On weekdays it bustles with people seeking solace, or reading matter in German, Arabic or Turkish.
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There are, in short, more facts per square inch than in perhaps any other weekend reading matter.
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"People don't get their morality from their reading matter; they bring their morality to it," he wrote.
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The reading matter of the figure in bed, for instance, turns out to be War and Peace.
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The period saw a fruitful connection between the literate bourgeoisie (then a minority but growing in social power) and their reading matter.
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Literature was in the first place reading matter, after all, and Dylan's lyrics were mostly unreadable—and not even listenable to without the music.
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New Yorkers are a people of diverse tastes, and — judging by the evidence of the daily commute — the same goes for our preferences in reading matter.
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An ardent classicist who anticipates long stretches of boredom on his enforced vacation, Brunetti has packed plenty of reading matter: Pliny, Herodotus, Euripides and that avid gossip, Suetonius.
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And as the production rate for new reading matter has increased, and people read on a growing array of devices, the lure of speed reading has only grown stronger.
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They parted with a mutual exchange of reading matter – the Pope gave Trump his writings on various issues, including the environment; Trump, unusually humble, gave books by Martin Luther King.
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Meanwhile second- and third-generation Jews whose families had made it to the golden land began to assimilate (including in their reading matter), as the Germans and Irish did before them.
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It has reading matter and lots of it, as well as treasures like a Maltese falcon statue, a tip of the hat to Dashiell Hammett, one of Mr. Coben's literary idols.
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Publishers at the beginning of the 1890s saw the commercial viability of their most popular product — the three-volume novel, often called the triple decker — collapse along with the commercial circulating libraries that put reading matter in middle-class hands.
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For those who prefer their reading matter a little more grounded, we also offer an account of America's recent military activities, a novelist's memoir of life as an extreme latchkey kid, and a couple of takes on winners and losers in the current economy.
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They included Western governments that had kept up the pressure on the generals, campaigning dons from the Oxford high tables at which Ms Suu Kyi in happier days had supped, and foreign journalists who had smuggled liberal reading matter to Ms Suu Kyi during her bleakest years.
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Ms Harman, who came across this grisly tale while researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë, is too careful a writer to adjudicate on whether Courvoisier's reading matter really did lead him to a life of crime, or whether, indeed, he was actually responsible for the murder.
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For lay visitors, no formal meditation teaching is available beyond Dhamma talks and what may be derived from freely available reading matter, the priority being the formal training of the full-time mendicants.
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The report argued that both cases appeared to be "more consistent with pre-existing traits being reflected both in a choice of reading matter and in the acts committed against others."Williams report, 6.7, 85.
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Overseas edition in Roman Urdu starts from Cairo for the benefit of Indian troops in the Middle East. Pictorial content and reading matter expand. The nucleus staff of 15 gets swelled to 60 including a number of experienced journalists. Rate of subscription is enhanced.
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10; Denny, A and Cheesman, E. "Letter to editor: Reading matter," North Shore Times, 9 Aug 2005, p. 6; Scott, Clyde. "Letter to editor: Leave reserve," North Shore Times, 18 Aug 2005, p. 6; Prangley, K. "Letter to editor: Library claims," North Shore Times, 30 Aug 2005, p. 10; Keucke, Helen.
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P. Visser in 1945. The magazine began to feature mainly short stories and popular reading matter, and served as a nursery for thriller writers. In September 1948 the readership topped the 100 000 mark and the magazine had obviously come of age. Nonetheless, changes in editor and format led to its eventual demise in 1965.
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A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s Later in life, Garrett recalled the stupidity of her teachers there, though her schooling there did help establish a love of reading.Manton, pp. 35-36 Her main complaint about the school was the lack of science and mathematics instruction. Her reading matter included Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton, Coleridge, Trollope, Thackeray and George Eliot.
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During this time she was also in touch with anti-fascist groups, providing welfare support to persecuted Jewish citizens and other families of imprisoned opponents to the Nazi regime. She took several foreign holidays, covering Czechoslovakia, France, Austria and Italy, and used these as opportunities to smuggle "anti- fascist reading matter" into Germany on the way home.
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Capra, Fleming, and James Whale were some of the few directors who received the credit "A [director's name] Production" even though they did not produce their films. François Truffaut's 1966 film Fahrenheit 451 uses spoken opening credits instead of written ones, in keeping with the film's story of a world without reading matter, as well as Jean-Luc Godard´s Contempt of 1963.
