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194 Descartes

Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditations on first philosophy.

New York : Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. Letter to the faculty of

theology of Paris. Concerning Things that can be doubted. Of

the nature of the human mind. Of God: that he exists. Of the

true and the false. Of the essence of material things. Of

the existence of corporeal things. Descartes, a French

scientist and philosopher, claimed that the world consisted

of two basic substances - matter and spirit. In this book,

he reflects on the mind, its thoughts and beliefs.

303.48 Th

Thornton, John Kelly, 1949-. Africa and Africans in the making

of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New

York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Analyzes the role

of the slave trade in the commerce and navigation of the

Atlantic Ocean between 1400 and 1800.

305.9 Ma

Marx, Trish. One boy from Kosovo. 1st ed. New York : Lothrop,

Lee & Shepard Books, c2000. Tells the story of Edi

Fejzullahu and his family, Albanians who fled their home in

Kosovo to live in a Macedonian refugee camp when the Serbs

adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing against Albanians.

320.092 Stoessinger

Stoessinger, John C. Night journey : a story of survival and

deliverance. New York : Playboy Press, 1978. A young

Jewish boy growing up in Nazi Germany fled to Prague, then

Poland, Russia, China and eventually to America. Stoessinger

eventually rises to become a director in the United Nations

Secretariat, but his life seems to lead to tragedy and

sadness.

398.2 Baldwin

Baldwin, James, 1924-. Story of Roland. New York : Scribner,

1930. Roland, a legendary knight serving the medieval king

Charlemagne, accepts a dangerous assignment of protecting

Charlemagne's army from the Muslims as it crossed the

Pyranees, but he is betrayed by a traitor.

398.2 Deutsch

Deutsch, Babette. Heroes of the Kalevala : Finland's saga.

Messner, 1940.

398.2 Lang

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed. The red fairy book. New York, :

Dover Publications, [1966]. Thirty-seven favorite fairy

tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Russia and

Scandinavia.

398.2 MacManus

MacManus, Seumas. Hiberian nights. New York : Macmillan, 1963.

Twenty-two tales of magic, mystery and witches from Ireland.

398.2 Orczy

Orczy, Baroness. Old Hungarian fairy tales. New York : Dover,

1969.

398.2 Seredy

Seredy, Kate. The white stag. New York, : The Viking press,

1937. Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars'

long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a

permanent home.

398.2 Singer

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-. Zlateh the goat and other

stories. New York : Harper & Row, c1966. Fool's paradise

-- Grandmother's tale -- The snow in Chelm -- The mixed-up

feet and the silly bridegroom -- The first shlemiel -- The

devil's trick -- Zlateh the goat. Here are seven magical

folktales that speak of fools, devils, shlemiels, and even

heroes -- like Zlateh the goat.

398.33 Spicer

Spicer, Dorothy Gladys. Festivals of Western Europe. New York :

H.W. Wilson, 1958. Includes festivals of Belgium, Denmark,

France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,

Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

759.44 Ross

Dornand, Guy. Utrillo. New York : Crown, n.d. The life and

works of the French artist Maurice Utrillo.

792.8 Ma

Maybarduk, Linda. The dancer who flew : a memoir of Rudolf

Nureyev. Plattsburg, N.Y. : Tundra Books of Northern New

York, c1999. Story of the life, personality, and career of

Russian ballet dancer and international star, Rudolf

Nureyev.

808 Be

Bearing witness : stories of the Holocaust. New York : Orchard

Books, c1995.

808.068 Lindgren

Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-. Pippi Longstocking. New York, :

Viking Press, 1950. Escapades of a lucky girl who lives

with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the

edge of a Swedish village.

808.068 Ransome

Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967. The Fool of the world and the flying

ship. Farrar, 1968.

812 Friel

Friel, Brian. Fathers and sons. Samuel French, Inc., 1987. In

the mid-ninteenth century in rural Russia, a brilliant,

anarchic medical student visits the country home of his best

friend, Arkady. He wants to despise the family for their

imperturbable complacency and bourgeois effeteness, but he

is tormented by conflicting emotions.

813.092 Nabokov

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Speak, memory; an

autobiography revisited. New York, : Putnam, [1966]. A

memoir of Nabokov's childhood and youth, mainly in

pre-Revolutionary Russia.

