Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521398275 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1990, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521297349 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 278
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Autobiography of the novelist which covers the years spent in Malta and ends with his departure from England in 1919 to live in Spain.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521200066 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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The paperback edition of a very successful and in some ways remarkable book, first published in 1973. Gerald Brenan is well known for his 'expository' works on Spanish history and literature, and now in his eighties he has returned to an early interest in the Spanish mystics to produce an absorbing study of St John of the Cross, one of the foremost of Catholic mystics and poets. The book is perhaps the first in English to combine an objective - but sensitive and lively - account of St John's life with a fresh translation (by Mr Brenan's associate Lynda Nicholson) of his verse.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141918039 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 336
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Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from Brenan’s friends from the Bloomsbury group – Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf among them. Knowledgeable, elegant and sympathetic, this is a rich account of Spain’s vanished past.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521043137 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 524
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A paperback of Gerald Brenan's account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present, which has won praise from every quarter for its original and enthusiastic approach, its wide-ranging scholarship and elegant style. First published in paperback in 1976, this book remains a useful study of Spanish literary history.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: New Word City ISBN: 1612309941 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 14
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Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.
Author: Gerald Brenan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 480
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The House of Percy is one of the most illustrious in English history and the Percy family has controlled the Earldom (later Dukedom) of Northumberland with very few breaks since the time of William the Conqueror.
Author: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571316816 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 575
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'A masterpiece which delights from first page to last.' TLS 'Very clever, very funny and very bold.' Victoria Glendinning, Times Born in 1894 to a well-off military family, Gerard Brenan was expected to follow the family tradition. But at Radley school he discovered a love of books and an urge to break the mould, which led him to abscond to Europe for six months. After the First World War he went to Spain, where he found the inspiration for his life's work (and began an affair with Dora Carrington.) Come the 1930s his life changed again, with marriage and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, which inspired his masterpiece The Spanish Labyrinth (1943). Drawing on long personal acquaintance as well as a wealth of unpublished correspondence, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy looks unflinchingly at the whole of this remarkable man of letters - from his venturesome spirit to his troublesome sexuality to his literary accomplishment. 'By no means unworthy to stand beside P N Furbank's Forster, Michael Holroyd's Strachey or Quentin Bell's Woolf... Affectionate but acerbic, learned but witty, elegant but relaxed, [Gathorne-Hardy] entertains as consistently as he informs.' Independent on Sunday
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
Author: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy