General Dourakine

General Dourakine
Title General Dourakine PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Smee
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 224
Release 2013-09-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1922052035

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In this rollicking tale, the cantankerous but lovable General Dourakine brings his new-found French friends, Jacques and Paul, back to his grand estate in snowy Russia. Life becomes complicated when the General’s niece, the grasping Madame Papofsky, and her eight unruly children descend on the house. Madame Papofsky is desperate to get her hands on her uncle’s enormous fortune. Find out if the General – with some help from his friends – can extract himself from her greedy clutches in this sequel to A Room at Guardian Angel Inn.

Catholic Women Writers

Catholic Women Writers
Title Catholic Women Writers PDF eBook
Author Mary Reichardt
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 457
Release 2001-07-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0313016623

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Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

The Crimean War and Cultural Memory

The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
Title The Crimean War and Cultural Memory PDF eBook
Author Sima Godfrey
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 213
Release 2023-08-31
Genre History
ISBN 1487547781

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The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches – precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity. Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.

A Critical History of French Children's Literature

A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Title A Critical History of French Children's Literature PDF eBook
Author Penny Brown
Publisher Routledge
Pages 381
Release 2007
Genre
ISBN 1135871949

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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 134, No. 3, 1990)

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 134, No. 3, 1990)
Title Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 134, No. 3, 1990) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher American Philosophical Society
Pages 116
Release
Genre
ISBN 9781422370308

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From a World Apart

From a World Apart
Title From a World Apart PDF eBook
Author Francine Christophe
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 212
Release 2000-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803264021

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After her father was taken prisoner by German officials, the author and her mother were arrested as they escaped to Paris, and endured cruel treatment in Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Room at the Guardian Angel Inn

Room at the Guardian Angel Inn
Title Room at the Guardian Angel Inn PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Smee
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 290
Release 2012-12-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1922052019

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A Room at Guardian Angel Inn opens with two young, lost boys sleeping under a tree next to the side of the road deep in the French countryside. A soldier returning from the Crimean War finds them and brings them to the inn of the title which is run by two generous sisters, one of whom has a bit of cheek in her. Happy to have found a home with a loving family, the boys begin a series of adventures, spurred on by the irascible General Dourakine. A Russian aristocrat and sometime prisoner of war, his stay at the Inn causes mayhem that will delight readers of all ages.