The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Nemirovsky |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101873965 |
This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irène Némirovsky’s international bestseller Suite Française. At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. Broken by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed, he becomes addicted to the lure of wealth and success. He wallows in the corruption and excess of post-war Paris, but when his lover abandons him, Bernard turns to a childhood friend for comfort. For ten years, he lives the good bourgeois life, but when the drums of war begin to sound again, everything around which he has rebuilt himself starts to crumble, and the future—of his marriage and of his country—suddenly becomes terribly uncertain. Written after Némirovsky fled Paris in 1940, just two years before her death, and first published in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic novel of war and its aftermath, and of the ugly color it can turn a man's soul.
The Fires of Autumn Reader's Guide Edition
Title | The Fires of Autumn Reader's Guide Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Rhonda Chandler |
Publisher | Staircase Books |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2024-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Fabrizio lived in desperate poverty. Sereno was born to privileged wealth. Both friends longed for a better life. A life they thought they found as Franciscan friars. The year is 1318. Fabrizio now lives in the Friary of San Stigliano in the hills of Lombardy. The wounds of his childhood are slowly healing in this place of peace and security. Sereno scorns the friary life. Instead, he roams the Italian countryside with a band of homeless Spiritual Franciscans who speak out against all those in the Order who do not live according to the absolute poverty of Saint Francis. When papal representatives command the band of Spirituals to appear before the Inquisition at the Friary of San Stigliano, the two friends meet again--on opposite sides. As the line between friend and enemy becomes obscured, Fabrizio learns the truth about Christian brotherhood in an autumn that changes his life forever. This Reader's Guide Edition also contains Discussion Questions, a Historical Time Line, and a Behind the Scenes section with epilogue.
The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Francis M. Carroll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of adversity.
The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Rhonda Chandler |
Publisher | Staircase Books |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2018-07-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1732579725 |
Fabrizio lived in desperate poverty. Sereno was born to privileged wealth. Both friends longed for a better life. A life they thought they found as Franciscan friars. The year is 1318. Fabrizio now lives in the Friary of San Stigliano in the hills of Lombardy. The wounds from his childhood are slowly healing in this place of peace and security. Sereno scorns the friary life. He roams the Italian countryside with a band of homeless Spiritual Franciscans, speaking out against all those in the Franciscan Order who do not live according to the absolute poverty of Saint Francis. Pope John XXII determines to end the divisions that plague the Franciscan Order. When the band of Spirituals appears before the Inquisition at the Friary of San Stigliano, the two friends meet again—on opposite sides of the divide. As the line between friend and enemy becomes obscured, Fabrizio learns the truth about Christian brotherhood in an autumn that changes his life forever.
The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Francis M. Carroll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of adversity.
The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Huntington Howe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Fires of Autumn
Title | The Fires of Autumn PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Huntington Howe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Maine |
ISBN |
For various reasons, four widows remain in their beach homes in a Maine resort town long after the season is over.