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Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969)

Auteur de Great Morning

61+ oeuvres 1,052 utilisateurs 9 critiques 1 Favoris

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Œuvres de Osbert Sitwell

Great Morning (1946) 121 exemplaires
The Scarlet Tree (1946) 118 exemplaires
Left Hand, Right Hand! (1944) 114 exemplaires
Laughter in the Next Room (1945) 110 exemplaires
Tales My Father Taught Me (1961) 56 exemplaires
Triple Fugue (1940) 49 exemplaires
Before the Bombardment (1926) 48 exemplaires
The Four Continents (1954) 35 exemplaires
Queen Mary and Others (1974) 20 exemplaires
Pound wise (1963) 17 exemplaires
Open the Door! A Volume Of Stories (1942) 14 exemplaires
Collected Stories (1953) 13 exemplaires
A Place of One's Own (1941) 12 exemplaires
The Man Who Lost Himself (1929) 11 exemplaires
Alive Alive Oh (1947) 10 exemplaires
Sing high! Sing low! (1944) 10 exemplaires
Brighton (1935) 9 exemplaires
Miracle on Sinai (1934) 9 exemplaires
Argonaut and juggernaut (2020) 8 exemplaires
Selected poems, old and new (1943) 8 exemplaires
Poor young people (1925) 5 exemplaires
A Letter to My Son (1944) 5 exemplaires
Death of a god, and other stories (1949) 5 exemplaires
Two Generations (1940) 4 exemplaires
TRIO. (1970) 3 exemplaires
DICKENS (1932) 3 exemplaires
Dumb- Animal (1932) 2 exemplaires
Jack and the Beanstalk 2 exemplaires
Out of the flame (1923) 2 exemplaires
Defeat 1 exemplaire
Thomas Rowlandson 1 exemplaire
The Next War 1 exemplaire

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Bleak-House (1852) — Introduction, quelques éditions13,632 exemplaires
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Contributeur — 328 exemplaires
Travels through France and Italy (1766) — Introduction, quelques éditions199 exemplaires
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics (2014) — Auteur — 128 exemplaires
The Collected Poems of W. H. Davies (1916) — Introduction, quelques éditions34 exemplaires
On the Making of Gardens (1949) — Introduction, quelques éditions33 exemplaires
Belshazzar's feast [full score] (1931) — Librettist; Librettist — 32 exemplaires
The Complete Poems of W.H. Davies (1963) — Introduction — 16 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 27 (1946) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
A free house! (2012) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions9 exemplaires
The Black Cabinet (1989) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Selected poems (1948) — Préface — 6 exemplaires
The Best British Short Stories of 1923 (1923) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Belshazzar's feast [miniature score] (1981) — Librettist — 3 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 21 (1944) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 44 : Belshazzar's Feast [programme] (2019) — Libretto — 1 exemplaire

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Difficult for me to add much as a reviewer but it is a fascinating glimpse into an aristocratic family and the Victorian-era childhood of Sir Osbert Sitwell. For a reader in 2020, the high style of the writing can be almost as challenging as Shakespearian verse to move through. Long, meandering sentences with colons, semi-colons, dashes, and ellipses, and loaded with vocabulary so rich, you might feel like you're coming down with verbal gout. Sir Sitwell is highly perceptive of nature, his family history, and the artistic scene at the time. The final chapter of the book focuses on a family portrait painted by John Singer Sargent. The portrait was a sign of status for the parents but the childhood glimpse of the great artist by a young Osbert and his sister Edith influenced them later in life to become artists in their own write. I'll have to let this one sit for a while before I decide on whether I have the stamina to read the other five volumes. In any case, I'm glad there were writers like Osbert Sitwell with his sensibilities about the world giving us a slice of life that must now sound like an alien world to an audience a little more than a hundred years later.

The inner leaf of this particular edition shows inky hand prints of the author.
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kropferama | Jan 1, 2023 |
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Linda
Dec 16, 2011 Linda rated it liked it
Ignore the silly title - this is a beautifully written travelogue of Asia, and particularly Peking, in the 1930s. Among other things, Sitwell visits a remote temple where the last of the imperial eunuchs live out their days in poverty and isolation, and catalogues the great range of the cries and songs of the street pedlars of Peking. It's strangely - or relievedly, depending on your perspective - apolitical, considering the violent politics of the time, politics that included the stirrings of Communist revolution and Japanese aggression.… (plus d'informations)
 
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PatrickMurtha | Aug 21, 2016 |
Short enjoyable read. The style is light, the building eeriness well done and the finale both shocking and yet somehow fitting. I have yet to see the film version but will search it out. Recommended.
 
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nwdavies | 1 autre critique | Aug 21, 2014 |

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