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Free Download Camilla Cassidy, "Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel "
English | ISBN: 9004526501 | 2022 | 241 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Twilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia’s origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.

Free Download Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire by Dominic Lieven
English | 1994 | ISBN: 031210510X | 292 Pages | PDF | 25.7 MB
A biography of Russia’s last monarch provides new insights into his infamous execution in 1918 and goes on to probe his role as a political leader and emperor, the Old Regime’s collapse, and the origins of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Free Download Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by Alan Pell Crawford, James Boles, Tantor Audio
English | 2008 | ISBN: B00139Z0DO | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 11 hours and 12 minutes + EPUB | 156 Mb
Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama, one of the greatest, played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation’s physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new – an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way audiences think about this true American icon.
It was during these years, from his return to Monticello in 1809, after two terms as president, until his death in 1826, that Jefferson’s idealism would be most severely, and heartbreakingly, tested.
Based on new research and documents culled from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Historical Society, and other special collections, including hitherto unexamined letters from family, friends, and Monticello neighbors, Alan Pell Crawford paints an authoritative and deeply moving portrait of Thomas Jefferson as private citizen, the first original depiction of the man in more than a generation.

Free Download Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt, Mark Deakins, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07C3CPG3V | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:50:00 pages | EPUB | 567 Mb
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the 19th-century Opium War.
As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it.
In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage.

Free Download Andrew Hoberek, "The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work"
English | 2005 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 069112146X, 0691121451 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of interest to anyone who reads or teaches contemporary fiction.

Free Download Ron Riekki, "The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone: Essays on the Television and Film Franchise"
English | ISBN: 1476681015 | 2022 | 279 pages | PDF | 3 MB
More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series investigate the many incarnations of Rod Serling’s influential vision through close readings of episodes, explorations of major themes and first-person accounts of working on the show.

Free Download Kevin Elyot, "Twilight Song"
English | 2018 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 184842681X | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Set over a series of summer evenings in the 1960s and the present day, Twilight Song traces one family’s hidden liaisons over half a century.

Free Download Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
July 6, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BK9DD67Q | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 11 hrs 58 mins | 752 to 759 MB
Unabridged | Retail
Of the many cities that dot this ancient coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna, and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for layers of history and cultural riches, they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been remarkably different. Once major power centres, all five have declined into relative obscurity. Nevertheless, their entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar, Archimedes and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman conquests, and their greatness still lingers for those who seek it out.
To bring these mysterious lost capitals to life, historian Katherine Pangonis sets out on a voyage from the dawn of civilisation on the Lebanese coast to a modern-day Turkey wracked by the devastation of the 2023 earthquake. Combining on-the-ground research with spellbinding storytelling skills, here is a revelatory new story of the Mediterranean and a powerful reflection on the sometimes fleeting glory of empires.

Free Download John Kelly, "The Twilight of World Trotskyism "
English | ISBN: 1032350083 | 2022 | 144 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.

Free Download Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | September 28, 2021 | ASIN: B09GCNSF95 | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 54m | 214.69 MB
Author: Alan Maimon
Narrator: Johnny Heller