The Hill: An English Public School Story / H. A. Vachell; Craig Paterson, ed.

The Hill: An English Public School Story

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H. A. Vachell (Author)

Dr. Craig Paterson (General Series Editor)

H.A. Vachell's, The Hill, first published in 1905, charts the course of John Verney's career at Harrow, from his arrival to the introduction of the new boy to its customs, traditions, slang, and rituals. The heart of the story, however, focuses on the friendships and rivalries that develop between John Verney (Jonathan), Harry Desmond (Caesar) and Scaife (Demon). Verney is the son of a parson and nephew of an explorer; Desmond is the son of an aristocratic cabinet minister; and Scaife is the son of a social climbing self made Liverpool merchant. Verney and Scaife compete throughout the story for the attentions of the handsome and noble Desmond, with Scaife embodying adventure and danger and Verney embodying loyalty and uprightness. It is clearly Desmond who represents the essence of public school life for Vachell and is thus "the light" to which the other lesser mortals of the story are inevitably drawn.
 

While Vachell's novel does not quite rival the very best of the genre, especially E.F. Benson's superb David Blaize, it is nevertheless a fascinating, humorous and enjoyable read. The Hill is highly recommended for all lovers of "boys own" school stories as well as for those who wish to explore the social values and customs of upper class English education during the late Victorian era.

Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955) was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays, and autobiographical works.

This 1st Viewforth Classics edition is a revised edition of the 1905 text with new typesetting, page layout and corrections. Craig Paterson, General Editor, Viewforth Classics.

LCCN: 2011931031 -- ISBN/EAN13: 1463535163 / 9781463535162 -- Page Count: 246 -- Binding Type: US Trade Paper -- Trim Size: 6" x 9" -- Language: English -- Color: Black and White -- Related Categories: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Schools.

Viewforth Press - New Title - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

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Oscar Wilde (Author) 

Dr. Craig Paterson (General Series Editor)

 

Moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott's Magazine in 1890. The novel had six additional chapters when it appeared in book form in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the novel was a romantic exposition of Wilde's Aestheticism. Dorian Gray is a wealthy Englishman who gradually sinks into a life of dissipation and crime. Despite his unhealthy behavior, his physical appearance remains youthful and unmarked by dissolution. Instead, a portrait of himself catalogues every evil deed by turning his once handsome features into a hideous mask. When Gray destroys the painting, his face turns into a human replica of the portrait, and he dies.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. 

1st Viewforth Classics edition. General Editor, Dr. Craig Paterson.

LCCN: 2011927073 -- ISBN/EAN13: 1461077176 / 9781461077176 -- Page Count: 222 -- Binding Type: US Trade Paper -- Trim Size: 6" x 9" -- Language: English -- Color: Black and White -- Related Categories: Fiction / Classics.

The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens: By E.F. Benson; C. Paterson (ed.)

The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens

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Author: E. F. Benson, Craig Paterson (Editor, Introduction)  Binding: Paperback Pages: 310 Publisher: CreateSpace Date of Publication: 17 November 2010 ISBN 1456303333 Dewey Decimal: 938 Availability: Ready for order Price: $17.99

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  Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC), was the charismatic and controversial bisexual Athenian general and politician who promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography. Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near by-word for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ... Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with writing flare, not an easy accomplishment. Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26.

Viewforth Press - New Title - Life of Alcibiades - E.F. Benson - Craig Paterson, Introduction

The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens 

E. F. Benson (Author)

Dr. Craig Paterson (Editor, Introduction)

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Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC), was the charismatic and controversial bisexual Athenian general and politician who promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography.

Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near byword for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ...

Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with writing flare, not an easy accomplishment.

Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge (where he obtained a first in classics) and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia". Benson was awarded an MBE and was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Dr. Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. 

LCCN: 2010939675 - ISBN/EAN13: 1456303333 / 9781456303334 - Page Count: 310 - Binding Type: US Trade Paper - Trim Size: 6" x 9" - Language: English Related Categories: History / Ancient / Greece.

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New Title: The Life of Alcibiades - E. F. Benson; Craig Paterson, ed. Viewforth Press

The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens 

E. F. Benson (Author)

Dr. Craig Paterson (Editor, Introduction)

 

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Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC), was the charismatic and controversial bisexual Athenian general and politician who promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography.

Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near byword for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ...

Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with writing flare, not an easy accomplishment.

Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26.

 

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge (where he obtained a first in classics) and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia". Benson was awarded an MBE and was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Dr. Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. 

LCCN: 2010939675 - ISBN/EAN13: 1456303333 / 9781456303334 - Page Count: 310 - Binding Type: US Trade Paper - Trim Size: 6" x 9" - Language: English Related Categories: History / Ancient / Greece.

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New Title -- The Harrovians -- Arnold Lunn

The Harrovians: A Tale of Public School Life(Au

ARNOLD LUNN (Author)

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First published as a novel in 1914, The Harrovians was based on Arnold Lunn's diary which he kept while he was a boy at Harrow School from 1902 to 1906. The novel was the first critical account of public school life to be published in Britain. The release of the novel had a considerable impact on readers because it provided a realistic and unsettling view of public school life. The novel stood in marked contrast to the rosy corpus of public school fiction and memoirs that had gone before. The Victorian and Edwardian public school system that existed was hitherto generally accepted as an indelible part of the education of an English gentleman. Until the publication of Lunn's novel, there had been no effective criticism of the reasons behind many of its rules and rituals. Lunn’s novel broke new ground and helped unleash a wave of criticism aimed at reforming the public school system.

The Harrovians--a controversial best-seller when it was first released--is a very engaging and well written story--one that richly deserves to be picked up and enjoyed by a new generation of readers.

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (1888-1974), was an Indian born British skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for his services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations in 1952.

LCCN: 2010939674 -- ISBN/EAN13: 1453809481 / 9781453809488 -- Page Count: 294 -- Binding Type: US Trade Paper -- Trim Size: 6" x 9" -- Language: English -- Color: Black and White -- Related Categories: Fiction / Classics.

Rudyard Kipling - "An English School" and "Regulus": Two School Stories - Craig Paterson, Introduction

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"An English School" and "Regulus": 

Two School Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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Two of Kipling's short school stories are brought together for the first time in this Viewforth classics publication: "An English School" and "Regulus".  The intention in publishing them together is to illustrate how Kipling's own life experiences at the United Services College coloured and shaped his subsequent schoolboy "Stalky" fiction stories. "Regulus" is chosen as the best example of Kipling's fictional writing in this genre.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet. He was the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Introduction by Dr. Craig Paterson.

Photo:  The former United Services College Buildings, ca. 1944.

LCCN: 2010938339 -- ISBN/EAN13: 1453849629 / 9781453849620 -- Page Count: 74 -- Binding.