The Wine Lover's Daughter
Author: Anne Fadiman
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Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0374228086
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Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher:
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0374228086
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Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1429929421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 1008
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Author: Clive Coates
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 9780520212510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKin the Cote D'Or, exploring, tasting, and assessing the region's wines. His book is a work of love and passion, praise and criticism, understanding and scholarship. Above all, it is a celebration of one of the world's great wine regions, the people who live there, and their fabled wines. 15 maps.
Author: Margaret Scanlan
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018-06-30
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 161117869X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling author A best-selling novelist in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was rediscovered in 2004, when her Suite Française, set during the fall of France and the first year of German occupation, became a popular and critical success both in France and in the United States. Surviving in manuscript for sixty years after the author's deportation to Auschwitz, the work drew respectful attention as the voice of an early Holocaust victim. However, as remaining portions of Némirovsky's oeuvre returned to print, many twenty-first-century readers were appalled. Works such as David Golder and The Ball were condemned as crudely anti-Semitic, and when biographical details such as her 1938 conversion to Catholicism became known, hostility toward this "self-hating" Jew deepened. Countering such criticisms, Understanding Irène Némirovsky offers a sympathetic, nuanced reading of Némirovsky's fiction. Margaret Scanlan begins with an overview of the writer's life—her upper-class Russian childhood, her family's immigration to France, her troubled relationship with her neglectful mother—and then traces how such experiences informed her novels and stories, including works set in revolutionary Russia, among the nouveau riche on the Riviera, and in struggling French families and failing businesses during the Depression. Scanlan examines the Suite Française and other works that address the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism. Viewing Némirovsky as a major talent with a distinctive style and voice, Scanlan argues for Némirovsky's keen awareness of the unsettled times in which she lived and examines the ways in which even her novels of manners analyze larger social issues. Scanlan shows how Némirovsky identified with France as the center of culture and Enlightenment values, a nation where a thoughtful artist could choose her own identity. The Russian Revolution had convinced Némirovsky that violent liberations led to further violence and repression, that interior freedom required political stability. In 1940, when French democracy had collapsed and many seemed reconciled to the Vichy state, Némirovsky's idea of private freedom faltered—a recognition that her last work, Suite Française, for all its seeming reticence, makes poignantly clear.
Author: Jonathon Alsop
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: 2011-01-19
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1610580982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor true oenophiles, there is discipline, devotion, and strict traditions to follow. For the general population, oenophilia is simply "the love of wine". By nature, wine lovers are collectors: bottles, vintages, countries of origin, and more. Wine Lover's Devotional is a year-long collection of insight and eclectica for the passionate wine lover. Each day of the week is given a wine-themed category: Monday: The Language of Wine; Tuesday: Wine Grapes; Wednesday: Wine & Food; Thursday: Putting Wine in its Place (Wine Geography); Friday: People Make Wine, Wine Makes People; and Saturday + Sunday: Weekend Wine Adventure. Wine Lover's Devotional uses hundreds of years of tradition, tasting notes, recipes, colorful trivia, and intriguing histories to inspire the oenophile in all of us.
Author: Elsa Wolf
Publisher: ElsaWolfBooks
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1732777411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe deception surrounding an adoption in 1958 is at the heart of Buried Truths, A Daughter's Tale. Heidi is whisked out of Germany to become the only known daughter of an older American couple living in Paris. By the time she turns four, the family moves to Washington, D.C. As Heidi matures into her teenage years, she grows leery of her mother’s bizarre behavior and her father’s quiet disposition. During Heidi's university years, she is confronted by a stranger who gives her an envelope addressed to her uncle. She confronts him, and he reluctantly reveals disturbing facts. The prospect of romance and a theatrical career temporarily overshadow his words. Murder, truths about her German family, and the loss of her adopted parents reveal a treasure trove of secrets.
Author: Maggie Hope
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1448118573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA family torn apart. A daughter’s courage... When Elizabeth and her four sibling are orphaned, she and her brother are sent to a children’s home; their younger sisters into foster care. Life in the home is hard, but she is determined to look after her brother and make a better life for them both. Working as a nurse gives her a purpose but she risks everything by falling for wounded officer Jack Benson. Far above her in wealth and station, Elizabeth cannot marry him and she risks losing her nursing place if there is any hint of impropriety about her conduct. Then Elizabeth learns that her sister, Jenny, has been adopted by an abusive farmer. Torn between her hopeless love for Jack and her sister, must Elizabeth make an extreme sacrifice to reunite her family?
Author: Paul Gillin
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 161035110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring how and why online forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs have gained such popularity--and credibility--with consumers, this practical guide offers proven strategies for organizations to leverage these new internet-based social media outlets. The differences between traditional and new media are explored, as are simple ways business owners and marketers can use these new resources to communicate with their customers. Practical tips on gaining the attention of and interacting with influential bloggers, the pros and cons of creating a company blog, guerilla marketing on the internet, and restructuring marketing expectations are also discussed.