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The Mirador

Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

By: Elisabeth Gille

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The Mirador

Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

By: Elisabeth Gille

A New York Review Books Original Separated from her mother—the famed author of Suite Française—during World War II, Irène Némirovsky’s daughter offers a “nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman” in a series of memoirs that reimagine her mother’s life (The Washington Post) Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn’t consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother’s memoirs. The first part of the book, dated 1929, the year David Golder made Némirovsky famous, takes us back to her difficult childhood in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Her father is doting, her mother a beautiful monster, while Irene herself is bookish and self-absorbed. There are pogroms and riots, parties and excursions, then revolution, from which the family flees to France, a country of “moderation, freedom, and generosity,” where at last she is happy. Some thirteen years later Irène picks up her pen again. Everything has changed. Abandoned by friends and colleagues, she lives in the countryside and waits for the knock on the door. Written a decade before the publication of Suite Française made Irène Némirovsky famous once more (something Gille did not live to see), The Mirador is a haunted and a haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love.

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New York Review of Books

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1590174445

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9781590174449

From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter

German Paintings from Dresden

By: Ulrich Bischoff,Elisabeth Hipp,Jeanne Anne Nugent

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From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter

German Paintings from Dresden

By: Ulrich Bischoff,Elisabeth Hipp,Jeanne Anne Nugent

From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter brings together a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden--one of the most significant collections of German art from 1800 to the present--and new work from the renowned contemporary artist Gerhard Richter."--Page 4 of cover.

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Getty Publications

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0892368632

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9780892368631

The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms

The Case of the Credit Mobilier

By: Elisabeth Paulet

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The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms

The Case of the Credit Mobilier

By: Elisabeth Paulet

This book is a timely examination of banks and corporate finance. It addresses such issues as credit constraints, the supervisions of managers and the stabilization of share prices.

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193

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Routledge

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1134646216

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9781134646210

Performing Gender at Work

By: Elisabeth Kelan

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Performing Gender at Work

By: Elisabeth Kelan

Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

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262

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Springer

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0230244491

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9780230244498

Jennie Glenroy

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

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Jennie Glenroy

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

Jennie and Alick Glenroy arrived in Maine with nothing, not even their names, starting anew in a different land, leaving the turmoil and violence of Scotland behind them. Almost twenty years later, the "Godless Glenroys" are a prosperous, though sometimes controversial, family. Alick is the proprietor of a successful shipyard, and Jennie has raised their five children to think for themselves, a trait that occasionally raises the ire of their staid neighbors. The Glenroys, along with the other inhabitants of Whittier, find themselves facing issues that they've long been sheltered from: slavery, malice, and violence. Jennie and Alick must defend their children against malicious accusations and guide them through the trials of adolescence, but also allow them the independence and space to grow into intelligent and principled adults. When a figure from their fugitive past sails into town, everything they have worked to build over the past twenty years is in danger of being torn asunder, but all they can do is face these new challenges with the same courage and persevering spirit that carried them over Highland mountains so many years before.

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513

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Down East Books

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1608936112

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9781608936113

The Tonadilla in Performance

Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

By: Elisabeth Le Guin

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The Tonadilla in Performance

Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

By: Elisabeth Le Guin

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.

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406

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Univ of California Press

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0520956907

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9780520956902

The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

By: Elisabeth (Pfalz, Kurfürstin, 1596-1662)

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The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

By: Elisabeth (Pfalz, Kurfürstin, 1596-1662)

The first complete edition of Elizabeth Stuart's letters ever published. Volume I covers the years between 1603 and 1631: Elizabeth's life as princess and consort, charting her transformation from political ingenue to independent stateswoman.

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1021

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199551073

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9780199551071

The History of the Norman People

Wace's Roman de Rou

By: Wace,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts

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The History of the Norman People

Wace's Roman de Rou

By: Wace,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts

Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.

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Boydell Press

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1843830078

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The Mirador

Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

By: Elisabeth Gille

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The Mirador

Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

By: Elisabeth Gille

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New York Review of Books

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1590174445

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Tales from the Arabian Nights

By: Andrew Lang

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Tales from the Arabian Nights

By: Andrew Lang

Twenty of the traditional tales told by Scheherazade in an attempt to save her life, including The Merchant and the Genie, The Forty Thieves, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.

