Cora Gordon: 7 books

It is curious to follow anything right back to its inception, and to discover from what extraordinary causes results are due. It is strange, for instance, to find that the luck of the thirteen began right back at the time when Jan, motoring back from Uzhitze down the valley of the Morava, coming fastish...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Poor Folk in Spain. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Cora Gordon,...

Poor Folk in Spain By Jan and Cora Gordon ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHORS JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED VIGO ST. :: :: :: :: LONDON First published 1922

Excerpt: "We had endeavoured to ward off typhoid by initiating a sort of sanitary vigilance committee, having first sacked the chief of police: we had laid drains, which the chief Serbian engineer said he would pull up as soon as we had gone away. We had helped in the plans of a very necessary...

LONDON We had tasted of Spain before ever we had crossed her frontiers. Indeed, perhaps Spain is the easiest country to obtain samples from without the fatigue of travelling. The Spaniard carries his atmosphere with him: wherever he goes he re-creates in his immediate surroundings more than a hint of...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Introduction II. Nish and Salonika III. Off to Montenegro IV. Across the Frontier V. The Montenegrin Front on the Drina VI. Northern Montenegro VII. To Cettinje VIII. The Lake of Scutari IX. Scutari X. The...

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...