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A View of the Ocean

By: Jan De Hartog

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The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom, moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself. She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who moved through life with gusto and the commotion of a wagon train and who, but for God, might have become a pirate or a general. He adored his wife and didn’t like anyone else around to claim her attention. Their sons saw him as a monster of egocentricity, a tyrant, a blustering bully; to her he was a sensitive, shy, helpless man with a mission. She believed in him from the moment they met, and under the wings of her faith in him as a philosopher, he became one. During their thirty years of marriage this woman’s only concern was to enable her husband to hearken to “the voice of God.” After his death she discovered somewhere deep inside a core of drop-forged steel. She rose to the challenge of widowhood and, continuing his work, took his place in the world. The full splendor of this tiny, frail woman’s character, intelligence, and courage became evident during her World War II internment in a Japanese camp in the Dutch East Indies, when she managed to arrange a cease-fire between the Dutch Army and Indonesian guerillas. After her release from prison camp, she returned to Amsterdam, and resumed her simple life, offering spiritual advice to those seeking solace. Finally, she was faced with the ultimate test of her spirit: a diagnosis of a cancer too far advanced for treatment. De Hartog tells us how his mother’s blazing courage through it all inspired his own spiritual awakening as he found, in her final months, the strength, the power, and the acceptance to see her through to the end. From the Hardcover edition.

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A View of the Ocean

By: Jan De Hartog

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The Fourposter

A Comedy in Three Acts

By: Jan De Hartog

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The Fourposter

A Comedy in Three Acts

By: Jan De Hartog

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred on Broadway in this moving chronicle of a husband and wife from their wedding night in 1890 until they leave the house that has been their home, 35 years later. They fret and quarrel, laugh, cry, and make love in the same room in which they began their married life. And standing throughout the evening is the old fourposter, silent witness to all.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573609098

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9780573609091

The Peculiar People

By: Jan De Hartog

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The Peculiar People

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As the Civil War approaches, a quiet Quaker community struggles to uphold its peaceful existence amidst bitter national debates about slavery and the treatment of American Indians.

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500

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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1560546700

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9781560546702

Intermarium

The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas

By: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

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Intermarium

The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas

By: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the East, and a point of convergence of disparate cultures. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz focuses on the Intermarium for several reasons. Most importantly because, as the inheritor of the freedom and rights stemming from the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian/Ruthenian Commonwealth, it is culturally and ideologically compatible with American national interests. It is also a gateway to both East and West. Since the Intermarium is the most stable part of the post-Soviet area, Chodakiewicz argues that the United States should focus on solidifying its influence there. The ongoing political and economic success of the Intermarium states under American sponsorship undermines the totalitarian enemies of freedom all over the world. As such, the area can act as a springboard to addressing the rest of the successor states, including those in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation. Intermarium has operated successfully for several centuries. It is the most inclusive political concept within the framework of the Commonwealth. By reintroducing the concept of the Intermarium into intellectual discourse the author highlights the autonomous and independent nature of the area. This is a brilliant and innovative addition to European Studies and World Culture.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412847745

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9781412847742

House of Memories

Uncovering the Past of a Dutch Jewish Family

By: Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld

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House of Memories

Uncovering the Past of a Dutch Jewish Family

By: Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld

Accompanying videodisc contains: Here was Bertram : search for a lost life = Kan hayah Berṭram : ḥipuś aḥar ḥayim avudim / a film by Carine Van Vugt and Jeroen Neus (Verhalis Production Co., 2012.).

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490

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Uitgeverij Verloren

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9087046049

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9789087046040

Book's by Jan De Hartog

A View of the Ocean

A View of the Ocean

A View of the Ocean

A View of the Ocean

The Fourposter

The Fourposter

The Peculiar People

The Peculiar People

Intermarium

Intermarium

House of Memories

House of Memories

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