The roar of the crowd
Subtitle: a sporting anthology
By: selected by Julian Walker
Contributors: British Library
Publisher: The British Library
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780712309738
Subjects: Sports; Miscellanea; Pictorial works
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.; title: Challenge --; title: Through the Tunnel (1955)  -- Doris Lessing; title: Pedestrianism... (1813)  -- Walter Thorn; title: Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)  -- Robert Burton; title: Majestic Innings (1986)  -- C. L. R. James; title: Beowulf (1895) The Beowulf Poet --; title: Goff{ 1743)  -- Thomas Mathison; title: Blinder (1966)  -- Barry Hines -- 2.; title: Match --; title: Bewties of the Fute-ball (c. 1580)  -- Anonymous; title: England, Their England (1933)  -- A. G. Macdonnell; title: `The Ojibbeway Indians', The Times (1844) --; title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1856)  -- Lewis Carrolgd; title: Match att Stool-Ball (1696)  -- Thomas D'Urfey; title: Iliad (1898) Homer --; title: Heart of a Goof (1925)  -- P. G. Wodehouse; title: Match at Football (1720)  -- Matthew Concanen; title: Maltese Cat (1936)  -- Rudyard Kipling -- 3.; title: Vanquished --; title: Champion (1916)  -- Ring Lardner; title: To an Athlete Dying Young (1896)  -- A. E. Housman; title: Metamorphoses (1913) Ovid --; title: Fever Pitch (1992)  -- Nick Hornby; title: Written after Swimmingfrom Sestos to Abydos (1881)  -- Lord Byron -- 4.; title: Winning --; title: Ivanhoe (1820)  -- Sir Walter Scott; title: Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism (1824)  -- Pierce Egan; title: Attitude (1979)  -- Garrison Keillor; title: Pedestrianism (1813)  -- Walter Thorn; title: Church Cricketant (1894)  -- Norman Gale; title: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)  -- Thomas Hughes; title: This Sporting life (1960)  -- David Storey -- 5.; title: Sport and Life --; title: Vitai Lampada (1892)  -- Sir Henry Newbolt; title: Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)  -- Alan Sillitoe; title: Toxophilus (1545)  -- Roger Ascham; title: Bait (1633)  -- John Donne; title: Ecchoing Green (1789)  -- William Blake; title: Matador of Five Towns (1912)  -- Arnold Bennett; title: Curlers' Grace (date unknown)  -- Anonymous -- 6.; title: Culture of Sport --; title: Epsom (1851)  -- Charles Dickens; title: Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)  -- Leonard Gribble; title: Angler's Song (1653)  -- William Basse; title: Daniel Deronda (1876)  -- George Eliot; title: Indian Jugglers (1828)  -- William Hazlitt; title: Prelude (1888)  -- William Wordsworth -- 7.; title: Love and Hate --; title: Islands in the Stream (1970)  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 (1871)  -- Edward Whymper; title: Women in Love (1920)  -- D. H. Lawrence; title: On Boxing (1987) -- Joyce Carol Oates.