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Author : Abraham Ibn Ezra
Release : 2010-11-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Twilight of a Golden Age by : Abraham Ibn Ezra
Download or read book Twilight of a Golden Age written by Abraham Ibn Ezra. This book was released on 2010-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Abraham ibn Ezra, a key scholar, thinker, and poet in twelfth-century Al-Andalus
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Release : 2018-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperial Twilight by : Stephen R. Platt
Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author : Richard Seaver
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 782/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tender Hour of Twilight by : Richard Seaver
Download or read book The Tender Hour of Twilight written by Richard Seaver. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account by the late founder of Arcade Publishing documents his experiences in the literary world of the mid-20th century, describing his efforts to overcome U.S. censorship laws and introduce readers to important written works.
Author : Gore Vidal
Release : 2001-09-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 818/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Golden Age by : Gore Vidal
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Gore Vidal. This book was released on 2001-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communism—developments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell—and Gore Vidal himself. The Golden Age offers up U.S. history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that is not only sure to be a major bestseller but that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power.
Author : Roxanne Moreil
Release : 2020-02-11
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Golden Age, Book 1 by : Roxanne Moreil
Download or read book The Golden Age, Book 1 written by Roxanne Moreil. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A medieval saga with political intrigue reminiscent of Game of Thrones, The Golden Age is an epic graphic novel duology from Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa about utopia and revolution. In the kingdom of Lantrevers, suffering is a way of life—unless you’re a member of the ruling class. Princess Tilda plans to change all that. As the rightful heir of late King Ronan, Tilda wants to deliver her people from famine and strife. But on the eve of her coronation, her younger brother, backed by a cabal of power-hungry lords, usurps her throne and casts her into exile. Now Tilda is on the run. With the help of her last remaining allies, Tankred and Bertil, she travels in secret through the hinterland of her kingdom. Wherever she goes, the common folk whisper of a legendary bygone era when all men lived freely. There are those who want to return to this golden age—at any cost. In the midst of revolution, how can Tilda reclaim her throne?
