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| Author | : Rosa Liksom |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1644451077 |
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.
| Author | : Noel T. St. John Williams |
| Publisher | : Brassey's |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : |
A history of the lives of women connected to the military--an overlooked segment of British Army life. This fresh perspective belongs in women's studies. Good reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi |
| Publisher | : Haus Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2015-08-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1907822895 |
A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.
| Author | : Alice Kirk Grierson |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780803279292 |
Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant
| Author | : Rosa Liksom |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2016-08-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1555979432 |
In the waning years of the Soviet Union, a sad young Finnish woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's trying to put as much space as possible between her and a broken relationship. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment--No. 6.--but her solitude is soon shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, a grizzled, opinionated, foul-mouthed former soldier. Vadim fills the compartment with his long and colorful stories, recounting in lurid detail his sexual conquests and violent fights. There is a hint of menace in the air, but initially the woman is not so much scared of or shocked by him as she is repulsed. She stands up to him, throwing a boot at his head. But though Vadim may be crude, he isn't cruel, and he shares with her the sausage and black bread and tea he's brought for the journey, coaxing the girl out of her silent gloom. As their train cuts slowly across thousands of miles of a wintry Russia, where "everything is in motion, snow, water, air, trees, clouds, wind, cities, villages, people and thoughts," a grudging kind of companionship grows between the two inhabitants of compartment No. 6. When they finally arrive in Ulan Bator, a series of starlit and sinister encounters bring Rosa Liksom's incantatory Compartment No. 6 to its powerful conclusion.
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2015-05-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101970278 |
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together with his wife, he will have to relearn everything, all over again. “The Colonel’s Wife” is the moving story of a man and his wife, the woman for whom, when he met her for the first time, he felt “that he was looking at the sun without burning his eyes.” A story of peace after war and the continued drama of real life. From Andre Dubus’s masterful and compassionate collection Dancing After Hours, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.
| Author | : Roald Dahl |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2012-09-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 140591095X |
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences . . . Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their new baby; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Stephanie Beacham. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
| Author | : Charles W. Chesnutt |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2018-09-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3734024951 |
Reproduction of the original: The Colonel ́s Dream by Charles W. Chesnutt
| Author | : Audrey Harrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
He needs a rich wife. A pity that he's falling for the wrong woman... She's looking to find out more about her past. She was expecting to find her future..... Colonel Fitzwilliam is a second son, often overshadowed by his titled, older brother and his cousin, Mr Darcy. Returning from Waterloo he knows it is time to find a wife with a healthy dowry, but he longs for a love match. Unfortunately for Fitzwilliam, love doesn't put food on the table. Miss Prudence Bamber has never known her mother's family. A woman with her own mind and full life, she indulges her father's wish to visit her long-lost relations. Mr Bamber hopes his daughter will find a husband; she wishes nothing more than to find out more about her mother's history. It turns out to be a trip she won't forget in a hurry. Two people looking for love, but challenged by pride, secrets and prejudice. Will they be able to overcome the odds to find their own happy ever after? Or, are they destined to remain separated by the constraints of society? Complex characters brought together in this gripping Regency Romance. The Colonel's Spinster is a Regency romance and Pride and Prejudice variation (JAFF), topped with a generous dose of humour, action, and tears. If you like simmering chemistry, fast-paced adventures, and strong characters, then you'll love Audrey Harrison's Regency tale. Buy The Colonel's Spinster to find out if Colonel Fitzwilliam finds love after all!
| Author | : Bruce S. Allardice |
| Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0826266487 |
"Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.
