Author : Anne Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : 0854783644
Lawrence and Women
Anne Smith
Lawrence And Women
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Anthology of Amazing Women
Sandra Lawrence
Author : Sandra Lawrence
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781787417809
Anthology of Amazing Women by Sandra Lawrence Pdf
This beautifully illustrated collection tells the awe-inspiring stories of 50 women who have pushed the boundaries of human excellence and endeavour. Standing out for their achievements in sport, science, the arts, politics, and history, these women have made huge contributions to today's society. Featuring incredible women from the past and present such as Beyoncé, Sheryl Sandberg, Mary Anning, Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai. The Anthology of Amazing Women is a wonderful read for anyone wanting to read up on the incredible women who have lived and changed our lives.
Women in Love Illustrated
David Herbert Lawrence
Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798463672223
Women in Love Illustrated by David Herbert Lawrence Pdf
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps.
Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521280419
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence Pdf
"Seen by Lawrence as his most accomplished book, but subject to the initial prudery and incomprehension that met most of his fiction, Women in Love examines the regenerative and destructive aspects of human passion, as illustrated by its depiction of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen - who first appeared in The Rainbow - and their relationships with Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin. Set against the backdrop of a world consuming itself in war, the novel creates an instructive vision of humanity's dance with life and death." "This text is the famous "first" Women in Love, the unexpurgated version preferred by Lawrence himself, which was rejected by every publisher because of the banning of The Rainbow in 1915. More positive in tone than the revised version published in his lifetime, with different central relationships and a radically different ending, it is now viewed by many as Lawrence's masterpiece."--BOOK JACKET.
St. Mawr
D. H. Lawrence
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473398436
St. Mawr by D. H. Lawrence Pdf
This early work by D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. St Mawr is a short novel, first published in 1925. The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, leaves her fruitless marriage and a cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion, the St Mawr whose name provides the title for this tale. David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at Eastwood, a small mining town in the North of England. He was a prolific novelist and poet, responsible for some of the finest modernist works of the twentieth century.
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
D. H. Lawrence
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521294304
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence Pdf
These thirteen short stories were written between 1924 and 1928. Eleven were collected in The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), though 'The Man Who Loved Islands' appeared in the American edition only and the other two in The Lovely Lady (1933). An unpublished fragment 'A Pure Witch' is also included.
The Book Smugglers
David E. Fishman
Author : David E. Fishman
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512601268
The Book Smugglers by David E. Fishman Pdf
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
Woman, Watching
Merilyn Simonds
Author : Merilyn Simonds
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781773059617
Woman, Watching by Merilyn Simonds Pdf
“Woman, Watching is an entrancing blend of biography, memoir, history, research, and homage that is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s radical, it’s ravishing.” — Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies, Louise became nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus, she retreated to her wilderness cabin, where she devoted herself to studying the birds that nested in her forest. Author of six books and scores of magazine stories, de Kiriline Lawrence and her “loghouse nest” became a Mecca for international ornithologists. Lawrence was an old woman when Merilyn Simonds moved into the woods not far away. Their paths crossed, sparking Simonds’s lifelong interest. A dedicated birder, Simonds brings her own songbird experiences from Canadian nesting grounds and Mexican wintering grounds to this deeply researched, engaging portrait of a uniquely fascinating woman.
Glad ghosts
D. H. Lawrence
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066429256
Glad ghosts by D. H. Lawrence Pdf
"Glad ghosts" by D. H. Lawrence is a quirky and tasteful book that follows Lawrence's signature style. Though one of his lesser-known books, it's still a tale that captures the hearts and minds of everyone who reads it. Surprisingly, this was the author's first published work of fiction and was inspired by his trip to final Europe in the early 1900s.
Odour of Chrysanthemums
David Herbert Lawrence
Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1691644234
Odour of Chrysanthemums by David Herbert Lawrence Pdf
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events. In these two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams, a tragedy forces a woman to acknowledge that she has never known her husband, and a man blinded in the First World War discovers an unexpected peace. This book includes "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Blind Man".
The First 'Women in Love'
D. H. Lawrence
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521007097
The First 'Women in Love' by D. H. Lawrence Pdf
The First 'Women in Love' is one of Lawrence's greatest works, and is the only full length work of fiction which he completed between The Rainbow and the extensively revised Women in Love. It is a piece of fiction generated in the England, and the Europe, of the First World War. Publishers were alarmed by the fate of his previous novel The Rainbow and The First 'Women in Love' was rejected by every publisher who saw it. As a result it is a novel whose very existence as an independent text has been ignored, and which has not been published until now. The First 'Women in Love' shares much of its material with Women in Love, but its central relationships are dissimilar, and the ending radically different.
Women in the Waiting Room
Kapur
Author : Kapur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625578237
Women in the Waiting Room by Kapur Pdf
The Bad Side of Books
D.H. Lawrence
Author : D.H. Lawrence
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681373645
The Bad Side of Books by D.H. Lawrence Pdf
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.
Burning Man
Frances Wilson
Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408893630
Burning Man by Frances Wilson Pdf
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE** PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, SPECTATOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written with a wild, playful energy' Richard Holmes _____________________ D H Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial – and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius, and a sceptic who told us not to look in his novels for 'the old stable ego', yet pioneered the genre we now celebrate as auto-fiction. But where is the real Lawrence in all of this, and how – one hundred years after the publication of Women in Love - can we hear his voice above the noise? Delving into the memoirs of those who both loved and hated him most, Burning Man follows Lawrence from the peninsular underworld of Cornwall in 1915 to post-war Italy to the mountains of New Mexico, and traces the author's footsteps through the pages of his lesser known work. Wilson's triptych of biographical tales present a complex, courageous and often comic fugitive, careering around a world in the grip of apocalypse, in search of utopia; and, in bringing the true Lawrence into sharp focus, shows how he speaks to us now more than ever. 'No biography of Lawrence that I have read comes close to Burning Man' Ferdinand Mount, author of Kiss Myself Goodbye 'The most original voice in life-writing today' Lucasta Miller, author of Keats
Strong Women Stories
Kim Anderson,Bonita Lawrence
Author : Kim Anderson,Bonita Lawrence
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781894549219
Strong Women Stories by Kim Anderson,Bonita Lawrence Pdf
This collection of seventeen essays presents original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are pertinent to Aboriginal women and their communities in both rural and urban settings in Canada. Their contributions explore the critical issues facing Native women as they rebuild and revive their communities. Through topics such as the role of tradition, reclaiming identities and protecting Native children and the environment, they identify the restraints that shape their actions and the inspirations that feed their visions.The contributors address issues of youth, health and sexual identity; women's aging, sexuality and health; caring for children and adults living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; First Nations education and schooling; community-based activism on issues of prostitution and sex workers; and reclaiming cultural identity through art and music.
