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Journal Of A Sad Hermaphrodite
Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is a book written – and, some would say, compiled – by the English writer Michael de Larrabeiti and published in the United Kingdom by Aidan Ellis in 1992 (). It is currently out of print, but was due to be republished in quarter 4 2006/quarter 1 2007 by Tallis House. Supposedly reproduced from a manuscript constructed by Cooper, a teacher of English Literature in a secondary school in a small Oxfordshire town, the ''Journal'' includes clippings from Cooper's commonplace book, clippings from the diary of one of Cooper's students (who is not named) and excerpts of poetry and other well-known texts. The ''Journal'' is perhaps influenced by Cyril Connolly's ''The Unquiet Grave'' in this respect, although it modifies Connolly's use of the "commonplace book" technique – itself perhaps borrowed by Connolly from George Gissing's '' The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft'' – to produce a more traditional narrative. This ''Journal'' narrates the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael De Larrabeiti
Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing ''The Borrible Trilogy'', which has been cited as an influence by writers in the ''New Weird'' movement. Early life One of five children, de Larrabeiti was born in St Thomas' Hospital and was mostly brought up in Battersea, South London. His mother was of working-class Irish descent and lived most of her life in the Lavender Hill area of London; his father was a Basque people, Basque from Bilbao and was often absent. In 1939 he was Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, evacuated to Arundel in West Sussex, before returning to London in 1940, only to be evacuated again to Askern, a mining village near Doncaster in Yorkshire, in the winter. At the end of the Second World War he returned to London and, after failing the eleven-plus exam, 11-plus, was educated at Clapham Central Secondary School. The teachers he had here, often men who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gissing
George Robert Gissing (; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include ''The Nether World'' (1889), ''New Grub Street'' (1891) and '' The Odd Women'' (1893). Biography Early life Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest of five children of Thomas Waller Gissing, who ran a chemist's shop, and Margaret (née Bedford). His siblings were: William, who died aged twenty; Algernon, who became a writer; Margaret; and Ellen.Pierre Coustillas,Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903) (), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online), Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 17 June 2012. His childhood home in Thompson's Yard, Wakefield, is maintained by The Gissing Trust. Gissing was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield, where he was a diligent and enthusiastic student. His serious interest in books began at the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Michael De Larrabeiti
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
