Dimanche and Other Stories

Dimanche and Other Stories
Title Dimanche and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher Vintage
Pages 306
Release 2010-04-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307739317

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A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.

All Our Worldly Goods

All Our Worldly Goods
Title All Our Worldly Goods PDF eBook
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher Vintage
Pages 273
Release 2014-12-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307949850

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In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpieceSuite Française. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage provokes a family feud that cascades down the generations. This brilliant novel is full of drama, heartbreak, and the telling observations that have made Némirovsky’s work so beloved and admired.

Fire in the Blood

Fire in the Blood
Title Fire in the Blood PDF eBook
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher Vintage
Pages 161
Release 2008-12-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307495450

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From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.

Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise
Title Suite Francaise PDF eBook
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher Vintage Canada
Pages 450
Release 2009-03-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307371204

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By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky’s literary masterpiece The first part, “A Storm in June,” opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, “Dolce,” we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity. Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.

The Woman Novelist and Other Stories

The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
Title The Woman Novelist and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Diana Gardner
Publisher Persephone Books
Pages 148
Release 2006
Genre
ISBN 9781903155547

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Few Eggs and No Oranges

Few Eggs and No Oranges
Title Few Eggs and No Oranges PDF eBook
Author Vere Hodgson
Publisher Persephone Books
Pages 590
Release 1999
Genre Birmingham (England)
ISBN 9780953478088

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A look at how 'ordinary' people in London and Birmingham lived, worked and coped during World War II, through the diary of an "ordinary commonplace Londoner."

The Journey Home and Other Stories

The Journey Home and Other Stories
Title The Journey Home and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Malachi Whitaker
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2017-10-19
Genre Short stories
ISBN 9781910263143

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