Download or read book The Belgian Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Belgian Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins is a poignant and captivating story set against the backdrop of World War I. The novel follows the adventures and hardships of two young twins, Jan and Marie, whose lives are abruptly disrupted by the horrors of war. Jan and Marie are typical children living in a quaint Belgian village with their parents. Their lives are filled with simple joys and routines until the war reaches their doorstep. When German soldiers invade their village, the twins are separated from their parents in the ensuing chaos. This separation sets the stage for their harrowing journey, as they navigate a war-torn landscape in search of their family and safety. Despite their young age, Jan and Marie display remarkable courage and resilience. The bond between them is unbreakable, providing them with the strength to face the many challenges that come their way. Their journey is fraught with danger, including encounters with soldiers, navigating through desolate villages, and the constant threat of starvation. However, their determination and love for each other help them to persevere. Perkins paints a vivid picture of the impact of war on civilians, especially children. Through the eyes of Jan and Marie, readers get a glimpse of the devastation and displacement caused by the conflict. The author does not shy away from depicting the harsh realities of war, but she also balances this with moments of kindness and hope. Along their journey, the twins encounter several characters who help them, demonstrating the compassion and solidarity that can emerge even in the darkest times. The narrative is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. Perkins' portrayal of the twins' innocence and bravery serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit. The author's descriptive writing brings the setting and characters to life, making the reader feel deeply connected to Jan and Marie's plight. "The Belgian Twins" also serves an educational purpose. It introduces young readers to the historical context of World War I and the impact it had on ordinary people. Perkins includes details about the cultural and geographical aspects of Belgium, enriching the reader's understanding of the setting. The book is well-paced, with a mix of suspenseful and tender moments. Perkins' writing is accessible, making it suitable for younger readers while still engaging enough for adults. The themes of perseverance, familial love, and the kindness of strangers are universal, making this a timeless story. "The Belgian Twins" is not just a tale of war and separation; it is also a story of hope and the enduring strength of family bonds. Perkins' ability to convey deep emotions through the experiences of Jan and Marie ensures that this book remains a memorable and impactful read. For those looking for a story that combines historical realism with heartfelt narrative, "The Belgian Twins" is an excellent choice. Lucy Fitch Perkins' masterful storytelling and her compassionate portrayal of her young protagonists make this book a touching tribute to the resilience and bravery of children in times of conflict.
Download or read book The Belgian Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Dutch Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch twins Kit and Kat spend happy hours fishing off the pier, shopping at the village supermarket, skatind on the canal, and celebrating St. Nicholas day.
Download or read book The Belgian Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan and Marie Van Hovegrow up on a farm in Belgium.
Download or read book The Belgian Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan and Marie Van Hovegrow up on a farm in Belgium.
Download or read book The Belgian Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Belgian Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Download or read book The Twins written by Tessa de Loo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completely original. A fiction whose poise, compassion and breadth take the reader's breath away"JOAN SMITH "Gripping and touching" Independent "Memorable and moving" The Times Bound by blood, separated by love... Twin sisters, Lotte and Anna, share a bond that is far stronger than anyone except they alone can understand. But when war comes between them, the two discover that even the deepest bonds have their limits. Having been cruelly separated as children, Lotte and Anna are at last reunited. Neither lost hope to see each other again. However, with Europe on the verge of war, much has changed between them. While Lotte has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in liberal Holland, Anna has endured a life of poverty in a Germany under the spell of Hitler. With Lotte now engaged to a Jewish musician, and Anna brainwashed by Third Reich ideas, cracks in their relationship soon appear. With the war on, the twins decide to part again. Back in Germany, Anna marries Martin, an Austrian soldier, who hates the war but joins the SS for the sake of his wife only to be killed a few days later. Anna is devastated and longs for her sister. At the same time, Lotte's own life is in danger. The Nazis have invaded Holland and her lover has been taken to Auschwitz. Knowing she will never see him again, all she can do is keep his family safe from Hitler's troops. Now an old woman, Lotte remembers the pain as, before her, stands the sisters she disowned all those years ago. Can these two lives ever be reconciled? The twins now face their final test . . . Translated from the Dutch by Ruth Levitt
Download or read book The Scotch Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in a series of stories that introduce a period of history and a geographical location through the adventures of twins. Here, Scottish twins, Jock and Jean, discover the gamekeeper is a poacher and help expose him.
