eBooks „churchill“
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Edward Howard Marsh
Georgian Poetry 1913-15
- Fiction
- English
- 36860 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG (18 November 1872[1] – 13 January 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as Private Secretary to a succession of Great Britain's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. He was a discreet but influential figure within Britain's homosexual community.[2 [more]
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Mary Johnston
Lewis Rand (fiscle part-IV)
- Fiction
- English
- 156076 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Lewis Rand (1908), the fifth novel by the Virginia-born writer Mary Johnston, has been singled out by some critics as her best work. A historical novel set in Virginia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it tells the story of Lewis Rand, the poor son of an Albemarle County tobacco-roller who, under the mentorship of Thomas Jefferson, escapes poverty, joins the bar, and is elected to the General Assembly before his ambition, and an impulsive murder, finally strikes him down. The backdrop for Johnston's tale is the fierce, sometimes violent rivalry between the populist Democratic-Republican Party and the more aristocratic Federalists, a rivalry echoed by the competition between Rand and the highborn Churchill and Cary families. Lewis Rand was enthusiastically received by critics, who admired Johnston's handling of her historical material. In the Smart Set, H. L. Mencken lauded its achievement, while the New York Times declared it "one of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day in America." Critics reserved special praise for the character of Jacqueline Churchill, Randolph's wife, with one reviewer placing her goodness in the context of the more complex understandings of womanhood raised by a recent, nationally publicized murder trial. Subsequent critics have situated Lewis Rand among the author's best works, but by and large Johnston is ignored by twenty-first-century readers. [more]
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Nicole J. Küppers
Fette Henne in Acryl
oder die Katastrophen des Lebens ...
- Humor
- German
- 34091 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
„Die Fette Henne in Acryl“ ist die humoristische Biografie einer Frau, die dem Leser den Einblick in das Leben...mit den kleinen und großen Katastrophen...gewährt.
Nicole J. Küppers, ein optischer Churchill - Verschnitt, entdeckt die Irrungen und Wirrungen in der Liebeswelt und Sie begleiten die Autorin auf der turbulenten Reise, durch die verworrensten Lebenssituationen.
Dieses Buch ist keine Lektüre für Leser, die „das Lachen“ nur als Fremdwort kennen, sondern die humoristische Ausnahmebiografie einer Ausnahmeautorin...für den Freund der „leichten Kost“ und Unterhaltung.
Über die Autorin
Nicole J. Küppers, geboren in dezentraler Kleinstadt zwischen Paris und New York im Jahre 1966.
Verfügt neben dem zweifachen Abitur und diversen abgeschlossenen Ausbildungen... immerhin über vier Semester der „spannenden“ Betriebswirtschaftslehre.
Sie lebt und arbeitet als Autorin seit 2007 und ist die Inhaberin des DESIGN PAVONI° Verlag & Stores www.pavoni1.de
ISBN 978-3-00-024425-4
Tb / S. 160 / Softcover / Price 14,90¤ [more]
Keywords: Henne, Acryl, Küppers, Nicole, Design Pavoni, Verlag
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Jack Womack
TERRAPLANE - DRYCO-ZYKLUS 2
Ein Cyberpunk-Roman
- Science Fiction
- German
- 80256 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 283
Die amerikanischen Agenten Robert Luther Biggenstaff und sein Leibwächter und Nahkampfspezialist Jake sind in Moskau, um an die Erfindung eines genialen russischen Wissenschaftlers zu kommen: eine Zeitmaschine. Durch einen Doppelagenten verraten, werden sie in die Enge getrieben, aber es gelingt ihnen, mit dem Gerät in die Vergangenheit zu fliehen.
Doch im New York des Jahres 1939, in dem sie landen, ist einiges anders, als sie es aus den Geschichtsbüchern kennen: Die Sklaverei wurde in den USA erst 1907 abgeschafft, der Rassismus der Polizei trägt abstoßende Züge; Roosevelt und Churchill sind längst tot, eine verheerende Virusseuche grassiert und hat u. a. Charlie Chaplin, Claude Debussy und Amadeo Modigliani hingerafft, bevor sie den Höhepunkt ihres künstlerischen Schaffens erreichen konnten.
