Tales Of Two Londons
Title | Tales Of Two Londons PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Armitstead |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1682191370 |
This scintillating anthology draws on the rich mélange of people who inhabit today’s London, both lamenting the unequal way the city treats them and celebrating the vibrant urban life their co-existence delivers.
Tales from the Two Puddings
Title | Tales from the Two Puddings PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-07-01 |
Genre | Bars (Drinking establishments) |
ISBN | 9780957209008 |
In 1962, exactly fifty years before the Olympic Games rolled into Stratford, East London, the Johnson family took over the Two Puddings, the most notorious pub in the area. Due to a combination of its cream-tiled walls and the volume of blood spilt, it was also known locally as the Butcher s Shop . Within a few short years, it had become one of London s busiest and most fashionable pubs, its hugely popular music nights acting as a magnet for a large and colourful cast of disparate characters who would regularly descend upon the premises, including renowned actors, writers, singers, musicians, champion boxers, infamous gangsters, television personalities, and World Cup-winning footballers. By the time the Puddings closed its doors for the last time, nearly four decades later, landlord Eddie Johnson was the longest serving licensee in London. Tales from the Two Puddings is a poignant, at times hilarious, look back upon a lost world of East End eccentrics, local villainy, vindictive policemen, punch ups, and practical jokes, all now lying buried beneath the concrete blocks and sterile shopping centres of the new Stratford.
Fairy Tales of London
Title | Fairy Tales of London PDF eBook |
Author | Hadas Elber-Aviram |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2021-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350110698 |
Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.
The Great Plague
Title | The Great Plague PDF eBook |
Author | A. Lloyd Moote |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2006-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801884934 |
Yet somehow the city and its residents continued to function and carry on the activities of daily life."
Bloody London
Title | Bloody London PDF eBook |
Author | Declan McHugh |
Publisher | Vacation Work Publications |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN | 9781780590691 |
London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones.
Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters
Title | Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780826337917 |
"Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters" is set in the romantic and dangerous South Seas and illustrated with the original artwork and several maps.
Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus
Title | Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus PDF eBook |
Author | Annika Gonnermann |
Publisher | Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2021-03-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 382339343X |
Über die Epochen hinweg haben sich literarische Werke und Genres explizit oder implizit mit dem Kapitalismus auseinandergesetzt. Doch gerade die vergangenen Jahrzehnte, in welchen der Kapitalismus nach Mark Fisher zum ausweglosen Vorstellungshorizont avanciert ist, zeugen von einer vermehrten Infragestellung des Kapitalismus in der literarischen Produktion sowie der Literaturwissenschaft. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der interdisziplinäre Sammelband Beiträge aus der Germanistik, Romanistik, Amerikanistik und Anglistik, die den Blick auf verschiedene zeitgenössische Manifestationen des globalen Kapitalismus und deren literarische oder filmische Repräsentationen richten.