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Excerpt from Modern Greek StoriesOf. The writers whose stories have been selected for this volume of translations, Polylas, Bizyenos, and Papadiamantes are dead, all the others are living. Without exception, they have cultivated other forms of literary expression beside the short story. Most of them are leading figures in the literary world of Modern Greece. It is worthy of note that the writers of the Sin of My Mother and of The Frightened So...

Excerpt from In the Shadow of IslamDirectly in front Of her lay Stamboul, besprinkled with minarets, striving to reach Allah's blue throne. Above the city, as above the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, a multitude of sea gulls were ¿ying, executing in the air, with astonishing rapidity, every possible graceful movement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from Haremlik: Some Pages From the Life of Turkish WomenThe mist was slowly lifting so slowly that one could imagine an invisible hand to be reluctantly drawing aside veils from the face of nature. As the air became clearer, the slender minarets were seen first above the other buildings, and then, little by little, Constantinople, Queen of Cities, revealed herself to our hungry eyes. And as if Nature were but Constantinople's handmaide...

Excerpt from The Grasp of the SultanIn other parts of the Turkish Empire an Armenian would instantly have obeyed the Turk, but here at Galata, where the strongest of them congregated, they often stood up for themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from A Child of the Orient It was the last day of February. Outside a storm was raging. I could hear the angry Sea of Marmora beating Violently against the coast, as if it would fain annihilate with its liquid force the solidness of the earth. And the rain, imitat ing the sea, was beating mightily against the window-panes, while the wind was forcing the tall, stalwart pines, to bend humbly to the earth. Half of the elements were doing...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Modern History consider the period that commences at the beginning of the 16th century, overlapping with the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. Titles include: The Greatest Fact in Modern History, The North American idea, Einleitung zu historischen Karakterschilderungen and Outline of the Principles of History: (Grundriss Der Historik).About usTrieste Publishing's aim is to provide readers with the highest quali...

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Born as a Greek Ottoman in Constantinople/Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. Her first book, Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Oriental Women, published in 1909, was based on experiences from 1901 when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domes...

Excerpt from The Grasp of the SultanIn other parts of the Turkish Empire an Armenian would instantly have obeyed the Turk, but here at Galata, where the strongest of them congregated, they often stood up for themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from Haremlik: Some Pages From the Life of Turkish Women The mist was slowly lifting so slowly that one could imagine an invisible hand to be reluctantly drawing aside veils from the face of nature. As the air became clearer, the slender minarets were seen first above the other buildings, and then, little by little, Constantinople, Queen of Cities, revealed herself to our hungry eyes. And as if Nature were but Constantinople's handmai...

Excerpt from The Heart of the Balkans Albania was coveted by Austria and Italy, both members of the Triple Alliance, and to balk their desires, France and Eng land meant to preserve the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, no matter how much blood soaked the soil of Albania, or any other part of the Balkans. The political situation in the Balkans had been the milk, so to speak, on which I had been nourished, and I had had a little too much of it....

Excerpt from A Child of the Orient It was the last day of February. Outside a storm was raging. I could hear the angry Sea of Marmora beating Violently against the coast, as if it would fain annihilate with its liquid force the solidness of the earth. And the rain, imitat ing the sea, was beating mightily against the window-panes, while the wind was forcing the tall, stalwart pines, to bend humbly to the earth. Half of the elements were doing...

Excerpt from In the Shadow of Islam Directly in front of her lay Stamboul, besprinkled with minarets, striving to reach Allah's blue throne. Above the city, as above the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, a multitude of sea gulls were ¿ying, executing in the air, with astonishing rapidity, every possible graceful movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgot...

Excerpt from Modern Greek Stories Of the writers whose stories have been selected for this volume of translations, Polylas, Bizyenos, and Papadiamantes are dead, all the others are living. Without exception, they have cultivated other forms of literary expression beside the short story. Most of them are leading figures in the literary world of Modern Greece. It is worthy of note that the writers of the Sin of My Mother and of The Frightened S...

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