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Intimate Letters From Petrograd (Classic Reprint)

Author : Pauline S. Crosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331089179
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Letters From Petrograd (Classic Reprint) written by Pauline S. Crosley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Intimate Letters From Petrograd These letters were actually written at the times indicated by the wife of an American officer temporarily attached to the State Department as an Attache to our Embassy at Petrograd. They begin with the arrival in Russia and extend to the rather dramatic escape from that unfortunate and unpleasant sadly upset country, when all foreigners were seeking a safer place, except those Germans who appeared to be under the protection of the ones who are generally called Bolsheviki but who may more properly be termed Anarchists. The period they cover is one of great interest to poor Russia and consequently to the whole world, of which Russia as she was, formed such a large percentage in area and population. 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.

Letters from Russia

Author : Marquis de Custine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141394528
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Russia written by Marquis de Custine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.

Bookseller and Print Dealers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bookseller and Print Dealers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to Véra

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110187581X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Véra written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, and memorable. At the same time, the letters reveal much about their author. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything—animals, people, speech, landscapes and cityscapes—and glimpse his ceaseless work on his poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays, and translations. This delightful volume is enhanced by twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters and the puzzles and drawings Vladimir often sent to Véra. With 8 pages of photographs and 47 illustrations in text

Intimate Letters from Petrograd

Author : Pauline Stewart Crosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Letters from Petrograd written by Pauline Stewart Crosley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caught in the Revolution

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473518172
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Caught in the Revolution written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD '[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.' Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareava. Drawing upon a rich trove of material and through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold, Helen Rappaport takes us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened.

Letters to Yesenin

Author : Jim Harrison
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592655
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Yesenin written by Jim Harrison and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Yesenin was a Russian poet who, in 1925, hanged himself after writing his farewell poem in blood. Jim Harrison's "correspondence" with Yesenin is an American masterwork. In the early 1970s, Harrison was living in poverty on a hard-scrabble farm, suffering from depression and suicidal urges. He began to write daily prose-poem letters to Yesenin, confiding to his unlikely friend about sex, drunkenness, family, politics - about living for another day. Although "the rope" remained ever present, Harrison listened to his poems: "My year-old daughter's red robe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop."

Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political history-one which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legislation, radio and government hearings. All of these methods illuminate this period of state transformation, and perceptions of that emergent state, in the years of the first New Deal. The creation of G-men and gangsters as cultural heroes in this period not only explores the Depression-era obsession with crime and celebrity, but it also lends insight on how citizens understood a nation undergoing large political and social changes. Anxieties about crime today have become a familiar route for the creation of new government agencies and the extension of state authority. It is important to remember the original "war on crime" in the 1930s-and the opportunities it afforded to New Dealers and established bureaucrats like J. Edgar Hoover-as scholars grapple with the ways states assert influence over populations, local authority, and party politics while they pursue goals such as reducing popular violence and protecting private property.

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia

Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611684552
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia written by ChaeRan Y. Freeze and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life storiesÑreflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinaryÑthe sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772Ð1795) to World War I combines with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.

Catalogue

Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AB Bookman's Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Author : Modest Chaĭkovskiĭ
Publisher : London ; New York : J. Lane
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky written by Modest Chaĭkovskiĭ and published by London ; New York : J. Lane. This book was released on 1906 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The People's Act Of Love

Author : James Meek
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847673759
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The People's Act Of Love written by James Meek and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .

Letters of Ayn Rand

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137282
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Letters of Ayn Rand written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no separation between Ayn Rand the vibrant, creative woman and Ayn Rand the intellectual dynamo, the rational thinker, who was also a passionately committed champion of individual freedom. These remarkable letters begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand, newly arrived in Chicago from Soviet Russia, an impoverished unknown determined to realize the promise of the land of opportunity. They move through her struggles and successes as a screenwriter, a playwright, and a novelist, her sensational triumph as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and her eminence as founder and shaper of Objectivism, one of the most challenging philosophies of our time. They are written to such famed contemporaries as Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd Wright, H.L. Mencken, Alexander Kerensky, Barry Goldwater and Mickey Spillane There are letters to philosophers, priests, publishers, and political columnists; to her beloved husband, Frank O' Connor; and to her intimate circle of friends and her growing legion of followers. Her letters range in tone from warm affection to icy fury, and in content from telling commentaries on the events of the day to unforgettably eloquent statements of her philosophical ideas. They are presented chronologically, with explanatory notes by Michael S. Berliner, who identifies the recipients of the letters and provides relevant background and context. Here is a chronicle that captures the inspiring drama of a towering literary genius and seminal thinker, and--often day-by-day--her amazing life.

The New Russian Book

Author : Birgitte Beck Pristed
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319507087
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The New Russian Book written by Birgitte Beck Pristed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in the transformation of Soviet print culture to a post-Soviet book market. It delivers a profound and critical exploration of Russian visual imaginary of classic, popular, and contemporary prose. Among all the carelessly bungled covers of mass-published post-Soviet series the study identifies gems from experimental designers. By taking a comparative approach to the clash of two formerly separate book cultures, the Western and the Soviet, that results both in a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow forms and in ideological re-interpretations of the literary works, this book contributes to opening an East-West dialogue between the fields of Russian studies, contemporary book and media history, art, design, and visual studies.

Door Wide Open

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0141001879
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Door Wide Open written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.