Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331450934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Excerpt from Sinister Street, Vol. 2 These letters are for you, sir, he explained pompously. Michael took them, and in a dream followed Henry under a great gothic gateway and along a gravel path. In a door way numbered IV, Henry stepped and shouted Porcher From an echoing vault came a cry in answer, and the scout appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sinister Street, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331450934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Excerpt from Sinister Street, Vol. 2 These letters are for you, sir, he explained pompously. Michael took them, and in a dream followed Henry under a great gothic gateway and along a gravel path. In a door way numbered IV, Henry stepped and shouted Porcher From an echoing vault came a cry in answer, and the scout appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331450934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Excerpt from Sinister Street, Vol. 2 These letters are for you, sir, he explained pompously. Michael took them, and in a dream followed Henry under a great gothic gateway and along a gravel path. In a door way numbered IV, Henry stepped and shouted Porcher From an echoing vault came a cry in answer, and the scout appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781620127599
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781620127599
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sinister Street (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Compton MacKenzie
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
Sinister Street is a novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella have throught their young life. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. The novel had several sequels, which continue until Michael Fane's marriage.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
Sinister Street is a novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella have throught their young life. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. The novel had several sequels, which continue until Michael Fane's marriage.
Scents and Sensibility
Author: Catherine Maxwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005215
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005215
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton MacKenzie
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505569186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"[...]believe I've got one. Pretty good view from your window. Mine looks out on the High." "Look here," asked Alan very solemnly, "where shall I hang this picture my mater gave me?" He displayed in a green frame The Soul's Awakening. "Do you like it?" Michael asked gloomily. "I prefer these grouse by Thorburn that the governor gave me, but I like them both in a way," Alan[...]".
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505569186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"[...]believe I've got one. Pretty good view from your window. Mine looks out on the High." "Look here," asked Alan very solemnly, "where shall I hang this picture my mater gave me?" He displayed in a green frame The Soul's Awakening. "Do you like it?" Michael asked gloomily. "I prefer these grouse by Thorburn that the governor gave me, but I like them both in a way," Alan[...]".
Silence
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781620127605
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781620127605
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Reference Guide to English Literature
Author: D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.