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Author |
: Rock Brynner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030088541 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire & Odyssey by : Rock Brynner
Yul Brynner, the mysterious and exotic Hollywood star, was one of four generations in his family to bear that name. His Swiss-born grandfather, Jules, arrived in Shanghai almost by accident about 1865, but within twenty years had become a leading industrialist in the Far East. His business association with Tsar Nicholas II built Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Railway, then triggered the Russo-Japanese War, contributing to the fall of the Romanoffs. Jules' s son Boris regained control of the family's mines, but his experiences in China, Manchuria, and North Korea rivaled the ordeals of Dr. Zhivago. Yul's childhood took him to China and then to France, where, as a teenager, he performed in nightclubs with Russian Gypsies while becoming a trapeze acrobat in the circus. He moved to America before he spoke English and within five years was starring on Broadway. His son, with a colorful life of his own, has written the family's history.--From publisher description.
Author |
: Alev Scott |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643131665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643131664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ottoman Odyssey by : Alev Scott
An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East. Alev Scott’s odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago—and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that’s vital and relevant; where medieval ethnic diversity meets twenty-first century nationalism—and displaced people seek new identities. It's a story of surprises. An acolyte of Erdogan in Christian-majority Serbia confirms the wide-reaching appeal of his authoritarian leadership. A Druze warlord explains the secretive religious faction in the heart of the Middle East. The palimpsest-like streets of Jerusalem's Old Town hint at the Ottoman co-existence of Muslims and Jews. And in Turkish Cyprus, Alev Scott rediscovers a childhood home. In every community, history is present as a dynamic force. Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers from the cafes of Beirut to the refugee camps of Lesbos. She uncovers in Erdogan's nouveau-Ottoman Turkey a version of the nostalgic utopias sold to disillusioned voters in Europe and America. And yet—as she relates with compassion, insight, and humor—diversity is the enduring, endangered heart of this fascinating region.
Author |
: Claire Sermier |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000083462311 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mongolia by : Claire Sermier
Author |
: Zachary Mason |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2010-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429952491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429952490 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lost Books of the Odyssey by : Zachary Mason
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
Author |
: Amin Maalouf |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2011-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448128044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448128048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balthasar's Odyssey by : Amin Maalouf
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world. Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world, from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London shortly before the Great Fire. Balthasar's urgent quest is to track down a copy of one of the rarest and most coveted books ever printed, a volume called 'The Hundredth Name', its contents are thought to be of vital importance to the future of the world. There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his salvation.
Author |
: Ethan Starborne |
Publisher |
: MoreAudiobooks |
Total Pages |
: 1446 |
Release |
: 2024-07-11 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Mage's Odyssey 7 by : Ethan Starborne
Author |
: David Adams |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501720420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501720422 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonial Odysseys by : David Adams
Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire was at its height. David Adams observes that, because of their structure and specific literary allusions, they also demand to be read in relation to the epic tradition. The elegantly written and powerfully argued Colonial Odysseys focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds. The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture—the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute.
Author |
: Prashant Kidambi |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198843139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198843135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cricket Country by : Prashant Kidambi
The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.
Author |
: Daniel Mendelsohn |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2017-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385350600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385350600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Odyssey by : Daniel Mendelsohn
A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration. Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017 Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize
Author |
: Harold Bloom |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438114699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438114699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Odyssey by : Harold Bloom
Discusses the characters, plot and writing of the Odyssey by Homer. Includes critical essays on the poem and a brief biography of the author.