Showing results for "Edith" in Biographies & Memoirs

In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves.” Edith Hall, whose own life and psyche have been shaped by such loss—her mother’s grandfather, mother, and first cousin all took their own lives—traces the philosophical arguments on suicide, from Plato and Aristotle to David Hume and Albert Camus.

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman, so she went underground.

Together, they wanted to follow wherever God would lead them and to share the Good News about Jesus with whoever God would send them. But little did they imagine that God would lead them to a remote village in the mountains of Switzerland. Nor did they foresee how God would use their ministry in that little mountain chalet to impact people all over the world.

La vita è una fusione tra il bene e il male, il bene è il cuore di essa, il male è un veleno dannoso, oscuro e misterioso. E anche vero però che lo stesso male, in tutte le sue forme a volte è inspiegabilmente attraente. Mi chiamo Edith e vi do il benvenuto nel mio piccolo mondo. Vi leggerò e vi canterò le mie storie. Ognuna ha come la protagonista quell'attrazione oscura! Sono qui per osare nella mia più assoluta umiltà! Buon ascolto! Un ringraziamento speciale per la mia correttrice Paola Suraci.

Edith Wharton fue la gran cronista de un mundo que dejaba de existir. Las jerarquías del viejo Nueva York se tambaleaban frente a la opulenta prodigalidad de los nuevos ricos, procedentes de la industria y la banca, que erigían palacetes en la Quinta Avenida, celebraban las más lujosas...

En janvier 2019, les familles d’Edith Blais et de l’Italien Luca Tacchetto lancent un appel à l’aide: les deux voyageurs ont disparu quelque part en Afrique sans laisser de traces. Entre la nouvelle de leur disparition et celle de leur libération, 15 mois s’écouleront pendant lesquels personne ne sait ce qu’il est advenu d’eux. Avec Le sablier, Edith lève le voile sur son histoire et répond aux questions que tous se posent.

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Die außerordentliche Geschichte einer Holocaust-Überlebenden, die als Psychotherapeutin anderen hilft, ihre Traumata zu überwinden. Der preisgekrönte Bestseller endlich als Audiofassung - ungekürzt gelesen von Maria Hartmann. Im Alter von 16 Jahren wurde Edith Eger 1944 aus ihrem Heimatland Ungarn nach Auschwitz verschleppt. Dort sah sie ihre Mutter in die Gaskammer gehen und musste vor Josef Mengele um ihr Leben tanzen. Es grenzt an ein Wunder, dass Edith die Grauen der Lager überlebte. In den USA baute sie sich ein neues Leben auf und wurde erfolgreiche Psychologin und Therapeutin.

Edith Piaf - Eine Legende! 1915 in Paris geboren, wurde sie bereits kurz nach der Geburt von ihrer Mutter verlassen und wuchs bei ihrer Großmutter auf, die sie halb verhungern lies. Ihr Vater, der in einem Wanderzirkus arbeitete, brachte sie schließlich bei seiner Mutter unter, die ein Bordell betrieb. Ediths Kindheit und Jugend war von Gewalt und Lieblosigkeit geprägt und so kam es, dass sie sich mit 15 nach Paris durchschlug und sich als Straßensängerin versuchte. Dort wurde sie als "La môme piaf", der kleine Spatz, berühmt.

Hun var forud for sin tid, smuk, vittig, utraditionel. Toogtyve år gammel udgav hun i 1901 den første af flere romaner, der bl.a. handlede om kvinders forventninger og mænds vanskeligheder ved at opfylde dem. På sin bryllupsrejse forelskede hun sig i forfatteren Helge Rode, stak af med ham og fik sit første barn på den italienske ø Capri. Edith Rode blev født i 1879 som ældste datter af hofmedicus C.H.H. Nebelong. Som forfatter, skribent og brevkasseredaktør blev hun beundret for sin kløgt og frygtet for sit vide.

Edith Piaf, Spatz von Paris und Chanson-Weltstar: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter “If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.” Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning...

The murder of Edith Cavell is second only to the sinking of the Lusitania for events that outraged and encouraged America to become involved in the First World War. Edith a nurse, volunteered to run a hospital in Belgium behind the German front line. There she ran the medical facilities and offered care and treatment to all that came, including wounded German soldiers. In 1915 the German military authorities arrested Miss Cavell in the middle of the night and she simply disappeared.

Edith Stein, Jewish woman, Catholic nun, and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

"Jane Austen and Her Times" was first published in 1905. The book provides a detailed look at the social and cultural context in which Jane Austen lived and worked, exploring topics such as fashion, food, travel, and leisure activities.

"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" is a fascinating book written by Edith Hubback Brown. The author delves into the lives of Jane Austen's brothers, Francis and Charles, who served as sailors in the Royal Navy during a time of great naval conflicts and exploration. Brown skillfully weaves together historical research and Austen family letters to provide a vivid and insightful account of the Austen brothers' naval experiences.

Edith Stein, Jüdin, Christin, Philosophin, Nonne und Heilige: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

A bailarina de Auschwitz é a história inspiradora e inesquecível de uma mulher que viveu os horrores da guerra e, décadas depois, encontrou no perdão a possibilidade de ajudar outras pessoas a se libertarem dos traumas do passado.

An oral-history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight.

It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in The Unforgiven, three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.