[PDF] Coast Of Bohemia eBook

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2000-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691050522

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A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849657590

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Mr. Howells has always had a pretty taste in titles, and 'The Coast of Bohemia', by its name alone, brings pleasurable anticipations. Nor are they doomed to disappointment in this instance, for the story is pleasing in all its aspects. The Bohemia upon whose coasts it bids us linger is the somewhat sophisticated and denationalized Bohemia of the New York art schools and studios ; the flavor of its life is very different from that of the enchanted region which Murger opened for us, but its ways are engaging if decorous, and its denizens are very much alive while not too much in earnest. We do not discover among them any of the queer creatures that we have rather learned to expect in a novel by Mr. Howells — for once those creatures with their fads seem to have been shelved — but find merely a little group of humanly interesting men and women, leading lives rational in the main, and brought into relations which elicit the author's best powers of serious analysis, relieved by touches of his dry and delightful humor. The manner is still that of real ism, but a realism not too exclusive of the methods of art, and capable of giving the name of Charmian to one of the characters, no slight concession to the enemy. Moreover, the story is essentially a love-story, and it comes to the proper conclusion of love-stories, although there is one period of suspense when, knowing the perverse capabilities of the writer, the reader wonders if it really is going to end anywhere. It is well that there should be searchings of soul, but it is not well that they should rob stories — as Mr. Howells sometimes permits them to — of their legitimate endings.

Author : Renu Kashyap
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614285918

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From roaring nightlife to peaceful yoga retreats, Ibiza’s hippie-chic atmosphere is its hallmark. This quintessential Mediterranean hot spot has served as an escape for artists, creatives, and musicians alike for decades. It is a place to reinvent oneself, to walk the fine line between civilization and wilderness, and to discover bliss. Ibiza Bohemia explores the island’s scenic Balearic cliffs, its legendary cast of characters, and the archetypal interiors that define its signature style.

Author : Jiri Janac
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9089645012

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The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, European Coasts of Bohemia tells the story of the experts who confronted and contributed to different and often conflicting geopolitical visions of Europe. Jíra Janác shows how the canal-backers adapted themselves to various political developments, such as the break-up of the Austrian–Hungarian Empire and the integration into the Soviet Bloc, while still managing to keep the canal project alive.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A tale of upper class bourgeois dilettantes in the fine arts.

Author : Page Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781318946686

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