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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Alexandra Fields
The Alexandra Girls¿ English Institution:
Preeta Nilesh
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
2019
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Påskhögtiden närmar sig och ömtåliga balanser råder i Jerusalem. Tre nätter i rad går drottningen, Salome, förklädd ut i staden. Hon söker vittnen som kan avvärja dödsdomen över hennes gåtfulle skyddsling, som återvänt från Egypten och har rykte om sig som undergörare och irrlärare.Skeendet i Lars Anderssons förtätade kortroman kretsar kring en välkänd gestalt, men med en överraskande förskjutning av den historiska ramen.
Dagboek van Keizerin Alexandra
Keizerin Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova
Glagoslav Publications B.V.
2023
pokkari
De dagboeken van tsarina Alexandra Fjodorovna zijn niet van het soort dat de lezer een beeld van de tijd of schrijver geeft door de beschreven dagelijks beslommeringen. De tsarina heeft vele bladzijden volgeschreven met korte spreuken, liedteksten, gedichten en korte beschouwingen die ze tegenkwam in het werk van J.R. Miller, Thomas Kempis, La Rochefoucauld, Wordsworth, Longfellow en anderen.Woorden als plicht, ootmoed, volharding, zelfverloochening, nederigheid en toewijding zijn hier sleutelbegrippen. Op papier zijn het woorden, maar het waren richtingwijzers in het leven van een vrouw die een eenzame positie bekleedde aan het Russische hof. Als dochter van de Duitse groothertog Lodewijk IV en de Engelse prinses Alice was Alix, de Duitse naam van Alexandra Fjodorovna, daar een buitenstaander en niet geliefd. Alexandra trad toe tot de Russisch-orthodoxe kerk om te kunnen trouwen met haar grote liefde, tsaar Nicolaas II. Ondanks het gemis van haar geboortestreek Hessen-Darmstadt was zij gelukkig en wijdde zich vol overgave aan haar gezin.Met de gekozen fragment gunt ze ons een blik in haar ziel en openbaart de bron waaruit zij kracht putte. Haar bekering tot het Russisch-orthodoxe geloof blijkt geen uiterlijke vertoning te zijn om het huwelijk te kunnen sluiten dat ze wilde: haar dagboeken getuigen van een diep doorleefd geloof. De drie verschillende delen, "Het huwelijk en gezinsleve" (1899-1904), "Wijze woorden" (1908-1913) en "De tuin van het hart" (1917) bieden veel wijsheid en houden de tijdgeest van 2014 een spiegel voor.
Before Princess Diana captured hearts worldwide, there was Alexandra, Queen of the United Kingdom (1844-1925), the original "people's princess." Born in Denmark, partially deaf, and lovingly known as Princess Alix, Alexandra became a royal icon as the beloved wife of the philandering King Edward VII. Her influence on fashion was so significant that women began to emulate her distinctive limp, caused by an illness. Despite personal challenges, Alexandra captivated hearts, reshaping the crown and public alike with her ability to transform tradition, using photography to add a personal touch to motherhood, and earning profound admiration for her charitable works. In a story full of love and loss, triumph and heartbreak, Georgina Battiscombe explores the remarkable history of this forgotten queen whose legacy continues to echo through the ages and truly deserves recognition. Includes dozens of full-color photographs.
Royal Alexandra Theatre
VDM Publishing House
2010
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Ashley Alexandra Dupré
OmniScriptum
2026
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Cassandra Alexandra
VDM Publishing House
2010
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Rachel Alexandra
VDM Publishing House
2010
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Salome Alexandra
VDM Publishing House
2010
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Observera att förlaget som ger ut denna produkt baserar innehållet i sina produkter på fria källor som Wikipedia. Boken är med stor sannolikhet endast ett utdrag ur dessa informationskällor, alltså inte en vanlig bok i den bemärkelsen.
