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The Complete Novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz (10 books). Nobel Prize 1905. Illustrated

Author : Henryk Sienkiewicz

Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Page : 6782 pages

File Size : 31,77 MB

Release : 2023-05-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"The Complete Novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz" is a comprehensive collection that brings together the remarkable literary works of the acclaimed Polish author and Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. This anthology includes ten captivating novels, including his most celebrated works such as "With Fire and Sword," "The Deluge," "Pan Michael," and "Quo Vadis." Sienkiewicz's novels transport readers to significant periods in Polish history, capturing the spirit and struggles of the nation with vivid detail and powerful storytelling. Through richly developed characters and intricate plots, Sienkiewicz weaves tales of epic adventures, political upheaval, and profound human drama. "With Fire and Sword" immerses readers in the turbulent times of the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, depicting the struggles for power and the clash of cultures. "The Deluge" continues the historical narrative, exploring the catastrophic events of the mid-17th-century Swedish invasion. "Pan Michael" offers a tale of love, loyalty, and heroism against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Eastern Europe. "Quo Vadis" delves into ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero, intertwining a compelling love story with religious and philosophical themes. The remaining novels in this collection, equally captivating and masterfully written, continue to showcase Sienkiewicz's narrative prowess, historical accuracy, and his ability to evoke a wide range of emotions in readers. "The Complete Novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz" is a testament to Sienkiewicz's literary genius and his profound impact on Polish and world literature. This anthology is a treasure trove for fans of historical fiction, offering a comprehensive journey through the captivating worlds created by one of the greatest Polish novelists of all time. CONTENTS: The Trilogy With Fire and Sword The Deluge Pan Michael Other Novels Without Dogma Children of the Soil Quo Vadis The Knights of the Cross On the Field of Glory Whirlpools In Desert and Wilderness



Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

Author : Aphra Behn

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 403 pages

File Size : 13,97 MB

Release : 2019-11-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" by Aphra Behn is based loosely on an affair between Ford, Lord Grey of Werke, and his wife's sister, Lady Henrietta Berkeley, a scandal that broke in London at its time. Silvia, a young beautiful woman, is wooed by Philander, her brother-in-law, in an "incestuous" affair. The plot is about the slow decline of honor and nobility, as well as the psychological effects of love.[9] The novel is told through letters between Silvia and Philander that give a deeply personal nature to the affair.



The Devil's Lane

Author : Catherine Clinton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 34,36 MB

Release : 1997

Category : African American women

ISBN : 0195112423

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When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarrelled fiercely over land. Contested areas became known as "the devil's lane". This work highlights important new work on sexuality, race, and gender in the South from the 17th to the 19th centuries.





Theater of Disorder

Author : Brant Wenegrat

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 37,58 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Physician and patient

ISBN : 0195140877

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By considering these claims and disorders in detail, this book introduces readers to a new view of thought and consciousness that will change the way readers see themselves and others."--Jacket.



Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1

Author : Linnea Wren

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 39,84 MB

Release : 2018-02-19

Category : Art

ISBN : 0429977999

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This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.



Reading Race

Author : Norman K Denzin

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 17,51 MB

Release : 2001-12-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1847876323

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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism. He goes on to argue that the cinema needs to honour racial and ethnic differences, in defining race in terms of both an opposition to, and acceptance of, the media's interpretations and representations of the American racial order. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.



Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature

Author : Jennifer Robin Perlmutter

Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 22,48 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Families in literature

ISBN : 9783823362210

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This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.



A T”örténelmi Regény

Author : Georg Lukács

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 47,59 MB

Release : 1983-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780803279100

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Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and published his longest work of literary criticism, The Historical Novel, in 1937. Beginning with the novels of Sir Walter Scott, The Historical Novel documents the evolution of a genre that came to dominate European fiction in the years after Napoleon. The novel had reached a point at which it could be socially and politically critical as well as psychologically insightful. Lukács devotes his final chapter to the anti-Nazi fiction of Germany and Austria.



Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

Author : Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 513 pages

File Size : 42,3 MB

Release : 2015-05-21

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1408187140

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This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry.