Beyond the Chestnut Trees (POD)
Author | : Maria Bauer |
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Release | : 2012-12-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781938069536 |
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Author | : Maria Bauer |
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Release | : 2012-12-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781938069536 |
Author | : Maria Bauer |
Publisher | : KCM Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1939961394 |
Beyond the Chestnut Trees, is a haunting and deeply personal memoir by Maria Bauer, who escaped Hitler’s invasion of Prague. After 40 years in exile, Bauer makes an unforgettable journey back to her homeland, searching for lost friends and lost loves, and finds the spirit of her beloved city forever changed. Through flashbacks, Bauer weaves the tale of her idyllic childhood, where she spent her summers at her family castle, with her harrowing flight through Europe on the last train leaving Nazi-occupied France. She paints a stirring picture of Prague, wistfully recalling the magical and mystical city of her youth. “I didn’t want to write about Prague’s sufferings under two occupations nor about its heroes and martyrs,” Bauer said. “Many books and movies have recorded them for posterity. But there is more to the story of a city than historical upheavals. Each city has its inner life; and Prague, in the era between the two world wars, had its unique character and a mysterious atmosphere that deeply affected those who grew up amidst its old stones.” This updated edition of Beyond the Chestnut Trees includes a foreword by critically-acclaimed author, Gail Godwin, as well as dozens of compelling photographs from Bauer’s family albums that powerfully reinvigorate her intimate memoir. With the release of this new digital edition, Bauer hopes that, “perhaps, the events that I have described might once again feel more immediate and intimate to my great grandchildren and their generation – and that our tragic and healing experiences will not be forgotten, but will continue to live on in their memories.”
Author | : Christina Bieber Lake |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0268106274 |
Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of the particular lives of ordinary people, which is best described as an act of love that mirrors the love of the divine. Through original readings of the fiction of Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, and others, Lake enters into a dialogue with postsecular theory and cognitive literary studies to reveal the limits of sociobiology’s approach to culture. The result is a book that will remind readers how storytelling continually reaffirms the transcendent value of human beings in an inherently personal cosmos. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theology and literary studies, as well as a broad audience of readers seeking to engage on a deeper level with contemporary literature.
Author | : Venetria K. Patton |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-06-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438447388 |
The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Tananarive Due's The Between, and Julie Dash's film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as "natally dead" has impacted African American women writers' emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.
Author | : Wilma Wall |
Publisher | : Kregel Publications |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0825498686 |
A heartfelt story of three women, bound together by family ties, yet torn apart by conflicts and differences. Will a trip back to China and a long-lost jade bracelet bring reconciliation for them? Guaranteed fiction!
Author | : Gill Staden |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1431700754 |
The sheer enormity and power of the Victoria Falls never fails to humble its visitors. Adventure junkies flock here for the thrills the mighty Zambezi River offers, while others are content simply to marvel at the unrivalled wonder of the place. Although this curtain of water is the major attraction of the area, there is much more to enjoy in the vicinity.
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Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Gardening |
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Author | : Marjorie Bowen |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Julia Roseingrave by Marjorie Bowen is about a love story between aristocrat Sir William Notley and the beautiful Julia Roseingrave in a remote part of Britain. Excerpt: "Mrs. Barlow was extremely surprised to hear an iron tongue striking impatiently into the night, for she guessed this sound to be the clang of the great bell which hung over the main entrance to Holcot Grange; it was not the small bell which tinkled feebly over the side entrance that she and the other servants used."
Author | : Daphne Mackie |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1920572783 |
These five imaginative trails capture the magic of nature within Kirstenbosch, South Africa's best-known botanical garden. Eager young adventurers will have hours of fun discovering prehistoric gems, enchanged forests, secret gardens, mysterious mirror pools and much more. Each route descsription is accompanied by a map and beautiful photographs and illustrations, while the text is packed with information about striking and surprising trees, flowers, birds, insects, animals and tidbits from history, as well as descriptions of the best places to play and relax. This whimsical guide is a must-have companion for any young adventurer setting off into Cape Town's much-loved garden.
Author | : John S. Barrett |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2022-12-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1649792158 |
Beyond the Hedge of Thorns recounts the small moments in the everyday life of a boy growing up in a Pennsylvania mining town during the vanished era when the butcher, grocer, and milkman delivered right to the house, television had not yet arrived, and kids played softball on vacant lots, cruised the woods, and got into more or less innocent trouble. Set against the backgrounds of the Second World War, illnesses not yet banished, and anthracite coal mining, with its machinery, scarred landscapes, profoundly influencing the town’s inhabitants, the boyhood described here was nevertheless a happy one, full of modest adventures in unlikely places. John S. Barrett brings it back to life in these pages with a unique voice and a grand gift for remembering the details, colors, and emotions of those times.