Elias Portolu

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810112513
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Elias Portolu by : Grazia Deledda

Download or read book Elias Portolu written by Grazia Deledda and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1926 Novel Prize for Literature After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralyzing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognizes the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too late.

How We Desire

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Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925626652
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis How We Desire by : Carolin Emcke

Download or read book How We Desire written by Carolin Emcke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it again later—and then again, after that? What if our sexuality reinvents itself every time our desire shifts, every time the object of our desire changes? What if the nature of our desire is constantly changing—growing deeper, lighter, wilder, more reckless, more tender, more selfish, more devoted, more radical? How We Desire is an enthralling essay about gender, sexuality and love by one of Germany’s most admired writers. It’s about growing up, and discovering the contours of desire and difference, about understanding that we sometimes ‘slip into norms the way we slip into clothes, putting them on because they’re laid out ready for us’. In telling her own story, Emcke draws back the veil on how we experience desire, no matter what our sexual orientation. And she examines how prejudice against homosexuality has survived its decriminalisation in the west. This marvellous book pays homage to the radical magic and liberating tenderness of desire itself. Carolin Emcke was born in 1967. She studied philosophy, politics and history in London, Frankfurt and at Harvard. From 1998 to 2013 she reported from war and crisis zones including Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Gaza and Haiti. She has written a number of books, and in 2016 she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, which has also been won by Svetlana Alexievich, Orhan Pamuk and Susan Sontag. How We Desire is the first book by Carolin Emcke to be translated into English. ‘Hypnotic.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A beautiful acount of discovering and rediscovering one’s identity.’ Otago Daily Times ‘Delicate and vulnerable, angry, passionate, clever and thoughtful. An amazing work.’ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 'Her words tremble with fury...A compelling conversation, urging readers to rethink the borderlands of the erotic.’ Australian ‘Huge intellect and tremendous energy.’ Radio NZ

Only a Fiddler

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Only a Fiddler by : Hans Christian Andersen

Download or read book Only a Fiddler written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den fattige, musikbegavede skrædderdreng Christian fra Svendborg går til grunde, fordi hans talent ikke får de rette udfoldelsesmuligheder

The Miracles of Antichrist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Miracles of Antichrist written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outcast

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Outcast by : William Winwood Reade

Download or read book The Outcast written by William Winwood Reade and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gunnar's Daughter

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141180205
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Gunnar's Daughter by : Sigrid Undset

Download or read book Gunnar's Daughter written by Sigrid Undset and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor—until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. First published in 1909, Gunnar's Daughter was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time—and in ours—as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.

The Lying Days

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747559937
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Lying Days written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Shaw is the daughter of white middle-class parents in a gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, her awareness of the African life around her grows. Her involvement with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.

Christ Legends

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Publisher : New York : H. Holt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Christ Legends by : Selma Lagerlöf

Download or read book Christ Legends written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by New York : H. Holt. This book was released on 1908 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charlotte Löwensköld (Musaicum Must Classics)

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Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Charlotte Löwensköld (Musaicum Must Classics) by : Selma Lagerlöf

Download or read book Charlotte Löwensköld (Musaicum Must Classics) written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Löwensköld is a beautiful, educated woman. She ignores her husband and daughters in favor of her son Karl-Arthur, for whom she has enormous hopes. Charlotte expected him to become a successful man, but when he left home for studies in Uppsala everything changed.

A Manor House Tale

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ISBN 13 : 9781909408258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis A Manor House Tale by : Selma Lagerlöf

Download or read book A Manor House Tale written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part psychological novel, love story, folk tale, and Gothic melodrama, this is the story of two young lovers rescuing each other from their psychological underworlds.

Family Furnishings

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874112
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Family Furnishings by : Alice Munro

Download or read book Family Furnishings written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary collection” (San Francisco Chronicle) of twenty-four short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. “Superb . . . Munro is a writer to be cherished.”—NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune A selection of Alice Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from 1995 to 2014, these stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home”—we glimpse the author’s own life. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.

Erasmus is Late

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Publisher : Book Works (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781870699174
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Erasmus is Late written by Liam Gillick and published by Book Works (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiré du site Internet de Book Works: "Tiré du site Internet de Book Works: "The central character of Erasmus is Late is Erasmus Darwin, opium-eater and brother of the more famous Charles who is indeed late. Late for a dinner party that he himself is giving and whose illustrious guests, already assembled around his table, include: Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy; Masura Ibuka, co-founder of Sony; and Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist's mother, illustrates these sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to 'unfree' thought and the working classes. On one level a guide to contemporary London seen through the eyes of a Georgian, Erasmus is Late is also an examination of pre-Marxist positions, an ill-researched investigation of a Utopian optimism that is struggling to predict the future."

Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521831246
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire written by Maureen Healy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

There Goes Kafka

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis There Goes Kafka by : Johannes Urzidil

Download or read book There Goes Kafka written by Johannes Urzidil and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconstructing a National Identity

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195176308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing a National Identity by : Marsha L. Rozenblit

Download or read book Reconstructing a National Identity written by Marsha L. Rozenblit and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.

Just So Stories Annotated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Just So Stories Annotated by : Rudyard Kipling

Download or read book Just So Stories Annotated written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works.Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told just so (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.

The Jew's Body

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136038787
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jew's Body by : Sander Gilman

Download or read book The Jew's Body written by Sander Gilman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psychoanalysis in the construction of anti-Semitism, examining Freud's attitude towards his own Jewishness and its effect on his theories, as well as the supposed "objectiveness" of psychiatrists and social scientists.