John Oliver – författare

The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintbury''s writings.

From a score of different sources they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac''s early pot boilers.

Included is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury''s own example by collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux d''esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists, Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford, Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.

The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintbury''s writings.

From a score of different sources they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac''s early pot boilers.

Included is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury''s own example by collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux d''esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists, Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford, Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.

The future is grim on a distant planet, urbanized to the brim with massive skyscrapers and corporate-run districts. Ripe with inequality, the classes exist in literal separate tiers. Ascension is everything. Harold, an unsavory factory worker, seeks a solution to his financial woes and dissatisfaction with life. The Syndicate has offered him the deal of a lifetime, but it comes at a heavy price. All he has to do is kill one man. It shouldn''t be that hard, but innocent people just keep getting in the way. Now the lives of his family are on the line as he finds himself caught in the demented games of a xenophobic cult. Hopefully, his son Thomas can finish the job before the detective gets her hands on him. Harold will have to enlist an army of aliens, vagrants, and prostitutes if he wants to survive. He just has to confront his own prejudices and selfish desires first. It''s only a matter of time before Harold realizes that the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.