A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad PDF Author: Alfred Edward Housman
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad PDF Author: Alfred Edward Housman
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Storm Jameson
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Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Storm Jameson
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Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A.E. Housman

A.E. Housman PDF Author: Alfred Edward Housman
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ISBN: 9780571207053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of A.E. Housman poems are selected by Alan Hollinghurst.

The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher: London : W. H. Allen
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Edith Inglesby
Publisher: John Curley & Associates
ISBN: 9780893405748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Housman Country

Housman Country PDF Author: Peter Parker
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374709351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influ - enced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal “land of lost content” with “blue remembered hills,” and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey. Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical.

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway PDF Author: Amor Towles
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735222363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Storm Jameson
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230294377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... take me in. I know perfectly well she's got the brains of a wellread parrot." I don't know how the girl came to have the hold on Mick that she undoubtedly had. J suppose her tremendous physical vitality offered an easy refuge from the unrest that grew in him as his work at King's drew near completion. She was wonderfully beautiful. I believe that his dislike of her was at least as great as his love. Her unrestrained passion drew him fiercely and repelled him as fiercely. There were times when he seemed curiously afraid of her and her need to absorb him. "She wants keeping in her place," he said, "and I'm the man to do it." But he had doubts of his own strength of purpose and he did not relish the prospect of a lifetime spent in keeping her off. Once, when he and I were working alone, he said, "Margaret did n't like Olive, did she?" "She's hardly Margaret's sort," I answered cautiously. "No." He considered a minute. "Margaret can live with you without always trying to get at you. That girl would suck me dry -- mind and soul -- dry as an old glove if I gave her half a chance. I'd never be able to do anything. I sha'n't give her the chance. I don't intend to marry her. She'd make a rotten mother, would n't she? That means quite a lot to me, you know." After a while he added abruptly, " I suppose you all think she's my mistress. Well, you 're quite wrong. I'm not going to give her any such hold upon me. There's not the least likelihood of my making that particular fool of myself." A week later he went to South Kensington after promising to come home early. He did not come. Margaret and I sat up for him until midnight, and then Margaret went to bed. He came about three, and stood in the doorway, regarding me with a triumphant defiance. I did...

The Happy Highways

The Happy Highways PDF Author: Storm Jameson
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530857329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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