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Popular new works were immediately re-set and re-published by competitors, so printers needed a constant stream of new material. Fees paid to authors for new works were high, and significantly supplemented the incomes of many academics. Printing brought profound social changes. The rise in literacy across Europe led to a dramatic increase in the demand for reading matter.
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This book is mentioned as the reading matter of a young Bill Clinton in Hillary Clinton's biography Living History. A tongue in cheek reference is made in the Pet Shop Boys' song West End Girls in the lyrics "from Lake Geneva to the Finland Station". The Harvard Lampoon's Bored Of The Rings includes a tongue-in-cheek dedication, "TO The Finland Station".
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The closure of The Red Dragon, in June 1887, was noted with regret in letters to the editors of the local newspapers. One newspaper editor opined that "it would appear to be one thing to place before the English-speaking public of Wales high-class reading matter, and quite another thing to make the said English- speaking public appreciate the effort at its true value".
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The book attracted favourable attention from architects and architectural critics. In the Boston Globe, the architectural critic Robert Campbell declared it the "best introduction to architecture" that he had ever read. There was favorable comment from UK, US and Australian critics.Author's page The book featured prominently in the film 500 Days of Summer, where it was the reading matter of choice for the protagonist.
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In the Central Javanese civilization of the nineteenth century, on the other hand, Muslim religion was taken for granted. The pujanggas were mostly interested in the remains of pre-Islamic belletristic literature. Their books were meant to be reading-matter for gentlemen. Eighteenth and nineteenth century renaissance authors were masters in adapting the products of former periods of literature, as far as known to them.
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Baruc ( ; also known as Barruc, Barrog or Barry) was a 6th-century Welsh saint. Saint Baruc, who was a disciple of Saint Cadoc, forgot to bring the latter's reading matter with him on a journey from the island of Flat Holm. Cadoc sent him back and he drowned in the Bristol Channel on the return journey. He was buried on Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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Though both were baptized, neither was a professed Catholic. This Field production, in addition to the ordinary almanac calendars, had a variety of pious and instructive reading-matter with an account of the churches, colleges, seminaries, and institutions of the United States. It made up a small 32mo book of sixty-eight pages. Among other things, it promised the preparation of a Catholic magazine which, however, was never started.
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The newspaper was generally issued semi-monthly at first and later monthly, on quarto paper in three columns. Each edition was eight pages long. The Exponent was described as "well filled with reading matter." Its circulation was estimated by the Pacific States Newspaper Directory to be 4,000 in 1888, and its readership likely exceeded that number; the Exponent was used in women's meetings and exchanged with papers outside of Utah.
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Colour lithograph incorporating a design by Wilfred Mitford Davies. It is advertising the use of Morris Evans' remedies, which were manufactured in Ffestiniog, North Wales. Wilfred Mitford Davies (23 February 1895 - March 15, 1966) was a Welsh artist and publisher, best known for his work with the Cymru'r Plant imprint to produce children's reading matter in the Welsh language. Davies was born at Menai Bridge, Anglesey, and brought up in the village of Star.
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Heritier, 460. Her reading was not entirely highbrow, however. A superstitious woman, she believed implicitly in astrology and soothsaying, and her reading matter included The Book of Sibyls and the almanacs of Nostradamus.Knecht, 221, 244–45 Catherine patronised poets such as Pierre de Ronsard, Rémy Belleau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Jean Dorat, who wrote verses, scripts, and associated literature for her court festivals, and for public events such as royal entries and royal weddings.
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The first library in Peach County began in 1878 in Fort Valley, and "housed 2500 volumes of choice and well-selected reading matter. Eight first-class daily papers, numerous weeklies and several standard magazines." While impressive for its time, no other information about this initial library exists today. The central branch today, the Thomas Public Library, was founded on September 15, 1915 at a members' meeting called by the president of the History Club.
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Vol 12 1986-1987, pages 39-57. These drawings on the subject of Don Quixote's falls are an aesthetic transposition of twenty four physical and symbolic falls suffered by Miguel de Cervantes' literary hero. The series consists of thirty- two drawings, with different versions and studies for some of the falls. Lorenzo Domínguez was always attracted by this Spanish novel, both as reading matter and subject of meditation, and as an aesthetic paradigm.
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He took his entrance exam to proceed with his education, but went to war instead as an Air Force auxiliary in the German army. "The 'iron rations' in the way of reading matter which he took with him into the miseries of war were Goethe's poems and the works of Nietzsche."The items were a gift from his sister. In other places, Moltmann mentions that "Faust" was included in the collection of Goethe's poetry.
