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Ten Of The Best
''Ten of the Best'' was a boxed set of novels published by Penguin Books with the strapline ''Ten top novels from ten leading authors'', ({{ISBN, 0140954406) Included in the set: *'' The Best of Rumpole'' by John Mortimer *''Brazzaville Beach'' by William Boyd *'' The Country Girls'' by Edna O'Brien *''A Dark-Adapted Eye'' by Barbara Vine *''Hawksmoor'' by Peter Ackroyd *''Juggling'' by Barbara Trapido *''Kowloon Tong'' by Paul Theroux *'' Other People'' by Martin Amis *''Regeneration'' by Pat Barker *''Virtual Light'' by William Gibson See also *''Great Books of the 20th Century'' *''Penguin Essentials'' *''Penguin Red Classics ''Penguin Red Classics'' is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. There are 39 books in the series. The books are from the Penguin Classics imprint, but do not contain any introductory material or commentary, instead focussing ...'' Lists of novels Penguin Books book series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxed Set
A box set or (its original name) boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box and offered for sale as a single unit. Music Artists and bands with an extremely long and successful career often have anthology or "essential" collections of their boxes of music released as box sets. These often include rare and never-before-released tracks. Some box sets collect previously released boxes of singles or albums by a music artist, and often collect the complete discography of an artist such as Pink Floyd's '' Oh, by the Way'' and '' Discovery'' sets. Sometimes bands release expanded versions of their most successful albums such as Pink Floyd's ''Immersion'' box set versions of their '' The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), '' Wish You Were Here'' (1975) and ''The Wall'' (1979) albums. Pink Floyd have also released '' The Early Years 1965–1972'' box set which features mostly unreleased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Trapido
Barbara (Louise) Trapido (born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom), is a British novelist born in South Africa with German, Danish and Dutch ancestry. Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London. After many years teaching, she became a full-time writer in 1970. Trapido has published seven novels, three of which have been nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Her semi-autobiographical ''Frankie & Stankie'', one of those shortlisted, which deals with growing up white under |
Penguin Red Classics
''Penguin Red Classics'' is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. There are 39 books in the series. The books are from the Penguin Classics imprint, but do not contain any introductory material or commentary, instead focussing on the story. The books References {{reflist, refs= {{cite web , title = Published Reds , url = http://penguinclassics.com/reds/published.html , magazine = Penguin Classics , access-date = 6 June 2016 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090918134225/http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/penguinreds/published.html , archive-date = 18 September 2009 , url-status = dead {{cite web , title = Red Classics , url = http://penguinclassics.com/reds/ , magazine = Penguin Classics , access-date = 6 June 2016 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090919071821/http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/penguinreds/index.html , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Essentials
''Penguin Essentials'' (also called ''Essential Penguins'') refers to two series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK. The first series began in 1998, and the second in 2011. For both series, the classic books were released in smaller A-format size; the covers were redesigned by contemporary artists to appeal to a new generation of readers. Many titles appeared in both series. 2011 series See also * '' Penguin Red Classics'' * ''Pocket Penguins'' * ''Great Books of the 20th Century'' * '' Ten of the Best'' * ''Penguin European Writers'' * ''Green Ideas ''Green Ideas'' is a series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK, on environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an inf ...'' References External links Official web site* {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214095628/http://www.penguinessentials.co.uk/ , date=14 December 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Books Of The 20th Century
''Great Books of the 20th Century'' is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books released at the end of the millennium. The following novels are included in the series: *''Heart of Darkness'' by Joseph Conrad (1899–1902) *''Swann's Way'' by Marcel Proust (1913) *'' The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'' by Franz Kafka (1915) *'' The Good Soldier'' by Ford Madox Ford (1915) *'' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' by James Joyce (1914–16) *'' My Ántonia'' by Willa Cather (1918) *''Women in Love'' by D. H. Lawrence (1920) *'' The Age of Innocence'' by Edith Wharton (1920) *''The Grapes of Wrath'' by John Steinbeck (1939) *''The Heart of the Matter'' by Graham Greene (1948) *''The Adventures of Augie March'' by Saul Bellow (1953) *'' Lord of the Flies'' by William Golding (1954) *''On the Road'' by Jack Kerouac (1957) *''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' by Ken Kesey (1962) *''1984'' by George Orwell (1949) *'' Waiting for the Barbarians'' by J. M. Coetzee (1980) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story " Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel '' Neuromancer'' (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. After expanding on the story in ''Neuromancer'' with two more novels ('' Count Zero'' in 1986, and '' Mona Lisa Overdrive'' in 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtual Light
