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She was born on December 21, 1892, in County Kerry. She was reared and educated in Edinburgh.
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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(Your house isn't a showpiece meant to impress other peopl...)
Your house isn't a showpiece meant to impress other people: it's supposed to be your home - a place that makes you feel happy, calm, and relaxed! In Happy Starts at Home, design psychology coach and interior designer Rebecca West shows you how to use your home as a tool to meet your goals and live a happier life. This book will help you: - Identify simple changes you can make to feel happier in your home. - Understand how your space is affecting your physical, financial, and emotional health. - Invest your time and money more effectively in your house. Stop the cycle of buying stuff to redo your house without having meaning behind it. Discover what is holding you back in your home and take action to make needed changes. Its time to love your home and use it as a launchpad for your best life! It's time to get happy at home!
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( Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's cl...)
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule the country's history as well as its daily life.
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(Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Pow...)
Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens," a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials ? one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a "torso murder" in England ? and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose ? the pursuit of truth. "An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of West's breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury."?Francine Prose. "It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point."?Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. "Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature."?William L. Shirer.
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(The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been ...)
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare. In The Fountain Overflows, a 1957 best seller, Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult.
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She was born on December 21, 1892, in County Kerry. She was reared and educated in Edinburgh.
Cicely was educated at George Watson's Ladies College. She had to leave school in 1907 due to the desease. She did not have any formal schooling after the age of 16, because of lack of funds.
Her pen name comes from the emancipated heroine of Ibsen's Rosmersholm, and by the age of 20 West was living up to her name, since she was early successful as a writer for Socialist papers and was active in the socialistic Fabian Society.
Among West's novels are The Return of the Soldier (1918), The Judge (1922), The Thinking Reed (1936), and The Fountain Overflows (1956), all showing that her masters were Henry James and Marcel Proust. The Strange Necessity (1928) reveals her as a literary critic, and The Meaning of Treason (1947) goes deeply into history to discover the real meaning of certain "treason trials. " Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) is at once a travel book, a history of Yugoslavia, and a meditation on the destiny of modern man. Other works include The New Meaning of Treason (1964), the political novel The Birds Fall Down (1966), and Rebecca West: A Celebration (1976), a selection of her writings. West died in London, Mar. 15, 1983.
(Your house isn't a showpiece meant to impress other peopl...)
(The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been ...)
( Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's cl...)
(Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Pow...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
An avowed feminist, she also took part in the women's suffrage movement.
In 1930 she married H. M. Andrews.