Queen Alexandra Hospital
VDM Publishing House
2010
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Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles
VDM Publishing House
2010
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This #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich moves into the fast lane with a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney's younger brother, Wild Bill. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since they were kids. Not that Bill's a bad sort. More that he acts first and thinks later. Unfortunately, this time around, Wild Bill will be Dead Bill if Alex doesn't find him in time.Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Somebody's stolen his boat and the trail leads to--you guessed it--Wild Bill. Since Will Bill is missing, Hooker decides to follow Barney and see if she can lead him to his boat.The race to the finish is hot and hard, taking Alex and Hooker into international waters, exposing a plot to grab Cuban gold and a sinister relic of the Cuban missile crises. Creative cussing and sexual innuendo included.
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
Simon Hornblower
Oxford University Press
2018
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This volume takes as its subject one of the most important Greek poems of the Hellenistic period: the Alexandra attributed to Lykophron, probably written in about 190 BC. At 1474 lines and with a riddling narrative and a preponderance of unusual vocabulary it is a notoriously challenging prospect for scholars, but it also sheds crucial light on Greek religion (in particular the role of women) and on foundation myths and myths of colonial identity. Most of the poem purports to be a prophecy by the Trojan princess, Kassandra, who foretells the conflicts between Europe and Asia from the Trojan Wars to the establishment of Roman ascendancy over the Greek world in the poet's own time. The central section narrates in the future tense the dispersal of returning Greek heroes throughout the Mediterranean zone, and their founding of new cities. This section culminates in the Italian wanderings and foundational activity of the Trojan refugee Aineias, Kassandra's own kinsman. Following Simon Hornblower's detailed full-length commentary on the Alexandra (OUP 2015; paperback 2017), this monograph asserts the poem's importance as not only a strongly political work, but also as a historical document of interest to cultural and religious historians and students of myths of identity. Divided into two Parts, the first explores Lykophron's geopolitical world, paying special attention to south Italy (perhaps the bilingual poet's own area of origin), Sicily, and Rhodes; it suggests that the recent hostile presence of Hannibal in south Italy surfaces as a frequent yet indirectly expressed concern of the poem. The thematic second Part investigates the Alexandra's relation to the Sibylline Oracles and to other apocalyptic literature of the period, and argues for its cultural and religious topicality. The Conclusion puts the case for the 190s BC as a turning-point in Roman history and contends that Lykophron demonstrates a veiled awareness of this, especially of certain peculiar features of Roman colonizing policy in that decade.
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersA brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetimeIn a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for the beautiful young Englishwoman who had taken over the big stone house with her much older German husband. But Frau Messinger's health is failing, and her husband decides to build a cinema in the town to honour her. Harry will work in it; one day he will own it; and he will always remain captive to the memory of the beguiling young woman who arrived suddenly from abroad and lit up his drab provincial life.William Trevor's gift of understanding the poignancy in apparently small lives is beautifully realized in this short novel.'Perfect in its making and its length' The Times'Certainly lingers in the mind. I am prepared to bet that I will still remember it in a year's time, which is a test of genuine excellence' Harriet Waugh, SpectatorWilliam Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in English, and has also written many award-winning novels, most recently The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer. For many years he has lived in Devon.
Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday Review
Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai
Kollanta; A. Kollontai; Alexandra M. Kollontai
W. W. Norton Company
1980
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Alexandra Kollontai--the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR's first Minister of Social Welfare--is known today as a historic contributor to the international women's movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to oppose the growth of the bureaucracy in the young socialist state. Her Selected Writings discuss the social democratic movement before the First World War, the history of the Russian women's movement, and the debate between "feminist" and "socialist" women; the effects of the war on European socialism; the revolutions; the part played by women in the revolutionary events; the early manifestations of bureaucracy and Kollontai's role as spokeswoman for the "workers' opposition"; and morality, sexual politics, the family, and prostitution. It also includes writings from her later life as a Soviet official. Each section is introduced by a commentary in which Alix Holt explains the background and critically sets Kollontai's unique lifework in its historical and biographical contexts, demonstrating both its necessary limitations and its extraordinary range.
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Robert K. Massie
Modern Library
2012
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A "magnificent and intimate" (Harper's) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great "A moving, rich book . . . This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it."--Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political na vet , Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history--the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
