James Hanley was born into a Liverpool-Irish family in 1897. He served at sea (and briefly in the Canadian army) during the First World War, worked at various jobs, educated himself, and began publishing fiction in the 1930s, most notoriously Boy (1931), an unsparing account of sexual abuse on board merchant ships, which became the subject of an obscenity trial. He produced a dauntingly large output (some 20 novels, plays, volumes of stories, and radio dramas), and was held in the highest regard by other novelists, including E. M. Forster, V. S. Pritchett, and Doris Lessing; his reputation was for uncompromisingly realistic accounts of working-class life (The Furys, 1935), of situations of extreme privation (The Ocean 1941), and for compellingly intense, Camus-like portrayals of alienation and disengagement (Levine 1956). A Kingdom was his last completed work, and he died in London in 1985.
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James Hanley: A Kingdom
An elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote mid-Wales smallholding, leaving the kingdom he had ruled over so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they prepare for the funera …
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James Hanley: Ozean
Über die menschliche Ohnmacht im Angesicht der Weiten des Meeres Als die Aurora nach einem Torpedobeschuss sinkt, findet sich Joseph Curtain an Bord eines Rettungsbootes wieder, gemeinsam mit vier an …
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James Hanley: Secret Journey
To sustain her family, Mrs. Fury buries herself in debt At the top of the hill on the north side of town, Mrs. Ragner rules over her kingdom. A bitter old loan shark, she has a grip on all the famili …
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James Hanley: Our Time Is Gone
War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape th …
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James Hanley: End and a Beginning
Out of prison and on his own, Peter Fury struggles to find a place in the world Peter Fury has been in prison for fifteen years and four days, and every minute has been an eternity. He was jailed for …
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James Hanley: Winter Song
When her husband comes back from the dead, Mrs. Fury plans a voyage Dennis Fury was too old to return to sea. Nearing seventy, his sailing days long behind him, he should have stayed home—but B …
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James Hanley: Boy
To escape a brutal life on the Liverpool docks, a boy runs away to sea Arthur Fearon is nearly thirteen, and in the eyes of the law, that makes him a man. He wants to study to become a chemist, but h …
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James Hanley: Ocean
Five shipwrecked passengers fight panic, thirst, and the sea itself One minute, sailor Joseph Curtain is in his bunk. The next, he is submerged in the ocean. A German torpedo has struck the Aurora, a …
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James Hanley: Closed Harbour
Trapped on shore, a captain fights desperately for a place on a ship Once, Marius believes, the world was wide and the sea was infinite. Adventure and profit awaited any man bold enough to step aboar …
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James Hanley: Furys
A boy returns home from seminary to a family on the verge of collapse For almost seven years, Mrs. Fury has done nothing but think of Peter. Of her five children, he is the youngest, her darling boy …
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James Hanley: Another World
In a lonely seaside town, a few misfits cling to one another for survival Nine months ago, Mrs. Gandell left Yorkshire behind. She invested what little money she had in a ramshackle inn off the coast …
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James Hanley: Furys Saga
A powerful five-volume story of a working-class Irish Catholic family in England by a “novelist of distinction and originality” (E. M. Forster). In five novels, published between 1 …
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