Twentieth-century Classics
Twentieth-century Classics

Author: Dennis Sharp

Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780714838687

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Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Gropius' Dessau Bauhaus, Le Coubusier's Unite deabitation and Kahn's Salk Institute. It includes specially producedechnical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and putogether. The text explains how all three buildings are the product of greatocial vision and humanism and that by studying these pivotal buildingsogether, the approaches of three different architects to building forpecific communities can be examined.

The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century

Author: Albert Robida

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2004-03-17

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780819566805

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Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.

The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye

Author: J. D. Salinger

Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..

The Long Twentieth Century
The Long Twentieth Century

Author: Giovanni Arrighi

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781859840153

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Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.

Twentieth Century Book of the Dead
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead

Author: Gil Elliot

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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The author describes the culture of mass death in the 20th century, from the battlefields of both World Wars to local disasters and organized famines, during which some 110 million have died.

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Essays
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Essays

Author: Ian Hamilton

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780140255218

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Whether highly personal, polemical, philosophical or playful, the essays in this fascinating collection capture their times with wit, urgency, erudition and insight. Decade by decade, the greatest British and American writers span the twentieth century, including Orwell's 'England Your England', Nancy Mitford on the upper classes, Fitzgerald's 'Crack Up', James Baldwin's harrowing 'Notes of a Native Son', Martin Amis on US politics, Tom Wolfe on 'radical chic' and Julian Barnes on the Thatcher years.

Twentieth Century Classics
Twentieth Century Classics

Author: Rajiva Wijesinha

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9382264876

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Twentieth Century Classics is a collection of essays on 20th-century English society through surveys of leading prose writers of that period. In this book the author, Rajiva Wijesinha, puts together 51 writers of English literature whose works have the best claim towards the hallmark of 'classic' in the 20th century. Each of the writers included in this book is representative of the period in terms of his or her literary concerns and choice of themes and subjects. Initially published in Sri Lanka in the newspaper, The Island, as a weekly column, the essays also contribute much to our understanding of the society they describe, the changes the society experienced and the moral perspectives that governed it. The essays are educational and written in a lucid manner. They can be a reader's best guide to good literature of the previous century.

Twentieth Century's Greatest Hits
Twentieth Century's Greatest Hits

Author: Paul Williams

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0312873905

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Rates the best of the twentieth century's art and pop culture, while accompanying essays provide commentary on the way art and performance influences the public and modern world.

The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature
The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature

Author: Christine Berberich

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780754661269

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Christine Berberich shows that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Paying particular attention to the relationship of nostalgia to 'Englishness', Berberich demonstrates that twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.