James Haydock was born in South Carolina, educated in North Carolina, and now lives in Wisconsin. In a career spanning thirty years, he taught English and American literature in university classes and wrote about the Victorians. His recent publications are Portraits in Charcoal: George Gissing’s Women (biography and criticism), Stormbirds (historical fiction), Victorian Sages (Victorian prose and thought), and On a Darkling Plain (Victorian poetry and thought). Beacon’s River (biographical fiction) is Haydock’s second novel.
15 Электронные книги James Haydock
James Haydock: Beacon’s River
Beacons River is a tale of ambition and human suffering in the mind and heart of a young man struggling for success as a novelist. Based on the life and career of nineteenth-century novelist George …
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James Haydock: On a Darkling Plain
Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers. By coming to grips with …
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James Haydock: A Tinker in Blue Anchor
After a checkered career at sea and on land Leo Mack settles down in Blue Anchor shortly before the Civil War. A solitary man living in Ida Crabtrees boarding house, he earns his living as a tinker …
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James Haydock: The Woman Question and George Gissing
Even though his books never sold as well as those of more popular novelists, women in particular liked George Gissings work and often wrote to him for advice. They could see he was keenly interested …
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James Haydock: Of Time and Tide: the Windhover Saga
One glance at the contents of this book will tell any lover of sea stories that an exciting saga of danger and adventure aboard a three-masted sailing ship named the Windhover is about to unfold. She …
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James Haydock: But Not Without Hope
Bonheur was and is my name. Every person in my native France knew the name meant sunshine, well-being, happiness. But how does one find happiness in a prison known worldwide for its coarse and brutal …
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James Haydock: I, Jonathan Blue
My name is Jonathan Blue. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, I worked many hours each day for acceptance as a writer. In my youth, I dreamed of becoming a classical scholar at …
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James Haydock: Tom Hardy — Dark Star Rising
From playing a rogue agent in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, to taking on the role of villainous Bane in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy is well on the way to becoming the finest actor of his …
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James Haydock: Tom Hardy — Rise of a Legend
THERE IS A MAN BLAZING A TRAIL ACROSS THE SILVER SCREEN, DELIVERING PERFORMANCES OF SUCH ELECTRIC INTENSITY THAT HE HAS UNITED CRITICS AND CASUAL MOVIEGOERS ALIKE. THAT MAN IS TOM HARDY.Starring …
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James Haydock: Against the Grain
The book dramatizes the plight of abolitionist Quakers living in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War. As the war rages from1861 to 1865, both Union and Confederate forces tramp through …
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James Haydock: Searching in Shadow
In 1831, the beginning of a cruel decade in iron times for England, Thomas Carlyle observed: Man has walked by the light of conflagrations and amid the sound of falling cities, and now there is …
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James Haydock: Mose in Bondage
In the autumn of 1850 the man called Mose, a fixture on the Horton plantation in North Carolina, is sold to a wily slave trader to settle a debt. Traveling southward, he sinks into cruel bondage …
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James Haydock: The Inward Journey
You will find here a collection of original short stories that will take you on an inward journey to nowhere and everywhere. Beginning with ‘Erpenbeck and Friend” and ending with ‘Growing Old, ‘ the …
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James Haydock: Cayenne Heat
Every person in France is fully aware that Bonheur means happiness and well-being. But how does a wretch convicted of a petty crime find happiness or even survival in a prison known for its …
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James Haydock: Their Portraits in My Books
George Gissing’s books, published during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, are memorable for their portraits of women. Only a few women played active roles in his life, but those who …
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