Miklos banffy biography of abraham lincoln
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Will Evans
The Transylvanian trilogy by Miklós Bánffy; translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen; volume I: They Were Counted
(Library of Congress PZ3.B2235 Tr 2013 v.1)
Looking for a hefty epic to help pass your house-bound hours this winter? Withdraw into the world of They Were Counted, the first novel in Count Miklós Bánffy’s The Transylvanian trilogy, a sumptuous milieu of beau monde opulence and political unrest set against the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A sense of doom lingers in the reader’s mind, knowing that the chivalry and extravagance Bánffy describes will meet a cataclysmic end by the assault of WWI.
Emily Levine
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick
(Library of Congress QB213 .B925 2017)
As the New Year fast approaches, people take the time to reflect on the transpirations of the past 365 days (8760 hours, 525600 minutes, or 3.154e+7 seco
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REFLECTIONS ON ‘A NATION DISMEMBERED’
“But obligations are reciprocal. Those who gained at Trianon have obligations as well. Their obligation is to shape countries with an absolute minimum of injustice so that they can ask for loyalty from the citizens placed wholesale under their sovereignty without asking that they surrender their souls too.”
We are here to introduce a book which celebrates a national tragedy in poetry of both heart and mind, expressing such emotions as grief, loss, indignation, sorrow, and anger. The national tragedy in question is the dismemberment of the Kingdom of Hungary by the diplomatic representatives of the victorious Allied Powers meeting at the Trianon Conference in Paris one hundred years ago.
I said ‘celebrate’. Is that the right word? No. And maybe there fryst vatten not a right word. Poetry takes an injustice, an outrage, a cruelty, a misunderstanding and somehow transmutes those evils into a work of art that arouses sympathy, sooth
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Life’s Darkest Moments
I learned of Thyra Samter Winslow from the two New Republic articles from 1934 on “Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read”. In a letter responding to the articles, one O. Olsen of New York City wrote, “and there are Thyra Samter Winslow’s four books, The People Round the Corner, Picture Frames, Show Business and Blueberry Pie. All of these books are very good, and almost all of them have appeared on the 17-cent counters in the corner drug stores.”
A quick Google of her name produced several interesting links: this biographical sketch from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture and an article reprinted from the Southwest Times Record titled, “Thyra Samter Winslow: Woman Sets Fort Smith on Its Ear”. The encyclopedia piece notes that,
Published accounts of Winslow’s life are often contradictory. The authoritative work is a doctoral dissertation by Richard C. Winegard, who established Winslow’s biog