Author: Hyegyŏnggung Hong SsiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0710311591
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Memoirs of the Red Queen
Author: Hyegyŏnggung Hong SsiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0710311591
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Memoirs Of The Red Queen
Author: LadyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136217037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Red Queen
Author: Margaret DrabblePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547544227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess, Barbara tours the royal courts and develops a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life. Barbara's time in Korea goes quickly, but captivated by her experience and wanting to know more about the princess, she wonders if her life can ever be the way it was before.
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Author: Alix Kates ShulmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
Author: E.L. KonigsburgPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439132151
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Eleanor of Acquitaine has been waiting in Heaven for a long time to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission--and while Eleanor waits, three people close to her during various times of her life join her, helping to distract her and providing a rich portrait of a remarkable woman in history.
Play the Red Queen
Author: Juri JurjevicsPublisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 164129213X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The posthumous masterwork by critically acclaimed author, storied publisher, and Viet Nam veteran Juris Jurjevics—the story of two American GI cops caught in the corrupt cauldron of a Vietnamese civil war stoked red hot by revolution. Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam “advising” the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer. Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Viet Nam War, Play the Red Queen is Juris Jurjevics’s capstone contribution to a lifelong literary legacy: a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war.
White King and Red Queen
Author: Daniel JohnsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547133379
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
Author: JaHyun Kim HaboushPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.
Red Spy Queen
Author: Kathryn S. OlmstedPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807827390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley
Gang of One
Author: Fan ShenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.