James c bottomley (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Fresh Start, James Bottomley's first short story collection, explores human nature, relationships, and our capacity to improve ourselves, change course, and begin anew.These tales feature people struggling to triumph over rivals, free themselves from toxic situations, and reframe their understanding of their own past values and experiences. Many of Bottomley's characters are flawed people making flawed decisions, mistreating those they are closest to, and only sometimes finding the will and the strength to become better human beings. Like the people who populate A Fresh Start, we are all imprisoned by ingrained ways of thinking and encountering the world, from cultural norms to family dynamics to our personal biochemistries.Perhaps the surprising idea isn't that some people fail to evolve beyond the constraints of our past and present circumstances but that any of us manage it at all. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue, printed on handmade watermarked paper and limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 199pp. Brown buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some light partial toning to the endpapers. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper. A hefty selection of verse by Rupert Brooke ('The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'), Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, J. L. Flecker, W. W. Gibson, D. H. Lawrence, John Masefield, T. Sturge Moore, James Stephens and others. Originally published in 1912 (the very first book printed under the Poetry Bookshop imprint), this deluxe issue was produced in a uniform set with Georgian Poetry numbers 1-4, all published in 1923 and each volume limited to 250 copies. There is no change to the contents of any of the volumes, but the bibliographies have been updated to reflect subsequent publications. Woolmer A1b.…