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Twerda, p. 298. In this way he awoke among his public a desire for more reading-matter of this nature.Breuker 1993, p. 594.Hemminga, p. 56.Twerda, p. 298. Later he would write about this: "That first blow was half the battle. The fans who did not receive a copy were squealing like bleeding pigs, and the way was cleared for all the stories and poems which followed."Breuker 1993, p. 594.
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Ellis endowed "a fund for reading matter of general cultural interest" at the New York State College of Agriculture. Today her endowment funds the Ellis Collection of books, intended to encourage reading about farming and the life sciences for fun and personal development, rather than for coursework. The collection sits near the entryway of Mann Library on the Cornell University campus. Ellis died on July 31, 1940, and was buried at Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca.
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His daughters were in Rome with their great-great-aunt Matidia; Marcus thought the evening air of the country was too cold for them. He asked Fronto for 'some particularly eloquent reading matter, something of your own, or Cato, or Cicero, or Sallust or Gracchus – or some poet, for I need distraction, especially in this kind of way, by reading something that will uplift and diffuse my pressing anxieties.'Ad Antoninum Imperator iv.1 (= Haines 1.300ff), qtd.
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He was born in London, England, on December 16, 1928. During the period of 1947 - 1949, he served two years in the Royal Navy. He left England with his wife Jean in 1954, and emigrated to South Africa. There he was employed by the Central News Agency, a company that held the monopoly for the sale and distribution of all reading matter including books, magazines, and newspapers throughout Southern Africa, which then included South Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South West Africa.
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By a vote of six to two, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and upheld the Pennsylvania prison regulations banning all reading matter, except religious or legal material, from its most unmanageable inmates as legal. The decision was based in part on Bank's failure to challenge the facts as set forth by Beard. In this case, the Court held that the four-part test outlined in Turner v. Safley was met.
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The only officially available reading matter was the propaganda press that was disseminated by the German occupation administration. Cinemas, now under the control of the German propaganda machine, saw their programming dominated by Nazi German movies, which were preceded by propaganda newsreels. The few Polish films permitted to be shown (about 20% of the total programming) were edited to eliminate references to Polish national symbols as well as Jewish actors and producers. Several propaganda films were shot in Polish, although no Polish films were shown after 1943.
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Robert Charles Moon (1844-1914) was an ophthalmologist who practiced medicine in England and the United States. He was the son of William Moon (1818-1894), inventor of "Moon type", an embossed alphabet for the blind. Robert Moon's career choice in ophthalmology was influenced by his experiences as a youth, helping his father in translating and transcribing reading matter for the visually handicapped. From 1866 to 1878 he practiced medicine at the South London Ophthalmic Hospital, a facility founded in 1857 by John Zachariah Laurence (1829-1870).
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After three weeks, he had a breakdown that resulted in his being given a cot and pup tent in the medical compound. Here he gained access to a typewriter. For reading matter, he had a regulation-issue Bible along with three books he was allowed to bring in as his own "religious" texts: a Chinese text of Confucius, James Legge's translation of the same, and a Chinese dictionary. He later found a copy of the Pocket Book of Verse, edited by Morris Edmund Speare, in the latrine.
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These people embraced the Roman religion of Christianity and dedicated a chapel to St Baruc, a disciple of St Cadoc. Having forgotten to bring St Cadoc's reading matter with him, on a journey from the island of Flat Holm, St Baruc was sent back and he drowned in the Bristol Channel on the return journey. He was buried on Barry Island and the ruins of the chapel that was dedicated to him can still be seen in Friars Road. His feast day is on 27 September.
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Some claim that Hawkwood could neither read nor write, based on one event in which he had his contract with Florence read aloud to him in 1385. Yet this practice was not uncommon for captains of his status, and it should be suggested that he could read or write. In one correspondence with the Count of Armagnac, the Flemish chronicler, Jean Froissart, claimed that reading matter was either "read or had read to him." Based on this, it is reasonable to claim some education for Hawkwood.
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On December 16, 1864 the local Mechanics' Institute created Victoria's first community- oriented lending library. Located on Bastion Street, the library's collection included books donated by James Douglas (Governor). The Institute's rooms were "well lighted and warmed, and with their copious supply of reading matter, [formed] one of the pleasantest [sic] places in the city in which to pass a quiet hour." In October, 1886, the Mechanics' Institute informed Victoria's city council that it intended to wind up its affairs and offered the book collection to the City.
