books by Madeline Levine

books by Madeline Levine

books:

Madeline Levine

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

Czeslaw Milosz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

A Poet's Religious Humanism
Czeslaw Milosz is a renowned writer of both poetry and prose. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. In his long life, he has seen and written about many of the events of the Twentieth Century, including the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, the Warsaw ...

A Year of the Hunter
Czeslaw Milosz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995

Beginning With My Street: Essays & Recollections
Czeslaw Milosz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992

In this gathering of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel prize-winning Polish Poet traces a kind of informal autobiography against the street map of his home city of Wilno.

Milosz's ABC's

Czeslaw Milosz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

What I learned from this ABC book...
Most entries in this alphabetized soup of cultural what's what and who's who are devoted to fellow Lithuanians and Poles--names that will be obscure to most readers. However, there are some exceptions. The late poet, Joseph Brodsky, merits his first admirable mention ...

The Price of Privilege
Madeline Levine

Harpercollins, 2006

The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories

Hanna Krall

Other Press, 2006

4.5 Stars... Sobering True Stories Involving the Holocaust
I knew very little, if anything, about the book or its Polish author. What captured my attention was the subtitle of the book "And Other True Stories". "The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories" (260 pages) brings us 12 stories that in one way or another are ...

Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child

Ellen Mitchell, Carol Barkin, ...

St. Martin's Griffin, 2005

A Book that Really Tells it Like it is.
I thought this book was excellent and so helpful - as anything can be at a time like this...it is comforting to know that others share in this horrible journey of grief and you are not alone in your feelings. The writer/writers have all been there and will be for the ...

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Jewish Lives)

Ida Fink

Northwestern University Press, 1995

An exceptional collection of short stories
A Scrap of Time is a collection of short stories that masterfully presents the Holocaust experience from the perspective of survivors, witnesses, and victims in the villages of occupied Poland. Acts of personal courage, the day to day decisions that meant life or ...

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of ...

Madeline Levine

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

excellent
this is a fabulous book. the love of money over people and the disregard for substantive values are destroying our society. this book sheds a great deal of light on the ways that we are hurting our children and ourselves. it is extremely well-written and intelligent. ...

Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943

Czeslaw Milosz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Perfect for intellectual poet exile thinking
Czeslaw Milosz, who won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, after becoming a professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1960, lived in Warsaw when it was occupied by the Nazis during the winter of 1942-1943, and wrote the essays and letters now ...

Is she ready for PG-13?(Media): An article from: Daughters
Madeline Levine

Dads & Daughters, 2000

This digital document is an article from Daughters, published by Dads & Daughters on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 753 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with ...

The ABC Books as Notes for a Novel in Progress1.(literary work of Czeslaw Milosz)(Critical Essay): An article ...
Madeline G. Levine

University of Oklahoma, 1999

This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 4796 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. ...

A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

Miron Bialoszewski

Northwestern Univ Pr, 1991

No heros, just poeple trying to survive
Warsaw Uprising from civilians point of view. Everytrhing is in constatnt motion. Simply great

Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland

Agata Tuszynska

William Morrow & Company, 1998

a wonderful book!
Agata Tuszynska's book is written with talent, great dedication and sensitivity to tell as much as possible about Singer. The book shows the author's deep honesty in showing Singer as a person the literary world admired. I found it one of the most interestoing books I ...