The Country Diaries

Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847673260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest - from Rev Gilbert White's journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter's holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Queen Victoria, Siegfried Sassoon and Roger Deakin. Together, these private records, which have been arranged as a diary of the calendar year, paint a rich and surprising portrait of a landscape and a life we think we know so well.

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

Author: Donald Keene
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231151462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writers -- including Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taiko -- and the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vividly, though privately, expressed. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, the author reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. These entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.

The Diary of a Country Priest

Author: Georges Bernanos
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359804020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Fran?aise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion? it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art.? ? New York Times Book Review

Up the Country

Author: Emily Eden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108020755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Eden's candid letters represent thousands of nineteenth-century women who dutifully accompanied their men to outposts of the British Empire.

The Diary of a Country Parson

Author: James Woodforde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description

The Death of My Country

Author: Maxine Trottier
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780439967624
Category : Abenaki Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
The first Dear Canada featuring a First Nations diarist, The Death of My Country is set at a pivotal point in Canada's history -- the war between Britain and France for control of New France. Geneviève Aubuchon is born into an Abenaki tribe but is orphaned when another tribe destroys her village. She and her brother are taken to a convent in Québec.While Geneviève gradually adapts to her new life with the sisters, her older brother runs away to rejoin the Abenaki. Geneviève fears for his life when he joins the First Nations allies who are helping defend Québec against the British siege of the city and the attack on the Plains of Abraham. Author Maxine Trottier frequently participates in historical re-enactments. Her hobby has provided her with an opportunity to research and experience this key time in Canada's history.

The Assassin's Cloak

Author: Irene Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960

Book Description
'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

A House in the Country

Author: Jocelyn Playfair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later when we still had no idea which way the war was going.

This Our Dark Country

Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618147854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African-Americans.

The Country Diaries

Author: Alan F. Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847673236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.