Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A New Edition
Author: Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition
Author: Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition.
Author: Laurence SterneThe Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
Author: Kip WilsonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358447763
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job at a gay cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson. On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club’s waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings for Rosa. But Berlin is in turmoil. Between the elections, protests in the streets, worsening antisemitism and anti-homosexual sentiment, and the beginning seeds of unrest in Café Lila itself, Hilde will have to decide what’s best for her future . . . and what it means to love a place on the cusp of war.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Laurence SterneThe History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... A New Edition
Author: Laurence SterneThe Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889
Author: Amy LevyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813012001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels, and three collections of poetry, but none of them is in print today and her works are to be found almost solely in the closed stacks and rare book collections of university libraries. To correct this unavailability and set the stage for a generous selection of her work, Melvyn New introduces Amy Levy as an unmarried Victorian woman and an urban intellectual, disillusioned by the mores of her culture, yet unable to abandon her identification with the English Jews who embodied so much of what she scorned. He reconstructs her world in 1880s England--a time when the president of the British Medical Association warned his colleagues that educated women would become "more or less sexless. . . . [Such women] have highly developed brains but most of them die young"--raising questions that lead to the tortured heart and mind of this "found" writer.
Author: Laurence Sterne
Author: Laurence Sterne