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Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Life
ISBN: 9781849210805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the fictionalised autobiography of her early years, The White Bird Passes.. Born illegitimate in a Workhouse and raised in an Elgin slum, she was removed from her beloved but neglectful mother and sent to an orphanage in Kirkton of Skene. There she throve and shone, but was refused any chance of higher education, and ended up a year in a mental hospital. After marriage, she became a cottar wife around North East Scotland, before moving to London, where she combined writing novels and radio plays with jobs from cleaning a cinema to... Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the fictionalised autobiography of her early years, The White Bird Passes.. Born illegiti... |
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106,61 zł |
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Scottish Writers Talking 1: George Mackay Brown, Jessie Kesson, Norman McCaig, William McIlvanney, David Toulmin
ISBN: 9781904999898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first volume in a series begun by Isobel Murray and Bob Tait in 1984, and finished in 2008 Authors covered in other volumes include: 2. Iain Banks, Bernard MacLaverty, Naomi Mitchison, Iain Crichton Smith, Alan Spence. 3. Janice Galloway, John Herdman, Robin Jenkins, Joan Lingard, Ali Smith. 4. Jackie Kay, Ian Rankin, Alan Massie, James Robertson, William (Bill) Watson. Extracts from Reviews for Volume 3 Murray is a fine interviewer as well as an incisive critic, academic and biographer. These aren't the kind of interviews that merely gift-wrap the books under discussion; here...
This is the first volume in a series begun by Isobel Murray and Bob Tait in 1984, and finished in 2008 Authors covered in other volumes include: 2. Ia...
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92,04 zł |
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The Year of the Short Corn, and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781849211253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -The Year of the Short Corn- was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be a civilian family gathered together with scattered serving children for a precious Christmas leave, or a son or daughter returning from one of the services; it can illustrate clothes rationing, and the avid fervour with which civilian women greet silk stockings; it can be a 'townser' who thinks too much of himself who becomes snowbound on a North East farm, or the rage and humiliation of a young castrated ox. It can even be an Edinburgh...
-The Year of the Short Corn- was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be ...
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82,32 zł |
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The Ferret Was Abraham's Daughter
ISBN: 9781849210935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance halls, all call out to the girls and young women that life need not be dull. This book, set in one of the poorer areas, is full of the comedy and extraordinary dialogue for which Fred Urquhart is well known, and the Hipkiss family and its neighbours are foregrounded. But central is the imagination of young Bessie Hipkiss, aged fourteen, only just too old to be evacuated. Bessie's fantasy life as a princess of an exiled French Royal Family contrasts with the disappointing ordinariness of everyday,...
The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance halls, all call out to the girls and young women that...
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82,32 zł |
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The Conquered
ISBN: 9781849210324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Conquered was young Naomi Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, just five years after the end of the First World War, in 1918. Mitchison chose to write about wars, but about historic ones, Julius Caesar's bloody and gradual conquest of Gaul. Instead of Caesar's serene lists of victories and setbacks, we have the impact of these wars on her Gallic hero Meromic. Profound and traumatic. From being heir to a proud tribe, the Veneti, he becomes by turns a slave, a revenge killer, a wanted man - and a slave again, with a severed right hand, a man looking to end it all. But his life was...
The Conquered was young Naomi Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, just five years after the end of the First World War, in 1918. Mitchison cho...
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106,61 zł |
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When We Become Men
ISBN: 9781904999232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'When We Become Men' deals with the contemporary fight for equality across southern Africa and the struggle against apartheid. Naomi Mitchison provides a vivid and clear account of a troubled people in transition, which helps the reader to understand and empathise with the birth-pangs of a new, post-imperial Africa.
'When We Become Men' deals with the contemporary fight for equality across southern Africa and the struggle against apartheid. Naomi Mitchison provide...
