In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag.
It is just a fantasy fiction, during those years, 1970s, 1980s an Asian family coming from conservative, naïve, strictly by religion, tradition and status tells a story of whats the perspective of a brother-in-law's journey into ...
The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia, a woman whose life was riddled with the tension between masculine and ...
Sit back and let yourself be swept up into the life of Sophie and Billy' 5* Reader Review 'This is PURE ESCAPISM and I loved every single word of it' 5* Reader Review 'I cried tears of JOY and HAPPINESS . . .
Drawing on exclusive access to Nilsson's papers, Alyn Shipton's biography offers readers an intimate portrait of a man who has seemed both famous and unknowable--until now.
So long as death remains remote and unreal, Jesus's promises will too. But honesty about death brings hope to life. That's the ironic claim at the heart of this book.
... Clouds are swaying , Winds are straying , World's a thrilling dream ... in author , timbre , or tone of voice . It is precisely this " tone of voice ... Olivia Phelps Stokes ( Putnam ) , brings back the times of the author of ...