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Malcolm Lowry

"Lowry's masterpiece" about a fateful Day of the Dead in a small Mexican town and one man's struggle against the forces threatening to destroy him ( Los Angeles Times).In what the New York Times calls "one of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century," former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Gripped by alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage ...

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Malcolm Lowry

The Classic Collection of Malcolm Lowry. Illustrated: Under the Volcano, Ultramarine, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place brings together the essential works of Malcolm Lowry, one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century literature. Known for his intense psychological insight and lyrical prose, Lowry explores themes of existential struggle, human frailty, and the search for meaning in a turbulent world. At the heart of the collection is Under the Volcano, a modernist m...

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Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry’s remarkable Under the Volcano unfolds over the course of a single day, and follows the lives of an alcoholic British consul to Mexico, Geoffrey Firmin, his estranged wife, Yvonne, and Hugh, Geoffrey’s half-brother. On the Mexican Day of the Dead, Yvonne makes a valiant, yet ultimately futile attempt to rescue Geoffrey from his drinking and his demons, but reveals instead only the inner turmoil of a man ruined by drink and unrealized ambitions.Under the V...

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Malcolm Lowry

Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus. Overlooking one of these valleys, which is dominated by two volcanoes, lies, six thousand feet above sea level, the town of Quauhnahuac. It is situated well south of the Tropic of Cancer, to be exact on the nineteenth parallel, in about the same latitude as the Revillagigedo Islands to the west in the Pacific, or very much further west, the southernmost tip of Hawai...

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Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is a modernist masterpiece and one of the most powerful novels of the twentieth century. Set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead in 1938, the novel chronicles the final hours of Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul consumed by alcoholism, regret, and spiritual despair. Over the course of a single day, Firmin wanders through the town of Quauhnahuac, drifting between cantinas, memories, and hallucinations, while the political tensions of pre–World War II E...

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Malcolm Lowry, Phoebe Iverleigh

Set in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, on the Day of the Dead in 1938, Under the Volcano traces the final hours of Geoffrey Firmin, a ruined British consul whose alcoholism becomes both literal affliction and metaphysical condition. Lowry's prose is dense, symbolic, and allusive, fusing modernist interior monologue with tragic structure, political unease, and mythic patterning. Against the backdrop of fascism's rise and Europe's impending catastrophe, the novel turns one man's disintegration into a v...

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Malcolm Lowry, Liam Alcott

Malcolm Lowry's 'Under the Volcano' is a profound exploration of the human condition set against the backdrop of 1930s Mexico. The novel intricately weaves together the experiences of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul grappling with alcoholism and existential despair, as he navigates the volcanic landscape both literally and metaphorically. Lowry's literary style is rich and poetic, employing a stream-of-consciousness technique that immerses readers in the protagonist's fragmented psyche, ...

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Malcolm Lowry

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place by Malcolm Lowry is a lesser-known but compelling work that reflects Lowry’s fascination with spiritual struggle, human frailty, and the search for meaning. Written in the mid-20th century, the novel blends autobiographical insight with lyrical, introspective prose. The story delves into the lives of characters grappling with inner turmoil, addiction, and existential uncertainty, set against a backdrop of moral and social decay. Lowry’s narrati...

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Malcolm Lowry

A quartet of the British novelist's finest works of fiction, including "Lowry's masterpiece," Under the Volcano ( Los Angeles Times).Malcolm Lowry was an author who poured his soul into his prose, including his struggle with his own demons. Of his most famous work, Under the Volcano, Dawn Powell wrote: "You love the author for the pain of his overwhelming understanding." In the New York Herald Tribune, Mark Schorer comme...

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Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" stands as a quintessential exploration of existential despair and human folly set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution. The narrative follows Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul spiraling into alcoholism on the Day of the Dead, encapsulating Lowry's complex prose and vivid imagery. Employing stream-of-consciousness and rich symbolism, Lowry crafts a lyrical, yet harrowing journey through the protagonist's disintegration, while reflecting broader ...

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Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away f...

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Malcolm Lowry

From the author of Under the Volcano: A novel of a young man's flight from the upper class to join the hard-living crew of a freighter bound for South Asia.In this debut novel by the acclaimed novelist and poet, Dana Hilliot seeks absolution from his wealthy British upbringing, escaping the bourgeois provincialism of his origins by setting out to sea as a messboy amid a crew of weathered, world-weary sailors. Lost somewhere between Singapore and Bombay, Hi...