Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780394553405
Recently divorced Blanche Vernon is convinced the divorce is somehow her fault, even though her husband left her for another woman. But her wit enables her to step forward and grasp what has previously eluded her, even though she's puzzled at the prospect.
Author : Edward Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674075323
Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone by either American arrogance or Diem’s stubbornness. Edward Miller argues that this misalliance was more than just a joint effort to contain communism. It was also a means for each side to shrewdly pursue its plans for nation building in South Vietnam.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Stephan Malinowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0198842554
The first ever in-depth study of the role played by the nobility in the Nazi rise to power in interwar Germany, this is a fascinating portrait of an aristocratic world teetering on the edge of self-destruction.
Author : J. L. Wisenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780674550858
This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.
Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752393408
Reproduction of the original: The Home by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307826236
In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. Presiding over the Dorn household is the formidable Sofka, an elegant and circumspect widow who watches as her four children find their way into adulthood. Frederick, the sybaritic eldest son, escapes to the comforts of the Riviera while stern, dutiful Alfred runs the family business and burns with unrealized longings; Betty—pleasure-loving, vain, and selfish—makes her ambitious way from Paris to Hollywood, leaving her dreamy, passive sister Mimi to languish at home. A brilliant social novel of lost innocence and the complex nature of family bonds, Family and Friends meticulously portrays the emotional cost of everyday life.
Author : Jason Coleman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2008-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595506933
The war over in Iraq started a war amongst heaven, that ended up being on Purgatory. The hole, full of lifeless lumps of dead beat people, that haven't been able to make a decision, on God or Diablo. Not to mention the evil decomposed and flustered lost souls of hell, dragging their dead beat assess to war. The souls of hell come in many shapes. The evil beyond heaven landed on Purgatory, on a rock called Onyx. The bitch from hell herself. The Black Rock, Onyx, hit Purgatory, splitting the planet in half . making it truly into a yin yang sign. Now combined with heaven and hell. God knew this was going to happen, it is in his plan. Two people from Earth and Purgatory that are as real as you and me end up with the greatest gift of all. The gift that we all dream of having. POWERS!!! Powers like the heroes in the comic books! Powers that exceed far beyond what we could ever imagine!! There is no end to them either. They are unlimited powers of the heavens. This caused the true heroes to emerge. Efficacious and the Goddesses Of War and an additional man. He has been searching for his one true love. His life was full of loneliness and pain caused from his stepfather beating the shit out of him since childhood. This made him wish and wonder if there truly was love from that one special person. As they battle their way, through Purgatory and Earth. To save the Nation, from Armageddon happening, love is the one key, that will hold them all together, as one.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140434088
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.
Author : Robert Langs
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780876682463
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