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Author | : George Orwell |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Catalonia (Spain) |
ISBN | : 9780141025537 |
For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Author | : Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300191769 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Feb. 16-May 19, 2013 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Author | : Adam Hopkins |
Publisher | : Viking Books |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Wilfrid Theodore Blake |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Spain |
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Author | : Halliday Sutherland |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Spain |
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Author | : Sonia Nazario |
Publisher | : Delacorte Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0385743270 |
The true story of a boy who sets out with absolutely nothing to find his mother who went to the US from Honduras to look for work.
Author | : Flor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2024-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192868314 |
In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for his major Hispanic novel, Monsignor Quixote (1982), a celebration of friendship above ideological, political, or religious differences, incorporating allusions to Cervantes' famous comic novel within a critical vision of post-Franco Spain. Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal: Travels with My Priest reconstructs each of Greene's trips through the Iberian Peninsula between 1976 and 1989, detailing their preparations, itineraries, anecdotes, companions, topics of conversation, and often surprising repercussions. Carlos Villar Flor outlines the trips' biographical importance and fills numerous gaps of documented information on this final phase of Greene's life. His detailed inquiry into Greene's Iberian adventures with Durán also helps us better to understand the genesis and resonances of Monsignor Quixote, which over time became Greene's favourite of his own novels, and the subsequent television adaptation. The book also addresses incidents and aspects that, for one reason or another, never emerged in Durán's own account of their travels together, Graham Greene: Friend and Brother (1994). These include the possible motivations for Greene's first visit to Spain, related to his role as an informant for MI6; the mysterious visits to an old English lady located in Sintra; the writer's attempts in the early 1980s to establish links with Spanish socialists; or the fascinating story of a Spanish nobleman's suspicious proposal to create a Greene Foundation. Ultimately, Greene's trips to Spain and Portugal appear as more layered and intriguing than Durán's account suggests, whilst Durán himself emerges aptly as a complex and quixotic figure--as much the protagonist of this book as Greene.
Author | : George Borrow |
Publisher | : London J. Murray 1844. |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : George Henry Borrow |
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : George Henry Borrow |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1843 |
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