From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document & a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin & she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the ”selfish magic” of English literature & poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation & her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm & rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris. Yet always there is fear for the future, & eventually, in March 1944, Helene & her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp & soon sent to Auschwitz. She went
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- on the death march to Bergen-Belsen & there she died in 1945, only five days before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were ” Horror! Horror! Horror!”, a hideous & poignant echo of her English studies. Helene Berr`s story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.

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' Sunday. I Killed & Buried My Best Friend Today'. It would be one last youthful journey. A classic road trip across America. This was the Kerouac-style dream of Raffi Kodakian & his closest friend David Coughlin. The trip was never completed. Within weeks, David Coughlin was dead, killed by his friend, apparently as an act of mercy, after being lost in a desert for days & suffering from extreme dehydratin. But soon questions began to be asked. Stories of Kodakian's violent temper began to emerge. Kodakian's girlfriend had been very close to Coughlin. How did they get lost in a desert canyon which thousands of other visitors had managed to navigate. & how could a young man kill his best friend, even in mercy? The pair kept a journal that they wrote in, right up to the end, extracts from which are reproduced in the book, offering clues to what really happened to the pair during their missing days in the desert. Kodakian is the only person who knows for certain
- & he was eventually charged with murder. The result of the court case is the thrilling denouement to this extraordinary book.
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The Journal with Compass by authentic Models is a lined ring bound diary where kids can write about their journey. Included ...

Journalism shows you how to write quickly & expertly for all major forms of journalistic writing today. Whether producing a snappy headline or reporting a full length news story, piecing together a `feature` or compiling a blog, this book will guide you through the pitfalls & inspire you to write better. Written by an experienced journalist, the book outlines the principles of journalistic writing, then illustrates these with examples of good
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- practice from the real world, helping you to hone your writing skills for both print & online media. Learn how to craft text like the professionals, with advice on everything from how to write compelling prose to getting your first job in journalism. This book is a `must- read` for all practising & aspiring journalists & writers.

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` For God`s sake look after our people` Captain Scott`s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party`s optimistic departure from New Zeal&, the hazardous voyage of the Terra Nova to Antarctica, & the trek with ponies & dogs across the ice to the Pole. On the way the explorers conduct scientific experiments, collect specimens, & get to know each other`s characters. Their discovery that Amundsen has beaten them to their goal, & the endurance with which they face an 850-mile march to safety, have become the stuff of legend. This new edition publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott`s original text before publication. In his Introduction Max Jones illuminates the Journals` writing & publication, Scott`s changing reputation, & the continued attraction of heroes in our cynical age. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World`s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford`s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, & much more. ...

Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination
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Lizzy Hawker has always run, & run far
- & it is the mountains, & specifically the lure of the Himalayas, where she has found
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Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi & Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties & pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys & the canals on his own, & as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihaly misses the train to Rome they were due to take together. Wandering alone from city to city, with his marriage rapidly falling apart, Mihaly must confront the ghosts of his past & try to find a sense of purpose. Originally written in 1937, & here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott, Antal Szerb`s gently humorous & psychologically subtle exploration into the workings of a budding bourgeois marriage has been hailed as one of the great rediscovered classics of the twentieth century. ...

Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly `loses` his bride at a provincial station & embarks on a chaotic & bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted & erotic elements of his past converge, & he, like Erzsi, has finally to make a choice. ...

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb`s Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving & darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty & desire. ` On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice.. .` Mihaly has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there, on his honeymoon with Erszi, he soon abandon his new wife in order to find himself, haunted by old friends from his turbulent teenage days: beautiful, kind Tamas, brash & wicked Janos, & the sexless yet unforgettable Eva. Journeying from Venice to Ravenna, Florence & Rome, Mihaly loses himself in Venetian back alleys & in the Tuscan & Umbrian countryside, driven by an irresistible desire to resurrect his lost youth among Hungary`s Bright Young Things, & knowing that he must soon decide whether to return to the ambiguous promise of a placid adult life, or allow himself to be seduced into a life of scandalous adventure. Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is an undoubted masterpiece of Modernist literature, a darkly comic novel cut through by sex & death, which traces the effects of a socially & sexually claustrophobic world on the life of one man. Translated from the Hungarian by the renowned & award-winning Len Rix, Antal Szerb`s Journey by Moonlight (first published as Utas es Holdvilag in Hungary in 1937) is the consummate European novel of the inter-war period. Published by Pushkin Press for the first time in a cloth-bound hardback edition, beautifully designed by Nathan Burton. `A writer of immense subtlety & generosity.. . Can literary mastery be this quiet-seeming, this hilarious, this kind? Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers`- Ali Smith `A novel to love as well as admire, always playful & ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots & absurd situations.. .it`s a book utterly in love with life`- Kevin Crossley-Holl&, Guardian Books of the Year ` Just divine.. .the kind of book that makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul`- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian ` This radiantly funny & intelligent novel.. .shows its author to be one of the masters of twentieth-century fiction. Len Rix`s loving translation of a book that might have remained lost to us deserves special praise`- Paul Bailey, TLS International Books of the Year `A burning book, a major book`- Georges Szirtes, TLS Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a writer, scholar, critic & translator born to Jewish parents but baptized Catholic. Multilingual, he lived in Hungary, France, Italy & Engl&, & after graduating in German & English he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama & poetry, studies of Ibsen & Blake, & histories of English & Hungarian literature. At the age of 39, Szerb wrote an authoritative History of World Literature. He wrote his first novel, The Pendragon Legend, in 1934, followed by Journey by Moonlight in 1937 & The Queen`s Necklace in 1943. These, & a collection of his short stories, Love in a Bottle, are also published in English by Pushkin Press. Szerb was killed in a concentration camp in January 1945. Pushkin Press`s special hardbacks also include deluxe editions of Stefan Zweig`s Beware of Pity & The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig. ...