813.092 Wojciechowska

Wojciechowska, Maia, 1927-. Till the break of day. [1st ed.].

New York, : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. Memoirs of

the author's adolescence during World War II, when her

family escaped from Poland to temporary haven in France,

Portugal, England, and finally, the United States.

823 Be

Beum, Robert Lawrence. Bleak house : notes. Lincoln, Neb. :

Cliffs Notes, c1991. Notes on the story of Esther, the

illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon, who

is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce and lives with him at Bleak

House.

828 Brittain

Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970. Testament of youth : an

autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925. New York,

N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1989. In 1915 Vera Brittain

abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the

armed services. By war's end, all those closest to her were

dead, witnessing the results of modern combat, the

destruction and the suffering. This searing portait is also

a testament to every generation irrevocably changed by war.

833 Lange

Lange, Victor, 1908- ed. Great German short novels and stories.

New York, : Modern Library, [1952]. Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther -- Friedrich von Schiller:

The sport of destiny -- Heinrich von Kleist: The Earthquake

in Chile -- Clemens Brentano: The story of the Just Casper

and Fair Annie -- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: The

Cremona Violin -- Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff: The Jew's

Beech Tree -- Heinrich Heine: Gods in Exile -- Theodor W.

Storm: Immensee -- Gottfried Keller: The Naughty Saint

Vitalis -- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Plautus in the Convent --

Gerhart Hauptmann: Flagman Thiel -- Arthur Schnitzler: A

farewell -- Rainer Maria Rilke: How Old Timofei Died Singing

-- Frank Wedekind: The Burning of Egliswyl -- Heinrich Mann:

Three Minute novel -- Thomas Mann: Death in Venice -- Franz

Kafka: A Country Doctor.

841 La Fontaine

La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-1695. The Fables of La Fontaine.

Viking, 1964.

841 La Fontaine

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. The Fables of La Fontaine. New

York : Viking Press, 1964. A selection of fables containing

the wisdom of men, women, foxes, lions, ants, crawfish, and

donkeys.

842.7 Dumas

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The great lover and other plays.

New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1979. The great lover

(Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle).--Kean.--Young King Louis (La

jeunesse de Louis XIV).--Three interludes for Molière's The

love doctor (Trois entr'actes pour l'amour-médecin). The

novelist of Count of Monte Cristo was also arguably the most

influential French dramatist of the nineteenth century.

These plays are entertaining, readable, and actable.

843.09 Bree

Brée, Germaine. The French novel from Gide to Camus. New York,

: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1962]. Andre Gide.--Marcel

Proust.--Georges Duhamel and Jules Romains.--Roger Martin du

Gard.--Louis Aragon.--Marcel Ayme.--Julien Green.--Henri

Bosco.--Jean Giono.--Francois Mauriac.--Georges

Bernanos.--Jean Cocteau.--Jean Giraudoux.--Louis-Ferdinand

Celine.--Raymond Queneau.--Andre Malraux.--Antoine de

Saint-Exupery.--Jean-Paul Sartre.--Albert Camus. Examines

various French novels from the first part of the twentieth

century.

851 Dante

Dante. The Divine Comedy, part I: Hell. An epic poem in which

Dante finds himself lost in the wood of Error on Good

Friday, 1300 and is met by the spirit of Vergil, the great

classical poet whom Dante considers the incarnation of the

highest knowledge attainable by the human mind. Vergil leads

him through Hell to free him of the temptation to sin.

851.1 Dante

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The portable Dante. [Rev. ed.].

New York : Penguin Books, 1978. The Divine comedy,

complete, translated by L. Binyon, with notes from C. H.

Grandgent.--La vita nuova, complete, translated by D. G.

Rossetti.--Excerpts from the Rhymes and the Latin prose

works. The Divine comedy, complete, translated by L.

Binyon, with notes from C. H. Grandgent.--La vita nuova,

complete, translated by D. G. Rossetti.--Excerpts from the

Rhymes and the Latin prose works.

852 Murray

Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Pirandello's one-act plays.

