Although admired by fellow writers like E. M. Forster, Henry Green and William Faulkner and winning comparisons with Joseph Conrad and Dostoyevsky, James Hanley is not as well known as he should be. Without doubt, he was one of the major British writers of the twentieth-century. Faber Finds is proud to be reissuing his Furys saga, making all five novels available for the first time. Before writing The Furys, James Hanley outlined his plan to his publisher: 'I want to show the downfall of a whole family excepting one, and ...
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Although admired by fellow writers like E. M. Forster, Henry Green and William Faulkner and winning comparisons with Joseph Conrad and Dostoyevsky, James Hanley is not as well known as he should be. Without doubt, he was one of the major British writers of the twentieth-century. Faber Finds is proud to be reissuing his Furys saga, making all five novels available for the first time. Before writing The Furys, James Hanley outlined his plan to his publisher: 'I want to show the downfall of a whole family excepting one, and that is the woman. That woman is heroic, powerful, exercises a tremendous influence over her family. I shall show her under every light. I cannot attempt to describe in detail the amazing lives of these people, sometimes fantastic, but never, never divorced from reality. Working class lives are full of colour, of poetry, there is the stuff of drama in the most insignificant things.' The Furys, the first in the sequence, is set in Liverpool, renamed Gelton, in 1911. Set during the 'Great Liverpool Transport Strike', it centres upon a decisive moment in the lives of the Fury family. Fanny Fury has pinned all her frustrated hopes on her youngest son, Peter. Struggling against poverty and family resentment, she sends Peter to train for the priesthood. Seven years later, and in disgrace, he returns home to face her pain and rage. 'It's great . . . I really think it is different in quality, texture, atmosphere, view-point, art and purpose from any other book I know. It's a wonderful thing to have done. . .The character of the mother is a masterpiece, and so - only second to her - is Mr Fury. I never recall reading of the mysterious and involved link between married people so profoundly and touchingly portrayed.' John Cowper Powys
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Add this copy of The Furys to cart. $15.93, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1935 by Chatto and Windus.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of The Furys to cart. $32.27, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1937 by Chatto and Windus.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of The Furys to cart. $41.00, good condition, Sold by Leaf and Stone Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1935 by Chatto & Windus.
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Good with no dust jacket. 1111824126. 549 pp. First edition in bright red cloth with gilt to spine. Spine just a bit sunned, interior front end paper has an erasure at the gutter, small spot on title page below publisher, paper creamy, New York bookshop label at rear end paper, otherwise good. A respectable copy of the first edition of The Furys the first in a sequence of five loosely autobiographical novels about working-class life in Liverpool.; 8vo-over 7"-9" tall.
Add this copy of The Furys to cart. $53.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Faber and Faber.
Add this copy of The Furys (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. ) to cart. $66.49, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Penguin Classics.
Add this copy of The Furys to cart. $67.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by The Macmillan Company.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First American edition. Octavo. 549pp. Topedge soiled, a couple of leaves with a marginal corner crease (one with a tiny tear), very good or better in a worn, good only dust jacket with nicks and tears, a small chip at the spine base affecting the publisher's name, and the green portion of the spine sunned to yellow. Gibbs A13c, binding 1.
