Author: Publisher: Silvia Roberts
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Silvia Roberts
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence
Author: Henry Wolsey BayfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Merv Oasis
Author: Edmund O'DonovanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Postcolonial Subjects
Author: Mary Jean Matthews GreenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452901077
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Dismembered Community
Author: Milo SweedlerPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 0874130522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book examines the intersecting communitarian endeavors of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Colette Peignot, known post-humously as Laure. Through detailed analysis of a series of interlocking texts that the four authors wrote on, for, and to one another on such topics as love, friendship, and fraternity, it explores these authors' theoretical elaborations of community, their actual communities, and the relation between the two.
Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382106280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Folk-lore of the Antilles
Author: Mrs. Elsie Worthington (Clews) 1875- Parsons (ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Fe-Lines
Author: Norman R ShapiroPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209767X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The French have long had a love affair with the cat, expressed through centuries of poetry portraying the animal's wit and wonder. Norman R. Shapiro lionizes the feline's limitless allure in this one-of-a-kind collection. Spanning centuries and styles, he draws on she-cats and toms, and an honor roll of French poets, well known and lesser known, who have served as their devoted champions. He reveals the remarkable range of French cat poems, with most works presented here for the first time in English translation. Scrupulously devoted to evoking the meaning and music of the originals, Shapiro also respects the works' formal structures. Pairing Shapiro's translations with Olga Pastuchiv's elegant illustrations, Fe-Lines guides the reader through the marvels and inscrutabilities of the Mystique féline.
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A Woman of No Importance
Author: Sonia PurnellPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735225311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography “Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” -- The New York Times Book Review "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance." - NPR "A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." - Ben Macintyre A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day. Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
