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Europeana

by Patrik Ourednik ...

Translated by Gerald Turner ...

Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory.Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, ... Read more

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Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory.Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944,
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The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place

by Patrik Ouředník ...

Translated by Alexander Hertich ...

Series series Czech Literature
The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to “the stupidest American president in history,” when he discovers that he may share the genes of a certain, infamous Austrian corporal, thanks to a dalliance on the part of his grandmother during the First World War.Around the hapless Gaspard’s descent into amnesia and anti-social rebellion, an obsessive ... Read more

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The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to “the stupidest American president in history,” when he discovers that he may share the genes of a certain, infamous Austrian corporal, thanks to a dalliance on the part of his grandmother during the First World War.Around the hapless Gaspard’s descent into amnesia and anti-social rebellion, an obsessive
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The Antifa Comic Book

100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements

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The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the acclaimed author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the ... Read more

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The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the acclaimed author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the
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The Years

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions
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On Tyranny Graphic Edition

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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Note: The ebook of this graphic edition combines a hand-lettered font with richly detailed images. Due to the nature of the design, readers will be required to zoom in on each page. For the best experience, please use a larger, full-color screen.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward ... Read more

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Note: The ebook of this graphic edition combines a hand-lettered font with richly detailed images. Due to the nature of the design, readers will be required to zoom in on each page. For the best experience, please use a larger, full-color screen.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward
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Submission

A Novel

by Michel Houellebecq ...

Translated by Lorin Stein ...

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, ... Read more

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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics,
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Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims

by Terese Pencak Schwartz ...

Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of ... Read more

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Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of
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Waste Land

A World in Permanent Crisis

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John ... Read more

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**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society

by Umberto Eco ...

The acclaimed author examines our contemporary world—from technology to politics and pop culture—in this collection of essays written for L'Espresso.Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and philosophical insight. He illuminates the contemporary ... Read more

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The acclaimed author examines our contemporary world—from technology to politics and pop culture—in this collection of essays written for L'Espresso.Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and philosophical insight. He illuminates the contemporary
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Boy 30529

A Memoir

by Felix Weinberg ...

**A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor.“Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist**In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a ... Read more

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**A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor.“Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist**In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a
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Bearing Witness

How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

by John R. Carpenter ...

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Read more

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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human
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The Secret Life of France

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At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the differences between Britain and France.Using both her personal experiences and the lessons of ... Read more

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At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the differences between Britain and France.Using both her personal experiences and the lessons of
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