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What emerges is a clear understanding of Serbia's enigmatic leader and his influence on the Balkans."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lenard J Cohen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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What emerges is a clear understanding of Serbia's enigmatic leader and his influence on the Balkans."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (One theory is that having learned about this, the author added the 'w' to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college.) Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever, when Hawthorne was only four years old, in Raymond, Maine. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College at the expense of an uncle from 1821 to 1824, befriending classmates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. While there he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Until the publication of his Twice-Told Tales in 1837, Hawthorne wrote in the comparative obscurity of what he called his 'owl's nest' in the family home. As he looked back on this period of his life, he wrote: 'I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.' And yet it was this period of brooding and writing that had formed, as Malcolm Cowley was to describe it, 'the central fact in Hawthorne's career,' his 'term of apprenticeship' that would eventually result in the 'richly meditated fiction.' Hawthorne was hired in 1839 as a weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House. He had become engaged in the previous year to the illustrator and transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Seeking a possible home for himself and Sophia, he joined the transcendentalist utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841; later that year, however, he left when he became dissatisfied with farming and the experiment...
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1900
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Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
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In our high-tech, consumerist culture, traditional folklore has found itself revived in an eclectic mix of popular works from B-movies, TV shows, and superhero comics to pulp novels and supermarket tabloids. With a strong emphasis on narrative and very little reliance on aesthetics, these forms of popular entertainment have often defied analysis. The Bosom Serpent fills this gap by revealing the pervasive similarities between traditional folklore motifs and our contemporary forms of amusement. By examining a variety of works and genres from classic fairy tales to supermarket tabloids, The Bosom Serpent demonstrates that today's popular art is no more (or less) than the sort of unpretentious narrative entertainment human beings have always craved - tall tales dressed up to fit the concerns of the time.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
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Author : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Poetry
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Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781853261282
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Votive offerings
ISBN : 0870830473