A Man Could Stand Up
10 best books like A Man Could Stand Up (Ford Madox Ford): 1914 Days of Hope, The Land of Green Ginger, A Little House Christmas: Holiday Stories From the Little House Books, Not So Quiet..., Shakespeare: A Life, Ennui, Death of a Hero, The Military Philosophers, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
| Author | Lyn Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0140116516 |
If you are interested in the history of the BEF during the first three months of the Great War than 1914 is a good book for you. Macdonald does a nice job of summarizing the events that led up to WWI and the actual deployment to France and Belgium but for me, the real fun starts with the first major action for...
| Author | Winifred Holtby |
| ISBN | 0915864266 |
Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At 18, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of World War I. Joanna has been in love...
A Little House Christmas: Holiday Stories From the Little House Books
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0064406156 |
In her beloved Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder describes some of the Christmases she and her family celebrate on the frontier. Even if they don't have much money for presents, they always have one another, and that's enough to make any Christmas merry. This lavish gift book gathers together...
""It is such fun out here, and of course I'm loving every minute of it"... tell them that all the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears... and they will reply on pale mauve deckle-edged paper calling you a silly hysterical little girl."
These are the thoughts...
| Author | Park Honan |
| ISBN | 0192825275 |
In the last ten years, virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright.
Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 1409765539 |
The shiftless Lord Glenthorn has money and a title but suffers from ennui—from boredom. When it is revealed to him that he is not, in fact, an Anglo-Irish earl, but the peasant Christy O’Donoghoe, he must face his changed circumstances in order to provide for a life and future for the woman with whom...
| Author | Richard Aldington |
| ISBN | 0701206047 |
First published in 1929, Death of a Hero was described by its author as both a jazz novel and a memorial to a generation. The hero is George Winterbourne. Leaving the Edwardian gloom of his embattled parents behind him, George escapes to Soho, which buzzes, on the eve of war, with talk of politics, pacifism...
| Author | Anthony Powell |
| ISBN | 0006540503 |
“The Military Philosophers” is the third and final part of the Autumn sequence in the Dance to the Music of Time. It also covers the second world war up to the time of final victory. As usual, I looked into the first pages for a powerful, allegoric image to set the mood and to act as a catalyst for the...
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0375506683 |
A perfect match of author and subject. In an effort to know one of her favorite writers better. Janet Malcolm -- who has brought light to the dark and complicated corners of psychoanalysis and has exposed the treacheries inherent within journalism--traveled to Russia and the places where Chekhov lived...
| Author | Tim Kendall |
| ISBN | 0199581444 |
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war.
This new anthology...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0486443736 |
"Extraordinary. Certainly a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis."--Kenneth Rexroth
This volume features two profound essays by one of the English language's most famous and controversial authors. D. H. Lawrence wrote Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious...
It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village’s...
| Author | William Burton McCormick |
Latvia, 1905. Amidst the ashes of the failed workers’ rebellions of 1905, Latvian aristocrat Wiktor Rooks finds that he has lost everything: home and heritage, his life’s very purpose. Coerced into the Russian Army, Wiktor is soon swept up into the turbulent years of the Great War and the Bolshevik...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
The poems of Sea Garden, H.D.'s first collection of poetry, were written during the First World War, and is thoroughly infused with the influence of Imagism (the movement H.D. founded with Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington). The characteristics of Imagism can be found in an essay written by Ezra Pound,...
| Author | Sinclair McKay |
| ISBN | 1845137639 |
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret. Before the German war machine’s messages could be decoded – turning the course of the war in a campaign like the Desert War – thousands more young men and women had to locate and monitor endless streams of radio traffic...
| Author | Judy Nunn |
| ISBN | 1740513274 |
A quite enjoyable book set in two different timelines, WW2 and the present, mainly in Vanuatu (or The New Hebrides as it was previously known). The WW2 timeline sees a young wife, Jane Thackeray, joining her missionary/doctor husband in Vila while in the present actress Sam Lindsay is on location, filming...
| Author | C.P. Snow |
| ISBN | 1842324233 |
For an academic and someone who reads a lot of fiction, I have an amazingly bad record on campus novels. Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Philip Roth’s The Human Stain … you name it, I have completely failed to read it. Worst of all, I had never read The Masters before now, despite having been a “fellow”...
| Author | Melvyn Bragg |
| ISBN | 1559706856 |
When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the "Forgotten War" in Burma to his hometown in northern England, he finds little changed. The war has changed him, however, broadening his horizons but also leaving him deeply scarred with traumatic, often hellish, memories. In addition, his six-year-old...
| Author | Catherine Cookson |
| ISBN | 0671666207 |
Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes...
