Entertaining poems by John Davies. What's it like in the Octopus's Garden? Who is Weightless Willy? Discover all the answers in this book of rollicking rhymes-and more!
He's going to be flogged by Mr Gleeson. — Is it Corrigan that big fellow? said Fleming. Why, he'd be able for two of Gleeson! — I know why, Cecil Thunder said. He is right and the other fellows are wrong because a flogging wears off ...
This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes.
Devil in the Wind
Resting the pink balloon on the mantelpiece by the lamp, I lit the gas fire below to warm-up the room. Then took off my clothes except my longjohns to prepare myself for bed when I heard a floor creaking on the landing.
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Tender Consciousness studies how Sterne's eighteenth-century model of British sentimentality is manifest in modernist Künstlerroman. Yeats's memoir, as well as Joyce's and Proust's novels, trace innate artistic growth. To show...
500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.
O'Shaughnessy got fourteenth. The Irish fellows in Clark's gave them a feed last night. They all ate curry. — His pallid bloated face expressed benevolent malice and, as he had advanced through his tidings of success, his small fat ...
Joyce. This posthumous text was written in 1914, following the publication of Dubliners. In 1968 Faber and Faber published the work, which was taken from sixteen of Joyce's handwritten pages. It is a free-form love poem, presented as a ...
He had rolled up his sleeves to show how Mr Gleeson would roll up his sleeves. But Mr Gleeson had round shiny cuffs and clean white wrists and fattish white hands and the nails of them were long and pointed. Perhaps he pared them too ...