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	John Wain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement.
		John's College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1946 and M.A. in 1950.
		Wain was (much to his own annoyance) often referred to as one of the Angry Young Men, a term applied to 1950s writers such as John Braine, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and Keith Waterhouse thought to be radicals who bitterly opposed the British establishment and conservative elements of society at that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wain (604 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John not only was an extremely incompetent king, he was also unpopular, especially with the inhabitants of Richmond Castle.
		John besieged the castle and imprisoned Roald until 1216, yet little evidence survives of the siege.
		When de Braine sided with the King of France against King Henry III in 1240, it was held by Peter of Savoy until he held Richmond Castle against Henry III during the Montfort rebellion of 1265.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A2350126?s_id=8 (216 words)

	John Braine Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Braine (April 13, 1922 — October 28, 1986) was a British novelist.
		Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Braine left grammar school at 16 and worked in a shop, a laboratory and a factory before becoming, after the war, a librarian.
		Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Braine_John.html (99 words)

	John Braine Biography / Biography of John Braine Biography
		John Braine was one of the most prominent of the British novelists who in the 1950s earned the title of Angry Young Men, a phrase with which Braine's name is inevitably associated.
		Together with contemporaries, such as Kingsley Amis and John Wain, he asserted an ethic of individualism and of rebellious, amoral youth, which fitted perfectly into the new cultural and social viewpoints of a changing and often discontented postwar Britain.
		Braine was in the forefront of the wave of populist writers who, with a contempt for avant-garde fictional devices, rejected notions of artistic elitism and of the refined sensibilities and unique moral position of the writer.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-braine (223 words)

	Room at the Top
		John Braine himself was thirty-five at the time of first publication.
		During 1951 Braine had abandoned his job as a librarian in Yorkshire and attempted to earn his living as a writer in London.
		John Braine has given a number of accounts of the origins of the novel.
	www.newi.ac.uk /rdover/popfic/room_at_.htm (1376 words)

	North Country Pictures - The Jealous God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Braine had become a household name and re-defined the modern English novel with the publication of his groundbreaking Room at the Top in 1957.
		Braine is by birth and upbringing a Yorkshire Catholic, it seemed significant that there was no mention at all of Catholicism in his novels, which in other respects drew heavily and obviously on the environments which had moulded him.
		As a tribute to the memory of John Braine, the school scenes in The Jealous God were filmed at St Bede’s, the Catholic boys’ grammar school the author attended in Bradford.
	ncp.zonenetwork.co.uk /index.php?pagename=tjg (416 words)

	HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL by Braine, John, Braine, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1957 John Braine was a Yorkshire librarian with an impressive collection of publishers' rejection slips.
		Few people understand as well as John Braine the torments of the hopeful unknown.
		Braine calls it 'a tour of his workshop' - a practical manual which tells the aspiring writer everything about writing a publishable first novel.
	www.studentbookworld.com /BookDetail/0413315401.html (209 words)

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		John Braine (1922 - 1986) is usually linked with the literary movement known as the
		In the 1960s he moved rightwards politically and by the 1970s was associated with agroup of people who preparing to oppose what they fancied was an insurrectionary situation.
		Braine is still remembered in Bradford and he was included in the local newspaper's survey of Bradford's best 100.
	members.lycos.co.uk /saltaire/Braine.htm (489 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Gerard Braine (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Gerard Braine, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		This novel bitterly chronicles the rise of a young working-class man into the upper middle class of an English factory town.
		In its penetrating analysis of the English class structure and of psychological relationships, Room at the Top was representative of all Braine's novels.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Braine-J.html (245 words)

	grammar school -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		John Tyler was born March 29, 1790, at Greenway, the family plantation on the James River about 30 miles southeast of Richmond, Va. He was the sixth child and second son of John and Mary Armistead Tyler.
		John Tyler, Sr., was a governor of Virginia and had been a roommate of Thomas Jefferson at the College of William and Mary.
		British novelist John Braine achieved critical and popular success with his novel Room at the Top (1957), a story about a young man's cynical campaign to get ahead in his job.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037633 (764 words)

	The New York Review of Books: New Novels
		It was not a good sign when John Braine's last novel turned out to be a sequel to Room at the Top.
		Braine had a commendable faith in the possibilities of his character Joe Lampton, it also implied that his novelistic talents, which had never struck one as particularly fertile, were being forced into the sad and dangerous course of self-imitation.
		Braine's novel the Catholics of Charbury are mostly of second or third generation Irish origin, who still sardonically refer to themselves as 'Micks' and who occasionally frequent, in a rather embarrassed way, a decaying institution called the Hibernian Club, with its portraits of the Pope, De Valera, and James Connolly.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=12985 (465 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: John Braine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Gerard Braine (April 13, 1922 – October 28, 1986) was a British novelist.
		House of Stratus have recently republished some of Braine's novels.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, John Braine; all previous versions may be viewed here.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=John_Braine (259 words)

	Writing a Novel
		In fact, Braine believed that there were certain basic rules about writing generally, which could be as easily applied to novels as to anything else.
		Braine liked his writers to be independent and self-sufficient, working things out for themselves, much as he had done when he himself was struggling as a young man to make a success of writing.
		John Braine made no great claims for his method of writing, except insofar as it worked for him, but he shared his thoughts in the hope that it might work for others too.
	www.writersservices.com /res/rev/rr_writing_novels.htm (740 words)

	North Country Pictures - John Braine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Braine was born in Bradford in 1922 and spent much of his early life at Thackley near Shipley.
		Determined to become a writer, Braine left his job at Bingley in 1951 and went to live in London.
		When the novel that he had written in longhand in his hospital bed was finally published in March 1957 as Room at the Top, it became an overnight success, thrusting John Braine onto the international stage and bringing him fame and fortune.
	ncp.zonenetwork.co.uk /index.php?pagename=tjg_johnbraine (560 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Braine John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, where his father was a works superintendent for the city...
		During the 1960s the working-class or lower-middle class realism of writers such as Kingsley Amis, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe, with their...
		If British cinema was for the most part weary, inspiration was to come from the English Stage Company, which presented new and sometimes...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Braine_John.html (108 words)

	John Wain (1925-1994)
		For most of his life, John Wain worked as a freelance jouranlist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.
		John Wain was associated with several literary groups.
		John Wain was also associated with The Movement, a group mainly made up of post-war British poets.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /wain.htm (438 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Top 10s \| M John Harrison's top 10
		M John Harrison's books include Viriconium, Signs of Life and the short story collection, Travel Arrangements.
		Constructed round the fantasies of a recovering tuberculosis patient, this novel was the defining moment of an as-yet-unreported genre, kitchen sink gothic.
		One of my favourite books of all time, it doesn't seem to be in print with the rest of Braine's backlist.
	books.guardian.co.uk /top10s/top10/0,6109,821037,00.html (486 words)

	John Braine
		John and Dean are hoping to work together and start a Techno offshoot sister label with Impulsive Records.
		His music is unique and after hearing one tape from John, Dean immediately called John up and got him on board.
		With Dean’s music more recently delving into Deep Techno John has provided a platform for Dean’s work as a DJ and producer plus has opened some doors for John.
	homepage.eircom.net /~deano/people/john.htm (501 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Room at the Bottom -- Apr. 04, 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FROM THE HAND OF THE HUNTER (277 pp.) — John Braine — Houghfon M/'f-flin ($3.75).
		In Room at the Top (TIME, May 27, 1957), British Novelist John Braine dealt with the reek of ill-gained success as experienced by a bounder inwardly appalled by his own amorality.
		In his second novel, Braine deals with the opposite, savors the sour scent of failure as lived by a welfare-state weakling.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,869498,00.html (154 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Braine, John (Gerard) (1922-1986)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Braine, John (Gerard) (1922-1986)@ HighBeam Research
		His novel Room at the Top (1957) cast Braine as one of the leading Angry Young Men of the period.
		It created the character of Joe Lampton, one of the first of the northern working-class antiheroes, who reappears in Life at the Top (1962).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100120551&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (188 words)

