5 results for "Literature"
Makers of the new: the revolution in literature, 1912-1939
Discusses the influence of Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and T.S. Eliot, looks at Imagism, and includes profiles of others who shaped the Modernist movement
Criminal practices: Symon's on crime writing 60's to 90's
This is a collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays by the 1990 Cartier Diamond Dagger award winner - critic and writer, Julian Symons. Following an introduction entitled The Crime Story Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow, this book offers a collection of Symons's writing on crime fiction from Britain, the United States and elsewhere, plus a section on real life stories, such as The Hiss Affair and the Yorkshire Ripper.
The end of Solomon Grundy
When a girl is murdered in a Mayfair Mews, Superintendent Manners is convinced that the secret of the crime lies in the affluent suburban housing estate called The Dell. Dell-dwellers, like architect Dick and wine and food expert Jack Jellifer, think of themselves as living a civilised life, but there is one explosive element: red-headed roughneck Solomon Grundy. Could Grundy have killed the girl?
The thirties and the nineties
Book by Symons, Julian
