The Summer Before the War

• Author : Helen Simonson
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 09 March 2017

East Sussex, 1914. It's the end of England's idyllic Edwardian summer and Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the pretty coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent sabre rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment

• Author : Helen Simonson
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 22 March 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

• Author : Instaread
• Publisher : Instaread Summaries
• Release : 02 May 2016

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson | Summary & Analysis Preview: The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned. In the summer of 1914, she moves to Rye to escape the clutches of the oppressive relatives who administer her inheritance. Over the next few months, as she establishes herself as a Latin teacher,

• Author : Helen Simonson
• Publisher : Bond Street Books
• Release : 22 March 2016

New York Times-bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent, a canny force for progress, is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of

• Author : David Gleicher
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 13 November 2017

Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores deep areas of semiotics, joined with economics, anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy and political science, even Franz Kafka's literary works. These are communicated by entries, based primarily on Gleicher’s actual blog Looking through the crack from 2013 to 2017.

• Author : Doris Lessing
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 17 November 2010

As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London

• Author : Marly A. Swick
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 April 2004

The ten stories in this collection explore the intimate dynamics of parents and children, friends and lovers, and husbands and wives. The characters stand on unstable ground and coexist with unpleasant truths: a grown son drives his mother to the abortion clinic; two girls go on a road trip to a Beatles concert with their divorced mother; three recently single women try to purge the past with a garage sale; a father moves into his daughter?s group house in

• Author : Arthur Phillips
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 17 September 2002

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica. A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay

• Author : Robert W. Creamer
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 January 2000

"This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more."-Sports Illustrated. "[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball and world history. He reprises Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, Hank Greenberg and the draft, the furious Dodgers-Cardinals pennant fight, and the ensuing World Series. All this is portrayed against the looming U.S. entry into World War II."-Library Journal. Robert W. Creamer, one of the best and most perceptive

• Author : Henrietta Stein
• Publisher : Henrietta Stein
• Release : 01 December 2021

Judith and Abram Popinski were lovers who survived the Holocaust. These are their true stories. They met in the Lodz ghetto in 1941. When the ghetto was emptied in 1944, they each began a long journey to Auschwitz and through a series of other extermination and labour camps. Finally they were rescued in April 1945 and reunited in Sweden that summer. There they built a new life together. These are their own stories. That we survived was pure luck, both say. It took

• Author : Volker Weidermann
• Publisher : Pushkin Press
• Release : 28 January 2016

A dazzling portrait of Zweig and Roth, and a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936. It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German

• Author : Maine Historical Society
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1876

• Author : Prince Society (Boston, Mass.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1868

• Author : Gabriele Wills
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 2011

It's the Age of Elegance in the summer playground of the affluent and powerful. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes and pine-scented forests of the Canadian wilderness, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls and friendly competitions. The summer of 1914 promises to be different when the ambitious and destitute son of a disowned heir joins his wealthy family at their cottage on Wyndwood Island. Through Jack's introduction into the privileged life of the aristocratic Wyndhams and their social circle,

• Author : Helen Simonson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

Major Ernest Pettigrew isn't interested in the modern world. But when his brother's death, and a love of Kipling, sparks afriendship with the widowed village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali, the Major is forced to confront the realities of the 21st century.