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Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster

Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster

Andrew Murray Scott

This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the celebrated - and notorious - author of Young ...
School for Wives

School for Wives

Alexander Trocchi

But why? Alexander Trocchi provides the extraordinary answers in School for Wives, his most unique and original book yet.
Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds: A Trocchi Reader

Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds: A Trocchi Reader

Alexander Trocchi

A Trocchi Reader Alexander Trocchi Andrew Murray Scott. Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds A T[jocchi Reader Edited by Andrew Murray Scott Polygon EDINBURGH X 8 © Introduction Andrew Murray Scott 1991 © All.
Young Adam

Young Adam

Alexander Trocchi

As tensions develop between the narrator of the story and the couple with whom he shares the the barge, the reader is slowly sucked into the disturbed psyche of Trocchi's rootless anti-hero. And, of course, there's lots of sex.
Helen And Desire

Helen And Desire

Alexander Trocchi

Helen and Desire, the best known and finest of Trocchi's erotic novels, is a highly compelling examination of sexuality.
Cain's Book

Cain's Book

Alexander Trocchi

It is different from other books, it is true, it has art, it is brave. Norman Mailer
Cain's Book

Cain's Book

Alexander Trocchi

Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict's life after Burrough's Naked Lunch, this modern classic - which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 - still shocks in its ...
Young Adam

Young Adam

Alexander Trocchi

Newly reissued with an introduction by renowned literary critic David L. Ulin, this is an absorbing portrait of a haunted man, a forgotten gem by an important, iconoclastic writer.
The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis

The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis

Alexander Trocchi

The long-awaited sequel to Desire and Helen, this work picks up where the first volume left off, presenting us with private investigator Anthony Harvest, a detective with a penchant for the sexual life, and a gift for handling tough ...
White Thighs

White Thighs

Alexander Trocchi

White Thighs is the amorous tale of Saul, a young European striving to succeed in America, as his erotic explorations transport him from the jaded complacency of the Old World to the heated wilds of New England; from a young boy of raw and ...
Young Adam: A Novel

Young Adam: A Novel

Alexander Trocchi

Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water.
Social Register, Summer

Social Register, Summer

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The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, ...

The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, ...

Joel Deshaye

Sam Solecki. Montreal: Véhicule, 1985. 185–210. Print. Scott, Andrew Murray. Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991. Print. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Print. Siemerling, Winfried. Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje , and Nicole Brossard. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994. Print. Silverman, Kaja.
Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record

John W. Busey

... North Carolina 904 Alexander, J.B.; “C.” 8th Georgia 305 Alexander, J.M. (2nd Lieutenant); “K,” Sth Texas 1442 Alexander, Jacob B.; “G,” 12th South Carolina 1332 Alexander, James C.; "I," 26th Alabama 178 Alexander, James Needham; “ A ...
Register of Members of the General Council of the University ...

Register of Members of the General Council of the University ...

University of Glasgow

Dunbar, Mrs. Joseph — see Whish, Grace Birrell Duncalfe, Mrs. Arthur B. — see Begg, Lilias Scott Craig Duncan, Alexander Duncan, Alexander, M.A. . Duncan, Alexander Adams, B.D. Duncan, Alexander Findlay, M.A. Duncan, Sir Andrew ...
Lantern Cookery Classics: Stephanie Alexander

Lantern Cookery Classics: Stephanie Alexander

Stephanie Alexander

Highly acclaimed cook, writer and seasonal food pioneer Stephanie Alexander shares some of her all-time favourite recipes in this classic collection.
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Edward Porter Alexander

Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manass Rescued from an archive and published only eight years ago, this private memoir by Confederate General Porter Alexander is now recognized as one of the ...
The Works of Alexander Pope

The Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope. VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, etc. Once (says an Author, where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way ; Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong, While Scale in hand  ...
Sputnik

Sputnik

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Photograph by Alexander Makarov. PHOTO AND PICTURE CREDITS Front cover: Alexander Makarov; page 43: Nikolai Rakhmanov; pp.79 — 85: Alexander Makarov; pp.88— 95: Valeri Shustov; pp.124— 127: Vassili Peskov. Design and  ...
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography

Peter Green

r = PETSAS, P. 'New discoveries at Pella, birthplace and capital of Alexander', Archaeology 1 1 (1958), 246-54.. PFISTER, F. 'Alexander der Grosse. Die Geschichte seines Ruhms im Lichte seiner Beinamen', Historia 13 (1964), 37-79.
The works of mr. Alexander Pope

The works of mr. Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope. All bail ! Ye virgin daughters of the main ; iU Ye streams , beyond my Hopes beheld again/ To you once more your own Ulyjfes bows, Attend his transports, and receive his vows. If Jove prolong my days , and Pallas crown The ...
Ergonomics in Manufacturing: Raising Productivity Through ...

Ergonomics in Manufacturing: Raising Productivity Through ...

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Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, Strategic and Legal ...

Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, Strategic and Legal ...

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Alexander Klimburg has written extensively about a wholeofnation approach to cyber defense and offense (Alexander Klimburg, “The Whole of Nation in Cyberpower,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 11 (2010): 171–79; Alexander ...
Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade

Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade

Howard T. Fry

The Earl of Egmont desired him to do so; and Captain Kempenfelt called upon Alexander Dalrymple after his return to England, and informed him of the Earl of Egmont5s desire to see him; which Alexander Dalrymple declined, as Lord (then  ...
Walter Scott's Books: Reading the Waverley Novels

Walter Scott's Books: Reading the Waverley Novels

J.H. Alexander

David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden 7a *The Bride of Lammermoor [1819], ed. J. H. Alexander 7b A Legend of the Wars of Montrose [1819], ed. J. H. Alexander 8 * Ivanhoe [1820], ed. Graham Tulloch 9 The Monastery [1820], ed. Penny Fielding  ...
Reuben Doty: his ancestors and descendants from the ...

Reuben Doty: his ancestors and descendants from the ...

Kathleen Moore Fitzpatrick

Alexander DOTY's Occupation Alexander DOTY was a sugar cane and corn farmer. A sketch on Alexander DOTY in Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical states: "...Mr. Doty has always used the greatest business tact in the ...
1585-1592

1585-1592

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Esmn of Caution by Alexander Burnett of Leyis for Alexander Burnett in Kynnes- Edinburgh, kie, J ohnne Burnett in Inverrie, and Thomas Burnett in Brachanis gland“); (Braichinche), in 500 merks each, and for Alexander Blakhall in Leyis ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1998, Winter. “Bush, Hussein, and the Cultural Preparation for War: Toward a More Symbolic Theory of Political Legitimation.” Epoche 21 (1): 1–14. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2000a. “Theorizing the Good Society: Hermeneutic, ...
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.

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