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This volume concentrates on ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. It brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in a readable narrative.
"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband, who died a decade earlier"--
Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative.
‘A terrible beauty is born’ WB Yeats’s poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation.
A Terrible Beauty
West Point graduate Miller led American soldiers in Vietnam in 1968 as a captain. He shares the story of their struggle to survive and prevail.
On a farm in southern Ireland, the dismembered bones of eleven women are found in a common grave, buried eight decades ago.
"As war broke out across Europe in 1914 the Vorticist painter Wyndham Lewis advised: 'You must not miss a war, if one is going! You cannot afford to miss that...
Nancy Baker shows her mastery of the form—the mysterious letter, the journey into the wilderness, the shadows that hide from the flickering firelight—and her real affection for a good ol’ fashioned vampire yarn.” —The Telegraph ...
A Terrible Beauty: The Easter Rebellion and Yeats's "Great Tapestry"
ABOUT THE BOOK Shortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called ¿The library a wilderness of books.¿ He also noted that while Americans were ¿clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are ...