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Dutch translation (7th printing, no date) of Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita", 1955.
Cover design: P.A.H. van der Harst.
Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who questioned the strict rules of her upbringing and even her own identity, has been shunned from her Amish community. Katie--now known as Katherine Mayfield--sets out to find her birth mother, and a life, she has never known.
Her birth mother is seriously ill and Katie must struggle to find her, and prove her own identity, before it's too late. But in the world of electric lights, telephones, and fancy things, Katie stumbles into a web of greed and betrayal where the garb of the Amish is misused to disguise an evil conspiracy. Meanwhile, unknown to Katherine, her long-lost love, Daniel, has returned to the Amish community to find her. Can they ever be together again?
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It was the time of "La Belle Epoque" when Romanian aristocrats in Paris had a high profile riding expensive equipages and running literary salons, frequented by the great and the good.
Romania became idependent barely ten years when it took part in the Paris 1889 Exhibition. This was the year when the Eiffel Tower was erected.
Here we see a detail of the romanian band playing the panpipe (nai) accompanied by violin, basso, accordion and percussion instruments (tambal).
Jules Chéret (May 31, 1836 – September 23, 1932), a contemporary of Toulouse Lautrec, was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of poster art. Often called the father of the modern poster.
Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergères, Theatre de l'Opera, the Alcazar d'Ete and the Moulin Rouge. So much in demand, he expanded his business to providing advertisements for the plays of touring troupes, municipal festivals, and then for beverages and liquors, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Eventually he became a major advertising force, adding the railroad companies and a number of manufacturing businesses to his client list.
As his work became more popular and his large posters displaying modestly free-spirited females found a larger audience, pundits began calling him the "father of the women's liberation." Females had previously been depicted as prostitutes or puritans, and the Cheréts—as his women were popularly called—were neither. It was freeing for the women of Paris, and lead to a noticeably more open atmosphere in Paris where women were able to engage in formerly taboo activities, such as wearing low-cut bodices and smoking in public.
In 1890 he was awarded, by the French Government, the Legion of Honour, for his outstanding contribution to the graphic arts.
(Source: Wikipedia)
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
Hellenistic Art: The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
These are two of the books I own in two copies: usually, the oldest one is in Italian, the new(ish) one in English.
The title of the Italian book is not the same of the original: they decided to title it "The Young Holden" because they cannot translate in a proper way the original title.
The publishing houses in both cases decided to leave to the reader the choice: "Do you need a ugly cover for this book? We will give you two ugly covers!!!"
But fortunately we readers will never judge a book by its cover!!!
ohana means family.
Apple MacBook Pro 2.4ghz unibody
Apple MacBook Pro 2.8ghz unibody
Apple iPhone 3gS 32gb
Apple iPod Video 5.5 Gen U2 Limited Edition
Apple Universal Dock
BlueLounge Space Station
WD Passport Essential 320gb
WD Passport Essential 500gb
WD MyBook Studio 500gb
Edifier 2.1 Speakers
Misc. furnitures.
My new desk,new chair,Apple 27" LED,umbp 15" i7 2.66Ghz-8GB ram-500GB hdd-hi res-antiglare,wd 2TB MyBook Studio,samsung G3 1TB,iPhone 4 16GB,Apple usb keybaord,Apple magic mouse,etc.....(Macbook Air 11.6" ultimate is coming soon)
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Вечерняя съемка модели в бане Мазуркиных. Моя идея и постановка. Фотография опубликована в книге "Чувашская резьба по дереву". Чебоксары, 2007. с. ..Моргаушский р-н, д. В. Шокино. 2007. Фото: Минеева (Мартынова) и М.А. Костарев.
Another lovely book on London buses by Capital Transport, Country Buses Vol1 1933-1949 by Laurie Akehurst , just started to read this one and it is very interesting so far as per usual with books from this great publisher.
at the finish line of nanowrimo, the challenge of writing a 50K word novel during the month of november. my winning certificate in 2009.
Submitted to monthly scavenger hunt - March 2010 (finish line)
National Treasures of Japan
April 10 - May 27, 1990
Tokyo National Museum
Catalogue published by The Yomiuri Shimbun
I just have one small desk as my workspace, so i needed to make the most of it.. the laptop is a Dell 1525 running osx and windows 7 ultimate.. the monitor is an hp 2159v.. brilliant display.. the laptop is sitting atop the logitech alto notebook stand thus allowing more space on the desk.. there is also a 640GB WD mybook.. beneath the desk is the subwoofer and an xbox 360 elite.. :)
HELLO!!
I think this was about take 6 hahaha. I kept running overtime, so excuse my fast talking and awkwardness. I just wanted to share this with you, its been a while since I uploaded a video! I mostly avoid it because a) it is so awkward and b) my webcam isnt that good.. but ahhhh well. This is a little bit from my book for you!! :)
my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
Emma Gatewood's grandson wrote this book. It is about her walk on the Appalachian Trail when she was in her sixties.