''Virtual Light'' is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the first book in his Bridge trilogy. ''Virtual Light'' is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. The term 'Virtual Light' was coined by scientist Stephen Beck to describe a form of instrumentation that produces optical sensations directly in the eye without the use of photons. The novel was a finalist nominee for a Hugo Award, and shortlisted for the Locus Award in 1994. Plot summary The plot centers around Chevette Washington, a young bicycle messenger who lives in the ''ad hoc'', off-the-grid community that has grown on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Chevette, on a whim, steals a pair of dark-rimmed glasses from a man at a party because she is offended by his demeanor. Soon after, she realizes that the glasses have unlikely importance, as security company henchmen begin tracking and following her. Amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Barker
Patricia Mary W. Barker, (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, ''The Observer'' named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels". Personal life Barker was born to a working-class family in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. Her mother Moyra died in 2000; her father's identity is unknown. According to ''The Times'', Moyra became pregnant "after a drunken night out while in the Wrens." In a social climate where illegitimacy was regarded with shame, she told people that the resulting child was her sister, rather than her daughter. They lived with Barker's grandmother Alice and step-grandfather William, until her mother married and moved out when Barker was seven. Barker could have joined her mother, she told ''The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regeneration (novel)
''Regeneration'' is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the ''New York Times Book Review'' as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication.Westman 65–68. It is the first of three novels in the ''Regeneration Trilogy'' of novels on the First World War, the other two being ''The Eye in the Door'' and '' The Ghost Road'', which won the Booker Prize in 1995. The novel was adapted into a film by the same name in 1997 by Scottish film director Gillies MacKinnon and starring Jonathan Pryce as Rivers, James Wilby as Sassoon and Jonny Lee Miller as Prior. The film was successful in the UK and Canada, receiving nominations for a number of awards. The novel explores the experience of British army officers being treated for shell shock during World War I at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. Inspired by her grandfather's experience of World War I, Barker draws exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ''Experience'' and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice (shortlisted in 1991 for '' Time's Arrow'' and longlisted in 2003 for '' Yellow Dog''). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, ''The Times'' named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Amis's work centres on the excesses of " late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what ''The New York Times'' called "the new unpleasantness".Stout, Mira"Martin Amis: Down London's mean streets" ''The New York Times'', 4 February 1990. Inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Other People (novel)
''Other People'' is a novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1981. Plot Mary, an amnesiac young woman, wakes in a hospital and cannot remember who she is, what has happened to her, or even simple things such as how to blow her nose or what clouds are. She leaves the hospital and takes the name "Mary Lamb" after overhearing a nursery rhyme. Mary befriends a woman named Sharon, an alcoholic who seems well-meaning to the naïve Mary until she prostitutes her for money. After enduring painful sex, Mary smashes the man's mouth in once he passes out. She flees, coming into contact with a policeman named Prince, who knows about Mary's past. Mary lives for a while with Sharon's parents, also alcoholics, but eventually she moves into a shelter for "fallen women." She receives a letter from Prince that includes a newspaper clipping concerning her before she lost her memory. Mary learns that her real name is Amy Hide and that her past was quite dark, a fact which causes Mary a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, '' The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ''The Mosquito Coast,'' which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the same name. He is the father of British-American authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel and Louis Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux. Early life Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the third of seven children, and son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (née Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was of French-Canadian descent. His mother was a former grammar school teacher and painter, and his father w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
