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A Desert In Bohemia
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Author : Jill Paton Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-31
A Desert In Bohemia written by Jill Paton Walsh and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Fiction categories.
It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others - the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his partisans, and Count Michael Blansky, who is the castle's ancestral owner. But the war has changed things for ever. In a storm of ideological change, the existing order and the aristocratic heritage of ten generations are brushed aside by the arrival of Communism, and Count Michael must join the flood of refugees if he is to survive. He leaves behind a legacy which will entangle those involved for the next forty years in more ways than they can possibly imagine. As divided post-war Europe unravels around them, they must make what they can of lives buffeted by circumstance. For many, individual freedom is at best problematic. For better or worse, communities are destroyed, families uprooted, and the ties of trust, friendship and duty which bind them together are broken down by the implacably irresolvable forces at work. Told through the eyes of nine characters who live through the forty years between the end of the war and the fall of Communism, A Desert in Bohemia is a complex and enthralling testament to the power and powerlessness of the individual in challenging times.
Desert In Bohemia
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Author : Jill Paton Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2001
Desert In Bohemia written by Jill Paton Walsh and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
A novel of the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II chronicles fifty years in a small Eastern European town.
Islam Christianity And The Making Of Czech Identity 1453 1683
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Author : Laura Lisy-Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Islam Christianity And The Making Of Czech Identity 1453 1683 written by Laura Lisy-Wagner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with History categories.
Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world. Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 works through the descriptive and ethnographic texts produced by Czech speakers about Islam and the Ottoman Empire to show how they used this discourse to create Czech identities. Rather than simply constructing identity in opposition to the Islamic Other, Laura Lisy-Wagner shows how these authors played the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires off each other, creating an autonomous space for themselves in between. Lisy-Wagner introduces sources that are new to English-language historiography and uses them in a way that is new to Czech historiography as well. The chapters are organized based on different categories of agents-travelers, ethnographers, religious leaders, artists, and political revolutionaries-whose voices cast ideas of Europe and Czech identity in the early modern period in a new and different light.
Knowledge Of Angels
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Author : Jill Paton Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Knowledge Of Angels written by Jill Paton Walsh and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with Fiction categories.
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...
Shakespearean Territories
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Author : Stuart Elden
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Shakespearean Territories written by Stuart Elden and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with History categories.
Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.
The Works Of William Shakespeare The Winter S Tale
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Works Of William Shakespeare The Winter S Tale written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
The Works Of William Shakespeare Addenda Preface To The First Edition Taming Of The Shrew All S Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Winter S Tale
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Works Of William Shakespeare Addenda Preface To The First Edition Taming Of The Shrew All S Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Winter S Tale written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
The Works Of William Shakespeare The Taming Of The Shrew All S Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Or What You Will The Winter S Tale
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Works Of William Shakespeare The Taming Of The Shrew All S Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Or What You Will The Winter S Tale written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Works
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Works written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
The Works Of William Shakespeare
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Works Of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.