Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague: 1947–1957, Doubravka Olsakova
Автор: Doubravka Olsakova Название: Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague: 1947–1957 ISBN: 3110690543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110690545 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 159920.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service, wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to 1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US Army and the chief of the de-Nazification section of the Manpower Division of the Office of the Military Government (OMGUS). While in Germany in 1946, Wheeler’s contract was not renewed, mainly due to suspicions that he was disloyal to the US government and had connections to the communist movement. Afterwards the entire family moved to Prague, where in 1951 they applied for political asylum.
The correspondence depicts ten years of life in Czechoslovakia—from the rise of communism through high Stalinism to the de-Stalinization of the country—from the perspective of pro-Communist–minded Americans. Thematically, the correspondence covers a wide range of political, cultural, and social topics, including the Cold War, the Korean War, the role of Christians in mediating dialogue between East and West, McCarthyism, and topics focused on the internal politics of Czechoslovakia.
These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse into the social history of a place in India, far from home. Both women were accomplished artists, the older one, Elizabeth, deserving significant recognition for her extraordinary bird paintings. She also had a strong fascination for all things Indian: the people; their history; religions and languages, which she relates with enthusiasm, and then widens this with evident talent for botany and horticulture.
Her younger sister, Mary, contented herself with descriptions of places, people and surroundings, not always complimentary to her peers. Behind all this was an undercurrent of anxiety about news from home, correspondence difficulties, war with France and a terrifying sepoy mutiny in Vellore. There was also a background of tension arising from the broken relationships between Elizabeth’s husband, judge Sir Henry Gwillim, and both his Chief Justice and the Governor of Madras.
Автор: Beckett Название: The Letters of Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0521867959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521867955 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 42230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches into work for radio, film and, later, into television. It also marks his return to writing fiction, with his first major piece for a decade, Comment c'est (How It Is). Where hitherto he has been reticent about the writing process, now he devotes letter after letter to describing and explaining his work in progress. For the first time Beckett has a woman as his major correspondent: a relationship shown in his intense and abundant letters to Barbara Bray. The volume also provides critical introductions, chronologies, explanatory notes and profiles of Beckett's main correspondents.
Автор: Willard Margaret Wheeler Название: Letters on the American Revolution, 1774-1776 ISBN: 1258197863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258197865 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 48990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Uffelman Minoa, Kanervo Ellen Williamson, Williams Eleanor S. Название: The Diary of Serepta Jordan: A Southern Woman`s Struggle with War and Family, 1857-1864 ISBN: 1621905454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621905455 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 46200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Discovered in a smokehouse in the mid-1980s, the diary of Serepta Jordan provides a unique window into the lives of Confederates living in occupied territory in upper middle Tennessee. A massive tome, written in a sturdy store ledger, the diary records every day from the fall of 1857 to June 1864.
Автор: Michael Wheeler Название: The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 ISBN: 1009268856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009268851 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 32730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Exploring the pivotal correspondence and intimate testimonies of prominent luminaries from the era, this compelling new book by a leading authority transforms our understanding of the period by concentrating on the pivotal year 1845, a year of crises and challenges, in the crucible of which Victorian England took shape.
Автор: Wheeler Название: Eleanor of Aquitaine ISBN: 0312295820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312295820 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Eleanor`s patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor`s life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor`s multifaceted career.
Автор: Wheeler Название: Eleanor of Aquitaine ISBN: 0230602363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230602366 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 69870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Eleanor`s patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor`s life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor`s multifaceted career.
Автор: Taylor Paul Название: My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor ISBN: 1606354078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606354070 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 62830.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The roar of battle permeates this collection of 241 highly literate and previously unpublished wartime letters from Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe to his wife, Eleanor Brent Poe. Yet readers will discover more than just Poe`s battlefield experiences.
