Author : Richard M. Watt
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Watt tells the story of the painful birth, tormented life, and cataclysmic death of the independent Poland of 1918-1939. He also gives the definitive account in English of the dominant figure in this story, the Polish freedom fighter and strongman Jozef Pilsudski, whose admirers included Poland's Jews and Adolf Hitler.
Author : Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1501742892
Now it is possible for the first time to trace in a systematic way the language patterns of one of the greatest poets who have written in English, W. B. Yeats. Like A Concordance to the Poems of Matthew Arnold, the first of the Cornell Concordances that are under the general editorship of Professor Parrish, this volume was produced on an IBM 704 electronic data-processing machine. Computer technique has so advanced that the Yeats concordance includes punctuation and gives cross references for the second parts of hyphenated words. The frequency of every word in Yeats's poems is given, and an appendix lists all indexed words in order of frequency. The body of this book consists of an index of all significant words in Yeats, each word listed in the line or lines in which it occurs. The concordance is based on the variorum text of Yeats, edited by Alspach and Allt, and includes all variants that occur in printed versions of Yeats's poems.
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1453203540
The classic work on the art of fiction by the “refreshingly unpredictable” novelist and literary critic (Publishers Weekly) In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights into and exacting critiques on such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, while addressing his personal influences and delivering broad-ranging observations on literary culture. Provocative and poignant, On Writers & Writing is a must-read for both aspiring writers and careful readers of American literature. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.
Author : Lynne Olson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307424502
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war. After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known as the Kosciuszko Squadron, after the elite unit in which many had flown back home. Their thrilling exploits and fearless flying made them celebrities in Britain, where they were “adopted” by socialites and seduced by countless women, even as they yearned for news from home. During the Battle of Britain, they downed more German aircraft than any other squadron, but in a stunning twist at the war’s end, the Allies rewarded their valor by abandoning Poland to Joseph Stalin. This moving, fascinating book uncovers a crucial forgotten chapter in World War II–and Polish–history.
Author : Michael Eigen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780819565310
"Ecstasy is a force to be reckoned with--sometimes creative, sometimes destructive. Eigen argues that there is an ecstasy that comes through the ever-necessary confrontation of our psychic cores with suffering and degradation and he shows that when we can learn to be present with these feelings, they add to the tone and texture of our lives, and help us to feel real."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : David Swatton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781507595541
In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte's grip on the reins of power in Revolutionary France is far from secure. And the French Army stands on the brink of another defeat with thousands of men besieged in the city of Genoa. He needs a great victory to secure his position and he is looking to northern Italy for it. Like Hannibal two thousand years earlier he will cross the Alps with an army to fall upon his enemy. Caught up in this plan is a young cavalry officer, Antoine Chauvelle, returning to his regiment from leave as they march to war. From the struggle across the mountains to the desperate fight for survival in a besieged and pestilential city, events sweep Chauvelle into a plot that could undermine all Bonaparte's grand strategy and will culminate on the bloody battlefield of Marengo.
Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674984277
An authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a pluralistic and democratic modern Poland. After the first elected president was assassinated, Pilsudski lost faith in Poles’ commitment to democracy, led a military coup, and ruled as a strongman, leaving a complicated legacy.
Author : Boyd Litzinger
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813186358
The poetry of Robert Browning has been the subject of extensive literary criticism since his death in 1889. Two well-known Browning scholars here present the best of Browning criticism, bringing together from many sources representative evaluations of the poet and his poetry. The twenty-one essays here have been arranged chronologically so that the reader can follow the development of Browning studies and the fluctuations of his poetic reputation. They express varied points of view and are typical of the critical methods used by the Browning scholars. Included are essays by George Santayana, John J. Chapman, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Elmer More, William C. DeVane, Hoxie N. Fairchild, and Richard D. Altick. In the introduction Mr. Litzinger and Mr. Knickerbocker review the broad spectrum of Browning criticism. The editors also provide a bibliographic guide to the rapidly growing body of Browning criticism, which supplements and brings up to date previous Browning bibliographies.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1913
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert Parker
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This work is set during the time of Napoleon and tells the story of a sergeant in the Old Guard who, after sharing his supper with Napoleon, was told by the emperor to sup with his Emperor when they returned to Versailles. The old sergeant appeared at Versailles and demanded entry to the emperor, saying that he had been asked to supper. Will Napoleon recognize him and share another supper?
