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Malcolm Lowry
It is the fiesta ‘Day of the Dead’ in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of…
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Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary…
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Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry’s master work, Under the Volcano, but also many…
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Patrick A. McCarthy's edition of La Mordida is based on materials held in the Malcolm Lowry Archive at the University of British Columbia. Its publication provides essential evidence for a…
Sheryl Salloum
The complete story of Malcolm Lowry’s days in Dollarton.
Gordon Bowker
Malcolm Lowry was the troubled author of Under the Volcano (1947), a brilliant novel about the last day of an alcoholic former British consul on the Mexican Day of the…
Frederick Asals
A study of Under the Volcano , the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. Perhaps the last fictional masterpiece to emerge from the modernist movement, this work examines the individual…
George Woodcock
A troubled, sometimes violent drinker, Lowry lived his life on the edge–then wrote about it.
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Ten years in the making, Under the Volcano is the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. This study offers an extended examination of individual drafts as the novel slowly developed…
David Ryan
David Ryan takes on Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, one of the influential novels of the twentieth century.
In June 1944, Malcolm Lowry saved from the flames the work that would be his celebrated novel, Bajo el volcan. He believed that Rumbo al mar blanco, the manuscript he…
Una de las grandes obras maestras del siglo XX.
Bajo el volcan relata las ultimas horas de un hombre en su descenso moral y fisico hacia las profundidades del fracaso…
A self-portrait of one of the 20th century’s most compelling and tragic writers, The Voyage that Never Ends draws on Lowry’s stories, several unfinished novels, poems, and letters to present…
Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, 1947. 1st Perennial Classics ed. published 2000.
Nigel H. Foxcroft
This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of Malcolm Lowry’s literary works and correspondence. Foxcroft examines Lowry’s attempts to reintegrate international modernism with primitivism through the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and…
This work is a draft of a novel based on Lowry’s visit to Mexico in 1945-46, which ended in the arrest and deportation of the author and his wife, following…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language…
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This intimate memoir of the tempestuous marriage between Jan Gabrial, a young, aspiring American writer, and British novelist Malcolm Lowry takes us through the highs and lows of this passionate…
Sherrill Grace
Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace’s many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry.
From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a…
These letters observe the mind of eminent author Malcolm Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton…
Patrick A. McCarthy
In Forests of Symbols, Patrick A. McCarthy addresses the central enigma of the writer’s life: his dependence on writing for his sense of identity and his fear that the process…
M. C. Bradbrook
This 1975 book amplifies the record of Malcolm Lowry’s early life. It considers the critical point of this knowledge, and the ways it is absorbed in his writings. This enquiry…
The poetic fiction of Malcolm Lowry is not limited to the tragic song of Under the Volcano (1947). The publication of new materials has revealed that his Drunken Divine Comedy…
An Open Access edition of this book is available on theLiverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. ‘Whoever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s…
In addition to a critical introduction and detailed chronologies, this volume includes photographs, many of the drawings with which Lowry illustrated his letters, and reproductions of holograph letters.
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First collection of Lowry’s extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.
This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss…
An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled The Last Address , Swinging the Maelstrom and Lunar Caustic.
Malcolm Lowry 1940 Under the Volcano has been regarded too often as little more than Lowry’s blueprint - though a tentative one at best - for his 1947 masterwork, Under…
