A Misalliance
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Author | : Anita Brookner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307826341 |
After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.
Author | : Edward Miller |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674075323 |
Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone by either American arrogance or Diem’s stubbornness. Edward Miller argues that this misalliance was more than just a joint effort to contain communism. It was also a means for each side to shrewdly pursue its plans for nation building in South Vietnam.
Author | : Anita Brookner |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780394553405 |
Recently divorced Blanche Vernon is convinced the divorce is somehow her fault, even though her husband left her for another woman. But her wit enables her to step forward and grasp what has previously eluded her, even though she's puzzled at the prospect.
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Stephan Malinowski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198842554 |
The first ever in-depth study of the role played by the nobility in the Nazi rise to power in interwar Germany, this is a fascinating portrait of an aristocratic world teetering on the edge of self-destruction.
Author | : Anita Brookner |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Luise Mühlbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Russia |
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Author | : Arnold Goldberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-04-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136726829 |
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of frustration and vexation to clinicians, who aren't always eager to discuss them. Taking the challenge head-on, Arnold Goldberg proposes to demystify failure in an effort to determine its essential meaning before determining its causes. Utilizing multiple vignettes of failed cases, he offers a deconstruction and a subsequent taxonomy of failure, delineating cases that go bad after six months from cases that never get off the ground, mismatches from impasses, failures of empathy from failures of inattention. Commonalities in the experience of failure – conceived as less a misapplication of technique than consequences of a co-constructed yet fraught therapeutic relationship – begin to emerge for scrutiny.
Author | : Rebecca West |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1300 |
Release | : 2007-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143104902 |
“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule the country’s history as well as its daily life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Marianna Muravyeva |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317388844 |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source. It raises important questions for research on early modern Europe: the notion of absolute power; sovereignty and its applicability to familial power; the problem of violence and the possibility of its usage for conflict resolution both in public and private spaces; and the interconnection of gender and violence against women, reconsidered in the context of modern state formation as a public sphere and family building as a private sphere. Contributors bring together detailed studies of domestic violence and spousal murder in Romania, England, and Russia, abduction and forced marriage in Poland, infanticide and violence against parents in Finland, and rape and violence against women in Germany. These case studies serve as the basis for a comparative analysis of forms, models, and patterns of violence within the family in the context of debates on political power, absolutism, and violence. They highlight changes towards unlimited violence by family patriarchs in European countries, in the context of the changing relationship between the state and its citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the Family.