Rotting Hill

Author : Percy Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rotting Hill written by Percy Wyndham Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work was one of the most famous political writings that described Wyndham Lewis' hatred of the post-World War II Labour Government under Clement Attlee. It consists of a series of short episodes where Lewis appears as himself, but the other characters are mostly fictitious. A must-read collection of stories that illustrate the main theme brilliantly.

Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rotting Hill written by Wyndham Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Rotting Hill" by Wyndham Lewis. 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 : D. B. Wyndham Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rotting Hill written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516145
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Russell Kirk written by Russell Kirk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019923860X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends written by Ezra Pound and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists inhis various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This bookbrings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selectionwill also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780335288
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An End To Murder written by Colin Wilson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatively and intellectually there is no other species that has ever come close to equalling humanity’s achievements, but nor is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict constitutes the chief threat to our own survival. Human history can be seen as a catalogue of cold-hearted murders, mindless blood-feuds, appalling massacres and devastating wars, but, with developments in forensic science and modern psychology, and with raised education levels throughout the world, might it soon be possible to reign in humanity’s homicidal habits? Falling violent crime statistics in every part of the world seem to indicate that something along those lines might indeed be happening. Colin and Damon Wilson, who between them have been covering the field of criminology for over fifty years, offer an analysis of the overall spectrum of human violence. They consider whether human beings are in reality as cruel and violent as is generally believed and they explore the possibility that humankind is on the verge of a fundamental change: that we are about to become truly civilised. As well as offering an overview of violence throughout our history – from the first hominids to the twenty-first century, touching on key moments of change and also indicating where things have not changed since the Stone Age – they explore the latest psychological, forensic and social attempts to understand and curb modern human violence. To begin with, they examine questions such as: Were the first humans cannibalistic? Did the birth of civilisation also lead to the invention of war and slavery? Priests and kings brought social stability, but were they also the instigators of the first mass murders? Is it in fact wealth that is the ultimate weapon? They look at slavery and ancient Roman sadism, but also the possibility that our own distaste for pain and cruelty is no more than a social construct. They show how the humanitarian ideas of the great religious innovators all too quickly became distorted by organised religious structures. The book ranges widely, from fifteenth-century Baron Gilles de Rais, ‘Bluebeard’, the first known and possibly most prolific serial killer in history, to Victorian domestic murder and the invention of psychiatry and Sherlock Holmes and the invention of forensic science; from the fifteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, in which up to 36 million died to the First and Second World Wars and more recent genocides and instances of ‘ethnic cleansing’, and contemporary terrorism. They conclude by assessing the very real possibility that the internet and the greater freedom of information it has brought is leading, gradually, to a profoundly more civilised world than at any time in the past.

Author : Fiona Rule
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965614
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Streets of Sin written by Fiona Rule and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notting Hill was not always an upmarket residential enclave and celebrity hotspot. Streets of Sin delves into the district's murky past and relates the deplorable scandals and shocking crimes that blighted the area from its development until the late twentieth century. Best-selling London historian Fiona Rule sheds new light on notorious events that took place amid the leafy streets, including the horrifying murders at Rillington Place, the nefarious career of slum landlord Peter Rachman, the Profumo affair and Britain's first race riots. She reveals what life was like in 'Rotting Hill' during its dark years when murder, extortion and disorder were everyday occurrences, and explores the price its residents have had to pay to climb up out of the ghetto.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.NE/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tramway and Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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