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Malcolm Lowry | | Variant Name: |
Clarence Malcolm Lowry | | Birth Date: |
July 28, 1909 | | Death Date: |
June 27, 1957 | | Place of Birth: |
New Brighton, England | | Place of Death: |
Ripe, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Malcolm Lowry
5679 words, approx. 18.9 pages
 Malcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semiautobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and dipsomania in Mexico at the end of the 1930s. Although hailed by some... summary from source:
 Biography of (Clarence) Malcolm Lowry
5236 words, approx. 17.5 pages
Malcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semi-autobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and dipsomania in Mexico at the end of the 1930s. Although hailed by some... summary from source:
Biography of Malcolm Lowry
1925 words, approx. 6.4 pages
Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) is best known for his one and only masterpiece, an autobiographical novel entitled Under the Volcano. It weaves together themes of alienation, love, political idealism, and myth. An uncontrolled alcoholic, Lowry's life was marke...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Under the Volcano Information
628 words, approx. 2 pages
 Under the Volcano is a 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (recognizably Cuernavaca), on the Day of the Dead...
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 The Boston Globe Under the volcano
08/20/1997: 342 words, approx. 1 pages Soufriere Hills has hardly been a household name, either for the general public or for vulcanologists, who specialize in the study of volcanoes. Suddenly the name belongs to both, having killed nine people on the island of Montserrat and now, perhaps, on the verge... summary from source:
National Review Under the volcano.
07/27/1984: 1,662 words, approx. 6 pages SELDOM HAVE I found a famous novel so distasteful--so overwritten and underrealized--as Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. (Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is a close competitor.) One part ravings and rantings of an obnoxious drunkard buttonholing you in a bar with...
Literary Criticism
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 Bernadette Wild
6,297 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Wild investigates Malcolm Lowry's complex use of the sea—primarily as a symbolic place of healing—in his novel Under the Volcano.
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Sue Vice
2,991 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Vice examines the hallucinogenic sequences in Under the Volcano.
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Dale Edmonds
2,841 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following excerpt, Edmonds recounts the details and blissful qualities of Geoffrey Firmin's drinking binge in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.
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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | |
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