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Book Silent Sun

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  • Author : Solomon Gross
  • Publisher : Associated University Presses
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780845348406
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Silent Sun written by Solomon Gross and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silent Sun is the story of one man's quest for his heritage - a chronicle of hardships experienced in Nazi labor camps; a tribute, also, to the human spirit." "From the nights of September 1939, when caravans of Polish cavalry passed too quietly beneath his windows in Chrzanow, Poland, Solomon Gross was filled with a sense of foreboding. By 1940, his fears were realized as he found himself in Sakran, a Nazi labor camp - cutting sod in the warm weather, shoveling snow in a cold that froze his canvas-clogged feet, living on potato soup. Conditions worsened from day to day." "But if the camp at Sakran was "the most difficult physical experience" for Gross, the Graditz camp he was moved to in 1941 was difficult in its own way - "a trial of a totally different nature" . . . a place where, for a time, one hundred people lived on rations meant for forty. In the two and a half years Gross was shuttled between Graditz and another camp called Faulbruck, his survival instincts emerged with new fervor: he smuggled potatoes from the camp kitchen in his knickerbockers; he ate sugar beets - or "swine fodder" - for as long as he could stomach them. And ever and again he made his blacksmithing talents a distraction to the Germans - a cover for operations of survival." "In the second half of 1944, Gross was moved from Graditz to Sportschule, a division of the Grossrosen concentration camp. There, he had to give up his own clothes for a striped, burlap uniform, and his hair to the crude barbering instruments of his captors. And yet, in such bleak surroundings, he persevered - wrote inspiring letters to his future wife, Dorka, smuggled food to his mother, shared rations with his friend Berek." "Writes Gross, "Some, like myself, spent close to four years waiting for the great day." Indeed. Four years. Something like a college education - only with an infinitely more grueling course load, and participation in graduation an uncertainty. Fortunately for Gross, convocation came with the buzzing of Allied bombers: in the midst of death machines was deliverance." "Life during the war had not been without occasional pleasures, or even joys. Through those years in the camp, Gross had shared a sweet courtship with Dorka, after all, and experienced the kindness of sympathetic peasants and half-hearted enemies. Conversely, postwar life was not without its trials. Some of Gross's Russian liberators, for instance, proved crude in their pursuit of victory's "spoils." But Gross, like so many of the liberated Jews, was irrepressible. Like the great silent sun he longed to be warmed by, Solomon Gross was ever persistent. In its rays, he found his heritage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Silent Sun

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  • Author : Gene Meding
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0595172288
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Silent Sun written by Gene Meding and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carole Meadows seems to have obtained her own little slice of Americana. Married to a handsome, young doctor and making a name for herself in the financial industry, she seems settled in her life in South Carolina. But a growing discontentedness with her chosen path and a nagging chapter from her past threaten to shatter her seemingly idyllic life. Then the sudden suicide of Carole’s cousin, Sarah, a woman with whom Carole has always had a contentious relationship, takes a bigger toll on her than she could have ever imagined. When she discovers that her husband played a role in Sarah’s death, Carole succumbs to a depression so devastating, it threatens to destroy her. With the help of a sympathetic therapist, an overprotective mother, and her best friend, Shirley, Carole struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. On an impulse, she signs on as a counselor at a summer camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Under the guidance of the camp’s leader, Dr. Robert Tucker, a Lakota Indian who has secrets of his own, Carole embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery and learns the true meaning of friendship, tolerance, and love.

Book Silent Sun

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  • Author : Brandon Q. Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-02
  • ISBN : 9783963570025
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Silent Sun written by Brandon Q. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Songs of Genesis

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  • Author : Steve Aldous
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2020-04-13
  • ISBN : 1476639841
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Songs of Genesis written by Steve Aldous and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessentially British, Genesis spearheaded progressive rock in the 1970s, evolving into a chart-topping success through the end of the millennium. Influencing rock groups such as Radiohead, Phish, Rush, Marillion and Elbow, the experimental format of Genesis' songs inspired new avenues for music to explore. From the 23-minute masterpiece "Supper's Ready," via the sublime beauty of "Ripples" and the bold experimentation of "Mama", to hits such as "Invisible Touch" and "I Can't Dance," their material was inventive and unique. This book is the chronological history of the band's music, with critical analysis and key details of each of the 204 songs Genesis recorded and released.

