bookshelves: hungary, books-with-a-passport, translation, winter-20102011, paper-read, published-1911 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Pressie from Team Moxysox xxx Read from February 03 to 17, 2011 The 'Not a Christmas present' gift! First sentence is enough to indicate just why Krúdy is a favour...
Still reading this one, but I'm almost done with it.Next to excellent collection of essays on written in the early 1980s by a then young - and very beardy - Timothy Garton Ash. On the whole 'The Uses of Adversity' gives a very interesting portrait of a rather abstract concept such as 'Central Europe...
I have only read this time the parts pertaining to Hungary. I bought this book when it came out. Then, 1989, it was "Current Affairs". Now it is part of History. The rate of historical change during the 20th Century is astounding.
What we have here is a very good collection of articles, political essays, book and movie reviews along with public speeches turned into ink on paper by Timothy Garton Ash, one of those people teaching at Oxford University and being rather proud of it."Facts Are Subversive" could have easily ended u...
The 'Not a Christmas present' gift! First sentence is enough to indicate just why Krúdy is a favourite with those who like a smidgeon of artistic genius dusted over their reading matter.Once upon a damp and moonlit night a man with greying hair was watching the autumn mist form figures of chimney-sw...
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