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Del 343 - Virago Modern Classics
Novel On Yellow Paper
Häftad, Engelska, 1980
142 kr
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INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, IndependentStevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
174 kr
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Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her deep sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions.
E-bok
Engelska, 201544 kr
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INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE''Virginia Woolf''s roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit'' - Frances Spalding, IndependentStevie''s alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
E-bok
Engelska, 201594 kr
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Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love - for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate - moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith captured the paradox of pain in all human affections - nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.
E-bok
Engelska, 201533 kr
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It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus (the heroine of Smith''s debut, Novel on Yellow Paper) lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug which confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy. Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy; six months of rest and recuperation are prescribed and Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum-coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent-minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.How Pompey gets into uniform and becomes a spy is only one of the astounding events in this extraordinary novel which, on a serious level, is also about a powerful investigation of power and cruelty in a world preparing for war.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
421 kr
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When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.Nobody heard him, the dead man,But still he lay moaning:I was much further out than you thoughtAnd not waving but drowning.- 'Not Waving but Drowning'
E-bok
Engelska, 2015280 kr
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When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.I was much further out than you thoughtAnd not waving but drowning.- 'Not Waving but Drowning'
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
188 kr
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This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's introduction and arrangement bring out the connections between Stevie Smith's different writings, and show us what an extraordinary and original writer she was. The selection is complemented by biographical and textual notes, and forms an attractive introduction to the work of an idiosyncratic English genius.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
126 kr
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'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.'Sylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1962'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali SmithStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning.
Del 680 - New Directions Paperbook
Some Are More Human Than Others: Drawings with words
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
92 kr
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The British poet Stevie Smith, as her many readers well know, sprinkled her drawings throughout her poetry collections. In this sketchbook, Some Are More Human Than Others, she did the opposite––she spiced her drawings with words. Together they resound with what Robert Lowell described as Smith’s “unique and cheerfully gruesome voice” and open up a little world of peculiar experience: something somber and something gay, innocent and cruel––truths of our world trapped off guard.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
194 kr
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Del 344 - Virago Modern Classics
Over The Frontier
Häftad, Engelska, 1980
278 kr
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It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
Del 345 - Virago Modern Classics
Holiday
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
231 kr
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Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb with her beloved Aunt. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love -- for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate -- moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith's poetic, special eye captured the paradox of pain in all human affections -- nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.
E-bok
Tyska, 2018186 kr
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Die exzentrische Pompey Casmilus, Sekretärin in einem Londoner Magazinverlag, notiert während der Arbeit die Flut ihrer unkonventionellen Gedanken, Erinnerungen und Assoziationen auf gelbem Papier. Ihre Familie, Liebesbeziehungen, das nationalsozialistische Deutschland, das Leben in der Großstadt, Freundschaft, Kunst und Literatur der Zeit, aber auch Kirche, die Macht der Medien, Abtreibung und Sexualität – zu allem hat Pompey ungewöhnliche Ansichten. Mit ihrem durchdringenden Blick zeichnet sie ein scharfsinniges Bild der Welt in den 1930er-Jahren.Der funkensprühende Debütroman der Schriftstellerin Stevie Smith war ein kleiner Bestseller der Zeit und ist ebenso eigenwillig wie seine Autorin: hochpoetisch, voller witziger Einfälle und entlarvender Ansichten.Für Fans von Dorothy Parker, Virginia Woolf, Laurence Sterne und Leser, die ihren Kopf in den Wolken tragen!
E-bok
Spanska, 202074 kr
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Es el año 1949, los ecos de la guerra están empezando a silenciarse pero aún hay mucho ruido y cosas por hacer. Celia es una mujer sensible, frágil y quijotesca que trabaja en el Ministerio de la postguerra descifrando códigos. Vive en un suburbio de Londres junto a su querida Tía, pero su gran preocupación es el amor, el amor de la amistad, con sus compañeros de trabajo, sus relaciones y sobre todo el amor que siente por su adorado primo Casmilus, con quien se va de vacaciones a visitar a su tío Heber, que es vicario. En un diálogo constante entre los personajes que hablan, discuten, cuentan historias sobre el amor y el odio con momentos de humor salvaje alternado con oleadas de melancolía y que sirven a Celia para reflexionar obsesivamente sobre el dolor inevitable del amor.Pero es también una novela sobre la reconstrucción, sobre las intrigas, obsesiones y disputas de un mundo destruido, donde las fiestas, los encuentros furtivos, los mensajes secretos o las conversaciones amistosas tienen segundas intenciones, un mundo de espías, aventureros y buscavidas en busca de sacar provecho de las cenizas.Utilizando la ironía como instrumento fundamental de la narración, Stevie Smith nos adentra en la paradoja del dolor en todos los sentimientos humanos con un lenguaje poético en el que es sin duda su libro más importante, y que ha sabido captar en su extraordinaria traducción Andrés Barba.