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Vor 3 Tagen · Soutar is one of Scotland’s great diarists. He began keeping a diary in 1919 and made daily entries throughout the days of his illness, as well as keeping separate journals for philosophical mediations, ‘dream books’, and commonplace books for noting humorous everyday events. From July 1943 onwards, he documented his last months in Diary ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous ...
Vor 3 Tagen · This series, produced in association with the BBC, chronicles the lives of the most important and well-known figures of the 20th century, whether they be pol...
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Vor 2 Tagen · Joseph is a man in his late twenties, married, no children, with a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin. He considers himself to be intellectually gifted; he even began to write a series of essays on Enlightenment philosophers. Yet Joseph finds himself in limbo, or as he puts it, he is “dangling.”.
Vor 5 Tagen · Samuel Pepys, the author of the "Diary" from which we have culled so many interesting pieces of intelligence during the progress of this work, and whose portrait we present to our readers on page 145, was descended from a family originally seated at Diss, in Norfolk, and who settled at Cottingham, in Cambridgeshire, early in the sixteenth century. His father, John Pepys, at one time followed ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Diary, 1675–84, continuing the earlier volume covering 1671–5 printed in HMC 13th Report Appdx. VI (1893). Official business, family news, social life. BL Add MSS 18730. 14. 1677 THORESBY, Ralph, of Leeds, topographer. Diary of travels, including London, 1677–1724. Extracts in Diary of Ralph Thoresby FRS (ed J Hunter, 1830). Yorks ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The History of the Twentieth Century | A podcast on the events that shaped our modern world. 368: The Second United Front. May 26, 2024 Podcast. Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing in 1946. When Japan attacked the US and the UK, China had new allies, but getting American Lend-Lease aid into China was a challenge.
