Author: Peregrine Palmer Acland
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion" by Peregrine Palmer Acland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion
Author: Peregrine Palmer Acland
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion" by Peregrine Palmer Acland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion" by Peregrine Palmer Acland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author:
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459704231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459704231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Great Canadian War Stories
Author: Muriel Whitaker
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Canada is renowned today for its role as a world peacekeeper. However, the country also played an important role in the wars of the twentieth century. Great Canadian War Stories shows how Canada at war captured the imagination of fiction writers across the country. The stories in this collection chronicle the scope of the Canadian war efforts in the twentieth century, from Vimy Ridge to the plains of the Spanish Civil War to the skies over North Africa during World War II. This collection includes selections from Timothy Findley, Henry Kreisel, Colin McDougall, Thomas Raddell, Joy Kogawa, Earle Birney and 16 others At once terrible and uplifting, memorable and harrowing, the stories in this collection describe a seminal period in Canadian history. Great Canadian War Stories show us how Canada became a nation in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Canada is renowned today for its role as a world peacekeeper. However, the country also played an important role in the wars of the twentieth century. Great Canadian War Stories shows how Canada at war captured the imagination of fiction writers across the country. The stories in this collection chronicle the scope of the Canadian war efforts in the twentieth century, from Vimy Ridge to the plains of the Spanish Civil War to the skies over North Africa during World War II. This collection includes selections from Timothy Findley, Henry Kreisel, Colin McDougall, Thomas Raddell, Joy Kogawa, Earle Birney and 16 others At once terrible and uplifting, memorable and harrowing, the stories in this collection describe a seminal period in Canadian history. Great Canadian War Stories show us how Canada became a nation in the twentieth century.
The Vimy Trap
Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771132760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history—combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art—explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory.
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771132760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history—combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art—explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory.
Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
All Else Is Folly A Tale of War and Passion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland’s novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare, the novel is also a profound meditation on the nature of man, one that draws on both the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis’s idea of man as lover. Subtitled "a tale of war and passion," the novel was something of a bestseller in its time and drew significant critical praise. Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden remarked: "No more vivid picture has been painted of what war meant to the average soldier." Originally published in 1929, Acland’s war story had transatlantic success, with editions published under the Constable imprint in England, and by Coward-McCann and Grosset & Dunlap in the United States. The Canadian edition published by McClelland & Stewart enjoyed three printings. This new edition marks a return to print after more than eight decades.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland’s novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare, the novel is also a profound meditation on the nature of man, one that draws on both the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis’s idea of man as lover. Subtitled "a tale of war and passion," the novel was something of a bestseller in its time and drew significant critical praise. Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden remarked: "No more vivid picture has been painted of what war meant to the average soldier." Originally published in 1929, Acland’s war story had transatlantic success, with editions published under the Constable imprint in England, and by Coward-McCann and Grosset & Dunlap in the United States. The Canadian edition published by McClelland & Stewart enjoyed three printings. This new edition marks a return to print after more than eight decades.
All Else is Folly
Author: Peregrine Acland
Publisher: New York : Coward-McCann
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Coward-McCann
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Adult Catalog: Title
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Author: Gale Research Company
Publisher: Twentieth-Century Literary Cri
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Publisher: Twentieth-Century Literary Cri
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.