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Sounding Brass
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1926]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - English, Pages 344. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.} Complete Sounding brass, by Ethel Mannin. 1926 Mannin, Ethel, -.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1926
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Ethel Mannin
120 books44 followersEthel Mannin (1900-84) was a prolific Anglo-Irish left wing anarchist pacifist author. She was quite close to W.B.Yeats at one time.
Ethel Edith Mannin (October 6, 1900 – 1984) was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background.
Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism. She became a prolific author, and also politically and socially concerned. She supported the Labour Party but became disillusioned in the 1930s. A visit in 1936 to the USSR left her unfavourable to communism. According to R. F. Foster (W. B. Yeats: A Life II p.512) 'She was a member of the Independent Labour Party, and her ideology in the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, but she was emphatically and vociferously left-wing'. She came to support anarchism, and wrote about the Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Goldman, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the time of the Spanish Civil War.
She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, and in 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a Quaker and go-between in India between Mahatma Gandhi and the British authorities. In 1934-5 she was in an intense but problematic intellectual, emotional and physical relationship with W. B. Yeats, who was on the rebound from Margot Ruddock and about to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his). She also had a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell.
Source: Wikipedia.
Ethel Edith Mannin (October 6, 1900 – 1984) was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background.
Her writing career began in copy-writing and journalism. She became a prolific author, and also politically and socially concerned. She supported the Labour Party but became disillusioned in the 1930s. A visit in 1936 to the USSR left her unfavourable to communism. According to R. F. Foster (W. B. Yeats: A Life II p.512) 'She was a member of the Independent Labour Party, and her ideology in the 1930s tended to anarcho-syndicalism rather than hardline Communism, but she was emphatically and vociferously left-wing'. She came to support anarchism, and wrote about the Russian-born, American anarchist Emma Goldman, a colleague in the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista at the time of the Spanish Civil War.
She married twice: in 1919, a short-lived relationship from which she gained one daughter, and in 1938 to Reginald Reynolds, a Quaker and go-between in India between Mahatma Gandhi and the British authorities. In 1934-5 she was in an intense but problematic intellectual, emotional and physical relationship with W. B. Yeats, who was on the rebound from Margot Ruddock and about to fall for Dorothy Wellesley (a detailed account is in R. F. Foster's life of Yeats, concluding mainly that her emotional engagement was much less than his). She also had a well-publicised affair with Bertrand Russell.
Source: Wikipedia.
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July 11, 2015
Muddled at times,with characters who speak didactically (the author maintains that she does not necessarily associate herself with all the ideas put into their mouths), Ethel Mannin composes a novel that purports to explore the Jazz age (some of the best parts of this book are her descriptions of the young bohemians in nightclubs amusing themselves cynically of course)and the nascent nouveau riche advertising class represented by James Rickard(Mad Men fans please take note) the main character who claws his way up from poverty to a position of success only to be pulled down off his pinnacle by an ill-advised foray into the world of the kept woman. Some strong feminist views pervade this novel written by an extremely prolific author who lead an intriguing life yet the novel is seriously flawed and in need of a good editor. However it was written by a woman merely 25 and only her third novel so it remains to be seen whether the glimpses of potential here came to fruition in her later novels. She seems to be largely forgotten which seems a shame based on her bio on Wikipedia. I would not necessarily recommend this novel as a good starting point however but it certainly improved in the second half so stay tuned for more on Ethel Mannin....
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