Heroes Twilight A Critical Study of War I Literature
Bernard Bergonzi's Heroes Twilight surveys British Great War writing from Brooke to Owen, tracing two rival worldviews. It argues the traditional heroic myth gives way to a soberer emphasis on individual life amid mechanized slaughter, with balanced critiques of major and minor authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DS. R. Welland
Edmund Blunden
D. J. Faright
CM. Bowra
John H. Johnston
T. Lawrence
Ford Madox Ford
Eric Partridge
Bergonzi
Rupert Brooke
Julian Grenfell
Frederic Manning
Fergenzi
Charles Edmond
Charles Douie
Douglas Jerrold
Graves
Rosenberg
Sassoon
Owen
RH. Mottram
Richard Aldington
Robert Graves
HM. Tom
Bergon
T. E. Lawrence
HM. Tomlinson
Pnce
Edwin Muir
Read
Blunden
Ford
David Jones
Aldington
Jack
Methuen Guide for Greece Offers Compact Essential Itinerary
The Gateways to Greece digest from Methuen presents a compact pocket guide aimed at travelers with limited time and budget. It distills essential places, tours, and practical details into about sixty pages, with clear maps, a short index, and line drawings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyne
Fodor
Greece
Francis King
Themistocles
Piraeus
Delos
Apollo
Choice of Straws and Other Works Reviewed
Review covers E R Braithwaite Choice of Straws and A C Clarke Amongst Thistles and Thorns and J Brunhwaites The Catechist. Notes Braithwaite’s portrayal of racial prejudice in London, Clarke’s West Indian life, and Brunt his narrator’s failings, praising Clarke’s subtler, moving handling of dialogue and social critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Braithwaite
The
Bodley Head
Jen and Unwin
Austin C. Clarke
Heinemann
Sir
Ann
London
Spade” O
Brite
Britain
West Indies
Sleeping Beauty and the Firebird review in Young Readers series
In The Sleeping Beauty and the Firebird, William Appleby and Frederick Fowler present two ballet stories in a lively lucid style for 10-12 year olds. A historical note and musical annotations accompany familiar themes, with vivid black and white wood-cut like illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willian Appleby
Frederick Fowler
Oxford University Press
Hugh Latham
Barbara Cooney
Constable
Paul Nussbaumer
Robert Broomfield
Bodley Head
Mother Goose
Aly and his girls a flamboyant life of Aly Khan
Leonard Slater profiles Aly Khan born 1911 in Turin. His schooling bypassed by the Aga Khan, he built a vast horse-trading empire, married Rita Hayworth then separated, fathered Yasmin, served in three armies, and died after a 1960 car crash. The article paints a witty, exhaustive portrait of a notorious playboy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aly
Aga Khan
England
Aga
Agi Khan
Turin
Lonnon
Joan Guineys
Karim
Amyn
Joan
French Foreign Legion
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Cairo
Beiru
France
Germany
Riviera Chateau
Paria
Ritz Hotel
London
Rita Hayworth
Rita
Yasmin
Abies
Son of God
Wy Rita
Khan
Alyy
Pakistan
United Nations
Bettina
Questions for Kaspar and the War
A dialogue retold from Dorothea Auchterlonie in a village scene where Kaspar and the children debate the reasons for war. The elder explains that conflicts arise not from direct injuries but from fear and power, while the children question the age of soldiers and the cost to their homeland.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bernard Bergonzi
Comstable
Ffi
Wilfred Owen
C. Day Lewis
Lawrence
Penguin: Modern Classics
Bergenz
By K. C. Masterman
Methuen
Methuens
ZYG
Noure
Taylor Caldwell
Edmund Wilson
Australian Gardeners’ Guide
Pax Lindsay
FIRS
A.a.sh
Fred W
Angus and Robertson Green
Apa Rigelton
Ee Row
Civi
By Suzanne Edgar
British Commonwealth
British Guiana
Ghana
Barbados
Brunhwaites
Defoe
Moll Flanders
Joyce Cary
Mr Johnson
Catechist
Austin Clarke
Front
Righ
Suas
Young Reader's Guide To
Berenice Eastman
Babe
Mary
Robert Bloomfield
Aly and His
Girls
Alan Fitzgerald
Leonard Slater
Ww. H.allen
Price
Leonard
Kaspar
Peterkin
Wilhelmine
Dorothy Auchterlonie
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