Dutch translations of:
- Der Prozess, 1958
- Das Schloss, 1968
- Amerika, 1963.
Cover design: Theo Kurpershoek, who made a large number of great cover designs for the Dutch "Salamander" pocket books.
Cover drawings: Franz Kafka
MacBook Pro15r with dual Packed Pixel displays, Apple wireless keyboard, Magic Trackpad, 3d Connexion SpaceNavigator , 3d Connexion CadMouse, generic NewEgg wireless number pad, construction Master TrigPlus2 calculator, cut down Ikea stool to raise it up (standing desk), 12South HiRise for MacBook, Canon G12, Airport Extreme, Western Digital MyBook (for time machine and archived files, WD Digital My Passport (for Carbon Copy Cloner backups). To right my MacBook Pro 17 now relegated to movie watching and Quickbooks using Parallels / Windows 7.
Way too many wires!!!! After I settle in with the new Packed Pixels displays I'll be 3d printing some stands for them, that will also have built in cable control.
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Dracula is an acclaimed 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and repressed sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
He supplemented his income by writing a large number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspiration for the story was a visit to Slains Castle near Aberdeen. The bleak spot provided an excellent backdrop for his creation.
Dracula in Romania
After the death of Nicolae Ceauşescu, a tourist industry sprang up in Transylvania and, to a lesser extent, in Wallachia. However, Romanians have mixed feelings about linking one of their national heroes to the vampire monster.
Historical places connected to Vlad Ţepeş are publicised under a Dracula theme catering largely, but not entirely, to foreign markets. Bran Castle, which has only a very tangential connection with the historical Vlad Ţepeş, now exaggerates that connection and promotes itself as "Dracula's Castle". [4] A dungeon-themed disco, catering to a mostly Romanian crowd and located in the basement of a former inn immediately adjacent to the Curtea Veche ("Old Court") — onetime site of Vlad Ţepeş's castle in Bucharest — calls itself by the English-language name "Impaler". The well-preserved medieval town of Sighişoara, Vlad Ţepeş's birthplace, seriously considered building a Dracula theme park on the edge of town, but in the end it was decided that such a site would cheapen the beauty and history of the medieval city, and the plan was blocked. The park was then to have been built close to Bucharest (the capital, which is nowhere near Transylvania), but plans have subsequently been scrapped.
Romanian novelist, poet, diplomat and priest exiled in Paris.
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (September 15, 1916 – June 22, 1992, Paris, France) studied philosophy and theology at the University of Bucharest and at the Heidelberg University. He was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, “The 25th Hour”. The book was published in French translation in 1949 and was not published in Romania until 2004.
In 1967, Carlo Ponti produced a film based on Gheorghiu’s book. The movie was directed by Henri Verneuil, with Anthony Quinn as Johann, Virna Lisi as Suzanna, and Serge Reggiani as Traian.
Virgil Gheorghiu was ordained an Orthodox priest in 1963 and became the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church in France in 1971.
He continued to write, publishing “Christ in Lebanon” in 1979 and “God in Paris” the next year. He was a prolific novelist with over 26 titles published in French between1949 and 1986 and scores of other genres.
After his demise his widow made a gift of all his archives to the Romanian Academy in Bucharest.
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I just have one small desk as my workspace, so i needed to make the most of it.. the laptop is a Dell 1525 running osx and windows 7 ultimate.. the monitor is an hp 2159v.. brilliant display.. the laptop is sitting atop the logitech alto notebook stand thus allowing more space on the desk.. there is also a 640GB WD mybook.. beneath the desk is the subwoofer and an xbox 360 elite.. :)
My new desk,new chair,Apple 27" LED,umbp 15" i7 2.66Ghz-8GB ram-500GB hdd-hi res-antiglare,wd 2TB MyBook Studio,samsung G3 1TB,iPhone 4 16GB,Apple usb keybaord,Apple magic mouse,etc.....(Macbook Air 11.6" ultimate is coming soon)
I LOVE BOOKS! Ex libris - see my library detailed here.
Well, here it is, and you must have known it was coming - the touristy stuff! Even though I was born and bred in London, I still buy all the naff touristy stuff... I LOVE LONDON is why!
London in Prose and Poetry, edited by my friend and an immense poet, Anna Adams.
I've chosen one of my favourites, and of course, it's one of her own poems:
'The sun that shone down Brewer Street
silvered the falling threads
of tinsel rain that sprinkled wet
on shop-blinds and bowed heads,
while over-arching Brewer Street,
above its shady chasm
a flyover of coloured light
was conjured through the prism
of sunlit rain wrung from the mops
that polished the blue sky.
In doorways, businessmen and cops
gave rainbow girls the eye.'
~ A Rainbow in Brewer Street, Anna Adams