Download or read book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written by Peter Dally and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining his knowledge as a doctor and a lifelong fascination with Virginia Woolf's life and work, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally offers a haunting and compelling look at the depression that tormented Virginia Woolf throughout her adult years, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf. On three occasions Virginia went mad. Symptoms of these episodes included conversations with her dead mother, and hearing birds speak in Greek. Though a quiet life cushioned her childhood, the renown that Woolf achieved through writing inspired the bouts of depression and elation that she regularly experienced as an adult. This terrified Virginia, and though the experience offered extraordinary insight into her craft, Woolf lived in constant fear of her dreadful affliction. Virginia's most vital protection from stress was her husband, Leonard. Without his constant vigilance and care, it is doubtful she would have been so creatively productive. Yet, paradoxically, their marriage ultimately precipitated her most dangerous bout of madness. Toward the end of her life, when events outside the couple's control led to Leonard's own depression and gradual withdrawal, Virginia found herself facing madness alone, and with tragic results. Compassionate and disturbing, this fascinating study is the first to look at Virginia Woolf's life from the perspective of her illness.
Download or read book The Crash of Ruin written by Peter Schrijvers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ruined Europe of World War II, American soldiers on the frontline had no eye for breathtaking vistas or romantic settings. The brutality of battle profoundly darkened the soldiers' perceptions of the Old World. Drawing on soldiers' diaries, letters, poems and songs, Peter Schrijvers offers a compelling account of the experiences of U.S. combat ground forces: their struggles with the European terrain and seasons, their confrontations with soldiers, and their often startling encounters with civilians. Schrijvers relays how the GIs became so desensitized and dehumanized that the sight of dead animals often evoked more compassion in them than enemy dead. The Crash of Ruin concludes with a dramatic and moving account of the final Allied offensive into German-held territory and the soldiers' bearing witness to the ultimate symbol of Europe's descent into ruin: the death camps of the Holocaust.
Download or read book Letters and Papers written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Saint Augustine v 1 Letters 1 99 written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outcast by Kirkman Azaceta 41 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "BETRAYED" Disgraced former police chief Brian Giles will do anything for love.
Download or read book Letters from Hell written by Valdemar Adolph Thisted and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell Hath No Fury written by Anna Holmes and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and highly entertaining collection of letters from women - both fictional and real - whose romances have gone awry and ended emotionally. Encompassing a wide range of feelings and writing styles, Hell Hath No Fury is filled with mad missives, caustic communiques, sweet send-offs and other brilliant break-up letters. Organised by theme, circumstance and tone, and arranged chronologically within each chapter, these intriguing letters span history from 10 BC to the present day. From Anne Boleyn's letter to Henry VIII defending her virtue, to Sylvia Plath's writings to her lover Phil McCurdy expressing her wish to maintain a platonic relationship, Hell Hath No Fury includes a wide variety of entries from Anais Nin, Edith Wharton, Queen Elizabeth I, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and many more.
Download or read book Philip Larkin written by Stephen Cooper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overturning many of the established perspectives on Larkin's poetry and prose, Cooper's book presents new evidence from a range of previously unpublished sources, and is the first full-length critical work to analyse Larkin's early fiction, as well as advancing new readings of The Less Deceived', The Whitsun Weddings' and High Windows'. Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. However, this volume demonstrates that Larkin's artistic impulse throughout his career was to challenge orthodox models of social and sexual politics. Focusing on the Brunette Coleman novellas and the unfinished novels, a structural blueprint is identified as prefiguring the later poems' commentary on sexual and social conduct. Further unpublished material includes correspondence, workbook drafts, dream records, and a playscript, depicting, alternately, hostility to wartime heroics, revulsion from capitalism, unease with traditional gender roles and an interest in psychoanalysis. This study makes available to scholars paintings by Larkin's friend, James Sutton, which illuminate the writer's concern with social oppression, especially the predicament of women in the 1940s. This is a fresh and revealing study on Larkin's artistic subversion; stylistic and thematic, it reveals the underlying themes of Larkin's entire oeuvre.
Download or read book Bad Moon Rising written by John Galligan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric, race-to-the-finish mystery"--
Download or read book Saga 41 written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE WAR FOR PHANG," Part Five. Alana and Marko get their war on.
Download or read book Words on Words written by David Crystal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer ("winged words") to Robert Burns ("Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung") to Rudyard Kipling ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind"), writers from all over the world have put pen to paper on the inexhaustible topic of language. Yet surprisingly, their writings on the subject have never been gathered in a single volume. In Words on Words, David and Hilary Crystal have collected nearly 5,000 quotations about language and all its intriguing aspects: speaking, reading, writing, translation, verbosity, usage, slang, and more. As the stock-in-trade of so many professions—orators, media personalities, writers, and countless others—language's appeal as a subject is extraordinarily relevant and wide-ranging. The quotations are grouped thematically under 65 different headings, from "The Nature of Language" through the "Language of Politics" to "Quoting and Misquoting." This arrangement enables the reader to explore a topic through a variety of lenses, ancient and modern, domestic and foreign, scientific and casual, ironic and playful. Three thorough indexes—to authors, sources, and key words—provide different entry points into the collection. A valuable resource for professional writers and scholars, Words on Words is for anyone who loves language and all things linguistic.
Download or read book Britain s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan written by Ann Wilks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of this book, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. An influential civil servant and Britain's longest serving High Commissioner in Iraq at a time when the British empire was facing increasing challenges to its once dominant position, he describes the difficulties of governing first in India then in the formerly Ottoman Mesopotamia during WW1. Here, Dobbs had to devise administrative systems while often at odds with his superior, Sir Percy Cox. In the discussions that followed the Third Afghan War, Dobbs manoeuvred between the different views in London and Delhi with great dexterity to negotiate alone with the Amir of Afghanistan the enduring 1921 Anglo-Afghan treaty. Having accepted from the League of Nations the responsibility for taking the newly-created Iraq to sustainable independence in the aftermath of WW1, the cash-strapped British government came under great domestic pressure to abandon it. Key to British support continuing was Iraqi acceptance of the controversial 1922 treaty with Britain. This Dobbs achieved by disregarding the unhelpful approach recommended by London and, risking his career, he pressed on with his own wholly unauthorised tactics. In other initiatives, Dobbs ensured that Mosul province remained within Iraq. Dobbs consistently pressed for Iraq's early independence granted in 1932, the first territory in the former Ottoman Empire to gain it. An early advocate of self-determination Dobbs was frequently at odds with the more traditional imperial approach of his superiors. He always endeavoured to balance the aspirations and needs of overseas communities for whom he was responsible with the interests of Britain which he represented.
Download or read book The Faith of the Early Fathers written by W. A. Jurgens and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A source-book of theological and historical passages from the Christian writings of the Post-Nicene and Constantinopolitan eras through St. Jerome. Taken together, these three volumes represent a basic English-language reference book of patristic works. Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454).
Download or read book 41st Infantry Division written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the legacy of the FIGHTING JUNGLEERS in World War II Pacific theater. Detailed battle accounts from beach landings at New Guinea to the Philippines. Vivid photos.
Download or read book The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Heloise and Abelard written by M. McLaughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin McLaughlin's edition is the complete correspendence with commentary.
