Memoirs of a Peasant Boy

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490720723
Total Pages : 119 pages
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by : Xosé Neira Vilas

Download or read book Memoirs of a Peasant Boy written by Xosé Neira Vilas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balbino,"a boy from a village", a "nobody" who writes a notebook about everything that happens to him within the repressed and stifling society of Galicia in the thirties and forties. He tells of the moral and social atmosphere that prevails asking and answering questions and details the most elemental social struggle. There is also however the story of a true but impossible love. This book was first printed in Argentina in 1961 and became one of the most successful Galician books published. It has a lyrical style that immediately evokes sights and sounds of this part of Spain. The author Xos Neira Vilas writes from his experiences of the era and the lifestyle of boys growing up in that society and provides a rich insight to life of the peasant boy "Balbino".

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583226162
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Breton Peasant written by Jean-Marie Deguignet and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards by most French standards; formal education among rural society was either unavailable or dismissed as unnecessary, while the church and local myth defined most people's reasoning and motivation. Jean-Marie Déguignet is unique not only as a literate Breton peasant, but in his skepticism for the church, his interest in science, astronomy and languages, and for his keen—often caustic—observations of the world and people around him. Born into rural poverty in 1834, Déguignet escapes Brittany by joining the French Army in 1854, and over the next fourteen years he fights in the Crimean war, attends Napoleon III’s coronation ceremonies, supports Italy’s liberation struggle, and defends the hapless French puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. He teaches himself Latin, French, Italian and Spanish and reads extensively on history, philosophy, politics, and literature. He returns home to live as a farmer and tobacco-seller, eventually falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, Deguignet’s freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his contemporaries. Déguignet’s voluminous journals (nearly 4,000 pages in total) were discovered in a farmhouse in Brittany a century after they were written. This narrative was drawn from them and became a surprise bestseller when published in France in 1998.

Rerouting Galician Studies

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319657291
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Rerouting Galician Studies written by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—aimed at both the general reader and the specialist—offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic poetry and photography, Galician language in the US academic curriculum, the politics of children’s books, film and visual studies, the interrelation of painting and literature, and material culture. Structured around five organizational categories (Frames, Routes, Readings, Teachings, and Visualities), and adopting a pluricentric view of Galicia as an analytical subject of study, the book brings cutting-edge debates in Galician Studies to a broad international readership.

Fiction, Memoirs, Criticism

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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702228599
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (285 download)

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When I Was a Boy in Russia (1916)

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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104528867
Total Pages : 200 pages
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The Fiery Dawn

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Total Pages : 470 pages
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Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library

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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Home Comforts

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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Lifetime True Story of a Bosnian Boy Soldier

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Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781787102477
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Lifetime True Story of a Bosnian Boy Soldier written by Spiro Dobrijevic and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a general rule, memoirs are written by people who are clever, rich or famous. People who, over the years, make notes of interesting events which, years after, help them to write about them. In my case I am neither clever, rich nor famous, nor have I written any notes to make use of. I will depend entirely on my memory and my recollections. I consider myself as a poorly or, at best, a self-educated Bosnian peasant. I was born in 1928 in former Yugoslavia, now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina. My name is Spiro Dobrijevic. Having lived in the UK since 1948, by naturalisation I am a British citizen. We all have a story to tell and I hope that the readers will find mine both interesting and entertaining. The story will tell you of my upbringing in that lovely corner of Bosnia, of my wartime experiences as a boy soldier, of my journey, on foot, from Bosnia to Italy, of my journey, by train, from Italy to Germany, then from Germany to England. It will tell you my experiences, my observations and comments on a number of varied subjects. It will tell you of my activities to maintain my mental as well as my physical existence for the last eighty-eight years. Above all, it will tell you what it means to have to leave your birth place, at my age or at any age; your family, your friends, your neighbours and everything else that makes life worth living. It will also tell you what it meant for a young, uneducated, inexperienced boy to find himself in a land which offered nothing remotely familiar to him.

Memoirs of Peter Jansen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Memoirs of Eminent Teachers and Educators

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Total Pages : 702 pages
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Blue-Eyed Boy

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127594
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City, Central Library

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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School-days of Eminent Men. I. Sketches of the progress of education in England, from the reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria. II. Early lives of celebrated British authors, philosophers, etc

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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Year-book of Facts in Science and the Arts

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Total Pages : 346 pages
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glenny's Hand-book to the Flower Garden & Greenhouse, etc

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Total Pages : 430 pages
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