Goodbye Twentieth Century
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Goodbye Twentieth Century

  1. 450 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Goodbye Twentieth Century

About this book

Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presents a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author. Humorous and poignant, this new edition not only includes the acclaimed first volume A Poet in the Family, but also discusses the changes in the political and literary landscape over the last century. With a chapter featuring brand new material by the author, this must-read autobiography will entertain those interested in history, politics, and literature.

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Information

Publisher
Parthian Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781908069726
eBook ISBN
9781908946355
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. About the author
  5. Part One – A Poet in the Family
  6. 1. A Poet in the Family
  7. 2. A Jew in the Mirror
  8. 3. Girls
  9. 4. Abse of the Sixth Form
  10. 5. Sticks and Stones
  11. 6. Reg
  12. 7. A Porthcawl Sojourn
  13. 8. Absent Brothers
  14. 9. Ezra Pound and My Father
  15. 10. To London Then I Came
  16. 11. Survivors
  17. 12. First Doubts
  18. 13. Football, Nancy, and Swiss Cottage
  19. 14. A Taste of Peal Medicine
  20. 15. Marrowells
  21. 16. Green Shoots
  22. 17. Conflict
  23. 18. Joan
  24. 19. Riding the Two Horses
  25. 20. A Locum Tenens
  26. 21. Not All Bull
  27. 22. Poetry and Poverty
  28. 23. The Passionate Transitory
  29. 24. Tickets to Golders Green
  30. 25. For Love and Money
  31. 26. Poetry Readings and All That Jazz
  32. 27. In Llandough Hospital
  33. 28. Confessions, Confessions
  34. Part Two – Goodbye, Twentieth Century
  35. 1. In Autumn Sunlight
  36. 2. The End of a Decade
  37. 3. Lunch Hours
  38. 4. The Most Alien of All
  39. 5. A Meeting with Robert Graves
  40. 6. Return to Roots.
  41. 7. A Princeton Interlude
  42. 8. Back to the Bright Prison
  43. 9. A Meeting with Elias Canetti
  44. 10. Pythagoras (Smith)
  45. 11. Volume One
  46. 12. The Smiles of a Woman
  47. 13. A Weekend in Toronto
  48. 14. Exit
  49. 15. The Closing of the Clinic
  50. 16. My New Friend, John Betjeman
  51. 17. Doctor as Patient
  52. 18. My Brother Leo
  53. 19. White Coat, Purple Coat
  54. 20. In Llandaff Cathedral
  55. 21. Blood on the Carpet at the Poetry Society
  56. 22. The Big Assertive Clock
  57. Part Three – Entering the Twenty-First Century
  58. 23. A Very Familiar Patient
  59. 24. A Poetry Life
  60. 25 . Around and About 80
  61. 26 . One Weekend in March
  62. 27. The Accident
  63. 28. The Presence
  64. 29. Warm Eyes, Cold Feet
  65. 30. Leo Again
  66. 31. A Trip to Torquay. Eros Regained
  67. 32. Postscript
  68. Library of Wales
  69. Library of Wales list
  70. Copyright