by
Eliot, George,
Date
2009
Series
Oxford world's classics
xxii, 727 pages.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
F ELI
by
Eliot, George,
Date
1988
Series
The world's classics
727 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
F ELI
by
Buruma, Ian.
Date
2016
305 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Format:
Book
Abstract
"A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters back and forth. And write they did, often every day. In a way they were just picking up where they left off in 1918, at the end of their first long separation because of the Great War that swept Bernard away to some of Europe's bloodiest battlefields. The thousands of letters between them were part of an inheritance that ultimately came into the hands of their grandson, Ian Buruma. Now, in a labor of love that is also a powerful act of artistic creation, Ian Buruma has woven his own voice in with theirs to provide the context and counterpoint necessary to bring to life, not just a remarkable marriage, but a class, and an age. Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish emigre families. To young Ian, who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of genteel English country life at its most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story. At its heart, Their Promised Land is the story of cultural assimilation. The Schlesingers were very British in the way their relatives in Germany were very German, until Hitler destroyed that option. The problems of being Jewish and facing anti-Semitism even in the country they loved were met with a kind of stoic discretion. But they showed solidarity when it mattered most. As the shadows of war lengthened again, the Schlesingers mounted a remarkable effort, which Ian Buruma describes movingly, to rescue twelve Jewish children from the Nazis and see to their upkeep in England. Many are the books that do bad marriages justice; precious few books take readers inside a good marriage. In Their Promised Land, Buruma has done just that; introducing us to a couple whose love was sustaining through the darkest hours of the century"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number
B 305.8924 SCH
by
Canter, Jon.
Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed.
412 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
LP F CAN
by
Finn, Ralph Leslie,
Date
1996
Edition
Large print ed.
383 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
LP 942.15004924 FIN
by
Scott, Walter,
Date
1996
Series
Oxford's world classics
xxxvii, 581 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Abstract
More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. The secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight, Ivanhoe, heralds the start of a splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, the siege of Torquilstone, and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Jewess Rebecca.
Call Number
F SCO
by
Liss, David,
Date
2004
381 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
F LIS
by
Grant, Linda,
Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
466 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
LP F GRA
by
Hughes, Shirley,
Date
2000
Unpaged : col. ill.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Abstract
Lenny, a Jewish boy living in London during the Blitz in World War II, must adjust to many changes and find the true meaning of courage when he is evacuated to a large mansion in the English countryside.
Call Number
J P HUG
by
Hughes, Shirley,
Date
1999
Unpaged : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Abstract
Lenny, a Jewish boy living in London during the Blitz in World War II, must adjust to many changes and find the true meaning of courage when he is evacuated to a large mansion in the English countryside.
Call Number
J P HUG
by
Frazer, Margaret
Date
2006
339 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
F FRA
by
Bernstein, Harry,
Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
297 p.
Language
English
Format:
Book
Call Number
813.54 BER
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