[PDF] Vile Bodies eBook

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623796

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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mayfair (London, England)
ISBN : 9780141187501

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In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.

Author : Chris Townsend
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Photography
ISBN :

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Published to coincide with a touring exhibition in the UK and North America in 1998-99, and to accompany C4 series.

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334063604

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Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573612145

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At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? A gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623761

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Put Out More Flags is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh’s earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and Black Mischief.

The dormant conflict is reflected in the activity of the novel’s main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh’s recurring ne’er-do-well Basil Seal, finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623753

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A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!

Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446194948

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Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the presidency." With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called "transitioning") all the way to the White House, over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.

Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1742284280

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One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity: he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection – the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad 'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett