Libros de JAMES HAYDOCK

James Haydock

George Gissing’s books, published during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, are memorable for their portraits of women. Only a few women played active roles in his life, but those who did exerted a lasting influence. In each of his novels he portrayed women vividly and with unerring realism. He worried, in fact, that some might see themselves in his books and rebuk...

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Cayenne Heat

James Haydock

Every person in France is fully aware that Bonheur means happiness and well-being. But how does a wretch convicted of a petty crime find happiness or even survival in a prison known for its inhumanity? That place robbed me of my youth, my teeth, and my peace of mind while instilling within me a fierce desire to escape. Though I planned each escape with great care, something alw...

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23,76 €

The Inward Journey

James Haydock

You will find here a collection of original short stories that will take you on an inward journey to nowhere and everywhere. Beginning with 'Erpenbeck and Friend' and ending with 'Growing Old,' the journey will be easy and pleasant in some places, rough and rutted in others. Each story, as Mark Twain has said, will transport you to a faraway place and magically bring you home a...

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23,82 €

I, Jonathan Blue

James Haydock

My name is Jonathan Blue. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, I worked many hours each day for acceptance as a writer. In my youth, I dreamed of becoming a classical scholar at Oxford or Cambridge. When the fantasy was shattered by a stupid excess of emotion, I attempted to begin a new life in America. A year later, I was living in a London slum with a drunke...

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18,28 €

But Not Without Hope

James Haydock

Bonheur was and is my name. Every person in my native France knew the name meant sunshine, well-being, happiness. But how does one find happiness in a prison known worldwide for its coarse and brutal inhumanity? Fifteen painful years, prime years of youth, I endured in that terrible place determined to escape. Though I planned each escape carefully, something always went wrong,...

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12,27 €

Of Time and Tide

James Haydock

One glance at the contents of this book will tell any lover of sea stories that an exciting saga of danger and adventure aboard a three-masted sailing ship named the Windhover is about to unfold. She leaves Bermuda in the summer of 1871 to cross the Atlantic and the Mediterranean en route to Naples, Italy. By no means will it be a journey without incident. On the high seas, sou...

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24,12 €

The Woman Question and George Gissing

James Haydock

Even though his books never sold as well as those of more popular novelists, women in particular liked George Gissing’s work and often wrote to him for advice. They could see he was keenly interested in the lives of women and the long struggle to improve their condition in a gender-restrictive society dominated by males. Though Gissing tried to champion the women’s cause, he di...

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27,35 €

A Tinker in Blue Anchor

James Haydock

After a checkered career at sea and on land Leo Mack settles down in Blue Anchor shortly before the Civil War. A solitary man living in Ida Crabtree’s boarding house, he earns his living as a tinker but finds his worth and mission when the war begins. As a traveling tinker he carries news of military events to isolated farmhouses and becomes in effect a broadcaster of war news....

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27,49 €

Mose in Bondage

James Haydock

In the autumn of 1850 the man called Mose, a fixture on the Horton plantation in North Carolina, is sold to a wily slave trader to settle a debt. Traveling southward, he sinks into cruel bondage while a woman sold by Horton at the same time runs northward to freedom. In Savannah Mose becomes the property of a kind master, but in Alabama under the thumb of Cody Hawk he suffers i...

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27,52 €

Searching in Shadow

James Haydock

In 1831, the beginning of a cruel decade in iron times for England, Thomas Carlyle observed: 'Man has walked by the light of conflagrations and amid the sound of falling cities, and now there is darkness and long watching till it be morning.' Thirty years later Matthew Arnold counseled a faltering friend who had lost his way: 'Roam on! The light we sought is shining still.' Whe...

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22,84 €

Beacon’s River

James Haydock

Beacon’s River is a tale of ambition and human suffering in the mind and heart of a young man struggling for success as a novelist. Based on the life and career of nineteenth-century novelist George Gissing, the book is about a man wrestling with destiny as he dreams of making his mark in the world. Soon after his father dies, Andrew Beacon goes away to a Quaker boarding school...

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25,44 €

On a Darkling Plain

James Haydock

Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers. By coming to grips with thorny contemporary issues and suggesting workable solutions, they struggled to lead their people out of the wilderness. Tennyson, who came to be known as the voice of Victorianism, is ...

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22,76 €

Portraits in Charcoal

James Haydock

Half biography and half critical study, this book about George Gissing is for the general reader. It draws a parallel between the women in Gissing’s life and the women in his novels. His books span the last two decades of the nineteenth century and are memorable for their portraits of women. Only a few women played active roles in Gissing’s life, but all exerted a lasting influ...

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22,38 €

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