Garden City, N.Y., : Anchor Books, 1964. The

vise.--Sicilian limes.--The doctor's duty.--The jar.--The

license.--Chee-Chee.--At the exit.--The imbecile.--The man

with the flower in his mouth.--The other son.--The festival

of Our Lord of the Ship.--Bellavita.--I'm dreaming, but am

I?. Pirandello is noted for his symbolical and psyhological

dramas and satires. His plays explore the many faces of

reality. His characters are invariably confronted with the

problems of various individual "truths" or "realities",

depending upon the individual's way of interpreting what

seems to him to be real and true.

852.91 Pirandello

Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936. Naked masks; five plays.

Meridian, 1952. Liola.--It is so! (If you thing so).--Henry

IV.--Six characters in search of an author.--Each in his own

way. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was a

playwright of the conflict between illusion and reality.

These original plays dramatizt the isolation of the

individual from society and from himself.

883 Sutcliff

Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black ships before Troy : the story of the

Iliad. New York : Delacorte Press, 1993. Retells the story

of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple,

and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of

Troy.

891.7 Andreyev

Andreyev, Leonid. The seven that were hanged and other stories.

New York : Vintage Books, 1958. The Seven that were

hanged.--The Abyss.--Silence.--The

Lie.--Lazarus.--Laughter.--Ben Tobit.--The

Marseillaise.--The Red laugh.

891.7 Chekhov

Chekhov, Anton. The Short stories of Anton Chekhov. New York :

Modern Library, 1959. A day in the country.--Old

Age.--Kashtanka.--Enemies.--On the Way.--Vanka.--La

Cigale.--Grief.--An Inadvertence.--The Black monk.--The

kiss.--In exile.--A work of art.--Dreams.--A woman's

kingdom.--The doctor.--A trifling orccurrence.--The

hollow.--After the theatre.--The runaway.--The

runaway.--Vierochka.--The Steppe.--Rothschild's Fiddle.

891.7 Chekhov

Chekhov, Anton. Short stories of Anton Chekhov. New York :

Modern Library, 1959. A day in the country.--Old

Age.--Kashtanka.--Enemies.--On the way.--Vanka.--La

Cigale.--Grief.--An Inadvertence.--The Black monk.--The

Kiss.--In Exile.--A Work of Art.--Dreams.--A woman's

kingdom.--The doctor.--A trifling occurrence.--The

hollow.--After the theatre.--The runaway.--Vierochka.--The

steppe.--Rothschild's Fiddle.

891.7 Gogol

Gogol', Nikolai Vasil'evich, 1809-1852. Diary of a madman, and

other stories. Harmondsworth, : Penguin, 1972. Diary of a

madman.--The nose.--The overcoat.--How Ivan Ivanovich

quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich.--Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka

and his aunt.

891.7 Guerney

Guerney, Bernard Guilbert. Portable Russian reader : a

collection newly translated from classical and present-day

authors. New York : Viking Press, 1947. Folk satire : the

judgements of Shemyaka. From the Russian Truth or

Justice.--Universal Courtier's grammar, by Fonvizin..--Kaib,

by Krylov.--The shot, by Pushkin.--The overcoat, by

Gogol.--Specters, a fantasy, by Turgenev.--Grand Inquisitor,

by Dostoevsky.--A slight error, by Leskov.--A tale of how

one Muzhik kept two Brass-Hats well fed, by

Shchedrin.--Three deaths, by Tolstoy.--Four days, by

Garshin.--Ward No. 6, by Chekhov.--The birth of a man, by

Gorki.--Thought, by Andreiev.--Laestrygonians, by

Kuprin.--About Tolstoy, by Gorki.--About Chekhov, by

Gorki.--The Ancient way, by Tolstoy.--Ellochka the cannibal,

by Ilya Arnoldovich.--Liubka the Cossack, by Babel.--The

Oasis of Sher-i-Sebeh, by Ivanov.--Pipe II, by

Ehrenburg.--Rodion Zhukov, by Kataev.--The restless little

ancient, by Zoshchenko.--Supplication to Prince Yaroslav, by

Daniel of the Oubliette.--A historic correspondence, by

Prince Kurbsky.--The retore courteous, by Sirco and the

Dniepr Brotherhood.--Letters to his patron, by

Lomonossov.--Letters to the publisher, by Novikov.--Last

letter, by Turgenev.--Two letters, by Chekhov.--Old proverbs

and folk sayings.

