Author: Kim HargreavesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906487089
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Touching Elegance
Author: Kim HargreavesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906487089
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Selfishly
Author: Leatra HernandezPublisher: Amazon
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Selfishly is a book of poems that will capture your heart and embrace your desire.
Ernst Kantorowicz
Author: Robert E. LernerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential German-American medieval historian whose colorful life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, he fought in World War I—earning an Iron Cross and an Iron Crescent—before being sent home following an affair with a general’s mistress. Though he was an ardent German nationalist during the Weimar period, after the Nazis came to power he bravely spoke out against the regime before an overflowing crowd in Frankfurt. He narrowly avoided arrest after Kristallnacht, fleeing to England and then the United States, where he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for refusing to sign an anticommunist “loyalty oath.” From there, he “fell up the ladder” to Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where he wrote his masterwork, The King’s Two Bodies. Drawing on many new sources, including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E. Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times were as fascinating as his work.
Marston, or, The memoirs of a statesman
Author: Portraits of men
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuvePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The London Review
Author: Poems
Author: Coventry PatmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Victories of Love, and Other Poems
Author: Coventry PatmoreMore Was Lost
Author: Eleanor PerenyiPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179498
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker) Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II, after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Perényi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. She throws herself into this life with zeal, learning Hungarian and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. In the midst of massive political upheaval, Perényi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life, an alliance that will soon be tested by the war. With old-fashioned frankness and wit, Perényi recounts this poignant tale of how much was gained and how much more was lost.
The Victories of Love
Author: Coventry Kersey Dighton PatmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description