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The story is presented in the form of a letter from camp written by a seven-year-old Seymour Glass (the main character of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"). In this respect, the plot is identical to Salinger's previous unpublished story "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", written 18 years earlier in 1947. In the course of requesting an inordinate quantity of reading matter from home, Seymour predicts his brother's success as a writer as well as his own death and offers critical assessments of a number of major writers.
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Thereupon, Page was made the honorary president. The object of the library was to furnish the sightless, in their own homes, interesting and up- to-date literature. The books were carefully selected, and consisted of history, biography, travels, and novels suitable for the adult, and were in constant circulation to readers in 44 states. By an act of Congress, embossed reading matter for the blind was sent free by mail to any part of the U.S. This was a great boon to the sightless, as necessarily the volumes were large and heavy, and the expense of transportation would make their general circulation prohibitive.
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Rachel Carson: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 26–27. . This writing style brought scientific observations to a larger audience, and as stated by fellow marine environmentalist author Joel Hedgpeth in a review of the book, allowed for "turning the subject of the sea to a respectable reading matter for the clientele of the New Yorker and Readers' Digest sets, and inspiring a fashion in literature about the sea, its ways, and creatures." The style of Carson's writing makes the book suitable for children as well as adults, and the appeal is enhanced with illustrations, originally by Howard Frech.
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Anthony Hancock has taken up reading and claims to be familiar with the works of Bertrand Russell, although in reality his preferred reading matter is crime fiction. He borrows a book from the library, the murder mystery Lady, Don't Fall Backwards by Darcy Sarto, and back at 23 Railway Cuttings proceeds to provide Sid with a running commentary on the plot whilst reading it. Sid is impatient to know the identity of the killer, but Hancock assures him this is always revealed on the last page. However, when Hancock reaches the end he finds the last page has been torn out.
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Anthony Boucher described the original edition as "a comprehensive picture of the book publication of science fiction in the 1950s, valuable as a historical record, stimulating as a detailed analysis of faults and virtues, and delightful simply as good reading matter in its own right","Recommended Reading", F&SF;, November 1956, p.99 P. Schuyler Miller reviewed the book favorably, saying that Knight "applies his rules honestly and mercilessly", although he also noted that Knight's close focus on technical aspects of writing sometimes ignored an author's ability to "cast a spell . . . even if the carpentry and design is shoddy"."The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, March 1957, pp.
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In response to the newly increased demand for reading matter in the Augustan period, Grub Street became a popular source of periodical literature. One publication to take advantage of the reduction of state control was A Perfect Diurnall (despite its title, a weekly publication). However it quickly found its name copied by unscrupulous Grub Street publishers, so obviously that the newspaper was forced to issue a warning to its readers. Toward the end of the 17th century authors such as John Dunton worked on a range of periodicals, including Pegasus (1696), and The Night Walker: or, Evening Rambles in search after lewd Women (1696-1697).
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A list of the clergy in England and Ireland was added in the volume for 1850. "Lucas Brothers" is the imprint on the almanac for 1856-57, and the Baltimore publication then ceased, to be taken up in 1858 by Edward Dunigan and Brother of New York, as Dunigan's American Catholic Almanac and List of the Clergy. All general reading-matter was omitted in this almanac, publication of which was stopped the following year when John Murphy and Co. of Baltimore resumed there the compilation of the Metropolitan Catholic Almanac. Owing to the American Civil War no almanacs were printed during 1862 or 1863.
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There were also a number of illustrations, and, interspersed among the reading matter, were songs set to music, suitable for the nursery and the home. The book was an octavo of 722 pages, including a copious index. It was pervaded by strong Christian and temperance sentiment, the author holding that the growth in a child of a true and healthy religious and physical life was greatly to be desired and sought after, not only for its own sake, but for the general well being of society. On the various practical questions coming under treatment, the views set forth were characterized as sound and sensible.
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An appeal was launched for donations of used books - the first appeal of the war - and with free promotion by newspapers, reading matter started arriving in parcels, boxes, then whole vanloads. Demand was huge: it distributed over six million books and magazines, including new books (purchased by the public) and special editions printed by publishers specifically for this purpose (e.g. Oxford University Press supplied four and a half million New Testaments). At the same time, some people regarded it as a chance to clean out their rubbish while gaining credit for 'charity', so tens of thousands of old parish magazines were sent in, only to be thrown away.
