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Sybille

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497602203
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Sybille written by Marion Meade and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteenth-century France, a female poet endures the chaos of the Albigensian Crusade in this novel by the author of Eleanor of Aquitaine. A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics. Sybille d’Astarac, born to pampered luxury, is a gifted female troubadour. But her poems grow dark as the Catholic crusade seeks to eradicate her sect. In the face of massacre, can Sybille survive the Inquisition? Will her love songs? A work of stunning historical fiction, Sybille displays Marion Meade's pitch‐perfect understanding of strong women facing the harsh realities of life in medieval times. As Robin Morgan, author of The Anatomy of Freedom, writes, this book is “an inspiration for women and an illumination for all readers.”

Sybille Bedford

Author : Selina Hastings
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781101947913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Sybille Bedford written by Selina Hastings and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic family history. Born just outside Berlin, she lived alternately in Baden, the south of France, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and London. As an adolescent she was mentored by Aldous Huxley . . . Martha Gellhorn convinced her to write her first novel, A Legacy, which would finally be published in 1956 . . . in the 1960s she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials including that of Auschwitz officials, and Jack Ruby's for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . . . she was an important figure in the lesbian community in Europe and America . . . and though she often found herself in dire financial straits, her life was just as often underwritten by devoted men or her women lovers. She was possessed of a fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, compassion, and unstinting engagement with all the vagaries and variety of life. And Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements"--

Sybille Bedford

Author : Selina Hastings
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101947926
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Sybille Bedford written by Selina Hastings and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the universally acclaimed British writer, Sybille Bedford, by the celebrated author of books about Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. Passionate, liberated, fiercely independent, Sybille Bedford was a writer and a journalist, the author of ten books, including a biography of Aldous Huxley, and four novels, all of which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Born in Berlin, she grew up in Baden, first with her distant, aristocratic father, and then in France with her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother and her lover. She was a child with a German Jewish background who survived two world wars and went on to spend her adult life in exile in France, Italy, New York, and Los Angeles, before finally settling in England. Bedford was ahead of her time in many ways, with great enthusiasm for life and all its sensual pleasures, including friendships with bold faced names in the worlds of literature and food as well as a literary network of high-powered lesbians. Aldous Huxley became a mentor, and Martha Gellhorn encouraged her to write her first novel, A Legacy; in 1989, her novel Jigsaw was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In the 1960s, she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials, including those of Auschwitz officials accused of Nazi war crimes and Jack Ruby, on trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Brenda Wineapple has called Bedford "one of the finest stylists of the 20th century, bar none." In this major biography, Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, and compassion of the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements.

The Silence of the Sybille

Author : John Randolph Clay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Silence of the Sybille written by John Randolph Clay and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coralie

Author : Charles Henry Eden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Coralie written by Charles Henry Eden and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Legacy

Author : Sybille Bedford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590178270
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Legacy written by Sybille Bedford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two vastly different families—one Jewish, one Catholic—are joined in marriage in this “witty, elegant, and uproariously funny” historical drama set in pre-war Europe (Evelyn Waugh). “Partly ironic, partly nostalgic, A Legacy calls to mind other novels that portray the zenith and decline of an ostentatious old order.” —The Wall Street Journal A Legacy is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin’s haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their huge town house, they devote themselves to little more than enjoying their comforts and ensuring their wealth. The Feldens are landed aristocracy, well off but not rich, from Germany’s Catholic south. After Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families will be strangely, indeed fatally, entwined. Set during the run-up to World War I, a time of weirdly mingled complacency and angst, A Legacy is captivating, magnificently funny, and profound, an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life.

Jigsaw

Author : Sybille Bedford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137191X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Jigsaw written by Sybille Bedford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford's autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars. Sybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw—her fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize—she did it with particular artistry. “What I had in mind,” she was later to say, “was to build a novel out of the events and people who had made up, and marked, my early youth...Truth here was an artistic, not moral, requirement...It involved...writing about myself, my feelings, my actions.” And so she assembled the puzzle pieces of her singular past into a picture of her “unsentimental education.” We learn of a childhood spent alone with her father, “a stranded man of the world” living a life of “ungenteel poverty in quite grand surroundings,” a château, that is, deep in the German countryside, with wine but little else for him and his young daughter to hold body and soul together. We learn of her return to Italy and her mother, “the one character I wished to keep minor and knew all along that it could not be done,” and the dark secret consuming her mother’s life. Finally, she tells us how she lived with and learned from Aldous and Maria Huxley on the French Riviera, developing the sense of purpose and determination that made her the great writer she would become.

Auschwitz

Author : Sybille Steinbacher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062296191
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Auschwitz written by Sybille Steinbacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to anyone on earth in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the Second World War. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

Author : Sybille Bedford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370573
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error written by Sybille Bedford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her daughter Constanza, the favorite of the title, inherits her mother’s beauty, intelligence, and wealth, along with her father’s Catholicism, which she soon rejects. When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the standards of behavior of their disparate cultures; Constanza, with her European upbringing, is free to plot her own course, and she does so with daring, making an unconventional life for herself in England and on the continent during and after the First World War. Her own daughter Flavia is the heroine of A Compass Error, which begins where the first novel concludes. Flavia too is a brilliant young woman, though both more brash and more faltering than her mother, studying for her entrance exam to Oxford when she becomes involved with a mysterious woman whose arrival at a sensitive moment in Flavia’s adolescence will alter both her and her mother’s lives forever.

A Visit to Don Otavio

Author : Sybille Bedford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907871873
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book A Visit to Don Otavio written by Sybille Bedford and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.

Quicksands

Author : Sybille Bedford
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140279768
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Quicksands written by Sybille Bedford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to comfort in London's Chelsea.

The Connaught Rangers ...

Author : Henry Francis Newdigate Jourdain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Connaught Rangers ... written by Henry Francis Newdigate Jourdain and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blek Le Rat

Author : King Adz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500287354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Blek Le Rat written by King Adz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a unique view inside the life and work of one of the most private, but also one of the most loved, most applauded and most influential figures in the vibrant world of street art. Blek le Rat is revered and acknowledged by the international street and graffiti community, and his work has influenced record and CD design, advertising and graphics, as well as the work of many street artists around the world." "Blek le Rat offers photography of over 300 of the artist's work in situ. With an in-depth personal exploration of the method and meaning behind Blek's stencils, as well as a taste of the evolution of urban art from New York, Paris, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, to London, Taipei, Naples and Berlin, this book cannot fail to inspire street and urban enthusiasts and students alike."--BOOK JACKET.

The Sibylline Oracles

Author : Milton S. Terry
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849621782
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Sibylline Oracles written by Milton S. Terry and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.

Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro

Author : Helen Tunnicliff Catterall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro written by Helen Tunnicliff Catterall and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Etruscan Civilization

Author : Sybille Haynes
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892366002
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Etruscan Civilization written by Sybille Haynes and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture. This in-depth examination of Etruria examines how differing access to mineral wealth, trade routes, and agricultural land led to distinct regional variations. Heavily illustrated with ancient Etruscan art and cultural objects, the text is organized both chronologically and thematically, interweaving archaeological evidence, analysis of social structure, descriptions of trade and burial customs, and an examination of pottery and works of art.

Muhammad Ali

Author : Titeux Sybille
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1630088994
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali written by Titeux Sybille and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali! An original graphic novel celebrating the life of the glorious athlete who metamorphosed from Cassius Clay to become a three-time heavyweight boxing legend, activist, and provocateur: Muhammad Ali. Not only a titan in the world of sports but in the world itself, he dared to be different and to challenge and defy through his refusal to be drafted to fight in Vietnam, his rejection of his “slave” name, and ultimately his final fight with his body itself through a thirty-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Witness what made Ali different, what made him cool, what made him the Greatest. * The critically acclaimed French graphic novel, now available for the first time in English. * Focuses on key figures in the Civil Rights movement.