Book Walt Whitman

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  • Author : J. R. LeMaster
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0815318766
  • Pages : 884 pages

Download or read book Walt Whitman written by J. R. LeMaster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes almost 760 entries ranging in length from 3,100 words on the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass to 140 words on Elizabeth Leavitt Keller. Entries include biographical data; thematic, formal and technical considerations; discussions of the poet's social and personal life; and commentary on all of Whitman's works, including poem clusters, major poems, essays, and lesser known works such as the novel Franklin Evans and two dozen short stories. A chronology and genealogy are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Critical Perspectives in American Literature

Download or read book Critical Perspectives in American Literature written by Meenakshi Raman and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever There Are People There Will Be A Literature. A Literature Is The Record Of Human Experience, And People Have Always Been Impelled To Write Down Their Impressions Of Life. They Do So In Diaries And Letters, In Pamphlets And Books, And In Essays, Poems, Plays, And Fiction. In This Respect American Literature Is Like Any Other, Though It Displays Many Characteristics That Are Similar And Many That Are Dissimilar To The Literary Tradition Of Other Nations. American Literature Has Witnessed Several Trends And Movements:" Puritan/Colonial (1650 1750)" Revolutionary/Age Of Reason (1750 1800)" Romanticism (1800 1860)" American Renaissance/Transcen-Dentalism (1840 1860)" Realism (1855 1900) (Period Of Civil War And Post-War Period)" The Moderns (1900 1950)" Harlem Renaissance (Parallel To Modernism) (1920S)" Postmodernism (1950 To Present)The Present Volume Concentrates On The American Literature Of 19Th And 20Th Centuries And Includes Critical Papers On Authors Widely Prescribed In The Indian Universities. As We Are Aware, The Beauty Of Any Literary Work Is That It Leads To Fresh Interpretation Every Time When Viewed From A Different Angle. The Scholarly And Critical Analysis Presented On The Works Of Several American Literary Masters Such As Emerson, Hawthorn, Poe, Whitman, Hemingway, O Neill, Miller, Morrison, Walker, Etc., By Experts In The Field Of English Literature Would Unquestionably Enable The Readers Gain A New Insight Into The Interpretation Of Literary Works. While Serving As An Additional Resource To The Teachers Of American Literature, This Volume Is Expected To Assist The Students And Researchers In The Domain Of American Literature.

Book Silent Sun

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  • Author : Ayushman Jamwal
  • Publisher : BecomeShakespeare.com
  • Release : 2018-09-04
  • ISBN : 9388081498
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Silent Sun written by Ayushman Jamwal and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer chained to a fight for survival, we are consumed by an endless search for meaning, purpose and fulfilment through our meagre human instinct, fighting for communion and love against lonely existence, and even marvelling at what an afterlife has to offer. We walk this earth forging and re-forging ourselves. Just like the sun, we do beautiful and unfortunate things in that constant struggle to be a little more than nothing. It is what makes us human. The creator, the preserver, the destroyer, the tormented, the hero, the enlightened, the faithful and the wanderer are all united by this virtue. This is a celebration of the Silent Sun in all of us. The countless voiceless tales beckoned to the universe. The spirit that elevates us above our primordial origins. Find your fire between the lines.

Book Silent Sun

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  • Author : Brandon Q. Morris
  • Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
  • Release : 2021-01-18
  • ISBN : 1071584294
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Silent Sun written by Brandon Q. Morris and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Nuestro sol se está comportando de manera diferente a otras estrellas? Cuando un astrónomo amateur descubre algo extraño en imágenes telescópicas solares, debe encontrarse una explicación ¿Es solamente un artefacto? ¿O ha encontrado algo totalmente inesperado? Una tripulación internacional de expertos es formada apresuradamente, una nave espacial es reacondicionada rápidamente y el cuarteto es enviado al viaje de sus vidas ¿Qué desafíos enfrentarán en esta misión improvisada a nuestra estrella central?

