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"The story is unforgettable...the book refuses to be put down. The reader is compelled to read on - with anguish, fascination and admiration. This is an intensely moving and finely detailed book..." That is how eminent Australian author Thomas Shapcott described 'Ordinary Women'. A family saga, it tells the story of 4 women who survive the Gestapo, who walk through the hell of Dresden during the infamous Allied fire-bombing. Mother and daughter become post-WWII emigrants to Australia. The cover is iconic, a metaphor for the contrast between bleeding war-torn Europe and the peace of a new land.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people...
Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.