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Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847675123 |
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Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, an Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in turn rescues Tarrik from near death and so breaks the enchantment that has bound him. And so begins for Tarrik a Quest – a fabulous voyage of discovery which will bring him new knowledge and which will reunite him with his beautiful Spring Queen. ‘This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.’ Ian Rankin
Author | : Naomi Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2012-01-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781422716861 |
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High quality reprint of Corn King & Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchell.
Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781201674 |
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Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Sparta (Extinct city) |
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Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : Small Beer Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1931520143 |
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A young woman is transformed by a magical journey.
Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847674933 |
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Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the desperate plight of persecuted minorities such as the Jews and the left-wing activists with whom Naomi Mitchison personally campaigned at the time. With the invasion of Britain a real possibility, she felt compelled to write a testament to the power of human solidarity which, even faced with death, can overcome the worst that human evil can achieve. The Blood of the Martyrs is the least autobiographical of Mitchison’s major works of fiction, yet, with its implicit credo, is her most passionately self-revealing. ‘ . . . when a novelist is historically faithful in these treacherous waters of the human psyche, the results are tremendous. As a twentieth-century woman, it no doubt hurt Naomi Mitchison a good deal to describe the savagery of the early Christian persecution in The Blood of the Martyrs . . . But it is the pain that gives the history its lifeblood. The imagination that is a novelist’s fuel must be harnessed to serve history as history was, not as anyone wishes it had been.’ Joanna Trollope
Author | : Janet Montefiore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134915004 |
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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West
Author | : Ruth Hoberman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1997-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791433362 |
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Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault. As women gained access to higher education in the late nineteenth century, they gained access also to the classical learning that had for so long demarcated and legitimated the British ruling classes. Steeped in misogyny, the classical tradition presented educated women with a massive project: the recasting of that tradition in terms that acknowledged the existence of women - as historical agents and interpreters of the historical past.
Author | : Stephen Burt |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231125949 |
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Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist.".
Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781558610965 |
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As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems. Homosexuality as an international norm and reproduction by cloning have minimized aggression and overpopulation. The sexes have equal rights and status, racial tension has been eliminated through genetic intermixing, and scientists work closely with the governing body, the Council, to keep an eye on the food supply and to heal the earth of prior environmental terrorism. Originally published in 1975, Solution Three presents a future society in which reproductive control and homosexuality shape a more equitable life for all, eradicating aggression and racism, curbing overpopulation, and providing a dependable food supply. But there are those who are rebelling in this peaceful world: Miryam, a geneticist, secretly married, is rearing her own children; Lilac, a surrogate mother chosen to carry a Clone baby, is delaying her son's seizure for social conditioning; and even the carefully conditioned Clones are behaving unexpectedly. This novel asks the courageous question: What is the cost to women of new models of reproducing life, regardless of the intentions behind the goal?