Book Silent Sun

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  • Author : Brandon Q. Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781092646192
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Silent Sun written by Brandon Q. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is our sun behaving differently from other stars? When an amateur astronomer discovers something strange on telescopic solar pictures, an explanation must be found. Is it merely artifact? Or has he found something totally unexpected? An expert international crew is hastily assembled, a spaceship is speedily repurposed, and the foursome is sent on the ride of their live. " --

Book Battle Lines

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  • Author : Eliza Richards
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 0812250699
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Battle Lines written by Eliza Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news reports, often taking on the task of imagining the mental states of readers on receiving accounts from the war front. Newspaper and magazine poetry had long editorialized on political happenings—Indian wars, slavery and abolition, prison reform, women's rights—but the unprecedented scope of what has been called the first modern war, and the centrality of the issues involved for national futures, generated a powerful sense of single-mindedness among readers and writers that altered the terms of poetic expression. In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic relationship between the development of mass media networks and modern warfare. Focusing primarily on the North, Richards explores how poets working in this new environment mediated events via received literary traditions. Collectively and with a remarkable consistency, poems pulled out key features of events and drew on common tropes and practices to mythologize, commemorate, and ponder the consequences of distant battles. The lines of communication reached outward through newspapers and magazines to writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville, who drew their inspiration from their peers' poetic practices and reconfigured them in ways that bear the traces of their engagements.

Book Walt Whitman

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2013-10-08
  • ISBN : 1466854006
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass. A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over 200 poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original punctuation. Included in this volume are facsimiles of Whitman's original manuscripts, contemporary - and generally blistering - reviews of Whitman's poetry (not surprisingly Henry James hated it), and early pre-Leaves of Grass poems that return us to the physical Whitman, rejoicing - sometimes graphically - in homoerotic love. Unlike the many other available editions, all drawn from the final authorized or "deathbed" Leaves of Grass, this collection focuses on the exuberant poems Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, roughly between l853 and l860. These poems are faithfully presented as Whitman first gave them to the world - fearless, explicit and uncompromised - before he transformed himself into America's respectable, mainstream Good Gray Poet through 30 years of revision, self-censorship and suppression. Whitman admitted that his later poetry lacked the "ecstasy of statement" of his early verse. Revealing that ecstasy for the first time, this edition makes possible a major reappraisal of our nation first great poet.

Book I Speak of the City

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  • Author : Stephen Wolf
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780231140652
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book I Speak of the City written by Stephen Wolf and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.

Book English Poetry

Download or read book English Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS

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  • Author : CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 778 pages

Download or read book THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS written by CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drum Taps

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher : Cider Mill Press
  • Release : 2015-11-24
  • ISBN : 1604335947
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Drum Taps written by Walt Whitman and published by Cider Mill Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and elegant 150th Anniversary Edition of Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems, accompanied by moving photographs and artwork shedding new light on this tragic but significant chapter in American history. Drum Taps is the complete Civil War poem collection by Walt Whitman, including the celebrated Oh, Captain, My Captain!, and augmented with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals, and the assassination of the president. For the first time ever, each poem is set on a single page, and augmented with stunning artwork from the period: bright, rich, full-color engravings from Currier & Ives; the brooding and detailed photography of Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady; watercolors from the battfield by Winslow Homer and other famous artists; and classic photographs and art from America’s richest collections, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, the George Eastman House, and many other collections. With gorgeous, old-fashioned hot type, beautifully restored period artwork, and an authoritative introduction by Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner James McPherson, this is the richest edition of these moving and thoughtful poems by America’s greatest poet ever published.

Book Harvard Classics   Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Download or read book Harvard Classics Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 24734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get smarter on the sun! Whether that be on the beach or in the deck chair on your terrace or backyard. The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarchs V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: 1001 Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

Book Genesis

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  • Author : Tony Banks
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-09-18
  • ISBN : 0312379560
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Genesis written by Tony Banks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, definitive story of one of the worlds most creative and commercial rock groups, this beautiful, full-color book coincides with the bands Fall 2007 reunion tour. All former band members have collaborated in presenting their story that spans 30 years and 30 albums.