The Towers of Trebizond

The Towers of Trebizond PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.

The Towers of Trebizond

The Towers of Trebizond PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.

The Towers of Trebizond

The Towers of Trebizond PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006544215
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure.

Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity

Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity PDF Author: Kate Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315465639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This 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 Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing transcended and celebrated the characteristics of genre, reflecting Macaulay’s responses to modernity. The book’s focus moves from the interiorized self and the psyche’s 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 Macaulay’s 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 Macaulay’s 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 ‘inclusionary’ 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 Macaulay’s works, and reformulate contemporary ideas about gender and genre in twentieth-century British literature.

Told by an Idiot

Told by an Idiot PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The intellectual and moral history of a clergyman's family.

Crewe Train

Crewe Train PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9780349010021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Denham 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.

What Not

What Not PDF Author: Dame Rose Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781505558562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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"[...]Ministry of Brains Instruction 743, paragraph 3...." Prideaux paused, and frowned nervously at his secretary, who was conducting a fruitless conversation over his telephone, an occupation at which she did not shine. "Hullo ... yes ... I can't quite hear ... who are you, please?... Oh ... yes, he's here.... But rather busy, you know.... Dictating.... Yes, dictating.... Who did you say wanted him, please?... Oh, I see...."[...]".

They Were Defeated

They Were Defeated PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842125229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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THEY WERE DEFEATED begins in 1640 at a harvest festival - but religious persecution is in the air, and the idyllic rural scene is soon darkened by the threat of a witch hunt... Rose Macaulay interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other contemporary poets with those of a small group of fictional characters. Their lives, and in particular the life of her heroine Julian, are set vividly before us against a period which was one of the most dramatic and unsetttled in English history. Skilfully intertwining tragedy, comedy and beauty, THEY WERE DEFEATED was Rose Macaulay¿s only historical novel, and is 'her greatest success' [Observer] First published in 1932.

Potterism

Potterism PDF Author: Dame Rose Macaulay
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Daisy and Daphne, half-sisters, are staying with a family of English 'intelligentsia' on holiday in the Mediterranean. Daisy - shy, insecure and working-class - conceals her 'shameful' work as an author of 'women's fiction' and a journalist with a popular newspaper. Daphne - attractive, confident and sophisticated - is approved of by all, and she and Raymond, the elder son, fall in love (as does Daisy with him). Back in London, the sisters resume normal life, Daisy visiting her 'common' but loving family and Daphne seeing Raymond, who proposes marriage, and is accepted - on condition the engagement is kept secret, to Raymond's consternation. As tension mounts, the author reveals that Daphne and Daisy are actually different facets of one person, and that Raymond, in accepting the sophisticated Daphne, will have to accept Daisy's lesser qualities as well. Daisy/Daphne feels she cannot afford to divulge her origins or let him and his cultured family meet her brash, 'common' mother, and agonises over this. But her determined mother decides to see her daughter's betrothed for herself, and the truth is out. Raymond rather likes mother, but his beloved's prevarications and duplicity have somewhat cooled his passion; will the engagement triumph, or, if not, who will end it?

Pleasure of Ruins

Pleasure of Ruins PDF Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781376200300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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