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Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

War of the Worlds by Orson Welles

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Gaslight/Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton

Rope by Patrick Hamilton

August 4, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Look Back in Anger – 3/5 I took a class in grad school called “Post-War British Masculinity” and lest you think it was just a code-word for “Angry Young Men” we also read some tremendously good books like the Collected Philip Larkin, Brideshead Revisited, and The Jewel in the Crown. This was also one of the books we read, though we mainly talked about the movie, since it starred a very histrionic Richard Burton in full “RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT” kind […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Marlowe, John Osborne, Orson Welles, Patrick Hamilton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:441 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Marlowe, John Osborne, Orson Welles, Patrick Hamilton ·
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Same as it ever was

August 11, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

These are three short novels written by the (mostly) playwright Patrick Hamilton in the early 1930s about his time as a youngish not quite writer making all the same mistakes we all made. He is best know for Rope and Gaslight which became movies. The Midnight Bell This first novel takes its name from the the name of the pub which is the center of all three novels. We meet Bob, the beloved half-Irish/half-American bartender who’s going to be a writer some day. For now, he’s saving up […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Patrick Hamilton, The midnight bell, the plains of cement, the siege of pleasure, twenty thousand streets under the sky

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:333 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Patrick Hamilton, The midnight bell, the plains of cement, the siege of pleasure, twenty thousand streets under the sky ·
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