891.7 Poliakoff

Poliakoff, Stephen. Breaking the silence. New York : Methuen,

Inc., 1985. Pesiakoff, based on the author's grandfather,

is a rich, aristocratic Moscow Jew, dispossessed by the

Russian Revolution but allowed to live by a bizarre act of

mercy.

891.7 Tolstoy

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Short stories of Leo Tolstoy.

New York : [Random House, 1964-65]. A history of yesterday

-- The raid -- A billiard-marker's notes--A

wood-felling--Sevastopol in December 1854 -- Sevastopol in

May 1855 -- Sevastopol in August 1855 --Meeting a Moscow

acquaintance in the detachment --The snow storm -- Lucerne

-- Albert -- Three deaths -- Strider: the story of a

horse--The porcelain doll.

891.708 Miller

Miller, James E. Russian and Eastern European literature. New

York : Scott Foresman, 1970. Tevye wins a fortune, by

Sholom Aleichem.--An Incident, by Leonid N. Andreyev.--The

judgments of Shemyaka.--The young man who flew past, by

Arcadii Averchenko.--In the basement, by Isaac Babel.--The

Hawk, by Alexander Blok.--The Sea gull, by Anton Chekhov.--A

Christmas Tree and a wedding, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.--The

overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol.--My country, by Mikhail

Lermontov.--Poetry by Pasternak.--The Shot, by Alexandr

Pushkin.--The Prophet, by Alexandr Pushkin.--Fate of a man,

by Mikhail Sholokhov.--Matryona's home, by Alexamder

Solzhenitsyn.--Where love is, God is, by Leo N. Tolstoy.--A

desperate character, by Ivan Turgenev.--Poems by Andrei

Voznesensky.--Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.--Fefeleaga, by

Ion Agirbiceanu.--A summer in the South, by Ivo Andric.--The

island, by Karel Capek.--War, by Milovan Djilas.--A trip

with obstacles, by Juozas Grusas.--The grass of Lohina, by

Koloman Mikszath.--Satire by Slawomir Mrozek.--The

waistcoat, by Boleslaw Prus.--Flashes in the night, by Aron

Tamasi.--The lion's maw, by Gabor Thurzo.

891.708 Proffer

Proffer, Carl. Silver age of Russian culture : an anthology.

Ann Arbor : Ardis, 1975. Merezhkovsky -- Rozanov -- Balmont

-- Bryusov -- Ivanov -- Gippius -- Mandelstam -- Gumilev --

Zhirmunsky -- Blok -- Bely -- Solovyov -- Annensky --

Akhmatova -- Sologub -- Sadovskoy -- Nilus --

Zinovieva-Annibal -- Evreinov. Examines the poetry, prose,

articles and criticism in Russia during the period from 1893

to 1917, when there was an unparalleled renaissance of all

the arts and creativity.

891.708 Proffer

Proffer, Carl. Ardis anthology of recent Russian literature.

Ann Arbor : Ardis, 1975. Akmatova -- Mandelstam --

Pasternak -- Mayakovshy -- Tvetaeva -- Brodsky -- Korzhavin

-- Samoilov -- Gorbanevskaya -- Chukhontsev -- Akhmadulina

-- Voznesensky -- Yevtushenko -- Vinokurov -- Aliger --

Matveeva -- Kardinalovska -- Soloukhin -- Mezhirov --

Tarkovsky -- Chinnov -- Morshen -- Slutsky -- Elagin --

Kornilov -- Galich -- Okudzhava -- Petrovykh -- Tvardovsky

-- Trifonov -- Iskander -- Akesenov -- Belov -- Maramzin --

Grekova -- Vakhtin -- Efimov -- Voinovich -- Dar -- Maximov

-- Yashin -- Grachev -- Bitov -- Varlamova -- Sokolov.

Includes poetry and prose by Russian writers of the

twentieth century, such as Pasternak, Brodshy, Yevtushenko,

Tarkovsky, Kornilov, Sokolov and others.