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101,76 zł |
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Anna Comnena
ISBN: 9781849210294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father's celebratory biography. She was an educated princess in eleventh-century Constantinople, the daughter of the Emperor Alexius. She was expected to succeed him, and raised as heir, but her hopes were dashed by the birth of a younger brother. In what is over-modestly described as a biography, Naomi Mitchison combines her story with that of her father, and the whole civilisation of the Eastern Empire, indeed the whole known world of the time. The Eastern Empire is seen as a necessary bulwark between a young and...
Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father's celebratory biography. She was an educated princess in eleventh-ce...
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87,18 zł |
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The Delicate Fire
ISBN: 9781849210379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here Mitchison effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and 'Lovely Mantinea'. By the end, she seems wholly turned to the twentieth century - a new departure for her - tackling subjects such as the General Strike of 1926 and contemporaneous Hunger marches, and battles against censorship. This shift marks her politicisation, her growing fear of fascism, but more personally also the end of her long affair...
The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But ...
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111,47 zł |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
ISBN: 9781849210348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and in particular the long antagonism or rivalry of Athens and Sparta. In this, her second novel, she investigates the two city states through Alxenor, a young man from the tiny island of Poieessa, which changes hands along with the balance of power.
Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and in particular the long antagonism or rivalry of Athens and Sparta. In this, her sec...
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111,47 zł |
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The Bull Calves
ISBN: 9781849210256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Bull Calves" was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her home in Carradale, Kintyre, keeping open house for evacuees and refugees, running the farm and driving the tractor, organising the local Labour Party, and writing and producing for the dramatic society - and so on. She also wrote a diary for Mass Observation, of more than a million words. But she had to take her time with the novel and plan it more carefully than she usually had time for. She wanted to give Scotland and the world a message, of the...
"The Bull Calves" was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her hom...
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130,89 zł |
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman
ISBN: 9781849210355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. Isobel Murray's Introduction here argues that it is by no means 'pure' Science Fiction: the success of the novel depends not only on the extraordinarily variety of life forms its heroine encounters and attempts to communicate with on different worlds: she is also a very credible human, or...
Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics...
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92,04 zł |
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The Clouds Are Big with Mercy
ISBN: 9781849211079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men are often reluctant to sign up for the Forces: the world seems on the move. Tenement dwellers react to the mysteries of Blackout, sirens, air-raids, air-raid shelters. Urquhart's stories reflect all this in robust and often comic fashion. The longest, 'The Laundry Girl and the Pole', concerns one of his favourite subjects, the transformation that foreign soldiers could bring to local girls,...
By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collecti...
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77,47 zł |
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Cleopatra's People
ISBN: 9781849210331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of her 'mates'. The impact of Cleopatra's life and personality is reflected through them, and their efforts to follow in her wake.
Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, with...
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92,04 zł |
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We Have Been Warned
ISBN: 9781849210263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here It is shaped by her own life and fears in her own experience in 1931, and is the first of her novels and stories not to have a historical setting. Mitchison was appalled by the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy, and wanted to warn the world. She was rather dismayed by the results of the Russian Revolution, of which she had once had great hopes. She also poured all her most personal feelings into the novel, and covered a plethora of subjects - not only free love, abortion and rape, but the unmentionable...
This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here It is shaped by her own life and fears in her own experience ...
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135,75 zł |
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Early in Orcadia
ISBN: 9781849210591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years apart in time and dealing with different characters, but connected by their location in a particular corner of Orkney during the period known as the Stone Age. Mitchison links them formally by interpolating passages of fact and explanation between the fictional episodes, and by speculating in her own voice about what happened in prehistory, as far as it can be known from archaeological research, and how it fits in with the world of today. The slightly awkward jumps from one story to the next...
Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years apart in time and dealing with different characters,...
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97,14 zł |
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Beyond This Limit: Selected Shorter Fiction
ISBN: 9781904999850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Naomi Mitchison published her first novel in 1923, and in more than 70 succeeding books she produced an extraordinary output, especially in novels and short stories. This selection of her shorter fiction illustrates her range and achievement over more than 50 years.
Naomi Mitchison published her first novel in 1923, and in more than 70 succeeding books she produced an extraordinary output, especially in novels and...
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96,89 zł |
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