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Book Synopsis A Wasted Generation? by : Adewole O. Adedokun
Download or read book A Wasted Generation? written by Adewole O. Adedokun and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According the author, this work was inspired by a comment credited to Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian foremost playwright, poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate, describing the present generation of Nigeria as A WASTED GENERATION, and the activism of the Nigerian foremost and indefatigable human rights crusader, Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi. The novel is an expose of corruption in every segment of African society. It exposes the political, religious, educational, economical and moral decay and decadence in Africa. It satirizes the leadership mistrust and dissappointment.
Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation by : Owen Johnson
Download or read book The Wasted Generation written by Owen Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wasted Generation" is a book by Owen Johnson which is centered on a character David Littledale affected by the unexpected war and the circumstances that surround it. This book focuses on the reflection of David on his entire life; his once social life partying, searching for entertainment, and trying so hard not to be bored with life concerning his current situation at the center of the first world war. A book on self-reflection and self-discipline for both young and old.
Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation by : Owen Johnson
Download or read book The Wasted Generation written by Owen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation (Classic Reprint) by : Owen Johnson
Download or read book The Wasted Generation (Classic Reprint) written by Owen Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wasted Generation The record used to hang at the foot of my bed beside the fever chart and the record of Operations. From Chambery, here into a rest area, to put on flesh again, to quiet my jumping nerves and to fatten up for the return to the front. To-day I have no desire to hasten that return. I write it down frankly, - as I intend to keep honesty with myself and my impressions. There are other times when I feel the tug and fret to be back. It is my mood to-day, as war is a succession of nu related moods. This morning I ask no more of life than to continue here at my Open window in the buzzing month of August, looking down on a drowsy world in animal content. A pipe of tobacco and the noonday meal Pinard, pommes de terre frites, and perhaps a ragout with a touch of onions - all these simple joys to my keen senses seem the limit of human desires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Parable of a Wasted Generation by : John Okwoeze Odey
Download or read book The Parable of a Wasted Generation written by John Okwoeze Odey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation by : Owen McMahon Johnson
Download or read book The Wasted Generation written by Owen McMahon Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen McMahon Johnson's 'The Wasted Generation' meticulously examines the odyssey of self-discovery within the context of monumental historical upheaval. In his portrayal of David Littledale, an American expatriate entrenched in the hedonism of France's privileged class pre-World War I, Johnson captures the dissonance between frivolous pre-war indulgence and the sobering realities of conflict. This novel, steeped in the philosophical reverberations of a world at a crossroads, distinguishes itself with a narrative that is as contemplative as it is a pointed critique of a society teetering on the brink of transformation. With a prose that conveys both the decadence of the era and the starkness of war, Johnson provides a unique literary window into a generation's existential reckoning. Johnson, an American author, drew from his personal observations of society and the changing tides of cultural values to inform his writings. His characters often reflect a deep disenchantment with their historical moment, mirroring the disillusionment that followed the Great War. 'The Wasted Generation' can be seen as Johnson's intimate understanding and commentary on the period's zeitgeist, encapsulating the perplexing journey from innocence to maturation against the backdrop of a world losing its youthful gleam to the grimness of war. Scholars and general readers alike will discover in Johnson's 'The Wasted Generation' a compelling portrait of a man, and by extension a society, grappling with the profound dislocations brought about by war. It is an essential read for those interested in the literary depictions of the early 20th-century zeitgeist and the universally relatable journey towards finding meaning amidst chaos. Johnson's novel remains not only a sober reflection on a critical historical moment but also a timeless meditation on the human condition and the quest for identity in a rapidly changing world.
Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation by : Silviu Brucan
Download or read book The Wasted Generation written by Silviu Brucan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My generation in Eastern Europe was caught in the middle of two revolutions (1944 and 1989), which instead of moving history ahead pushed it backward. We thus at first made a U-turn-a tortuous one, to be sure-from underdeveloped capitalism to underdeveloped socialism, but because socialism and underdevelopment are strange bedfellows,we have since discovered we were on the wrong path and are trying now to return to where we started. The drama of that generation is what this book is about.
