Adventures of a Literary Historian
Author : Henry Carrington Lancaster
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 1942
Category : French literature
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Author : Henry Carrington Lancaster
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 1942
Category : French literature
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 1968
Category : French literature
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Author : Michael Frederick Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199978484
Michael F. Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis, the theory that whites had lived in Africa since antiquity, which held sway in Europe and in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author : Henry Carrington Lancaster
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1942
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075951383X
The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 9780252023811
Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship. Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982. Arrington's church appointment came at a crucial point in LDS history, when the institution was being transformed from a regional church whose ecclesiastical hierarchy directly presided over its congregants into a modern, worldwide church with an elaborate bureaucracy. His description of conducting research in the LDS Church Archives in the days of Elder Joseph Fielding Smith and Brother A. Will Lund provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the LDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Riveting chapters on the actions of the controversial Historical Department reveal details of Arrington's release and replacement as the old system gave way to the new.
Author : Pablo Calvi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082298671X
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalismexplores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the impact that the form had in the creation of an original Latin American literature during six historical moments. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America’s literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.
Author : Leopold Damrosch
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1985
Category : English literature
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Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780435909819
Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.