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On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters.
But as Eileen and Gershon's relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared,...
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En este libro el médico y navegante cántabro relata la travesía que en 2015 realizó con su pequeño velero hasta Bretaña. Al estar el barco despachado solo para la navegaración a 12 millas las travesías las realiza siempre costeando, lo que le obliga a seguir el relieve de la costa sin atajos.
Pero lejos de ser un inconveniente el autor lo considera una ventaja, pues le permite conocer a fondo los sitios por los que navega, entrar en puertos...
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Part of a remarkably talented family, Henry James is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century. Although he is best known for novels such as The Wings of the Dove and The Portrait of a Lady, James was also a renowned essayist. This volume collects a series of essays about James' extensive travels in Italy, which were written and revised by the author over a period of 40 years.
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When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself.
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El autor es médico y Capitán de Yate. En el verano de 2012, junto a Luis Espejo, también Capitán de Yate y ambos navegantes aficionados, dio la vuelta a la península ibérica a vela en una travesía que duró tres meses. Tres detalles hicieron a este viaje especial.
En primer lugar el barco era un Tonic 23, velero de serie de menos de 7 metros y 28 años de antigüedad, sin ninguna preparación estructural específica.
En segundo lugar, la circunnavegación...
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Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found a box of letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were written by their grandmother and uncle, trapped in Prague after the Nazi occupation, to the girls' parents who had escaped to the United States in May 1939, leaving the two girls, who were five and seven years old at the time, behind.
The 77 letters reprinted here span a period of two years, during which the Nazis drew an ever-tightening...
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Extrait : "La neige tombait par flocons quand nous avons quitté Québec, hier, et je disais à mes amis : Dieu soit béni ! je tourne le dos à la neige et je cours vers le soleil. Mais le soleil était loin, et nous avons eu quelque peine à l'atteindre. Après nous avoir boudés toute la journée d'hier, il nous a enfin montré ce matin sa face souriante, et il a mis en fuite toute une légion de petits nuages qui se sont réfugiés au couchant."
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Abelard, a prominent twelfth-century theologian, is hired to tutor Heloise, a brilliant pupil who becomes his lover and the mother of his child. Although the two are secretly married, a misunderstanding leads to Abelard's castration by Heloise's uncle, followed by the lovers' permanent separation. Abelard retreats to a monastery and Heloise to a nunnery - and their subsequent correspondence captured the romantic imaginations of generations of readers....
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Extrait: "Au commencement du XIXe siècle vivait à Boulogne-sur-Mer, une famille bourgeoise jouissant d'une certaine aisance et parfaitement apparentée, du nom de Paillet-Dupont, en ménage depuis le 17 janvier 1786. Les Paillet sortaient d'une race de marins énergiques et travailleurs, ayant apporté leur intelligente contribution à la prospérité commerciale du pays. Quant aux Dupont, ils étaient brasseurs de père en fils, de génération...
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As war loomed in March 1861, President Jefferson Davis sent Ambrose Dudley Mann on an important diplomatic mission abroad to seek recognition of the Confederate States of America from the chief European powers. When the war ended four years later, Mann took up residence in France and stayed there as a voluntary exile for the rest of his life.In Paris, and at his country estate in Chantilly, he kept up a correspondence with Davis and other friends....
11) In Haig's Shadow: The Letters of Brigadier-General Hugo De Pree and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
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Hugo De Pree was the nephew of the better-known Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. However, De Pree had a distinguished military career in his own right. He served in the Boer War. He was sent to the Western Front, as Chief of Staff of IV Corps, and played a key part in planning the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
In 1918 De Pree was appointed to command 189 Brigade in 63rd (Royal Naval) Division. His part in the March Retreat showed that he was not a chateau...
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Eighteen months after Vivien, his beloved transgender girlfriend, slipped into a coma after a suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Miles begins healing while photographing her empty shoes against the stark landscapes of Iceland. Told through a series of instant messages.
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Extrait : "Joseph Fouché, duc d'Otrante, grand-croix de plusieurs ordres français et étrangers, est né le 29 mai 1769, à Nantes, département de la Loire-Inférieure. Son éducation fut confiée aux pères de l'Oratoire ; il fut placé par ses parents, à l'âge de 9 ans, au pensionnat du collège de Nantes."
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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy's long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of "how to live a good life" and "what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?" These questions plagued him his entire life.
The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov,...
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Selection of more than 300 letters published by The Times newspaper between 1914 and 1918, as its readers and the nation alike endured the ordeal of the First World War.
Much of the correspondence relates to the conflict - the news, or absence of news, from the trenches and the sacrifices being made on the Home Front. Celebrated politicians and the man on the Clapham omnibus both responded to the horrors of gas and the slaughter on the Somme.
Yet...
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A profoundly moving and historical record-letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s—1950s.
Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's Letters tells the stories of sixteen men-mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects-who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and...
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