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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4455 Bainbridge, Beryl. Injury Time. 1977.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4473 Wolfe, Tom. In Our Time. 1980.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4529 Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time. 1925.
In Our Time (1925) was Ernest Hemingway's first book published in the USA. In Paris he had previously published a much shorter book, in our time , (1924), in a tiny edition of just 170 copies. The earlier book collected eighteen numbered “chapters,” very short sketches, only a few of which exceeded a single page. The little book consisted of just 32 pages, including front matter. Each chapter evoked the emotions of characters under stress, using subjects from World War I, Spanish bullfights, and Hemingway's experience as a reporter and correspondent in Kansas City, Missouri, and in the Greco-Turkish war. When Hemingway published his first US edition, he included the sketches from in our time , alternating them with longer, more developed stories to make up a full-length book. He also included two of the short stories from Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), which had also been published in Paris. Most of the remaining stories had been published i
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4846 Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. 1854.
Hard Times was Charles Dickens’s tenth novel. With Great Expectations it shares the distinction of having an abstract idea as its title – rather than the name of a person or a place – and in being much more condensed and tightly focused than Dickens’s novels usually were. It was first published as a serial in twenty weekly parts between the 1st April and the 12th August 1854 to boost the flagging circulation of Household Words , the magazine Dickens edited for the publishers Bradbury and Evans . The novel did what was asked of it: the circulation of Household Words doubled by June and continued to rise through August, averaging 70,000 - 80,000 copies, “considerably exceeding the best figures to date” ( Hard Times , xxxix). But the novel came in for some heavy criticism in the literary reviews. For example, Richard Sampson, editor of The Rambler, wrote in October 1854 “here and there we meet with touches not unw
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6695 Trumbull, John. An Elegy on the Times. 1774.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6931 MacLeish, Archibald. A Time to Speak. 1941.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6932 MacLaverty, Bernard. A Time to Dance. 1982.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6933 MacLeish, Archibald. A Time to Act. 1943.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7027 Weldon, Fay. A Question of Timing. 1992.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7936 O'Hara, John. The Time Element. 1972.
