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John McLeod
Explores the substance and significance of J G Farrell’s The Empire Trilogy (1970-1978), one of the major achievements of post-war fiction. This study assesses its critique of British colonial rule…
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J.G. Farrell
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No…
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Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton.
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A love story and a war story: a modern classic from Booker prize-winner J.G. Farrell
Booker-prize winning novel from Farrell’s acclaimed Empire Trilogy
‘A work of genius’ (Guardian) and winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author ‘One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation’ SPECTATOR
‘For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough…
Rebecca Ziegler
Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characterized by “fall’ - like the empire…
The strength of American interest in novelist J G Farrell’s books is underlined by the inclusion of all three Trilogy novels in the Classics imprint of the New York Review…
The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing…
Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland–in one Contemporary Classics hardcover.
Inspired by historical events, The Siege…
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiance, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with…
Kathrin Herz
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Indien zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Roman The Siege of…
