Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today. Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, "The Mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who explored Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence...
Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through t...
In Crazy Eights, Deborah Dalfonso has crafted a powerful and often funny story of friendship, love, and the challenges of growing up. Tess is the new girl at Cape High School on the coast of Maine. Her brother Pat, the instantly popular basketball star, is new too. Just as the more introspective Tess starts to settle in, Pat's obsessive-compulsive disorder spirals out of control, and it seems he might lose his grip on reality. How far does one go for a brother?
In Crazy Eights, Deborah Dalfonso has crafted a powerful and often funny story of friendship, love, and the challenges of growing up. Tess is the new ...
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades....
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literatur...
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains fourteen new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The book looks comparatively at British, German and Austrian works, covering authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Alfred Doblin, Ford Madox Ford, Philip Gibbs, C. E. Montague, Arthur Schnitzler, Helen Zenna Smith, and Virginia Woolf; composers such as Arthur Bliss and Ernst Krenek; artists Kathe Kollwitz, Kate Lassen, Wyndham Lewis, Lotte Prechner and John Singer Sargent. The chapters discuss the...
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains fourteen new essays from scholars working in lit...
Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collabor
Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed...
