The Poems of John Gray (1880-1920 British Authors Series) (British Authors Series, 1880-1920)

Literature & Fiction

Ian Fletcher

Poetry

ELT Press

Book by Karl Beckson, Ian Fletcher, Lawrence W. Market, John Stokes

Arthur Symons: A Bibliography (Eighteen Hundred Eighty Nineteen Hundred Twenty British Authors Ser.)

History

John Stokes

Karl Beckson

Lawrence W. Market

Europe

Helps readers master one of early Modernism's great documentary novels, which explores a new way of presenting reality. Jacket creased. xiv, 169 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

A reader's guide to Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (1880-1920 British authors series)

Thomson, George H.

World Literature

Kipling was just twenty-three years old when he reached San Francisco in May 1889; he immediately began recording the sights and sounds of boom-town America. For four months he toured the United States, publishing accounts of his journey in the Pioneer, a major newspaper in western India. A few years later, when he lived in Vermont, Kipling wrote several syndicated articles published in both England and the U.S. Then in 1899 he revised and abridged the Pioneer versions and published them in From Sea to Sea. The second series of syndicated articles he collected in Letters of Travel (1920). Most of these travel writings are now out of print. In Kipling's America, Professor D. H. Stewart brings all of these articles together and reproduces the original printed versions. Readers are provided with the opportunity to hear again Kipling at his cocky and often opinionated best. From Kipling's perspective, America unleashed the chaotic energy latent in human beings, and he was uncertain whether this energy inevitably would be productive or destructive.That some of his impressions were one-dimensional is undeniable, but equally undeniable is his gift of language - his access to a ready lexicon often composed of what he termed a "perpetual Pentecost" to describe the "talking in tongues" heard in British Overseas Clubs throughout the Empire. This hodgepodge of European languages (counter-pointed with pidgin English, Chinese, Hindi, American) produced a symphony (or cacophony) of bountiful word play.

Kipling's America: Travel Letters, 1889-1895

H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier, the first book-length study of H.R.H.'s African fiction, revises the image of Rider Haggard (1856 1925) as a mere writer of adventure stories, a brassy propagandist for British imperialism. Professor Monsman places Haggard s imaginative works both in the context of colonial fiction writing and in the framework of subsequent postcolonial debates about history and its representation. Like Olive Schreiner, Haggard was an Anglo-African writer straddling the moral divide of mixed allegiances one empathetically African, the other quite English. The context for such Haggard tales as King Solomon s Mines and She was a triad of extraordinary nineteenth-century cultures in conflict British, Boer, and Zulu. Haggard mined his characters both from the ore of real-life Africa and from the depths of his subconscious, giving expression to feelings of cultural conflict, probing and subverting the dominant economic and social forces of imperialism. Monsman argues that Haggard endorses native religious powers as superior to the European empirical paradigm, celebrates autonomous female figures who defy patriarchal control, and covertly supports racial mixing. These social and political elements are integral to his thrilling story lines charged with an exoticism of lived nightmares and extraordinary ordeals. H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier will be of interest to readers of imperial history and biography, lost race and supernatural literature, tales of terror, and heroic fantasies. The book s unsettling relevance to contemporary issues will engage a wide audience, and the groundbreaking biographical account of Haggard s close contemporary Bertram Mitford in the appendix will add appeal to specialists.

H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier: The Political And Literary Contexts of His African Romances (British Authors Series, 1880-1920)

Gerald Monsman

History & Criticism

A Book of Words, Kipling s own selection of his speeches published in 1928, reflects a variety of topics and audiences. He spoke to schoolboys about literature, to Brazilians about the spirit of the Latin, to the Royal Geographical Society about travel, to navy men about sailors, to ship owners about shipping, to university students about independence. Before the end of his life Kipling added a few more speeches to the version of the book that appeared, posthumously, in the splendid Sussex Edition of his collected works. Even so, many of his speeches have remained uncollected and virtually unknown. A Second Book of Words collects what Kipling left uncollected. The speeches in this new book date from 1884 to 1935. We see Kipling at different moments before different audiences. This new book adds another forty-eight speeches to the thirty-eight that Kipling chose to make public, printing all the known uncollected speeches long or short, carefully meditated or spontaneous, tendentious or diplomatic. Another twenty-five for which no text has so far been found are identified, as are the speeches that he is known to have written for members of the royal family. Professor Pinney, editor of the six-volume The Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990 2004), brings his extensive knowledge of Kipling s life and writings to the volume with an informative introduction, headnotes to contextualize each speech, and a complete checklist of all the speeches. Altogether, the edition is a considerable contribution to Kipling s canon and to an important but neglected area of the Kipling bibliography.

Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words

Thomas Pinney

Essays & Correspondence

<p>This is the story of the making of a soldier. It is the story of an everyman, his struggle for self-identity and integrity in a world at war. A Young Man's Letters from World War II, a fresh and compelling addition to the trove of firsthand accounts of life in wartime, contains over 200 letters written by a pilot-in-training to his parents back home in small-town Middle America. Beginning with the first letter, dated January 31, 1943, the correspondence offers an authentic, personal insight into how the Army Air Force was able to create professional airmen and deploy the largest air armada of all time in a relatively short period. At the same time, it mirrors one man s development from a possessor of his own self-described inferiority complex to an officer leading men into battle. It originates with Langenfeld, a private, joining 7,000 men in basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, with all the common drudgery known to the newly minted fighter: drilling, sore feet, and lectures on sex hygiene. We watch as he undergoes a demanding regimen of instruction: mornings filled with drills and workouts, afternoons with math and physics. We see him evolve from the rookie flying basic trainers over the cornfields of Illinois, graduate to the more demanding two-engine planes in the hill country of Texas, and become the lieutenant commanding his B-24 on missions through the dark, flak-filled skies of Germany. This engaging collection of primary source material offers great detail, humor, and perception. A Young Man's Letters from World War II meticulously chronicles the day-to-day experiences of the making of a soldier, a pilot, and a man.</p>

A Young Man s Letters from World War II: More than Becoming a Soldier

Biographies & Memoirs

Lt. Robert E. Langenfeld

Leaders & Notable People

<p>'An original contribution to Shaw scholarship,' says Michel Pharand, editor of *SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies,* who aptly summarizes Bernard Dukore s book: 'This systematic survey of how Shaw dramatizes slavery to and revolt against duty, and tricks of the governing class, has not previously been attempted. Proceeding chronologically and providing full historical context when needed (instructive also are the many parallels to contemporary history), Dukore pays scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, and his language is fluid and jargon-free.' The first part of the book s subtitle derives from Gilbert and Sullivan s *The Pirates of Penzance,* which describes its protagonist, and from Ibsen s *A Doll House,* whose protagonist renounces slavery to duty and conventional morality. The subtitle s second part is from *Major Barbara,* in which a powerful capitalist, a member of the governing class, refers to tricks designed to make people act in ways that profit it. The powerful instill slavery to duty and ensure that organizations aiming to alleviate the suffering of the poor act in ways that benefit the controlling class s interests. With astonishing variety, Shaw dramatizes slavery to and revolt against duty and the tricks of the governing class in thirty-seven of his more than fifty plays from 1892 to 1948. Whereas some characters are bound by duty, others free themselves from the many different forms of trickery. Perhaps surprising is the twenty-first century pertinence of these themes, including the hypocrisy of capitalists who use phrases charged with the words duty and morality to justify their greed as well as their devious uses of education, religion, and the press. *Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class* is an important addition to the scholarship and will be welcomed by all avid readers of Shaw.</p>

Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class

Bernard F. Dukore

British & Irish

These letters take Kipling from his condition as an unknown in 1889 through a decade of remarkable production to the status of world-famous writer, ending with his near-fatal illness in New York. They are full of new information about his remarkable rise from obscurity to eminence. This was a decade of extraordinary productivity, and these letters include much new information about Kipling s career. They form a natural unit, since after his illness Kipling's wife took charge of the correspondence. Up to that point Kipling conducted his own literary affairs with A. P. Watt. Kipling distrusted publishers, so it was the Watts, father and son, who received most of what he had to say about his literary plans and problems.

Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Agents, A. P. Watt and Son, 1889-1899 (1880-1920 British Authors)

Ed. Thomas Pinney

Rudyard, Kipling

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