Alfred And Emily

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061862496

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Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.

Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812966015

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger Pdf

Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production. Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice. The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007302924

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Alfred And Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing exploresthe lives of her parents, both of themirrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half she imagines the happier lives they might have made for themselves had there been no war, a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket matchoutside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of that War, the family's move to Africa and the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land.

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241976777

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Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford Pdf

Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leave, proclaiming her misery to all and sundry and refusing so furiously to look on the bright side, that it was felt she might not be very nice to me.' Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. In the blink of an eye, Fanny's mixing with royalty, Rothschilds and Dior-clad wives, throwing cocktail parties and having every indiscreet remark printed in tomorrow's papers. But with the love lives of her new friends to organize, an aristocratic squatter who won't budge and the antics of her maverick sons to thwart, Fanny's far too busy to worry about the diplomatic crisis looming on the horizon. . . Don't Tell Alfred continues the histories of the characters Nancy Mitford introduced in The Pursuit of Love. 'A comic genius' Independent on Sunday 'Deliciously funny' Evelyn Waugh

Author : Emily Culliton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524731908

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The Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton Pdf

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight.

Author : Steven H. Gittelman,Emily Gittelman
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761855071

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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt by Steven H. Gittelman,Emily Gittelman Pdf

At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own life. How is it that this wraith, this gluttonous, opulent youth, could undergo an entire change of character in his last few moments? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred’s journey from philanderer to hero in this incredible, never-before-told story of the hero of the Lusitania.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Flammarion
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782081336964

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Alfred et Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

« Je crois que la colère ramenée des tranchées par mon père s’est emparée de moi très tôt et ne m’a plus jamais quittée. Les enfants ressentent-ils les émotions de leurs parents ? La réponse est oui, nous les ressentons. Et voilà un héritage dont je me serais bien passée. À quoi bon tout cela ? C’est comme si cette vieille guerre imprégnait ma mémoire, ma conscience. »Doris Lessing, prix Nobel de littérature, explore la vie de ses parents, tous deux abîmés de manière irrévocable par la Grande Guerre. Elle imagine tout d’abord la vie plus heureuse qu’ils auraient pu bâtir si la guerre n’avait pas eu lieu, avant de se livrer à un examen cinglant de leur couple tel qu’il fut en réalité dans l’ombre pesante de cette guerre.« Aujourd’hui encore, je m’efforce d’échapper à cet héritage monstrueux, pour être enfin libre », confie Doris Lessing. Avec Alfred et Emily, c’est très exactement ce qu’elle fait, et de manière éclatante.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Feltrinelli Editore
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8807017520

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Alfred e Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Grupo Planeta Spain
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788429761924

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Alfred i Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

"Els meus pares, l'Alfred i l'Emily, eren extraordinaris, cada un a la seva manera. El que tenien en comú era una gran energia. La Primera Guerra Mundial els va perjudicar a tots dos. La metralla va destrossar la cama al pare, i a partir de llavors en va haver de portar una de fusta. El gran amor de la mare, un metge, es va ofegar al Canal. Ella no es va recuperar mai d'aquesta pèrdua. He provat de donar-los la vida que haurien pogut tenir si no hi hagués hagut la Primera Guerra Mundial." Doris LessingAls noranta anys, després de tota una vida, Doris Lessing continua enfrontant-se a les ombres del seu passat familiar. Fent un esforç extraordinari i bellíssim per alliberar-se d'aquest llegat, l'autora s'endinsa en les vides dels seus pares tot imaginant la vida feliç que haurien pogut dur si la Primera Guerra Mundial no els hagués ferit irrevocablement, i confrontant la seva vida real amb els seus propis ambivalents sentiments.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2290015377

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Alfred et Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

"Je crois que la colère ramenée des tranchées par mon père s'est emparée de moi très tôt et ne m'a plus jamais quittée. " Parce que le poids de la Première Guerre mondiale a brisé son père, parce que l'émigration en Rhodésie a fait perdre à sa mère le goût de vivre, Doris Lessing a voulu imaginer l'existence de ses parents si l'histoire avait pris un autre cours : la guerre n'a pas eu lieu, l'Angleterre est florissante... et Alfred et Emily ne se sont jamais mariés. A travers ce pari romanesque audacieux, Doris Lessing, à la fois auteur et critique de son œuvre, nous offre les pages les plus personnelles de son autobiographie.

