Author: Amy Appleby
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book dramatically documents the past century of change in gay life through quotations, arranged by subject, from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen.
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations
Author: Amy Appleby
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book dramatically documents the past century of change in gay life through quotations, arranged by subject, from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book dramatically documents the past century of change in gay life through quotations, arranged by subject, from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen.
The Naked Civil Servant
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593512987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593512987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 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.
Doing it with Style
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531098523
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531098523
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
How to Have a Life-style
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555834067
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the funny, wise, self-mocking and acutely perceptive work, Britain's leading 'stately homo' reveals what style is and what style isn't. He tells who had it, who has it, why you need it and how to get it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555834067
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the funny, wise, self-mocking and acutely perceptive work, Britain's leading 'stately homo' reveals what style is and what style isn't. He tells who had it, who has it, why you need it and how to get it.
Quentin Crisp
Author: Nigel Kelly
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786488417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publication and televising of his 1968 memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. Unapologetically unconventional, he filled books and articles with his witticisms and opinions on popular culture, and packed theaters worldwide with his one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp. This biography chronicles Crisp's life, including his birth in pre-World War I England; his life as a gay youth on the streets of London; his early attempts at writing and job-seeking; his entry into the world of modeling; and his sudden success late in life. With this definitive chronicle, Quentin Crisp and his unique worldview are once again on display.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786488417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publication and televising of his 1968 memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. Unapologetically unconventional, he filled books and articles with his witticisms and opinions on popular culture, and packed theaters worldwide with his one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp. This biography chronicles Crisp's life, including his birth in pre-World War I England; his life as a gay youth on the streets of London; his early attempts at writing and job-seeking; his entry into the world of modeling; and his sudden success late in life. With this definitive chronicle, Quentin Crisp and his unique worldview are once again on display.
The Naked Civil Servant
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this funny, moving account of his outrageous youth, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence which led him to London.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this funny, moving account of his outrageous youth, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence which led him to London.
Love Made Easy
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Morbid Tales
Author: Quentin S. Crisp
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781718126596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781718126596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in
All God's Angels, Beware!
Author: Quentin S. Crisp
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In these ten stories, Quentin S. Crisp takes us from the spectral purlieus of the ghost of a suicide, searching in vain for a mortal confidante ('Troubled Joe'), to the future melancholy of a world in the early stages of human immortality, where non-holographic reality is despised (Karakasa), and through a variety of intimately portrayed worlds, both familiar and fantastical, to a final cri de coeur in the form of the novelette 'Suicide Watch', in which, against the background of the doomed present age, one suicidal loser attempts to save another.
Publisher: Chomu Press
ISBN: 9781907681172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In these ten stories, Quentin S. Crisp takes us from the spectral purlieus of the ghost of a suicide, searching in vain for a mortal confidante ('Troubled Joe'), to the future melancholy of a world in the early stages of human immortality, where non-holographic reality is despised (Karakasa), and through a variety of intimately portrayed worlds, both familiar and fantastical, to a final cri de coeur in the form of the novelette 'Suicide Watch', in which, against the background of the doomed present age, one suicidal loser attempts to save another.
Resident Alien
Author: Quentin Crisp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555834661
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555834661
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.