Als die Polizei ihre Zeitmaschine findet, werden die Agenten für Spione gehalten und von den Bundesbehörden mit aller Brutalität verfolgt. Bei einem farbigen Arzt finden sie Unterschlupf, aber ihre Lage ist hoffnungslos, wenn sie nicht rasch Mittel und Wege finden, in ihre Welt des 21. Jahrhunderts zurückzukehren...
»Womack spielt genial mit Geschichte und Wissenschaft, um eine Katzenwiege von einer Erzählung zu schaffen, die uns rasch in einen phantastischen Hyperraum entführt.«
- PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY
Mit der Dystopie TERRAPLANE veröffentlichte der US-amerikanische Autor Jack Womack im Jahr 1988 einen Roman, der wie sein Vorgänger AMBIENT zum Klassiker der Cyberpunk-Literatur avancierte.
Der Apex-Verlag veröffentlicht sämtliche Romane des DRYCO-Zyklus als z.T. neu übersetzte Neu-Ausgaben sowie den abschließenden Band GOING GOING GONE als deutsche Erstausgabe. [more]
Keywords: Apex-Verlag, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Romane, Dystopie, Cyber-Punk, Science-Fiction-Klassiker, Anti-Utopie, Zukunft, Zeitreise, Zeitmaschine, USA, Amerika, Alternatiwelt, Gesellschaftskritik, SF, SciFi, Roman, Klassiker, klassisch, modern, Bestseller, ebook, E-Book, Ebook, Neuausgabe 2020, Neuerscheinung 2020 [more]
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Lady Karen Atkins Of Glencoe Scotland
Anne Queen of Great Britain
- History
- English
- 3872 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 351
- 7
Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death.
Anne was born in the reign of her uncle Charles II, who had no legitimate children. Her father, James, was first in line to the throne. His Catholicism was unpopular in England and on Charles's instructions Anne was raised as a Protestant. Three years after he succeeded Charles, James was deposed in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. Anne's Protestant brother-in-law and cousin William III became joint monarch with his wife, Anne's elder sister Mary II. Although the sisters had been close, disagreements over Anne's finances, status and choice of acquaintances arose shortly after Mary's accession and they became estranged. William and Mary had no children. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until he was succeeded by Anne upon his death in 1702.
As queen, Anne favoured moderate Tory politicians, who were more likely to share her Anglican religious views than their opponents, the Whigs. The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until in 1710 Anne dismissed many of them from office. Her close friendship with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, turned sour as the result of political differences.
Anne was plagued by ill-health throughout her life. From her 30s onwards, she grew increasingly lame and corpulent. Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, Prince George of Denmark, she died without any surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I. [more]
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Christopher Doemges
POETTSCHKES POST
Das E-Magazin 2/2020
- History
- German
- 39544 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 78
EDITORIAL:
Die vorliegende Ausgabe von POETTSCHKES POST ist ein wenig anders konzipiert als die No. 1 Weltliteratur to go. Vor dem Hintergrund des aufziehenden Anthropozäns ist sie wiederum eine lockere Folge berichtenswerter Ereignisse innerhalb eines fiktiven Rahmens - in einer Anstalt in Lübeck, jener norddeutschen Metropole mit dem Holstentor.
Jener Rahmen, erdacht zur emotionalen Ermunterung an Sie, liebeR LeserIN, stellt den fiktionalen Erkennungswert als geistigen Überbau vor und dar. Durch auch visuelle Lautmalereien darf ein jeder sich ermutigt fühlen, das individuelle Happy-End für die Geschichte inklusive historischen Fakten zu kreieren.
SCHEIN MACHT SEIN ZUM WAHREN NICHTS!! Was nach allem zählt, sind Fakten - auch, aber nicht nur für Verbraucher.
Gleichzeitig, hatte Winston Churchill Recht, bietet jede Krise auch die Chance auf einen Neustart, einen Anfang, neu zu beginnen. Rückt die Welt dieser Tage zusammen?
Allenfalls mehr schlecht als recht - vom Boden aus betrachtet! Kein Grund für übertriebene Panikmache, oder kleinreden, wie es etwa Brasiliens Präsident BOLSONARO & globale Konsorten unentwegt tuen - Trump, Erdogan, Putin, Orban, Johnson ... WECHSEL DER ZEITEN HEISST GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG!!
