Lay Down Your Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lay Down Your Arms write by Bertha von Suttner. This book was released on 1894. Lay Down Your Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Farewell to Arms write by Ernest Hemingway. This book was released on 2014-07-08. A Farewell to Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.
Bertha von Suttner, 'Lay Down Your Arms'
Bertha von Suttner, 'Lay Down Your Arms' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bertha von Suttner, 'Lay Down Your Arms' write by Bertha von Suttner. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Bertha von Suttner, 'Lay Down Your Arms' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Die Waffen nieder! (1889), translated into English in 1892 as Lay Down Your Arms, was an international bestseller. Its Austrian author Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) chose the medium of fiction in order to reach as broad an audience as possible with her pacifist ideals. Challenging the narrow nationalisms of nineteenth-century Europe, Suttner believed that disputes between nations should be settled by means of arbitration rather than armed conflict. She devoted her life to campaigning for the cause of peace, and in 1905 became the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner’s influential novel yields insights into the early development of calls for a united Europe and an end to the arms race. This English translation of the novel was carried out as a ‘labour of love’ by the eminent Victorian surgeon and medical scholar Timothy Holmes (1825-1907), the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, for whom this was an unusual foray into the world of fiction. Holmes was Vice-Chairman of the London-based International Arbitration and Peace Association and a contemporary of Suttner. His translation helped to spread Suttner’s views across the Anglophone world, and contributed to the growth of the peace movement in the period before the First World War.
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It write by Robert Fulghum. This book was released on 2010-04-14. It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher. As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience. As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to it beyond my most extravagant expectation. Again and again I learned that what I thought was only true for me . . . only valued by me . . . only cared about by me . . . was common property. The principles guiding this book are not far from the spirit of Show-and-Tell. It is stuff from home—that place in my mind and heart where I most truly live. P.S. This volume picks up where I left off in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, when I promised to tell about the time it was on fire when I lay down on it.
Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling
Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling write by Bertha Von Suttner. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When I was requested by the Committee of the International Arbitration and Peace Association, of which I have the honour to be a Member, to undertake the translation of the novel entitled Die Wafen Nieder, I considered it my duty to consent and I have found the labour truly a delight. Baroness Suttners striking tale has had so great a success on the Continent of Europe that it seems singular that no complete translation into English should yet have appeared. An incomplete version was published some time since in the United States, without the sanction of the authoress but it gives no just idea of the work. Apart from its value as a work of fiction-great as that is the book has a transcendent interest for the Society with which I am connected from its bearing on the question of war in generaland of the present state of Europe in particular. We English speaking people, whether in England, in the Colonies, or in the United States, being ourselves in no immediate danger of seeing our homes invaded, and our cities laid under contribution by hostile armies, are apt to forget how terribly the remembrance of such calamities, and the constant threat of their recurrence, haunt the lives of our Continental brethren.