Download or read book The Kindly Ones written by Jonathan Littell and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.” Dr. Max Aue, the man at the heart of Jonathan Littell’s stunning and controversial novel The Kindly Ones, personifies the evils of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Highly educated and cultured, he was an ambitious SS officer, a Nazi and mass murderer who was in the upper echelons of the Third Reich. He tells us of his experience during the war. He was present at Auschwitz and Babi Yar, witnessed the battle of Stalingrad, and survived the fall of Berlin — receiving a medal from Hitler personally in the last days of Nazi Germany. Long after the war, he is living a comfortable bourgeois life in France, married with two children, managing a lace factory. And now, having evaded justice, he speaks out, giving a precise and accurate record of his life. The tone of his account is detached, lapidary, and for the most part unrepentant, whether he is describing his participation in mass murder on the Eastern Front, his bureaucratic investigations of labour productivity in the death camps, his casual murder of civilians as he tries to break through Russian lines towards the end of the war, or his fervid and convoluted relationship with his twin sister. Over its course, by entwining Aue’s life with those of historical figures such as Eichmann and Speer, Himmler and indeed Hitler, The Kindly Ones comes to depict the entire architecture of Nazism — from its grandest intellectual pretensions to its most minute, most chilling managerial details and executions. The Kindly Ones presents — with unprecedented realism, meticulous research that is both fascinating and compelling, and brilliant literary accomplishment — the greatest horrors imaginable. “War and murder are a question, a question without an answer, for when you cry out in the night, no one answers,” Aue says. In the same way, this powerfully affecting, powerfully challenging book confronts the reader with the most profound questions about history, morality, and art without offering any easy resolution. Written originally in French, and published now in English for the first time, The Kindly Ones has already sold to date well over a million copies in Europe. In France it won two prestigious prizes, including the Goncourt, and has been compared to War and Peace and other great classics of literature.
Download or read book The Spartan Twins written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spartan Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book White Cube written by Brecht Vandenbroucke and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With few words and gorgeous style, a cartoonist takes aim at the hypocrisies of the art world White Cube is the Belgian cartoonist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke's debut book, a collection of mostly wordless strips that follow a pair of pink-faced twins as they attempt to understand contemporary art and the gallery world. Their reactions to the art they encounter are frequently comedic, as they paint over Pablo Picasso's famous mural Guernica, and re-create a pixelated version of Edvard Munch's The Scream after receiving one too many e-mails. Lushly painted, these irreverent strips poke fun at the staid, often smug art world, offering an absurdist view on the institutions of that world—questioning what constitutes art and what doesn't, as well as how we decide what goes on the walls of the gallery and what doesn't. Vandenbroucke's distinctive work blends the highbrow with the low, drawing equally from Gordon Matta-Clark's site-specific artwork and the Three Stooges' slapstick timing. With a knowing wink at the reader, Vandenbroucke continuously uncovers something to laugh about in the stuffiness and pretentiousness of the art world.
Download or read book Euthanasia Searching for the Full Story written by Timothy Devos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing in palliative care and ethicists who, together, raise questions concerning the practice of euthanasia. They share their experiences and reflections born out of their confrontation with requests for euthanasia and end-of-life support in a country where euthanasia has been decriminalized since 2002 and is now becoming a trivial topic.Far from evoking any militancy, these stories of life and death present the other side of a reality needs to be evaluated more rigorously.Featuring multidisciplinary perspectives, this though-provoking and original book is intended not only for caregivers but also for anyone who questions the meaning of death and suffering, as well as the impact of a law passed in 2002. Presenting real-world cases and experiences, it highlights the complexity of situations and the consequences of the euthanasia law.This book appeals to palliative care providers, hematologists, oncologists, psychiatrists, nurses and health professionals as well as researchers, academics, policy-makers, and social scientists working in health care. It is also a unique resource for those in countries where the decriminalization of euthanasia is being considered. Sometimes shocking, it focuses on facts and lived experiences to challenge readers and offer insights into euthanasia in Belgium.
Download or read book You Choose World War I written by Gwenyth Swain and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I has just exploded in Europe. The peace of the entire world is in danger. How will you help? Will you: Join the Belgian resistance movement? Fight as a British Army soldier? Serve as a volunteer with the American Field Service?
Download or read book Hippomobile written by Jeff Tapia and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many stories about kid crusaders who save something, but none like this one. With steampunk, tall tale, and just plain silly elements, the story of how ten-year-old twins Jimmy and Stella found out about the unique vehicle called the hippomobile, learned its history, and then used it to rescue their beloved town of Wymore is an original variant on a tried and true theme. A cast of wildly eccentric characters, most of whom are the twins' forty-seven grandmas and grandpas; a liberal sprinkling of diner slang and odd colloquial phrases, many explained in footnotes; and a sense that the events described never took place but could have are among the surprising ingredients of this unconventional creation. The fact that there really was a hippomobile with its own history doesn't interfere with the fun.
Download or read book The American Twins of the Revolution written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in a series of stories introducing a period in history and geographical location through the adventures of twins. Here, twins Sally and Roger Priestly and their mother, faithfully guard and preserve money which is made available to the revolutionary forces at a moment when their success seems to hang in the balance.
Download or read book The Belgian Twins Esprios Classics written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. Fitch started to write children's fiction on a freelance basis for Young Folks. In 1906, she published her first work, The Goose Girl, a collection of children's rhymes. A year later, she followed with A Book of Joys: A Story of a New England Summer, but both works had limited popular appeal. In 1911, she published The Dutch Twins, her first major work. The book was inspired by friend Edwin Osgood Grover, who saw a picture Perkins drew of a pair of Dutch children. Grover suggested to Perkins that she design a series centered around the twins. Perkins took the advice, and the Twins series were a popular success. She published 26 books in the Twins series for the Houghton Mifflin Company.
