Download or read book Leaving Sardinia written by Hans Ulrich Treichel and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary habit of laughing at pain may lead to this devastatingly critical short novel being called a comedy. Not that the trials of its grad-student protagonist, Albert, aren't ludicrous. A German enraptured with Italy, he fails ignominiously in his attempts to live in Rome, only to discover a bit of Italy--Sardinia, to be precise--back in Berlin: a harshly lit, sparsely patronized bar in the backroom of which a party of male regulars endlessly gambles. Serving them in back, and Albert and whomever else out front, is beautiful, noncommittal Elena, with whom Albert becomes laconically involved. The relationship persists despite competition for Elena, and when she, having saved enough to set up as a cosmetologist, goes home, Albert goes, too. But it doesn't work out because--and here is the dismal reality that Treichel's cool dissection of his feckless protagonist discloses--Albert doesn't know what love is. He just knows sex, and it isn't enough to build a life around. One closes the book wondering to what extent we aren't all Alberts.
Download or read book Falling for the Sardinian Baron written by Rosanna Battigelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-changing assignment… …with a brooding billionaire! Writer Ella Ross's new assignment—to interview reclusive billionaire Baron Massimo DiLuca!—is a career high and a chance to discover her Sardinian roots. But from the moment she meets the baron, who has shut himself away on his luxurious private island since losing his wife, Ella is drawn to the man behind the mask. She’d hoped to find herself in beautiful Sardinia… What happens if she finds love, too? “This is an interesting novel from Ms. Battigelli. Overall it was a fast paced novel that keeps the reader entertained.” -Harlequin Junkie on Captivated by Her Italian Boss “I was hooked from the first page to the very last one. I fell in love with the characters as I read. The chemistry between them sets the pages alight as you read. I can't wait to read more from this author in the future. Highly recommended author.” -Goodreads on Swept Away by the Enigmatic Tycoon
Download or read book A Companion to Sardinian History 500 1500 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language survey of medieval and modern Sardinia, this volume offers access to long-awaited European scholarship on a critical missing link in the Mediterranean. Based on new archaeological fieldwork and current research from a variety of academic perspectives— architecture, colonialism, ecclesiastic history, cartography, demography, law, musicology, politics, trade, and urban planning—the authors provide the foundation to incorporate Sardinia into a broader European history. Among other contributions, archaeology adds critical insight into the relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish inhabitants of Sardinia, through examinations of urban and rural settlement patterns. This volume aims to stimulate further analysis of the critical role Sardinia has played as one of the largest and most strategically located islands in the Mediterranean. Contributors are Laura Biccone, Nathalie Bouloux, Henri Bresc, Marco Cadinu, Roberto Coroneo, Laura Galoppini, Henrike Haug, Michelle Hobart, Rossana Martorelli, Giampaolo Mele, Marco Milanese, Giovanni Murgia, Gian Giacomo Ortu, Daniela Rovina, Olivetta Schena, Cecilia Tasca, Raimondo Turtas, and Corrado Zedda.
Download or read book The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson written by Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dispatches and Letters written by Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea and Sardinia written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his response to a new landscape and people and his ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism. On one level an indictment of contemporary materialism, Sea and Sardinia is nevertheless an optimistic book, celebrating the creativity of the human spirit and seeking in the fundamental laws which governed human nature in the past fresh inspiration for the present. This 1997 edition restores censored passages and corrects corrupt textual readings to reveal for the first time the book Lawrence himself called 'a marvel of veracity'.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve C B D C L written by John Knox Laughton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. by John Knox Laughton
Download or read book The Comic History of Rome written by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Comic History of Rome" by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Grazia Deledda written by Martha King and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely and extensive biography of a writer who, in the early twentieth century, achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her novels, and editors felt honoured to publish her short stories and 'sketches'. Now, almost seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. Her works still live and have the power to move her readers.
Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds—including a commander, Hermann Göring, who contemptuously treated his pilots as cowards—Steinhoff and his fellow Messerschmitt 109 pilots took to the skies day after day to meet waves of dreaded Flying Fortresses and swarms of Allied fighters, all bent on driving the Germans from the island. A captivating narrative and a piercing analysis based on the author’s personal World War diary, this book is a classic of aerial combat. A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces.
Download or read book What Happened An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever 4 volumes written by John E. Findling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 1455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and highly readable collection of essays highlights 50 important events that changed the course of American history. What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever is designed to introduce beginning U.S. history students and lay readers to the most significant events in the nation's history. More than that, it also will give readers insight into why a particular event is important. This book consists of 50 chapters in four volumes, each dealing with a critically important event in American history from the 17th century to the present. Each chapter includes a factual essay on the subject prepared by John Findling or Frank Thackeray. The factual material is augmented with an interpretive essay on the same subject, written by a specialist in the field. Through this juxtaposition, readers can learn not only about the who, what, and where of an event, but also why it is important in the sweep of American history.
Download or read book The Life of Cavour written by Edward Cecil George Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville 1857 1861 1904 written by Henry William Greville and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the World in Five Books written by Walter Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci written by William K. Carroll and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affirming Antonio Gramsci’s continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers a comprehensive overview of Gramsci’s contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of critical social science, social and political thought, economics and emancipatory politics. Within the tradition of historical materialism, it explores the continuing impact of Gramscian perspectives in the present day.
Download or read book The Histories written by Polybius and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It is accompanied by an illuminating introduction and notes.
