If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov's career and including...
If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more t...
H N E E N W Mao Tse-tung Ruler of Red China H U M A N I N Robert Payne Copyright 1950 quot by Robert Payne Manufactured in the United States of America loy H. Wolff, New York Designed lay Marshall Lee The photographs of Mao Tse-tung are reprinted by permission of Sovfoto and Triangle Photo Service To the memory of Stephen SlITIITlOnS the first English correspondent to die in the Korean War. J2HC LIBRARY Contents Introduction xv ONE The Forerunners 3 TWO The Young Rebel 2,4 THREE The New Youth 51 FOUR The Years of Warning 75 FIVE Five Battles 109 six The Long March 138 SEVEN The Years in the...
H N E E N W Mao Tse-tung Ruler of Red China H U M A N I N Robert Payne Copyright 1950 quot by Robert Payne Manufactured in the United States of Americ...
In the sheer scope, the Roman epoch is unsurpassed in history. What has endured to our own time is its great legacy to Western civilization-in law, language, architecture, and the art of government-and the fascination of its story. Ancient Rome presents the history and heritage of that remarkable era. In this richly illustrated volume, the reader can enjoy an all-around introduction to the politics, people, culture, and everyday life of the world ruled by Rome. Unlike most general histories of the subject, it enables the reader to know the Romans not only from reading about them, but by...
In the sheer scope, the Roman epoch is unsurpassed in history. What has endured to our own time is its great legacy to Western civilization-in law, la...
Mao Tse-tung Ruler of Red China by Robert Payne. Contents include: Introduction xv ONE The Forerunners 3 TWO The Young Rebel 2,4 THREE The New Youth 51 FOUR The Years of Warning 75 FIVE Five Battles 109 six The Long March 138 SEVEN The Years in the Desert 157 EIGHT Five Books i 1 NINE The Storm Breaks 2,00 TEN The Wind and the Sand 2,2,2, ELEVEN The Conquest of China 2,41 TWELVE The Shape of the Future 263 Chronological Table 2,81 Bibliography 2,91 Index 2,95
Mao Tse-tung Ruler of Red China by Robert Payne. Contents include: Introduction xv ONE The Forerunners 3 TWO The Young Rebel 2,4 THREE The New Youth 5...
2014 Reprint of 1946 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Fear and Trembling" first published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio (John of the Silence), is one of Kierkegaard's most influential works. The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, ..".continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling." - itself a probable reference to Psalms 55:5, "Fear and trembling came upon me..." Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when "God tested him] and said...
2014 Reprint of 1946 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Fear and Trembling" first pub...
Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of...
Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a conte...
"More than KILLING PATTON"-A Reviewer This is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes him particularly qualified to discuss some of the more controversial aspects of General Marshall's work since World War II. In this book, Robert Payne's subject is a man who has been described by President Harry S Truman as "the greatest living American." And Payne's treatment of the subject makes The Marshall Story a study of a man who knew exactly where he was going, went there, made mistakes, and seemed...
"More than KILLING PATTON"-A Reviewer This is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished ...