally charged exploration of race, identity, and the impact of systemic discrimination. The novel has been praised for its effective storytelling and its capacity to spark conversations about racism and social justice.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361155334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"Noughts and Crosses" by way of Arthur Quiller-Couch. It is a dystopian younger person novel that explores issues of racism, prejudice, and societal inequality. Set in a trade reality where African human beings (Crosses) keep societal and political strength over the white populace (Noughts), the unconventional follows the lives of Sephy, a Cross, and Callum, a Nought, as they navigate an international wherein racial divisions dictate everything of their lives. The story unfolds towards a backdrop of political turmoil, rebellion, and personal struggles. Sephy and Callum proportion a complex and forbidden love that challenges the deeply ingrained prejudices of their society. As they grow older, their dating will become increasingly entangled with the larger political and social problems plaguing their international. Arthur Quiller-Couch "Noughts and Crosses" is a thought-upsetting and emotionally charged exploration of race, identity, and the impact of systemic discrimination. The novel has been praised for its effective storytelling and its capacity to spark conversations about racism and social justice.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465506519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
It was not so much a day as a burning, fiery furnace. The roar of London's traffic reverberated under a sky of coppery blue; the pavements threw out waves of heat, thickened with the reek of restaurants and perfumery shops; and dust became cinders, and the wearing of flesh a weariness. Streams of sweat ran from the bellies of 'bus-horses when they halted. Men went up and down with unbuttoned waistcoats, turned into drinking-bars, and were no sooner inside than they longed to be out again, and baking in an ampler oven. Other men, who had given up drinking because of the expense, hung about the fountains in Trafalgar Square and listened to the splash of running water. It was the time when London is supposed to be empty; and when those who remain in town feel there is not room for a soul more. We were eleven inside the omnibus when it pulled up at Charing Cross, so that legally there was room for just one more. I had travelled enough in omnibuses to know my fellow-passengers by heart— a governess with some sheets of music in her satchel; a minor actress going to rehearsal; a woman carrying her incurable complaint for the hundredth time to the hospital; three middle-aged city clerks; a couple of reporters with weak eyes and low collars; an old loose-cheeked woman exhaling patchouli; a bald-headed man with hairy hands, a violent breast-pin, and the indescribable air of a matrimonial agent. Not a word passed. We were all failures in life, and could not trouble to dissemble it, in that heat. Moreover, we were used to each other, as types if not as persons, and had lost curiosity. So we sat listless, dispirited, drawing difficult breath and staring vacuously. The hope we shared in common—that nobody would claim the vacant seat—was too obvious to be discussed. But at Charing Cross the twelfth passenger got in—a boy with a stick, and a bundle in a blue handkerchief. He was about thirteen; bound for the docks, we could tell at a glance, to sail on his first voyage; and, by the way he looked about, we could tell as easily that in stepping outside Charing Cross Station he had set foot on London stones for the first time. When we pulled up, he was standing on the opposite pavement with dazed eyes like a hare's, wondering at the new world—the hansoms, the yelling news-boys, the flower-women, the crowd pushing him this way and that, the ugly shop-fronts, the hurry and stink and din of it all. Then, hailing our 'bus, he started to run across—faltered—almost dropped his bundle—was snatched by our conductor out of the path of a running hansom, and hauled on board. His eyelids were pink and swollen; but he was not crying, though he wanted to. Instead, he took a great gulp, as he pushed between our knees to his seat, and tried to look brave as a lion.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465506519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
It was not so much a day as a burning, fiery furnace. The roar of London's traffic reverberated under a sky of coppery blue; the pavements threw out waves of heat, thickened with the reek of restaurants and perfumery shops; and dust became cinders, and the wearing of flesh a weariness. Streams of sweat ran from the bellies of 'bus-horses when they halted. Men went up and down with unbuttoned waistcoats, turned into drinking-bars, and were no sooner inside than they longed to be out again, and baking in an ampler oven. Other men, who had given up drinking because of the expense, hung about the fountains in Trafalgar Square and listened to the splash of running water. It was the time when London is supposed to be empty; and when those who remain in town feel there is not room for a soul more. We were eleven inside the omnibus when it pulled up at Charing Cross, so that legally there was room for just one more. I had travelled enough in omnibuses to know my fellow-passengers by heart— a governess with some sheets of music in her satchel; a minor actress going to rehearsal; a woman carrying her incurable complaint for the hundredth time to the hospital; three middle-aged city clerks; a couple of reporters with weak eyes and low collars; an old loose-cheeked woman exhaling patchouli; a bald-headed man with hairy hands, a violent breast-pin, and the indescribable air of a matrimonial agent. Not a word passed. We were all failures in life, and could not trouble to dissemble it, in that heat. Moreover, we were used to each other, as types if not as persons, and had lost curiosity. So we sat listless, dispirited, drawing difficult breath and staring vacuously. The hope we shared in common—that nobody would claim the vacant seat—was too obvious to be discussed. But at Charing Cross the twelfth passenger got in—a boy with a stick, and a bundle in a blue handkerchief. He was about thirteen; bound for the docks, we could tell at a glance, to sail on his first voyage; and, by the way he looked about, we could tell as easily that in stepping outside Charing Cross Station he had set foot on London stones for the first time. When we pulled up, he was standing on the opposite pavement with dazed eyes like a hare's, wondering at the new world—the hansoms, the yelling news-boys, the flower-women, the crowd pushing him this way and that, the ugly shop-fronts, the hurry and stink and din of it all. Then, hailing our 'bus, he started to run across—faltered—almost dropped his bundle—was snatched by our conductor out of the path of a running hansom, and hauled on board. His eyelids were pink and swollen; but he was not crying, though he wanted to. Instead, he took a great gulp, as he pushed between our knees to his seat, and tried to look brave as a lion.
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Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Loveday
Author: A. E. Wickham
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Pages : 338
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Playthings and Parodies
Author: Barry Pain
Publisher: London [etc.] Cassell
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Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Chiefly short stories; some poems.
Publisher: London [etc.] Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Chiefly short stories; some poems.
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Pages : 294
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Pages : 294
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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London Mercury with which is Incorporated the Bookman
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Pages : 740
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The London Mercury
Author: Sir John Collings Squire
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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