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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By: Artemis Cooper

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses. At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt. A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography, now available in paperback, portrays a man of extraordinary gifts—no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship.

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New York Review of Books

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1590177800

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Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Revised Edition

By: Antony Beevor,Artemis Cooper

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Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Revised Edition

By: Antony Beevor,Artemis Cooper

A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.

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Penguin

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1101175079

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Cairo in the War

1939-45

By: Artemis Cooper

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Cairo in the War

1939-45

By: Artemis Cooper

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home. The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and attempted to depose King Farouk. Five months later it looked as if the British would be thrown out of Egypt for good. Rommel's forces were only sixty miles from Alexandria - but the Germans were pushed back and Cairo life went on. Meanwhile, in the Egyptian Army, a handful of young officers were thinking dangerous thoughts.

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John Murray

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1848548850

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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By: Artemis Cooper

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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By: Artemis Cooper

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses. At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt. A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts—no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship.

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New York Review of Books

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1590176995

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Dangerous Innocence

By: Artemis Cooper

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Dangerous Innocence

By: Artemis Cooper

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write fourteen more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicle. Following her divorce from her first husband, the celebrated naturalist Peter Scott, Jane embarked on a string of high-profile affairs with Cecil Day-Lewis, Arthur Koestler and Laurie Lee, which turned her into a literary femme fatale. Yet the image of a sophisticated woman hid a romantic innocence which clouded her emotional judgement. She was nearing the end of a disastrous second marriage when she met Kingsley Amis, and for a few years they were a brilliant and glamorous couple - until that marriage too disintegrated. She settled in Suffolk where she wrote and entertained friends, but her turbulent love life was not over yet. In her early seventies Jane fell for a conman. His unmasking was the final disillusion, and inspired one of her most powerful novels, Falling. Artemis Cooper interviewed Jane several times in Suffolk. She also talked extensively to her family, friends and contemporaries, and had access to all her papers. Her biography explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her writing, as well as illuminating the literary world in which she lived.

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John Murray

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1848549288

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Cairo in the War

1939-45

By: Artemis Cooper

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1939-45

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Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

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By: Antony Beevor,Artemis Cooper

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Eva Palmer Sikelianos

A Life in Ruins

By: Artemis Leontis

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Eva Palmer Sikelianos

A Life in Ruins

By: Artemis Leontis

This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn. 0Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death. 0Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as "the only ancient Greek I ever knew.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210764

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Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte

Play by Play

By: Artemis Preeshl

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Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte

Play by Play

By: Artemis Preeshl

Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte examines the ongoing influence of commedia dell’arte on Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the influence of commedia dell’arte improvisation, sight gags, and wordplay on the development of Shakespeare’s plays, Artemis Preeshl blends historical research with extensive practical experience to demonstrate how these techniques might be applied when producing some of Shakespeare's best-known works today. Each chapter focuses on a specific play, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Winter’s Tale, drawing out elements of commedia dell’arte style in the playscripts and in contemporary performance. Including contemporary directors’ notes and interviews with actors and audience members alongside Elizabethan reviews, criticism, and commentary, Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte presents an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance theatre.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317230418

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Consent in Shakespeare

What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories

By: Artemis Preeshl

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Consent in Shakespeare

What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories

By: Artemis Preeshl

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Shakespeare will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary private and public situations in and around the Mediterranean. Consent in intimate relationships is front and center in today’s conversations. This book re-examines the verbal and physical interactions of female-identified characters in Early Modern and contemporary cultures in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean comedies and the sources from which he derived his plays. This re-examination of the words that women say or do not say, and actions that women do or do not take, in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean plays and his probable sources sheds light on how Shakespeare’s audiences might have perceived Mediterranean cultural mores and norms. Assessment of source materials for Shakespeare’s comedies set in the Balkans, France, Italy, the Near East, North Africa, and Spain suggests how women of diverse backgrounds communicated in everyday life and peak life experiences in the Early Modern era. Given Shakespeare’s impact worldwide, this initiative to shift the conversation about the power of consent of female protagonists and supporting characters in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean plays will further transform conversations about consent in class, board and conference rooms, and the international stage.

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Routledge

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1000441148

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Museums

A Place to Work : Planning Museum Careers

By: Jane R. Glaser,Artemis A. Zenetou

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Museums

A Place to Work : Planning Museum Careers

By: Jane R. Glaser,Artemis A. Zenetou

From from exhibition designer to shop manager, this comprehensive book surveys over thirty different positions in the museum profession. This is the essential guide on how to prepare, look for and find jobs in the museum profession.

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Psychology Press

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0415122562

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9780415122566

Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Dangerous Innocence

By: Artemis Cooper

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A Dangerous Innocence

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John Murray

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1848549288

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Writing at the Kitchen Table

The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David

By: Artemis Cooper

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Writing at the Kitchen Table

The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David

By: Artemis Cooper

Chronicles the life and career of the noted food writer from her privileged childhood to her adventures in fascist Italy and her subsequent career as a culinary expert.

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Harper Collins

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0060198281

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9780060198282

Book's by Artemis Cooper

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Cairo in the War

Cairo in the War

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Cairo in the War

Cairo in the War

Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Eva Palmer Sikelianos

Eva Palmer Sikelianos

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte

Consent in Shakespeare

Consent in Shakespeare

Museums

Museums

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Writing at the Kitchen Table

Writing at the Kitchen Table

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