Stehen wir vor dem Beginn einer neuen Weltordnung? Es ist, bleibt und wird sein, wie es wird. Wir können nur abwarten, Kaffee trinken - und aus dem Homeoffice all jenes über uns ergehen lassen, was die Welt für uns bereithält.
Eine Freundin erzählte mir jüngst einen Witz (von gestern): Boris Jelzin, George Bush und Erich Honecker sind in der afrikanischen Wüste. Die drei werden von Einheimischen verfolgt.Jelzin schreibt auf einen Zettel: "1000 Rubel wenn ihr uns nicht weiter verfolgt." Doch die Einheimischen verfolgen die drei weiter.Bush schreibt auch einen Zettel: "1.000.000 Dollar wenn ihr uns nicht weiter verfolgt." Das bringt aber auch nichts, die drei werden weiter verfolgt.Honecker schreib etwas auf einen Zettel und legt ihn auf den Boden. Die Einheimischen lesen ihn und drehen sofort um.Jelzin und Bush schauen ganz verwundert und fragen Honecker, was er denn auf den Zettel geschrieben hat. Honecker: "Noch 1 km, dann beginnt die DDR."
... Hihi!! Wer die (deutsche) Historie verfolgt, der mag über derart Anachronistisches schmunzeln.
Danke, dass Sie POETTSCHKE'S POST lesen ... [more]
Keywords: Tork Poettschke, Christopher Doemges, Magazin, Poettschkes Post
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Peter Jalesh
My Aunt Emily's Blue Rolls Royce and her Amazing 100 Years of Love
Using Aunt Emily’s apocryphal diaries and the biography of Phelps,
- Fiction
- English
- 129633 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 482
This story moves around Aunt Emily, a farm lady (that would become a well known fashion designer after she moved to New York) and Phelps Durham, a writer of romance novels. In due course the two would wed. First, everybody remembers how Phelps Durham, the famous writer of romance novels, looked like in reality, not as he appeared in the yellowish pictures that Aunt Emily kept around the house: a 6:10 ft. tattooed Yankee – too tall to be a serious writer - who couldn’t fit in a normal door frame, or in a rolling door, and who could start a storm with his deep breath and crush a brick without utensils, with his bare hands or feet, if you gave him the idea that he could do it. He looked funny when Aunt Emily, who was 5.2 feet, was around. His head was like an egg decorated with a fresh crew haircut. Aunt Emily’s head was round and her face was pale. Also Phelps’ and Aunt Emily’s personalities were opposite: Aunt Emily was docile, she would listen to everybody’s talk and always make concessions, while Phelps was one of those men that thought that only his opinion was right and who could convince anybody in a couple of seconds that whatever he was saying was the only truth that there was
The first chapter is dedicated to Phelps Durham only, to his passion for writing and his love for an actress Maggie – his first major flame, which he married shortly after they met in a fish market in downtown New York. Very soon their marriage fell apart. Maggie got increasingly troubled by a strange trembling (she called it “tremolo”) of her both hands. In her miserable state of mind she told Phelps one day that she didn’t want to have sex anymore, that she had enough of it. As Phelps and Maggie decided to divorce Phelps knew that he was dishonest, given that he was running away from a woman that was more than ever in need of somebody to take care of her.
Chapter two is dedicated to Aunt Emily: “People ask me all the time how was Aunt Emily Wagner in reality. I confess that I don’t know everything about Aunt Emily’s family. The way I describe her in this story is how I felt she was. I began seeing her more often after her family moved and lived on a farm next to ours. When I think of Aunt Emily there are two hypostases that are very distinctive and irreconcilable. First, when she was fifteen (I was seven at that time), her beauty was like a “peach flower whispering to a spring breeze”. I found the above quotation in a small book called “How to impress a young lady with versatile poetry”. First I thought that versatile was the name of a poet. Her beauty, Aunt Emily’s, made me feel happy and also uncomfortable. I’d stand next to her and pinch her arm. I was in love with her, nobody would doubt that. As opposed to Phelps that had a modest background and worked very hard to make a living from his writing, Aunt Emily was born wealthy. Her dad used to collect vintage cars, among them a precious Rolls Royce that belonged to Winston Churchill. [more]
Keywords: vintage, rolls royce, 100 years, love
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