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John Wain
‘[A] triumph of mature observation and art.’ - Daily Telegraph ‘A winter’s tale of light and laughter.’ - Sunday Times
‘What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness…
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Alongside critical articles by Thomas Rymer, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge and A.C. Bradley, John Wain has collected together a wide range of contemporary articles. This edition is brought up-to-date with contemporary…
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Offers a new introduction which provides a wide-ranging survey of criticism of Macbeth and four new essays. The new essays from Muriel Bradbrook, Malcolm Evans, Graham Holderness and Germaine Greer…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This, the second of the two volumes, includes, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley…
These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers…
The lost classic novel of a young man’s rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.
A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged…
The lost classic ‘Angry Young Man’ novel.
A clash of two temperaments. An artist and an industrialist grow up in the same smoky town and attend the same local school…
The lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize.
New life flowering from death, new perspectives arising from suffering, a new peace that comes from being tested to the uttermost…
Arnold Bennett
Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters’ lives from childhood in their father’s drapery shop in provincial…
The hero of John Wain’s classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life. Feeling as…
‘A classic.’ - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black and I’m King of the Castle ‘John Wain’s best novel in a long time … an interesting story ……
Dale Salwak
In the 1950s, a young crop of British writers sprang forth with an unusal commonality of interests. They were promptly dubbed the angry young men by the press. Included are…
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work…
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