Book Synopsis The Lost Generation by : Reginald Pound
Download or read book The Lost Generation written by Reginald Pound and published by London : Constable [1964]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everybody Was So Young by : Amanda Vaill
Download or read book Everybody Was So Young written by Amanda Vaill and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal
Book Synopsis Letters from the Lost Generation by : Linda Patterson Miller
Download or read book Letters from the Lost Generation written by Linda Patterson Miller and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent. This is a fine, and unusual, collection of literary Americana."--Atlantic "Fine comic moments of truth."--New York Times Book Review "An invaluable source of literary history."--Publishers Weekly This is the story of one of the most famous literary "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Phillip Barry, and many others. They personified the jazz age and the lost generation. The Murphys have been viewed primarily as cult/pop figures. In this book Miller shows, through a sequential interweaving of letters from several correspondents, that they actually were the nucleus without which the group as we know it would not have stayed together. Miller allows the individual correspondents to tell their own stories, providing new insights into their lives and this era. It is the best sort of eavesdropping. Gerald and Sara Murphy married on December 30, 1915. Both families were moneyed and cosmopolitan. Their attraction to each other was in part based on their desire to escape the routine and predictable social rounds in which their families were immersed. Against their families' wishes, they and their three children left for Europe in 1921. They remained in France for over a decade, and quite naturally socialized with the expatriate set. They were, in part, models for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night. MacLeish wrote poems about them, their friends paid tribute to them and relied on them day to day and in correspondence, and their own letters are worth reading for their liveliness and because they so well preserve a record of the twenties and thirties. Miller provides nearly every extant letter between the Murphys and their friends during those decades. Most of them have not been published previously, and of course, they have never been presented collectively. Together, they constitute an epistolary "novel" of peculiar power and authenticity about a remarkable era. Linda Patterson Miller is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University at Ogontz.
Book Synopsis Shutting Out the Sun by : Michael Zielenziger
Download or read book Shutting Out the Sun written by Michael Zielenziger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial, Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.
Book Synopsis The Wasted Generation by : Owen Johnson
Download or read book The Wasted Generation written by Owen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters From A Lost Generation by : Mark Bostridge
Download or read book Letters From A Lost Generation written by Mark Bostridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
Book Synopsis The Lost Generation by : David Tremayne
Download or read book The Lost Generation written by David Tremayne and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s was a great decade for British racing drivers, but it was also the era in which the nation lost a generation of brilliant young drivers – Roger Williamson, Tony Brise and Tom Pryce – in tragic accidents. All had the potential to be World Champions. With access to their families, friends and race colleagues, David Tremayne tells their full stories in this superb book, now available in paperback. It makes for poignant but uplifting reading.
Download or read book The American 1890s written by Larzer Ziff and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Lost Generation by : Ronald S. Zimney
Download or read book A Lost Generation written by Ronald S. Zimney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fifty years old and widowed for the last ten, Lilly Larsen understands that Roger Hartec could be a heartbreaker. First, there's his age. Roger is more than ten years younger than she. And the rumor mill in Ashland Falls, Minnesota, says he might have a penchant for violence, which she witnesses him exercise. At the local museum, Roger, a Vietnam War veteran, throws a park bench through a plate-glass window that had been protecting a display of the American flag being desecrated. In spite of his violent action, Lilly finds herself attracted to this tall, strong man because of the tenderness he displays with the crying Cub Scout in her charge. With the help of two close friends, Lilly is determined to make a new life with this enigmatic and troubled veteran. Together Lilly and Roger embark on a journey of creating a diverse family of rejected individuals. Surmounting one obstacle after another, with the help of an ever-growing circle of friends, this loving couple has no idea of the far-reaching impact their union has made on their community. A story of confession and redemption, A Lost Generation showcases the struggle for survival of a Vietnam combat veteran as he reenters society.
