Charles Jackson

Don Birnam is a sensitive, charming and well-read man who spends a long weekend overcome by his weakness for alcohol, evaluating his life and its meaning.

The Lost Weekend

Charles Jackson (1903-1968) achieved international success with his first book, The Lost Weekend (1944), a groundbreaking novel about alcoholism that sold more than 600,000 copies and was adapted for an Academy Award-winning film version. Jackson followed this triumph with a novel that was even more daring, The Fall of Valor (1946), arguably the first major American novel to deal openly with the theme of homosexuality. The Fall of Valor is an unflinching portrayal of a marriage that has faded to a mere duty. John and Ethel Grandin take a summer vacation to Nantucket with the hope of recapturing the happiness they felt in the early days of their relationship. But instead the holiday blasts their marriage wider apart than ever when John falls hopelessly in love with a handsome marine captain. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Bronski, who argues that Jackson's novel deserves rediscovery and a place alongside later classics such as Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, and the works of James Baldwin. "A finer and more skilful work than [The Lost Weekend] ... a milestone in our literary progress." - Saturday Review "A courageous, ruthlessly probing book." - Thomas Mann "One of the best books I've ever read." - Book Week

The Fall of Valor (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Samuel Margerison

Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A dyurnall, or catalogue of all my accions and expences from the 1st of January. 1646-[7], by Adam Eyre. The life of Master John Shaw. A family history begun by James Fretwell. The journal of Mr. John Hobson, late of Dodworth Green. Autobiographical memoranda of Heneage Dering, dean of Ripon. Appendix

The Lost Weekend' is a gripping story of a talented but alcoholic writer Don Birnam who is a sensitive, charming, and educated man. It follows the struggling writer's efforts to survive a weekend in Manhattan. This work was praised for its intense realism and most acute portrayal of alcoholism, reflecting the writer's experience with alcohol.

A posthumous anthology of stories on life in Arcadia, a small town in New York State, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small burg. In one story, a girl is hounded for having an affair, in another a man discovers to his horror that a bum is a relative. By the author of The Lost Weekend.

Arcadian Tales

The Sunnier Side

Set and written during World War II, Charles Jackson's "The Fall of Valor" is a masterful work that depicts marital crisis and simmering sexuality at a time when most of us might assume Americans would rather recoil from such frankness. But as Jackson highlights, the second war, in some ways, brought sexuality to the American forefront for perhaps the first time. John and Ethel Grandin, together ten years, hope a trip to the seashore might rekindle their troubled marriage. But after meeting young honeymooners on the boat to Martha's Vineyard, John becomes obsessed with the groom, the handsome and burly Marine captain Cliff Hauman.

A Novel

The Fall of Valor

The story takes place between the years 1926-1946 and is written in the language of the mountain people of that time and those with the beautiful Southern drawl from the Deep South that moved into the area. It is a return to the times that use to be, but will never be again. Two families, the Kidwells from Alabama and the Wilsons from Tennessee and Ohio move into a small town deep inside the Great Smokey Mountains called Hamilton, Tennessee, from different backgrounds and for different reason, but with only one motive, to make a new life for themselves. The children grow up sharing lifes experiences with each other and their newfound friends. Love, marriage, births, disappointments and death become a part of their lives. The loving parents struggle with the hardships of a deep depression that gripped the country at that time. With the onset of World War Two many changes come into their lives, some good, some bad, but they would survive because they already knew what hard times were like. The Kidwells from Alabama are loggers that come into the Cove to harvest much needed timber for their Company. The Wilsons move back to Tennessee from Ohio to get away from the harsh winters that cut into their earning power as carpenters. The Patriarch of the Wilson family must give up his work as a carpenter for health reasons, buys a small farm and returns to his younger days as a tobacco farmer.

Lost Cove

Henry James Morehouse

Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

"Nonstop action! Thriller fans will love it."-Joe Vadalma, author of The Chronicles of Morgaine the Witch.Earth's weather turned into a deadly engine of destruction against humanity in this pulp magazine movie serial mash-up!Enemy aliens from the planet Randnar are here and they have a master plan for conquest and destruction. From blasting a hole in our vital ozone layer to creating a super-hurricane, halting the Gulf Steam, and stirring up a mega-tsunami, their campaign moves from doom to doom-Earth's doom!It's up to The Emperor and his fearless band of crimefighters to try to stop the worldwide ruin of civilization! The battle is so intense that The Emperor will need to call on that blonde bombshell, Solara, to help him fight the Masters of Disasters!As a bonus, you'll also get "The Emperor Faces the Truth", a classic Emperor pulp short story from CLJII Presents, No 1, Summer 1992. Random murder attempts lead the Emperor onto the trail of a megalomaniacal fiend who controls his minions with a magical demonic mask! Then he turns its powers on the Emperor, to add our hero to his list of slaves. Has the Emperor met his match at last?"Charles Lee Jackson's 'The Emperor' novels are fun, snappy, and a reflection of the pulp fiction that readers have read and loved for decades. Jackson couples original characters with seductive situations that will have you on the edge of your seat." -J. D. Crayne, author of How to Bonk a Zombie.

The Emperor and the Masters of Disasters

Vi møter forfatteren Don Birnam i trettitallets Manhatten, en periodedranker som har klart å sette i scene en isolert langhelg der han uforstyrret kan dykke ned i drammeglass og halvflasker, hjemme og i små røykfylte pianobarer, hvis han bare kan skaffe penger til å finansiere fylla. Birnam er en tragisk figur, en selvbevisst og reflektert dranker som med stadig større desperasjon jakter den neste rusen, i en femdagershelg som truer med å bli den siste. Charles R. Jackson (1903-1968) debuterte i 1944 med romanen The Lost Weekend (Forspilte dager) som ble en umiddelbar suksess og en klassiker.

Forspilte dager

The Cheat

Manhattan 1936, East Side. Don Birnam trinkt. Und der Schriftsteller hat längst jenen Punkt erreicht, an dem »ein Drink zu viel ist und hundert nicht genügen«. Seit dem letzten Absturz kaum wieder auf den Beinen, widersetzt er sich erfolgreich allen Versuchen seines Bruders Wick, ihn zu einem langen Wochenende auf dem Land zu überreden, und bleibt fünf Tage in der gemeinsamen Wohnung allein. Dort nimmt das Schicksal seinen Lauf: Don trinkt, beschafft sich Geld, verliert es, besorgt sich neues, landet auf der Alkoholstation, trinkt weiter. Schwankend zwischen Euphorie und Verzweiflung, Selbsterkenntnis und Selbsttäuschung, Inspiration und Panik, glasklarem Denken und tiefer Umnachtung, fällt Don zunehmend ins Delirium.

Das verlorene Wochenende

A story of an African American boy named Anthony, growing up in a rural neighborhood in Winston Salem. NC. He experiences risky, sad, funny and interesting romances with different females in his life. As he begins to get older, advice comes from everywhere about dating and finding a mate. At first, his parents tried to guide him in the right direction. Then, cousins and brothers begin to educate him on the opposite sex. Later in Anthony's life, other people begin to get involve in his personal life. The one goal Anthony has, is for him to be happy and fun. While in the process of during this, maybe the good lord will shine on him and give him the right companion. During his final year of high school education, his mother informed him he must make an important decision on what he is going to do with his life. One thing he knows is he must turn his life around for his career and his love life. Anthony decides to join the military. Military has its ups and downs, but with his career he finds time to find a mate. He married fast. Only to find out that his wife cousin thinks he is too good for his wife. Then a turn of events occurs, which turns into cousin in love.

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