	AllRefer.com - angry young men (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present) - Encyclopedia
		The group not only expressed discontent with the staid, hypocritical institutions of English society : the so-called Establishment : but betrayed disillusionment with itself and with its own achievements.
		Included among the angry young men were the playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker and the novelists Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain, and Alan Sillitoe.
		In the 1960s these writers turned to more individualized themes and were no longer considered a group.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/angryyou.html (292 words)

	Amazon.com: Room at the Top (1959) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This was the era of John Osborne and Britain's "Angry Young Man" whose influence was becoming so widespread in the post-Suez period.
		The answer to that question lies in the woman who took her life, and was Harvey's true love, Simone Signoret, who delivered one of the most captivating performances of the post-World War Two period in achieving a notably deserved "Best Actress" Oscar.
		From the powerful and incisive inspired pen of John Braine and a magnificent screenplay of Neil Patterson.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000520RX?v=glance (2268 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: How to Write a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I teach writing and always recommend Braine's book but thought it was long out of print.
		He has some odd, idiosyncratic, ideas (e.g., that a novel 'must have' at least twenty chapters) but overall this is an enlightening and practical book.
		You'll need other books on writing, too, this is not the bible of writing, but certainly one of the best.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0413315401 (767 words)

	Angry Young Men FAQ
		Frequently mentioned names are John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Shelagh Delany, Arnold Wesker, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Stan Barstow, John Braine, John Wain and Colin Wilson.
		Apart from the dramatists associated with the Royal Court Theatre (Osborne, Anderson, Richardson, Delany and Wesker), there was no real “movement” in the same sense as the beat writers and poets in America although many of the novelists had lower middle-class/working-class grammar school/university backgrounds, which was reflected in their work.
		Woodfall’s next film was the successful historical romp Tom Jones (1963) paving the way for other such historical epics such as The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) whose failure led to a lack of American investment in the UK film industry.
	members.aol.com /cinemabritain/newwave.html (621 words)

	How To Write A Novel by John Braine
		Methuen Home > General > Performance > John Braine >
		For everyone who, as he did, faces the prospect of spare-time writing and the indifference of publishers, he wrote this book.
		Look up Open Directory for information about John Braine
	www.methuen.co.uk /howtowriteanovel.html (226 words)

	That Was The Week That Was
		The sketch caused a furore when it was read out by the team, despite the fact that the information was readily available.
		Kenneth Cope's "confession" monologue (written by John Braine) featured a figure, hidden in shadows, who confesses to being heterosexual and relates the misery it can cause.
		Frost's scathing profile of Home Secretary Henry Brooke insinuated, amongst other things, that his intractability in an immigration case had led to the murder of the subject.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/thatwasthe/thatwasthe.htm (584 words)

	Eye - Britannia's New Wave rules - 02.01.01
		In Room at the Top (Feb. 15, 6:30pm), Joe (Laurence Harvey) tries to seduce his boss's goody-goody daughter (Heather Sears) as a means of getting a leg up the social ladder.
		Though the film differs from John Braine's novel in several important ways, both are pessimistic about the possibility of a working-class man building himself a fulfilling life.
		The film's tight interior shots are rich with detail, revealing a depressing society filled with smoky theatres, dirty streets and dreary fashions.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.01.01/film/brit.html (794 words)

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	Brand New Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Braine, John, Writing A Novel, Methuen, 1991, p 75
		Braine, John, Writing A Novel, Methuen, 1991, p 96
		Braine, John, Writing A Novel, Methuen, 1991, pp 101-102
	www.brandnewwriters.com /guide7.htm (167 words)

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