The Bells Ring No More - 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 The Bells Ring No More write by John Tschinkel. This book was released on 2012-11-12. The Bells Ring No More available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most serious historians would estimate that at least 40 million people perished in the death camps and on the killing fields of World War Two. In the face of such a figure, it should cause no surprise that they received more attention than the millions who 'merely' lost their homes, were uprooted or ethnically cleansed. John Tschinkel's autobiographical history deals with a small and relatively unknown group of such persons, the Gottschee Germans. For six hundred years this former enclave in Slovenia survived and even prospered under the generally benign sovereignty of Habsburg Austria. Tschinkel's focus is on his experiences up to the end of WW II and his major contribution to our knowledge is the series of vividly recalled historical events, incidents, anecdotes and memories, recounted with a powerful narrative skill and an authorial voice that is at times wry, ironic, angry and frustrated, but always deeply humane and striving for a balanced vision. The bells that 'no longer ring' are those of the church of Grcarice (Masern) in Slovenia, the village where the author spent the first ten years of his life. They become powerful and recurrent symbols marking the phases and cycles of a vibrant culture, with its births and deaths, dangers and ecstasies, past and future. Dr. Peter Foulkes, Former Professor of German Studies, Dean of Humanities Stanford University, California. Emeritus Professor, University of Wales. ------------------- The author grew up in a self sufficient village in Slovenia until its entire population surrendered to the pressure to resettle in 1941. Not 'Home to the Reich' as promised, but to another part of annexed and ethnically cleansed Slovenia from where they were expelled in 1945 to become homeless refugees. The book is a merging of at least four aspects of a story running in parallel: history, politics, cultural awareness and personal narrative. Because of this intertwining, the tale never gets boring. The expressive power of the book has several peaks. The last is the description of how the family is trying to outrun the Communist Partisans. Prof., Dr. Marjan Kordas, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"
"Ring Out, Wild Bells" - 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 "Ring Out, Wild Bells" write by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson. This book was released on 2024-01-26. "Ring Out, Wild Bells" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A Library of Poetry and Song
A Library of Poetry and Song - 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 Library of Poetry and Song write by . This book was released on 1879. A Library of Poetry and Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Library of Poetry and Song
A Library of Poetry and Song - 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 Library of Poetry and Song write by William Cullen Bryant. This book was released on 1872. A Library of Poetry and Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bells
The Bells - 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 The Bells write by Richard Harvell. This book was released on 2010-09-14. The Bells available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in eighteenth-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends — and a forbidden lover — whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he could never have sired?