Author : Alfred Kazin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547546360

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A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin Pdf

A literary icon’s “singular and beautiful” memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail—the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses—Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to “the city,” the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer. “The whole texture, color, and sound of life in this tenement realm . . . is revealed as tapestried, as dazzling, as full of lush and varied richness as an Arabian bazaar.” —The New York Times

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443434881

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Pdf

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Finalist for CBC Canada Reads 2023 Winner of the Toronto Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Sunburst Award Longlisted for the Baileys Prize and for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller A Best Book of the Year in The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Time magazine An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse Day One The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two Civilization has crumbled. Year Twenty A band of actors and musicians, called the Travelling Symphony, move through the territories of a changed world, performing concerts and Shakespeare at the settlements that have formed. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and it threatens the world every hopeful survivor has tried to rebuild. Moving backward and forward in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: celebrated actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan, a bystander warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife, Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend, Clark; Kirsten, an actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed "prophet." Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the fragility of life, the relationships that sustain us, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

Author : Emily Schultz
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345811011

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Men Walking on Water by Emily Schultz Pdf

This utterly addictive, brilliant novel about rum-running in the 1920s is like The Wire transplanted to Prohibition-era Detroit, by a writer of whom Stephen King has said: "Emily Schultz is my new hero." Men Walking on Water opens on a bitter winter's night in 1927, with a motley gang of small-time smugglers huddled on the banks of the Detroit River, peering towards Canada on the opposite side. A catastrophe has just occurred: while driving across the frozen water by moonlight, a decrepit Model T loaded with whisky has broken the ice and gone under--and with it, driver Alfred Moss and a bundle of money. From that defining moment, the novel weaves its startling, enthralling story, with the missing man at its centre, a man who affects all the characters in different ways. In Detroit, a young mother becomes a criminal to pay down the debt her husband, assumed dead, has left behind; a Pentecostal preacher brazenly uses his church to fund his own bootlegging operation even as he lectures against the perils of drink; and across the river, a French-Canadian woman runs her booming brothel business with the permission of the powerful Detroit gangsters who are her patrons. The looming background to this extraordinary story, as compelling as any character, is the city of Detroit--a place of grand dreams and brutal realities in 1927 as it is today, fuelled by capitalist expansion and by the collapse that follows, sitting on the border between countries, its citizens walking precariously across the river between pleasure and abstinence. This is an absolutely stunning, mature, and compulsively readable novel from one of our most talented and unique writers.

Author : John Collier
Publisher : eNet Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781618865076

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His Monkey Wife by John Collier Pdf

A schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.

Author : Alfred Ollivant,Lydia Davis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590177297

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Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant,Lydia Davis Pdf

Bob, Son of Battle, is a sheepdog so canny and careful of his flock, so deeply devoted to his master, James Moore, and so admired for his poise and wisdom by the residents of a small village in the rugged mountains of England’s North Country, that young though he is, he is already known as Owd Bob. In a recent contest, Bob has proved himself a matchless sheepdog, and if he wins the trophy two more times, he’ll be seen as equal to the legendary sheepdogs of yore. But Bob has a real rival: Red Wull, with his docked tail and bristling yellow fur, a ferocious creature, just like his diminutive master, Adam McAdam, a lonely Scot, estranged not only from his English neighbors but from his son, David. McAdam just can’t stop belittling this strapping young man, all the more so since David began courting Moore’s beautiful daughter Maggie. But what McAdam really wants is for his beloved Wullie to wrest the prize from Bob once and for all. The story takes a darker turn when a troubling new threat to the local flocks emerges. A dog has gone rogue, sneaking out at night to feast on the flesh and blood of the sheep he is bound to protect. Again and again, new sheep fall prey to this relentless predator; again and again, he slips away undetected. This master hunter can only be among the boldest and sharpest of dogs . . . Bob, Son of Battle has long been a beloved classic of children’s literature both in America and in England. Here the celebrated author and translator Lydia Davis, who first read and loved this exciting story as a child, has rendered the challenging idioms of the original into fluent and graceful English of our day, making this tale of rival dogs and rival families and the shadowy terrain between Good and Bad accessible and appealing to readers of all ages.