The Well Of Loneliness

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473374081
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Author : Laura L. Doan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231118750
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palatable Poison written by Laura L. Doan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Well of Loneliness was released in Britain in 1928 and was immediately controversial. This text gathers together classic essays on the book to provide an understanding of how views have changed.

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 152876529X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' is a novel about a woman who struggles to find her identity after the conclusion of the First World War. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Author : Lovat Dickson
Publisher : Collins Publishers San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radclyffe Hall at The Well of Loneliness written by Lovat Dickson and published by Collins Publishers San Francisco. This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benedict Wells
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781432863609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Loneliness written by Benedict Wells and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live "[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal."--John Irving At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are enrolled in a bleak boarding school, where the trio begin to lose each other, as well as themselves. Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules, though once vivacious and fearless, turns inward, becoming a ghost of his former self...until he meets Alva. Shy, intelligent, and enigmatic, and concealing a dark childhood of her own, Alva pulls Jules out of his shell and the two bond over books and writing, always with an unspoken understanding of the other's pain. Eight years later, at the precipice of their friendship becoming more, Alva abruptly turns her back, and the two leave school on separate paths. As they enter adulthood, Jules, Marty, and Liz, still strangers to one another, struggle to contend with who they are becoming. Jules is adrift, growing into a directionless young man, anchored only by two desires: to be a writer, and to have Alva back in his life. It isn't until Liz hits rock bottom that the three siblings finally find their footing as a family, and Jules finds the nerve to reach out to Alva -- fifteen years after they last spoke. Invited by Alva to join her and her husband, an esteemed author, at their home in Switzerland, Jules finds his way back to his own writing, and to his closest friend. As life begins to fall into place, just as it seems that they can make amends for time wasted, the past catches up with them, and fate -- or chance -- once again intervenes. A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt family saga, as well as a deeply felt meditation on the power of memory, The End of Loneliness explores the invisible forces and currents that can change our lives in an instant, and asks us all to consider, If you spend all your life running in the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?"--

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804154082
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career.

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Well of Loneliness" is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Well of Loneliness" is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932708
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction. This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy. 'The archetypal lesbian novel' - Times Literary Supplement 'One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature' - New Statesman Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father's estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928. She died in 1943 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. Maureen Duffy was born in 1933 and educated at Kings College London. She became a full-time writer in the 1960s, and has since written numerous screenplays, poetry and novels. A lifelong campaigner for gay rights and animal rights, Duffy is also president of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society.

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential lesbian novel, which "presents the life-story of Stephen Gordon, only child of Sir Philip and Lady Anna Gordon, a girl born out of her physical sphere and whose devoted parents required and confidently expected a son and heir in her place" (front flap of dust jacket). Deemed obscene in Great Britain and challenged in the United States, the book has both been praised for raising awareness of homosexuality and castigated for reinforcing homophobic stereotypes.