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Tremor Of Intent
''Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel'' (1966), by Anthony Burgess, is an English espionage novel. Burgess conceived it as a reaction both to the heavy-handed and humourless spy fiction of John le Carré, and to Ian Fleming's James Bond, a character Burgess thought an imperialist relic. The subtitle "An Eschatological Spy Novel" refers to Burgess's idea of the Cold War as a hostile symbiosis, an "ultimate conflict" for which Good and evil, Good and Evil are inadequate terms. In Burgess's view the Eastern Bloc, Soviet bloc and the Western Bloc, West formed a yin and yang-type duoverse. In ''You've Had Your Time'', the second volume of his autobiography, he confesses that the title of the novel occurred to him one Hangover, hungover morning when his hand began shaking and his wife said, "That is intentional tremor, tremor of intent." The novel has confused some readers and critics because it straddles the dichotomies between serious fiction and comic fiction, and between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinemann (publisher)
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann. Their first published book, 1890's ''The Bondman'', was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company. He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling. Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday, having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States. Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over. Doubleday sold his interest in 1933. Through the 1920s, the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials. Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore, Max Beerbohm and Henry James, among others. This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J. B. Priestley and Vita Sackville-West. Throughout, the company was also known for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
