Stories Of My Century
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Author | : Aleksander Wat |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1590175425 |
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat’s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of “the devil in history.” “It was then,” Wat writes, “that I began to be a believer.”
Author | : Günter Grass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780571203123 |
Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.
Author | : John Updike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author | : Mary Mathieson |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1304527344 |
Mary Mathieson has had an eventful life spanning almost a century. She has lived in small town Ontario, in Northern Ontario including the James Bay area where she was an itinerant nurse, and in cosmopolitan cities. She has spent time in some of the most interesting cities in Europe and the United States and she has been witness to the most momentous events of the 20th Century. Told in bite-size vignettes and longer tales, this is her recollection of a lifetime.
Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2006-08-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813171385 |
When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit that dealt with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky's historical records. He began this crusade by collecting vast stores of Kentucky's military records from the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. His efforts resulted in the Commonwealth's first archival system and the subsequent creation of the Kentucky Library and Archives, the University of Kentucky Special Collections and Archives, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the Kentucky History Center (recently named for him), and the University Press of Kentucky. Born in 1903 on a cotton farm in Louisville, Mississippi, Thomas Dionysius Clark would follow a long and winding path to find his life's passion in the study of history. He dropped out of school after seventh grade to work first at a sawmill and then on a canal dredgeboat before resuming his formal education. Clark's earliest memories—hearing about local lynch-mob violence and witnessing the destruction of virgin forest—are an invaluable window into the national issues of racial injustice and environmental depredation. In many ways, the story of Dr. Clark's life is the story of America in the twentieth century. In My Century in History, Clark offers vivid memories of his journey, both personal and academic, a journey that took him from Mississippi to Kentucky and North Carolina, to leadership of the nation's major historical organizations, and to visiting professorships in Austria, England, Greece, and India, as well as in universities throughout the United States. An enormously popular public lecturer and teacher, he touched thousands of lives in Kentucky and around the world. With his characteristic wit and insight, Clark now offers his many admirers one final volume of history—his own.
Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2006-08-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813137063 |
The imminent American historian and author of A History of Kentucky shares his life story, spanning the twentieth century. When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive AHistory of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit that dealt with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky’s historical records. He began this crusade by collecting vast stores of Kentucky's military records from the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. His efforts resulted in the Commonwealth’s first archival system and the subsequent creation of the Kentucky Library and Archives, the University of Kentucky Special Collections and Archives, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the Kentucky History Center (recently named for him), and the University Press of Kentucky. Born in 1903 on a cotton farm in Louisville, Mississippi, Thomas Dionysius Clark would follow a long and winding path to find his life’s passion in the study of history. He dropped out of school after seventh grade to work first at a sawmill and then on a canal dredge boat before resuming his formal education. Clark’s earliest memories—hearing about local lynch-mob violence and witnessing the destruction of virgin forest—are an invaluable window into the national issues of racial injustice and environmental depredation. In many ways, the story of Dr. Clark’s life is the story of America in the twentieth century. In My Century in History, Clark offers vivid memories of his journey, both personal and academic, a journey that took him from Mississippi to Kentucky and North Carolina, to leadership of the nation’s major historical organizations, and to visiting professorships in Austria, England, Greece, and India, as well as in universities throughout the United States. An enormously popular public lecturer and teacher, he touched thousands of lives in Kentucky and around the world. With his characteristic wit and insight, Clark now offers his many admirers one final volume of history—his own.
Author | : Virgil Charles Aldrich |
Publisher | : Alan Mendelson |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0557784433 |
This work is a compendium of Professor of Philosophy Virgil Charles Aldrich's views on ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenonology, aesthetics, logic, and related philosophical disciplines.
Author | : George Clark Rankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger E. Vincent |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 144901982X |
Author shares memories of growing up in a small Indiana town in a large family during the 20th century. He shares stories of his life from childhood through the present, concentrating on his family, education, career, travel and spirituality .
Author | : G. C. 1849-1915 Rankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781356370849 |
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