891.708 Scammell

Scammell, Michael, comp. Russia's other writers; : selections

from Samizdat literature. New York, : Praeger, [1971,

c1970]. House in the Clouds, by Vladimir Maximov.--The

fleecy Jacket, by Anton Ulyansky.--Hard times, by Victor

Rostopchin.--Fourth prose, by Osip Mandelstam.--Before

sunrise, by V. Goryushkin.--A good hand [and] Caligula, by

Varlam Shalamov.--Miniature stories, by Vladimir

Bukovsky.--My sister's applegarth, by Alla Ktorova.--My

apologia, by Victor Velsky. Describes how the Russian

people get around Soviet censorship, by circulating

manuscripts in typewritten copies in order to read some

great Russian writers.

891.709 Slonin

Slonim, Marc, 1894-. Soviet Russian literature; : writers and

problems, 1917-1967. New York, : Oxford University Press,

1964. Sergey Essenin -- Vladimir Mayakovsky -- The

Proletcult -- The NEP and the twenties -- Boris Pilnyak --

Isaac Babel -- Vsevolod Ivanov -- Evgeny Zamyatin -- Mikhail

Zoshchenko -- The Serapion Brethren and The Pass -- Mikhail

Prishvin -- Soviet Romantics: from Grin, Paustovsky, and

Olesha to Tikhonov and Bagritsky -- Konstantin Fedin --

Alexey Tolstoy -- From the Five-year Plan to Socialist

Realism -- Literature of Communist persuasion: From Furmanov

to Ostrovsky -- Mikhail Sholokhov -- Leonid Leonov -- Ilya

Ehrenburg -- Boris Pasternak -- The Era of Stabilization and

dictatorship -- The historical novel -- The pre-war years --

War literature -- The aftermath of War: The era of

"Zhdanovism" -- The Thaw -- The unstable equilibrium -- The

newcomers -- Fluctuations, hopes and trials.

891.7092 Bjorkegren

Bjorkegren, Hans. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; : a biography. New

York : Okpaku Publishing, 1972. A portrait of Solzhenitsyn

as a soldier, political prisoner, artist and Nobel laureate.

891.73 Carroll

Carroll, Sara Newton. The search; a biography of Leo Tolstoy.

[1st ed.]. New York, : Harper & Row, [1973]. A biography

of the celebrated Russian writer who also gained fame for

his moral and social philosophies.

891.73 Gerenstein

Gerenstain, Grigori. The fall, and other stories. 1st ed. New

York : Harper & Row, c1976. Instead of a preface.--Strange

kike.--Flying.--The old woman--The fall.--The

game.--Report.--The French horn.--Waterloo.--Khamsin.--Aunt

Lena.--Why there were no more live fish.--Publication.--The

Amazon.

891.8 Lustig

Lustig, Arnost. Street of lost brothers. Evanston, Illinois :

Northwestern University Press, 1990. Morning till

evening.--Infinity.--A man the size of a postage

stamp.--Night.--First before the gates.--Clock like a

windmill.--Red oleanders. Stories that draw us into a world

of loss and contradiction, of people in a world made

insubstantial by the Nazi terror, in which words have lost

their meaning, truth has become lie, justice cruelty and

where every heroic action if offset by its echo in mundane

and terrible reality.

894.512 Molnar

Molnar, Ferenc. Liliom : a legend in seven scenes and a

prologue. New York : Samuel French, 1945.

895.08 Seltzer

Seltzer, Thomas. Best Russian short stories. New York : Modern

Library, 1925. Queen of Spades, by A.S. Pushkin.--The

Cloak, by N.V. Gogol.--The District Doctor, by

Turgenev.--The Christmas Tree and The Wedding, by

Dostoyevsky.--God sees the Truth, but waits, by

Tolstoy.--How a Muzhik fed two officials, by Saltykov.--The

shades, a phantasy, by Korolenko.--The signal, by

Garshin.--The darling, by Chekhov.--The Bet, by

Chekhov.--Vanka, by Chekhov.--Hide and seek, by

Sologub.--Dethroned, by Potapenko.--The Servant, by

Semyonov.--One Augumn Night, by Gorky.--Her lover, by

Gorky.--The revolutionist, by Artzybashev.--The Outrage, by

Kuprin.--Lazarus, by Andreyev.--The Seven that were hanged,

by Andreyev.--The red laugh, by Andreyev.--The gentleman

from San Francisco, by Ivan Bunin.

