books about: bohemia     books:     Bohemia      Fair Maid of Bohemia, The Edward Marston Poisoned Pen Press, 2002 Ninth Book in a Wonderful Ongoing Series Edward Marston is the pseudonym of Keith Miles, a fairly prolific and extremely good writer of mainly Elizabethan and medieval mysteries. He has also written mysteries under his own name with both sporting and golf backgrounds. However it is primarily the books that ...             Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach Helen Harrison, Constance Ayers Chronicle Books, 2002 Finally, the Hamptons as they should be seen It's no surprise that artists and writers were among the first to be inspired by the natural beauty of the Hamptons. It's also no surprise that celebrities, hangers-on, and wannabees followed soon after. What some may not know is that the Hamptons exerted their draw on ...             Luces De Bohemia Ramon Maria Del Valle-Inclan, Ramon Del Valle-Inclan Espasa Calpe, 1992 Un texto genial ! La mejor muestra (y la primera) de la obra esperpéntica de Don Ramón del Valle Inclán, miembro destacado de la Generación del 98. La disfrutamos más al ubicarla en su momento e imaginándonos a los personajes. Tal es el caso de Rubén Darío, tratando de no aspirar la "s" ...             Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City Richard Lloyd Routledge, 2005 Gentrification and the City Fantastic book centering on the gentrification of Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. Wicker Park, the once blight and gritty hood that attracted artists and other creatives due to cheap rents and proximity to the Loop, has become one of the hippest areas of the ...             Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900û1948 Tara Zahra Cornell University Press, 2008 Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, ...             Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, ... Peter Demetz Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Peril in Prague A selective history, interwoven with personal reminisces by the author, of a great European city under the thumb of the Nazis. Highly recommended. Peter Demetz is both a cultural scholar and a witness. His compelling personal story, as a youthful civilian in and ...             French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia Light Of New Orleans Publishing, 2003 A Real Treasure Tenessee Williams' previously unpublished piece, a thing of incomparable beauty, is the most harrowing autobiographical account I have ever read of him, providing unparalleled insight to his soul. Ellen Gilchrist's piece is joyful as an angel's whisper. This collection ...             Berkeley Bohemia: Artists and Visionaries of the Early 20th Century Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2008 A 'must' for any California history collection Berkeley, California is well known today for its liberal and free thinking student atmosphere, but what is less well known is its longer history for early radicalism and innovation in the late 1800s and early 1900s - a time when the city was quite conservative. This ...             Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris Mary Gluck Harvard University Press, 2008 A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture. Contrary to conventional views of a private self retreating from history and modernity, Popular Bohemia shows us the ...             The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History Derek Sayer Princeton University Press, 2000 The Coasts of Bohemia -- a truly beautiful voyage of discovery Derek Sayer's book is exceptional well written and informative, indeed the text is positively lyrical at times. The aim is to provide an understanding of a "people of whom we know nothing" in Central Europe, and Sayer does a masterful task in shaping and clarifying ...             The Fair Maid of Bohemia: A Novel Edward Marston St Martins Pr, 1997             Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant Mary V. Dearborn Houghton Mifflin, 1996 Great Book This book is a very thoroughly researched account of the life and times of Louise Bryant. There are been discrepencies about her actually birth date, but I found her family on the 1900 Census for Nevada and she is listed as being born in December 1886 instead of the ...             Good King Wenceslas John M. Neale Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2005 Ye Who Will Bless the Poor, Shall Yourselves Find Blessing An excellent children's book of one of the greatest carols ever. This carol above all proclaims the social justice of the Gospel; the need to share what we have with others, even in the face of our own adversity, and at the loss of our own pleasure. It's only the more ...             Dog Days in Soho: One Man's Adventures in 1950s Bohemia Nigel Richardson Victor Gollancz, 2001 Odd but compulsively readable Richardson takes as his starting point a guy, Josh, he knew who hung out in Soho in the 50s and met all the famous painters, writers, deadbeats and drunks. The book is partly the author's search for Josh, meeting his old friends, visiting his old haunts and being ...             The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia Carola Oman Phoenix Press, 2000 The Stuart Queen Elizabeth Recent English royal biographies, perhaps following the success of Fraser's "Mary Queen of Scots," remain fixated on the Tudor era, Elizabeth I in particular, with less frequent mention of Mary Tudor or Mary Stuart, and/or perhaps Henry's wives. 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