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'A 20th century literary classic!' This was best-selling novelist Rachel Hore's reaction when asked to introduce Gertrude Trevelyan's 1937 novel Two Thousand Million Man-Power. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, neither the book nor its author are mentioned in any history of 20th century English literature. Yet Trevelyan is arguably the finest novelist of the generation to follow Virginia Woolf and Two Thousand Million Man-Power is among her greatest achievements. It is a masterly piece of social realism that traces the lives of a young London couple set against a background of rapid technological, ideological and political change, and satirizes contemporary bourgeois life and its fashionable interwar belief in endless progress.Beginning on New Year's Eve, 1919, Two Thousand Million Man-Power follows Katherine and Robert, as university graduates, through almost 20 years of British history. Starting as idealistic radicals, they become comfortable middle-class consumers, only to then be plunged into unemployment and poverty when the stock market crashes. Trevelyan's portrait of life in the 1920s and 1930s is as fierce and gripping as George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. Two Thousand Million Man-Power continues the mission of Recovered Books series to rescue exceptional books long unavailable to today's readers.
Arrested as a spy by the Nazis in 1942, Christopher Burney was held in solitary confinement for 526 days in a prison in Paris. This book is his account of how he managed not only to maintain his mental and emotional health but to develop the resilience he later needed to survive in Buchenwald concentration camp. A psychological masterpiece.
"Simply superb" - Jack Zipes Griffins, wizards, dryads and fairies; banished kings, misguided queens and mysterious bee-men: the curious characters who populated Frank Stockton's fanciful fairy tale worlds once delighted generations of readers on both sides of the Atlantic. When he died in 1902 the New York Times lamented, "It is not easy to imagine any greater loss to American letters." Yet despite his profound significance for the development of the fairy tale, and his direct influence on American fantasy classics like The Wizard of Oz, Frank Stockton's trailblazing stories have fallen out of print. Now, readers young and old can once again enjoy his beloved stories in this new edition of his most celebrated collection, The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales, first published in 1887 - complete with a biographical introduction which explains Stockton's profound importance to the story of fantasy literature. Edited by Hilary Emmett & Thomas Ruys Smith in collaboration with students from the Department of American Studies at UEA. "Stockton (1834-1902) was one of the first American writers to pioneer unique fantasy tales and novels at the end of the nineteenth century. Influenced by Hans Christian Andersen, he transcended the Danish writer's works, and thanks to the East Anglian collective effort, we can see how significant Stockton's imaginative works are."- Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota and author of Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales "If you've wept too many tears over the Little Mermaid and if you've spent sleepless nights worrying about evil stepmothers but still long for fairy-tale magic, you're ready to enter Frank Stockton's universe of beekeepers and griffins, dryads and dwarfs. In these kingdoms, everything imaginable goes wrong, and, providentially, the quests and journeys of his characters are designed to make things right again. If you want more intelligent children, ready to think more and think harder about the life choices we make, read them Stockton's fairy tales, stories that create the safe space of "once upon a time" for all generations."- Maria Tatar, Professor Emerita of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Classic Fairy Tales. "This edition will enlighten and entertain readers of classic fairy tales by introducing them to America's Hans Christian Andersen, Frank Stockton. The nine tales, originally published in St Nicholas Magazine in the 1880s, are contextualised by a richly researched introduction that explains how Stockton made a distinctive contribution to American fantasy for both adult and child readers."- Michelle Smith, editor of Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
Thirteen spellbinding novel extracts by the 2024 graduates of UEA's MA in Creative Writing Crime Fiction.
Introduced by James McDermott, with a foreword by Alice Nutter, the 2024 MA Scriptwriting cohort presents the full spectrum of comedy, tragedy and everything in between.
This collection showcases the bold, heartfelt work of the 2024 graduates from both the MA in Literary Translation and MA in Poetry at UEA.
This anthology, containing work from 2024 MA graduates from the UEA Prose Fiction, Biography, and Creative Non-Fiction courses, showcases some of the finest writing talent emerging today.
Red House Alley is the first complete English translation of Else Jerusalem's revolutionary novel about sex workers in 19th century Vienna. Jerusalem ripped away the veil of moral hypocrisy that viewed prostitutes as predators who lured men into their clutches and showed the women as victims exploited by pimps, madams, and the police.
The Bitter Roots is a novel full of evocative details of a time and place, a frank, unvarnished portrait of an America struggling with racism, class prejudice, conflicts between labor and capital, and sexual stereotypes. The Bitter Roots will appeal to fans of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It.
This anthology represents the best work from the 2023 graduates of UEAâEUR(TM)s Prose Fiction MA and the Biography and Creative Non-Fiction cohort. With forewords by Sharlene Teo and Stephanie Bishop and introductions by Andrew Cowan and Helen Smith, this anthology offers a luminous showcase of new writing talent.
As It Was in the Beginning take us into the mind of a woman and her experience of the terrible and mundane moments of her. A searing exploration of identity and personal autonomy.
A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life.Mortal Leap may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To step into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up?Decades before Mad Men, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Mortal Leap has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.
With an introduction by playwright Steve Waters and foreword by film director Joe Russo, these stories provide a captivating, evocative, and often hilarious preview into the work done by our 2023 MA Scriptwriting cohort.
In turn surreal, funny, and tender, these contributions offer a diverse collection of writing from members of the UEA 2023 MA Literary Translation and Poetry cohorts.
Nine wildly divergent works of crime fiction by nine talented new writers, all carefully crafted to captivate, provoke, absorb, appal and, above all, to entertain.
This is the first annotated anthology of Lydia Maria Child's ground-breaking magazine, The Juvenile Miscellany.
A special edition of the timeless classic published in partnership with Redwings Horse Sanctuary to raise funds for their charitable work in equine welfare
A powerful account of a young woman growing up on a ranch in rural Nevada in the midst of family troubles and a dry, unforgiving landscape. As vivid a picture of the challenges facing young women in 1950s America as Sylvia Plath's classic The Bell Jar.
A classic account of one man's internment by the British as an enemy alien during World War One, Time Stood Still demonstrates in moving terms how dehumanizing even the most "humane" forms of imprisonment can be. Though out of print for over 80 years, it addresses issues about the treatment of refugees that are still relevant today.
A queer-feminist creative critical work centring on the impact of parasites in cultural discourse surrounding visual art, mythology, philosophy and fiction.
A collection of interconnected poems centring on Bonnici's academic research into early modern English witch trials.
Logo Rewind collects over 200 digitally remade trademarks from Medieval Norwich, together with biographic detail recorded in the early 1700s by the antiquarian John Kirkpatrick (1687-1728) and argues for their relevance for modern logo design.
First translation into English of Desesterro, the multiple prize-winning novel by Sheyla Smanioto first published in Brazil, 2015
A haunting account of the emotional abuse experienced by a young woman who marries an older man, an extremely tight-fisted grocer whose avarice gradually takes over her whole world view. A powerful story of psychological degradation that draws the reader in like a vortex.
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