A Month In The Country

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573612442
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A month in the country written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor, just like all of the women in the household. The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old ward; they make a wonderful portrait of two different women in love.

Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 059312913X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in Siena written by Hisham Matar and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us. Praise for A Month in Siena “As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph.”—Peter Carey

Author : Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800180993
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Live in the Country written by Tom Hodgkinson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of those enthusiasts whose enthusiasm is hard to resist . . . Always beguiling' Daily Mail 'Hugely inspiring even when it is most bonkers' Sarah Bakewell, New Statesman 'A combination of almanac, commonplace book and diary, this is a tasty oddity . . . Richly entertaining' Independent As the pandemic has caused us all to re-evaluate our lives, becoming more self-reliant and dwelling in closer harmony with nature have emerged as important priorities. Many of us have decided to up sticks and leave the city behind for a less frenetic existence in the country. Whether you've already made your move, or are dreaming of doing so one day, this is the book for you. Covering beekeeping, poultry rearing, pig farming, bread-making, wood-chopping, fire-laying, bartering and much more, How to Live in the Country is the perfect source of inspiration for old hand and beginners alike: useful, informative but also refreshingly honest and realistic. Tom Hodgkinson draws on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers as he guides us through each month of the year, giving lists of tasks for both garden and animal husbandry, offering tips and shortcuts, and weaving in stories about his own experience of raising a young family in rural Devon.

Author : Patrick Marber
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 082224103X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Days in the Country written by Patrick Marber and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural nineteenth-century Russia, a tangle of hopeless romances brings chaos to a country estate. Natalya, the wife of the wealthy estate-owner, is in love with her son’s tutor; a neighbor has taken a liking to Natalya’s ward, who has her eyes set elsewhere; and Natalya’s long-time friend Rakitin may crave more from their platonic relationship. A tale of young love, old love, and everything in between, THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY is a riveting update on Turgenev’s heartbreaking classic.

Author : J.L. Carr
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322479
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J.L. Carr and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213420
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Brian Friel and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Natalya Petrovna, once wooed and won over by the rich landowner Arkady Sergeyevich, has now suffered a long and frustrating marriage. She has taken comfort in the love of Michel, a family friend, but even he has come to represent the sam

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207726
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The place is the country estate of the Islayevs, a wealth Russian family, the time the middle of the nineteenth century. It is summer, and the lives of the family and their entourage reflect the bored indolence so characteristic of the a

Author : J.L. Carr
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176839
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J.L. Carr and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter’s depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

Author : J. L. Carr
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312546809
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J. L. Carr and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920

Author : Ivan Turgenev
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367814
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh interpretation of Turgenev's comedy about the calamitous effects of love.