The Fountain Overflows
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : Macmillan Company of Canada |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : Macmillan Company of Canada |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2010-12-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453206981 |
A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys a moment of harmony, as its members struggle to overcome the effects of their patriarch’s spendthrift ways. Now they must move so that their father, a noted journalist, can find stable employment. Throughout, it is the Aubreys’ hope that art will save them from the cacophony of a life sliding toward poverty. In this eloquent and winning portrait, West’s compelling characters must uncover their true talent for kindness in order to thrive in the world that exists outside of their life as a family.
Author | : Enid Bagnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780701115623 |
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Judge" by Rebecca West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1453207228 |
A New York Times bestseller, this riveting account of the Nuremberg trials by a legendary journalist is simply “astonishing” (Francine Prose). Sent to cover the war crimes trials at Nuremberg for the New Yorker, Rebecca West brought along her inimitable skills for understanding a place and its people. In these accomplished articles, West captures the world that sprung up to process the Nazi leaders; from the city’s war-torn structures to the courtroom security measures, no detail is left out. West’s unparalleled grasp on human motivations and character offers particular insight into the judges, prosecutors, and of course the defendants themselves. This remarkable narrative captures the social and political ramifications of a world recovering from the divisions of war. As engaging as it is informative, this collection represents West’s finest hour as a reporter.
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Schweizer |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780874139501 |
Almost the entire corpus of West's fiction receives attention in this volume (with the exception of The Thinking Reed, which is in itself a telling fact)."--Jacket.
Author | : Susan Hertog |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 034552943X |
Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journalist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. In a prefeminist era when speaking truth to power could get anyone—of either gender—ostracized, blacklisted, or worse, these two smart, self-made women were among the first to warn the world about the dangers posed by fascism, communism, and appeasement. But there was a price to be paid, Hertog shows, for any woman aspiring to such greatness. As much as they sought voice and power in the public forum of opinion and ideas, and the independence of mind and money that came with them, Thompson and West craved the comforts of marriage and home. Torn between convention and the opportunities of the new postwar global world, they were drawn to men who were as ambitious and hungry for love as themselves: Thompson to the brilliant, volatile, and alcoholic Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis; West to her longtime lover H. G. Wells, the lusty literary eminence whose sexual and emotional demands doomed any chance they may have had at love. Tragically, both arrangements produced troubled sons, whose anger and jealousy at their mothers’ iconic fame eroded their sense of personal success. Brimming with fresh insights obtained from previously sealed archives, this penetrating dual biography is a story of twinned lives caught up in the crosscurrents of world events and affairs of the heart—and of the unique trans-Atlantic friendship forged by two of the most creative and complex women of their time.
Author | : Lorna Gibb |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1619023067 |
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth century literary scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca West began her career as a writer with articles in The Freewoman and The Clarion. Her first book, a biography of Henry James, was published when she was only twenty–four, and her first novel followed just two years later. She had a notorious affair with H.G. Wells, and their illegitimate son, Anthony, was born at the beginning of the First World War. The author of several novels, she is perhaps best remembered for her classic account of pre–war Yugoslavia, Black Lamb, Grey Falcon (published by Macmillan in 1941 and as relevant today as it was sixty years ago) and for her coverage of the Nuremberg Trials. When she died in 1983 at the age of 90, William Shawn, then editor–in–chief of the New Yorker, said: "Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently." Formidably talented, West was a towering figure in the British literary landscape. Lorna Gibb's vivid and insightful biography affords a dazzling insight into her life and work.
Author | : Robert Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780704380820 |