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Book The Sleepwalkers  Ballad

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  • Author : Yolanda Ortal-Miranda
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2008-11-24
  • ISBN : 1466989165
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Sleepwalkers Ballad written by Yolanda Ortal-Miranda and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of love, idealism, courage and betrayals takes place against the turmoil of the end of Batistas government and first three years of Castros. Besides the real-life characters of Batista, Castro and Che Guevara, the Revolution itself is an important character, making this work both a screenplay and a presentation of documented historical facts. Riveting parts of this story include the attack on the Presidential Palace; the guerrilla presence in La Sierra; Castros victory; the Agrarian, Monetary, and Housing Reforms; the government takeover of all banks and private businesses; the emergence of a strong underground movement; and the Bay of Pigs Invasion, with the often glossed-over involvement of President Kennedy. Much of the story is presented through unbiased dialogue and dramatizations of actual events. Two real-life characters, Echeverra and Manoln Guillotwho became significant figures in Cuban historyexemplify the struggle for freedom and justice against both regimes. Parallel to the socio-political drama is the development of the love story between the two protagonists, Mara and Alfredo. Alfredo believes in Castros promises of a just Revolution and joins Castro in La Sierra, rising to the rank of Comandante. Disenchanted as he witnesses Castros dictatorial behavior once in power, e.g., appointing himself Prime Minister, removing President Urrutia from office, and betraying the promises of a just Agrarian Reform, Alfredo and Mara once again join an underground movement, now against Castro, with Manoln Guillot functioning as Chief of Intelligence of the MRR, the strongest anti-Castro movement in the Island. After the failure of the invasion, Alfredo makes an unsuccessful attempt on Castros life. Immediately imprisoned, Alfredo is submitted to endless tortures and humiliations, but he never reveals the identity of Carlos (one of the noms de guerre of Manoln Guillot). At the end, a fascinating confrontation between the tyrant, Fidel Castro, and the idealistic Alfredo, reveals the strengths and flaws of two very different human beings.

Book For the Sleepwalkers

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  • Author : Edward Hirsch
  • Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book For the Sleepwalkers written by Edward Hirsch and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissuing of For the Sleepwalkers, poems by Edward Hirsch.

Book Gypsy Ballads

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  • Author : Federico GarciI a Lorca
  • Publisher : eBook Partnership
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 1907587829
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Gypsy Ballads written by Federico GarciI a Lorca and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as 'the poem of Andalucia...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andalucia trembles'. Seeking to relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious style of these poems barely disguises the undercurrents of conflicted identity never far from Lorca's work. This bilingual edition, translated by Jane Duran and Glora Garcia Lorca, is illuminated by photos and illustrations of and by Lorca, his own reflections on the poems and introductory notes by leading Lorca scholars: insights into the Romancero and the history of the Spanish ballad form by Andres Soria Olmedo; notes on the dedications by Manuel Fernandez-Montesinos; Lorca's 1935 lecture; and an introduction by Professor Christopher Maurer to the problems and challenges faced by translators of Lorca.

Book The Structure of Cuban History

Download or read book The Structure of Cuban History written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.

Book The Columbia Granger s Index to Poetry in Anthologies

Download or read book The Columbia Granger s Index to Poetry in Anthologies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Columbia Granger s Index to Poetry in Anthologies

Download or read book The Columbia Granger s Index to Poetry in Anthologies written by Tessa Kale and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years, The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies has been the preeminent index for answers to questions about the world of poetry, identifying the author of a poem or the anthologies in which it can be found when only a title, first line, or last line is known. This latest edition-a "must have" for libraries-brings its index up to date as of May 31, 2006. This latest version features 85,000 classic and contemporary poems by 12,000 poets. Also included are works in translation and for the first time poetry in Spanish, Vietnamese, and French. The subject organization of the poems is especially useful. Hundreds of new subjects have been added, indexing poems on highly relevant topics such as Osama bin Laden, the war in Iraq, Dick Cheney, the Internet, and Rosa Parks, as well as timeless subjects like the Bill of Rights, unspoken love, faith, and inspiration. Our impressive team of consultants includes J. D. McClatchy, Harvey Shapiro, and former poet laureate Mark Strand. From The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2005 edition) to Poetry after 9/11 and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems, this new edition puts readers in touch with the best of the latest anthologies and the lasting favorites.

Book The Poem Itself

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  • Author : Stanley Burnshaw
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1995-07-01
  • ISBN : 1557283281
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book The Poem Itself written by Stanley Burnshaw and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again for a new generation, this classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages and brilliantly illuminated by English commentaries.

Book Sappho to Val  ry

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  • Author : John Frederick Nims
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1990-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781557281418
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Sappho to Val ry written by John Frederick Nims and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems in original languages with English translations.

Book The Ballad of the Five Marys

Download or read book The Ballad of the Five Marys written by Donald Smith and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Smith's third historical novel investigates where Mary Queen of Scots' history ends and legend begins through the captivating use of contemporary prose ballad. Smith seeks a truthful narrative about not only Mary Carmichael but also Seton, Beaton, Livingston and Fleming by integrating firsthand accounts and dramatic testimony. It marks 500 years since Flodden and the Birth of John Knox.

Book The Sleepwalkers  Elucidations of Hermann Broch s Trilogy

Download or read book The Sleepwalkers Elucidations of Hermann Broch s Trilogy written by Dorrit Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merriam Webster s Encyclopedia of Literature

Download or read book Merriam Webster s Encyclopedia of Literature written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

Book Pantologia  A New Cyclopaedia  Comprehending a Complete Series of Essays  Treatises and Systems  Alphabetically Arranged  with a General Dictionary of Arts  Sciences  and Words     Illustrated with     Engravings

Download or read book Pantologia A New Cyclopaedia Comprehending a Complete Series of Essays Treatises and Systems Alphabetically Arranged with a General Dictionary of Arts Sciences and Words Illustrated with Engravings written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pantologia

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1813
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 898 pages

Download or read book Pantologia written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pantologia

Download or read book Pantologia written by John Mason Good and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literature of Spain in English Translation

Download or read book The Literature of Spain in English Translation written by Robert S. Rudder and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1975 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At Day s Close  Night in Times Past

Download or read book At Day s Close Night in Times Past written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.