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303

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Reader's Digest Association

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0895773740

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 23

At His Gates

By: Joanne Wilkes

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 23

At His Gates

By: Joanne Wilkes

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1872 novel At his Gates with editorial notes by Joanne Wilkes, including a new introduction, headnote and explanatory notes which provide key information about the book and its publication history.

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Routledge

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1134873271

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24

The Ladies Lindores

By: Josie Billington

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24

The Ladies Lindores

By: Josie Billington

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1883 novel The Ladies Lindores with editorial notes by Josie Billington including a new introduction and headnote, giving key information about the book and its publication history.

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1134873484

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part IV

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Elisabeth Jay,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part IV

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Elisabeth Jay,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828–97) is one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. She was both prolific and wide ranging in her career which spanned half a century. Primarily known as a novelist Mrs Oliphant is of interest to scholars today both for her wide popularity in her prime and her influential position as reviewer and journalist which saw her become an important critical voice for her generation. Her high profile in the literary world led to savage satirical portrayals in works by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. This is the most ambitious and substantial scholarly edition of Margaret Oliphant’s writings ever undertaken. In six parts and twenty-five volumes all her important fiction plus substantial selections of her criticism and journalism are collected and edited by a prestigious editorial team. Parts I to III have brought back much of Oliphant’s work as critic, biographer and historian into the contemporary arena and begun the process of selecting the fiction which best represents her multi-faceted achievement as a novelist. The presentation of her finest short stories and novellas in Part III provides an apt introduction to Part IV, devoted to the Chronicles of Carlingford, as this provincial saga’s origins also lie in the short story. When Oliphant’s obituarists approached the formidable task of summing up her long career, even the most diligent among them baulked at a systematic appraisal of her prodigious fictional output. However they all cited the Chronicles of Carlingford as amongst her best work. Part IV offers the first critical edition of the four full length novels and three stories that comprise the Chronicles of Carlingford. Each of the five volumes contains a full scholarly apparatus, including the important variations between the serial versions and the first publication in volume format. Oliphant herself certainly saw the instant success of the series as one of the critical turning-points in her long career, and as the series reached its conclusion in Phoebe, Junior (1876) offered comparisons which encouraged her readers to judge her contribution to the genre alongside Trollope’s equally popular and long-lasting Chronicles of Barsetshire.

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1781446504

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay

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1781446490

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay,Linda H. Peterson,Trev Lynn Broughton

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II

By: Oliphant, Mrs,Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock,Professor of English and Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Elisabeth Jay,Linda H. Peterson,Trev Lynn Broughton

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1781446482

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V

By: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Joanne Shattock,Elisabeth Jay

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V

By: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Joanne Shattock,Elisabeth Jay

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1781447845

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I

By: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Elisabeth Jay

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I

By: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Elisabeth Jay

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional portraits by way of retaliation.

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1781446474

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9781781446478

Coco Chanel

By: Elisabeth Weissman

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Coco Chanel

By: Elisabeth Weissman

Limage du tailleur rose de Jackie Kennedy maculé du sang de son époux assassiné a fait le tour du monde. Il était signé Chanel. Comment une petite orpheline abandonnée par son père derrière les hauts murs dun couvent est-elle devenue la célèbre « Mademoiselle » à la tête du « plus grand empire construit par une femme » ? Créatrice de la « petite robe noire », du parfum « N° 5 », du bijou fantaisie, de la marinière, du sac matelassé et de tant dautres classiques, Coco Chanel fut également la discrète mécène de Cocteau, Radiguet, Stravinski, Reverdy Elle eut la gloire, l'argent, des amants riches et célèbres, mais aussi des hommes aux engagements troubles. Comme troubles furent aussi les siens dans les années 39-45, sous loccupation allemande. Coco Chanel, dame de fer dans son genre, nen reste pas moins une extraordinaire actrice et un témoin de son temps.

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Libretto

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2369147873

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