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Author: Bob Crusader Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0244325774 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 428
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Marius and Dana were colleagues at the Bucharest University. They fell in love at first sight and they decided to get married as soon as they graduate. Two years later, Dana had to move to Israel. The Securitate intercepted all their letters but Dana ́s first one. After graduation, Marius married a Finnish woman. The Securitate demanded of Minna to accept the Romanian citizenship. To save his wife ́s freedom, Marius agreed to settle with her in Finland. A few years later, the travel company they worked for went bankrupt. Marius was sent to Kuopio for some interpreter ́s courses, and there he met Dana again. Dana was divorced, but Marius was not. Would they have the possibility to fulfill their long-lasting dream of getting married? Or would Fate - in the shape of some wicked people - prevent them?
Author: Bob Crusader Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0244325774 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Marius and Dana were colleagues at the Bucharest University. They fell in love at first sight and they decided to get married as soon as they graduate. Two years later, Dana had to move to Israel. The Securitate intercepted all their letters but Dana ́s first one. After graduation, Marius married a Finnish woman. The Securitate demanded of Minna to accept the Romanian citizenship. To save his wife ́s freedom, Marius agreed to settle with her in Finland. A few years later, the travel company they worked for went bankrupt. Marius was sent to Kuopio for some interpreter ́s courses, and there he met Dana again. Dana was divorced, but Marius was not. Would they have the possibility to fulfill their long-lasting dream of getting married? Or would Fate - in the shape of some wicked people - prevent them?
Author: Diana Holmes Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191514365 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 176
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Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously the pleasure that women readers consistently seem to find in romance. Drawing on the social constructionist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, the psychoanalytical theories of Jessica Benjamin, and a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Zygmunt Bauman, the book uncovers the history of romantic fiction in France from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and explores its place in women's lives and imaginations. Romance is not defined - as it usually is - solely in terms of its mass-market form. Rather, the history of women's popular fiction is traced in its full context, as one dimension of a literary story that encompasses the mainstream or 'middlebrow' as well as 'high' culture. Thus this study ranges from the formula romance (from the pious but popular Delly to global brand Harlequin), through 'middlebrow' bestsellers like Marcelle Tinayre, Françoise Sagan, Régine Deforges, to critically esteemed stories of love in the work of such authors as Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Elsa Triolet, and Camille Laurens. Criss-crossing the boundaries of taste and class, as well as those of sexual orientation, the romance has been at times reactionary, at others progressive, utopian, and contestatory. It has played an important part in the lives of twentieth-century women, providing both a source of imaginative escape, and a fictional space in which to rehearse and make sense of identity, relationship, and desire.
Author: Märta Tikkanen Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN: 1941920942 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 108
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Hailed an immediate classic of Finnish literature on its publication in 1978 and an international bestseller that has been translated into 19 languages, Märta Tikkanen’s verse novel is a haunting, profoundly evocative portrait of one woman’s fraught relationship with her alcoholic husband, inspired by the author's own experience. In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany addiction and the struggle to reconcile that pain with the deep love and strength necessary to hold a family together through it all. As much a story of resilience as it is suffering, The Love Story of the Century is a bittersweet account of the complexities of addiction, the power of creativity, and the redemption of love.
Author: Diana Gabaldon Publisher: Dell ISBN: 0440335167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News
Author: Liu Jianmei Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824825867 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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In the aftermath of the May Fourth movement, a growing expectation of revolution raised important intellectual issues about the position of the individual within a society in turmoil and the shifting boundaries of political and sexual identities. The theme of "revolution plus love," a literary response to the widespread insurrections and upheaval, was first popularized in the late 1920s. In her examination of this popular but understudied literary formula, Liu Jianmei argues that revolution and love are culturally variable entities, their interplay a complex and constantly changing literary practice that is socially and historically determined. Liu looks at the formulary writing of "revolution plus love" from the 1930s to the 1970s as a case study of literary politics. Favored by leftist writers during the early period of revolutionary literature, it continued to influence mainstream Chinese literature up to the 1970s. By drawing a historical picture of the articulation and rearticulation of this theme, Liu shows how changes in revolutionary discourse force unpredictable representations of gender rules and power relations, and how women's bodies reveal the complex interactions between political representation and gender roles. Revolution Plus Love is a nuanced and carefully considered work on gender and modernity in China, unmatched in its broad use of literary resources. It will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Chinese literature, women’s studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature.
Author: G. Arunima Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030795802 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 375
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This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the political, thus linking love and revolution together. The chapters engage with the affinities of those who live with their colonial pasts: crises of expectations, colonial national convulsions, memories of anti-colonial solidarity, even shared radical libraries. It calls attention to the specific and singular way in which notions of ‘love of the world’ were born in a precise moment of anti-colonial struggle: a love of the world for which one would offer one’s life, and for which there had been little precedent in the history of earlier revolutions. It thus offers new ways of understanding the shifts in global traditions of emancipation over two centuries.
Author: Michelle Morgan Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750969393 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 289
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Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star. From the outside, Carole's life was one of great glamour and fun, yet privately she endured much heartache. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and the sorrow of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood's King, Clark Gable. Lombard marched forward, promising to be positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that pieces of the aircraft are still buried in the mountain today. In Carole Lombard, bestselling author Michelle Morgan accesses previously unseen documents to tell the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continues to enthral.
Author: Carol Drinkwater Publisher: ISBN: 9780439999410 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 201
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22 DEcember 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place! A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be!
Author: Brian Grover Publisher: Kings Road Publishing ISBN: 1784185922 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 245
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In 1931 Brian Grover fled the world recession to seek fortune and adventure in Stalin's murderously dangerous Soviet Union. It was a move that was to dramatically change the course of his life. At the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow he met a beautiful, young nurse, named Ileana Petrovna. Their meeting marked the beginning of a passionate and extra-ordinary love affair that was to enchant the world.Set against a background of political and social turmoil, Out of Russia is the heart-warming and exquisitely written true story of one man's courage, bravery and unswerving determination to be with the woman he loved.
Author: Ilan Stavans Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374533180 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 769
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Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Author: Bob Crusader
Author: Bob Crusader
Author: Diana Holmes
Author: Märta Tikkanen
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Author: Liu Jianmei
Author: G. Arunima
Author: Michelle Morgan
Author: Carol Drinkwater
Author: Brian Grover
Author: Ilan Stavans