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Author : ARNO. GEIGER
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ISBN 13 : 9781908276896
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Old King in His Exile written by ARNO. GEIGER and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arno Geiger Geiger
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ISBN 13 : 9781632061072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Old King in His Exile written by Arno Geiger Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudha Shah
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350295989
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The King In Exile written by Sudha Shah and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An absorbing read. Exhaustively researched and gracefully written, The King in Exile tells a story of compelling human interest, filled with drama, pathos and tragedy... [It] heralds the arrival of a writer of non-fiction who is both uncommonly talented and exceptionally diligent...One of the great merits of [the book] is that it is completely free of jargon and theorizing. It is in essence a family story, centred on five women whose lives were waylaid by history' - Amitav Ghosh in his blog 'The captivity of Burma's last king and the fall of the Konbaung dynasty: a compelling new account' In 1879, as the king of Burma lay dying, one of his queens schemed for his forty-first son, Thibaw, to supersede his half brothers to the throne. For seven years, King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat ruled from the resplendent, intrigue-infused Golden Palace in Mandalay, where they were treated as demi-gods. After a war against Britain in 1885, their kingdom was lost, and the family exiled to the secluded town of Ratnagiri in British-occupied India. Here they lived, closely guarded, for over thirty-one years. The king's four daughters received almost no education, and their social interaction was restricted mainly to their staff. As the princesses grew, so did their hopes and frustrations. Two of them fell in love with 'highly inappropriate' men. In 1916, the heartbroken king died. Queen Supayalat and her daughters were permitted to return to Rangoon in 1919. In Burma, the old queen regained some of her feisty spirit as visitors came by daily to pay their respects. All the princesses, however, had to make numerous adjustments in a world they had no knowledge of. The impact of the deposition and exile echoed forever in each of their lives, as it did in the lives of their children. Written after years of meticulous research, and richly supplemented with photographs and illustrations, The King in Exile is an engrossing human-interest story of this forgotten but fascinating family.
Author : Arno Geiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908276889
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)
Download or read book The Old King in His Exile written by Arno Geiger and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller Shortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck Prize What makes us who we are? Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. "As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world, I have to go over to his." So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last. Born in 1926 in the Austrian Alps, into a farming family who had an orchard, kept three cows, and made schnapps in the cellar, his father was conscripted into World War II as a "schoolboy soldier" - an experience he rarely spoke about, though it marked him. Striking up a new friendship, Arno walks with him in the village and the landscape they both grew up in and listens to his words, which are often full of unexpected poetry. Through his intelligent, moving and often funny account, we begin to see that whatever happens in old age, a human being retains their past and their character. Translated into nearly 30 languages, The Old King in His Exile will offer solace and insight to anyone coping with a loved one's aging.
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book King Lear. Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: King Lear. 1880 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: King Lear. 10th ed. 1908 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Callow
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479881
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book James II: King in Exile written by John Callow and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James II was Britain’s last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his final exile? John Callow’s groundbreaking study focuses on this hitherto neglected period of his life: the twelve years he spent attempting to recover his crown through war, diplomacy, assassination and subterfuge. This is the story of the genesis of Jacobitism; of the devotion of the fallen king’s followers, who shed their blood for him at the battle of the Boyne and the massacre at Glencoe, gave up estates and riches to follow him to France, and immortalised his name in artworks, print, and song. Yet, this first ‘King Over the Water’ was far more than a figurehead. A grim, inflexible warlord and a maladroit politician, he was also a man of undeniable principle, which he pursued regardless of the cost to either himself or his subjects. He was an author of considerable talent, and a monarch capable of successive reinventions. Denied his earthly kingdoms, he finally settled upon attaining a heavenly crown and was venerated by the Jacobites as a saint. This powerful, evocative and original book will appeal to anyone interested in Stuart history, politics, culture and military studies.
Author : Julian May
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547892500
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Nonborn King written by Julian May and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1983-02-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Award–winning sci-fi series. A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. But instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien races—each possessing great psychic powers—locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu, a group of humans forms an uneasy alliance with the dwarfish Firvulag. But even after they succeed in destroying the Tanu capital, the war is far from over. Aiken Drum, a human with awesome mental powers, has usurped the Tanu throne. Aiken faces opposition from skeptical Tanu factions, as well as the revitalized Firvulag, who now out-number the Tanu-human coalition that Aiken has patched together. But another menace emerges to threaten Aiken's rule: a group of fearsome rogues from the year 2083, who have been living quietly in North America for decades. Led by Marc Remillard, they now seek to take advantage of the chaos in King Aiken's Many-Colored Land in order to seize control of the time-portal. The Nonborn King features the same blend of adventure, rich pageantry, humor, and fantastic eroticism that characterized The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc.
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Indian Story Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Nava
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271063289
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wonder and Exile in the New World written by Alex Nava and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate later representations in the Baroque age, and ultimately enters the twentieth century with the emergence of so-called magical realism. In telling the story of wonder in the New World, Nava gives special attention to the part it played in the history of violence and exile, either as a force that supported and reinforced the Conquest or as a voice of resistance and decolonization. Focusing on the work of New World explorers, writers, and poets—and their literary descendants—Nava finds that wonder and exile have been two of the most significant metaphors within Latin American cultural, literary, and religious representations. Beginning with the period of the Conquest, especially with Cabeza de Vaca and Las Casas, continuing through the Baroque with Cervantes and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and moving into the twentieth century with Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Ángel Asturias, Nava produces a historical study of Latin American narrative in which religious and theological perspectives figure prominently.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