914.104 Bryson

Bryson, Bill. Notes from a small island. New York : William

Morrow, 1995. After his 20-year residence in England,

American journalist Bryson takes a farewell tour via public

transportation and foot, recording his witty, detailed

observations about the towns and villages along the way.

914.15 Luibheid

Luibhéid, Colm. All the green gold; an Irish boyhood. New

York, : Praeger, [1970]. The author weaves a tapestry of

colorful characters, holiday visits and life of his Irish

family during the 1940's and 1950's in Dublin, Ireland.

920 Kinderlager

Kinderlager : an oral history of young Holocaust survivors. 1st

ed. New York : Holiday House, 1998. Draws on interviews

with three women, Tova, Frieda and Rachel, who recount their

experiences as child survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the

Nazi death camp.

940.1 Davis

Davis, William Stearns. Life on a medieval barony; a picture

of a typical feudal community in the thirteenth century.

Harper, 1923. The Fief of St. Aliquis -- The castle of St.

Aliquis -- How the castle wakes & baronial hospitality

--Games and diversions, hunting and falconry, the baroness's

garden -- The family of the baron and life of the women --

The matter of clothes; a feudal wedding -- Cookery and

mealtimes -- The jongleurs and secular literature and poetry

-- The feudal relationship, doing homage -- Justice and

punishments -- The education of a feudal nobleman -- Feudal

weapons and horses, dubbing a knight -- The tourney -- A

baronial feud, the siege of a castle -- A great Feudal

battle - Bouvines -- The life of the peasants -- Charity,

medicine, care of the sick and funerals -- Popular religion,

pilgrimages, superstitions, relic worship -- The monastery

of St. Aliquis : buildings, organization, an ill-ruled abbey

-- The activities of the monastery, monastic learning -- The

good town of Pontdebois, aspect and organization -- Industry

and trade in Pontdebois, the great fair -- The Lord Bishop,

the canons, the parish clergy -- The cathedral and its

builders.

940.2 Cleugh

Cleugh, James. The Medici : a tale of fifteen generations. 1st

ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975. Florence and the

early Medici (1291-1429) -- Cosimo the Elder (1429-64) --

Lorenzo the Magnificent (1464-92) -- The losing battle

(1492-1530) : Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Fra Girolamo

Savonarola, The return of the Medici, Pope Clement VII, The

end of the republic -- The Decadence, 1530-1743 : Alessandro

de' Medici, Cosimo I, Catherine de' Medici, Francesco de'

Medici, Maria de' Medici, Ferdinand I, Cosimo II, and

Ferdinand II, Cosimo III, Gian Gastone.

940.2 Huizinga

Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945. The waning of the Middle Ages; : a

study of the forms of life, thought, and art in France and

the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Garden City, N.Y., : 1954. Violent tenor of life --

Pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life -- The

hierarchic conception of society -- The idea of Chivalry --

Dream of heroism and of love -- Orders of Chivalry and vows

-- The political and military value of chivalrous ideas --

Love formalized -- The conventions of love -- The idyllic

vision of life -- The vision of death -- Religious thought

-- Types of religious life -- Religious sensibility and

religious imagination -- Symbolism and its decline --

Effects of realism -- Religious thought beyond the limits of

imagination -- Art and life -- The aesthetic sentiment --

Verbal and plastic expression compared. Life in the middle

ages consisted in extremes - a fierce religious asceticism,

unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments

and great popular waves of pity and mercy, the most horrible

crimes and the most extravagant acts of saintliness.

940.53 Bernstein

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel, 1918-. The seamstress : a memoir of

survival. New York : Putnam, c1997. As the smartest girl

in her Romanian mountain village, Sara Tuvel won and

accepted a scholarship to a Gentiles-only Gymnasium. There

she walked out on a teacher's anti-Semitism, into a new

existence, where she and her sister and two friends were

sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany.

940.53 Carlisle

Carlisle, Olga Andreyev. Island in time : a memoir of childhood.

1st ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1980. The

author discusses her life on an island off the coast of

France during the World War II Nazi occupation.