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Now, some years after the subject seemed really fresh, a movie has been made about one such 18-day, 9-country excursion. Even if you don't accept the fact that just about everything that could be said about American tourism was said earlier by Mark Twain, Henry James or even Woody Allen, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is a pretty dim movie experience, like a stopover in an airport where the only reading matter is yesterday's newspapers." Roger Ebert wrote in his review: "Someone -- Mark Twain? -- once said that the American tourist believes English can be understood anywhere in the world if it's spoken loudly and slowly enough.
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In July 1928 this organisation sent him to the United States of America where he "continued with his illegal activity" In 1929 he returned to Germany where politics were becoming increasingly polarised. He was now employed in the secretariat of the Party Central Committee: his responsibilities included the printing of illegal reading matter. By 1932 German politics had become not merely polarised but deadlocked. The Communists and National Socialists between them won a majority of parliamentary seats in the July election, but would not enter into a governing coalition together, and the more moderate political parties were for the most part determined not to collaborate with the extremists.
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The former was recognized as the primary teaching text almost "before it was published and remains, even today, a major guide to the principles of cataloging and classification.". Public service was at the heart of her philosophy of librarianship, "Here one turns his attention, not to gratifying his own hunger for literature, but to the far broader task of studying, recording, and interpreting books so that they may reach the thousands of readers who are in search of reading matter of various kinds and for various persons". Indeed, her entire career echoes her devotion to this goal.'' Mann retired in 1938 at the age of 65; however, her extraordinary work did not go unrecognized.
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"Planeta Corporación, S.R.L. is a Spanish business entity, with address at Av. Diagonal, 662-664, 08034 Barcelona, Spain," but in October 2017 it decided to move its head office to Madrid following the presentation of the Catalan declaration of independence.Planeta moves its head office to Madrid. El Español, 10 October 2017 Editorial planeta, founded in 1949 was the seed of Grupo planeta, which includes many more publishing imprints as well as other cultural, audiovisual and communication companies. Editorial planeta, a leading publisher and a reference point across the entire Spanish-speaking world, publishes works by Spanish and foreign authors aimed at a broad public that seeks reading matter that combines quality and success.
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She belonged to the "Soldiers Soviet Group" ("Gruppe Soldatenrat") and was involved in the distribution of illegal political reading-matter, including the newspaper "Der Soldatenrat", to soldiers on the frontline. The overall extent and nature of Diwisch's resistance activity is unclear, but it is known that during 1941/42 she took part in the production, funding and distribution of political leaflets as part of the "Fire plate campaign" ("Brandplättchenaktion") organised by the talented chemist and youthful resistance activist Walter Kämpf. Ernestine Diwisch was arrested on 25 May 1943. On 23 September 1943 she was charged by the chief prosecutor in the special People's Court in Berlin with preparing high treason and favouring the enemy ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat und Feindbegünstigung").
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A typical modern nightstand with a drawer and three shelves A nightstand, alternatively night table, bedside table, daystand or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Modern nightstands are usually small bedside tables, often with one or sometimes more drawers and/or shelves and less commonly with a small door. They are often used to support items that might be useful during the night, such as a table lamp, alarm clock, reading matter, cell phone, eyeglasses, sex toy, desktop intercom, a drink, or medication. Before indoor flush toilets became commonplace, the main function of a nightstand was to contain a chamber pot.
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Daniel Delis Hill, Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999, page 162, Ohio State University Press, 2002, Though size makes all the difference in a bikini,Bikinis still abreast of fashion, IOL News early bikinis often covered the navel. When the navel showed in pictures, it was airbrushed out by magazines like Seventeen. Navel-less women ensured the early dominance of European bikini makers over their American counterparts.Arthur Asa Berger, Reading Matter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture , page 105, Transaction Publishers, 1992, By the end of the decade a vogue for strapless styles developed, wired or bound for firmness and fit, along with a taste for bare-shouldered two-pieces called Little Sinners.
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Nellie Lambert Ensall, at the time the heaviest woman in Britain, claimed in 1910 to be Daniel Lambert's great-granddaughter, but her claim is likely to be untrue; Lambert was unmarried and is unlikely to have had any children. In 1838, the English Annual published a series of poems, purportedly written by Lambert and found amongst his papers at the Waggon and Horses after his death. No source published during Lambert's lifetime mentions his having any interest in poetry or in any reading matter other than periodicals on field sports, and it is unclear why his papers should have been with him in Stamford at his death, rather than at his home in Leicester. The discoverer of the poems is credited only as "Omega".
