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Author: Hugh MacLennan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0773524940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2030, an old man who has survived the holocaustic destruction of civilization in the 1980's illuminates the events of the past by portraying the lives of his cousin, a journalist during the 1970 war measures act, and his stepfather, a German caught up in the madness of the Hitler era.
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1429900350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.
Author: Julius Thomas Fraser
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 710
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 1992-09-17
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781857990003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Silvia Bonucci
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the dawn of the twentieth century until World War II, members of a Jewish family in Trieste experienced great historical and cultural events - the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis, World War I, the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that turned Trieste into an Italian city, Fascism. In Voices from a Time, the main characters take turns describing the family's life in the first person. Central to the story is Gemma, a frivolous but fascinating woman, an adulteress wife and irresponsible mother who behaves like an eternal child. The other family members try to keep up with Gemma and her eccentricities, often paying a high price to do so. The backdrop for this fascinating and beautifully told story contains the radiant and mundane world of fin de si'cle society, the atmosphere of Jewish Trieste, the irredentist movement, an encounter with Freud in Vienna, economic and financial downfall, and the cultural squalor of Italian Fascism.
Author: Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0385351607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: sixteen new stories—“spellbinding, masterly, sublime” (The New York Times Book Review)—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unforgettably unsettling what-ifs, or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even within our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: Samuel, who hears the voice of God calling him in the night; a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha, who searches for his purpose in life; Rapunzel and her Prince, who struggle to fit the real world to their dream. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly and winning humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0152056785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoung Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 0811231011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”
Author: Charles Fernyhough
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1782830782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For others - voice-hearers, trauma-sufferers and prophets - the voices seem to come from outside: friendly voices, malicious ones, the voice of God or the Devil, the muses of art and literature. In The Voices Within, Royal Society Prize shortlisted psychologist Charles Fernyhough draws on extensive original research and a wealth of cultural touchpoints to reveal the workings of our inner voices, and how those voices link to creativity and development. From Virginia Woolf to the modern Hearing Voices Movement, Fernyhough also transforms our understanding of voice-hearers past and present. Building on the latest theories, including the new 'dialogic thinking' model, and employing state-of-the-art neuroimaging and other ground-breaking research techniques, Fernyhough has written an authoritative and engaging guide to the voices in our heads. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Author: Katherine Ayres
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1497646626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the outbreak of World War II, a twelve-year-old girl comes up with an idea to help the war effort America has just entered World War II, and everyone in Charlotte Campbell’s family is doing his or her part, either abroad or in the Pennsylvania factory town where the Campbells live. Charlotte’s brother Jim has enlisted in the navy, and her mother works in Braddock’s local war plant. Her dad guides tugboats filled with supplies up the Monongahela River. Eager to contribute to the war effort—besides saving to buy defense stamps—Charlotte organizes a scrap metal drive like the ones all over the country. She and her sixth-grade classmates start collecting old junk and soon have so much that they have to store it in the school basement . . . until someone steals all the metal. Charlotte is determined to find the thief and get back the precious scraps. Her younger brother Robbie supplies a list of potential suspects, from the school janitor to a fellow fourth grader. Some of the kids think it might be Charlotte’s German friend Betsy. But when they set a trap for the culprit, Charlotte has to face the fear that’s been giving her nightmares since childhood. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