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In that way he awoke among his public a desire for more reading-matter of this nature. These stories and poems were in fact something entirely different from what the readers were used to, not only as to what language they were witten in, but also and especially concerning their informal style. The copies of the booklet often were shared around through entire networks of family and friends, and not seldom the stories and poems were transcribed by hand before the booklet was given back or passed on. A second, expanded edition of De Lapekoer fan Gabe Skroar, consisting of 237 pages, was published in 1829, followed by a third, further expanded edition in 1834, running to almost 500 pages of a larger size.
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The unit had initially the task of bombing enemy troops, to fly to partisans and - in June 1942 - to help supply the besieged Leningrad. Subsequently, 101st Long-Range Bomber Air Regiment was ordered to bomb Wehrmacht units that had broken Bryansk and South-Westerns Fronts and were heading for Voronezh. Grizodubova led her regiment almost every night, overcoming strong flak defences and Luftwaffe night fighters in Kursk, Orel and L'gov areas. In September 1942, 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment was placed at disposal of the Central HQ of the Partisan Movement. The unit flew more than 1,850 sorties to partisan-held areas, delivering about 1,500 tons of arms and ammunition and hundreds of tons of radio equipment, printing presses, film cameras and reading matter, for Soviet partisan leaders.
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The Distrest Poet, William Hogarth's portrait of a Grub Street poet starving to death and trying to write a new poem to get money. The "hack" (hired) writer was a response to the newly increased demand for reading matter in the Augustan period. Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively. It was a literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel, an explosion in satire, the mutation of drama from political satire into melodrama and an evolution toward poetry of personal exploration.
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The > brief, repetitious texts and credulity-straining plots of the bel canto > repertory, with their attenuated melodic lines and spectacular runs, can > pose more challenges to a titleist than do the complex texts of an opera by > Strauss or Wagner. Titling, like any aspect of performance, is a dynamic > technical skill, and a titleist may return to an opera in subsequent > seasons, adjusting and refining both word choice and the technical aspects > of delivery. However the titleist resolves these questions, the resulting > version becomes the audience's live-time reading matter. Operas for which Haddad did the translation and surtitling in the course of her career include: Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades in 1995; Prokofiev's War and Peace; Verdi's Falstaff and I vespri siciliani; Richard Strauss's Capriccio; Rossini's La donna del lago; Mozart's Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni; Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato and Conrad Susa's The Dangerous Liaisons.
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George Orwell reviewed Angel Pavement in The Adelphi in 1930. Orwell, writing under his real name E. A. Blair, argued that Priestley's prose fails to "touch the level at which memorable fiction begins", lacking beauty, profundity and humour, and that "Mr Priestley's work is written altogether too easily, is not laboured upon as good fiction must be—not, in the good sense of the phrase, worked out." Dismissing comparisons between Priestley and Charles Dickens as absurd, Orwell suggested that rejecting such blandishments would make possible an appreciation of Angel Pavement as "an excellent holiday novel, genuinely gay and pleasant, which supplies a good bulk of reading matter for ten and sixpence." Responding to Orwell in The Guardian in 2012, D. J. Taylor reads the novel as a study of "detachment, the absolute conviction expressed by most of its characters that their lives would be better lived out elsewhere, doing other things and in the company of other people" and concluded that Angel Pavement "is a terrific example of the mainstream novel's occasional habit of noticing some of the features of ordinary life that so-called highbrow productions routinely ignore".
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He becomes desperate for intellectual society, running out of reading matter, even the advertisements in the Athenaeum journal.Bates, 1864. p. 308. He describes the food and fruits at Ega, and the curious seasons, with two wet and two dry seasons each year, the river thus rising and falling twice. The people regularly eat turtles.Bates, 1864. pp. 326–330. "Blow-gun, quiver, and arrow" ;11 Excursions in the Neighbourhood of Ega William Swainson, 1841, of the crested oropendola, "a handsome bird with chestnut and saffron-coloured plumage" :: Bates goes hunting with a native, who brings down a crested oropendola with a blowpipe at a range of 30 yards (27 metres); he notes that the usefully silent weapon can kill at twice that range, but that he and Wallace "found it very difficult to hold steady the long tubes".Bates, 1864. pp. 338–340. Around a campfire, he listens to tales; the Bouto or river dolphin used to take "the shape of a beautiful woman, with hair hanging loose to her heels, and walking ashore at night in the streets of Ega, to entice the young men down to the water" where the Bouto would grab them and "plunge beneath the waves with a triumphant cry".Bates, 1864. p. 357.
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