Nora Waln (1895–1964)

Auteur de The House of Exile

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A propos de l'auteur

As a freelance correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and The Saturday Evening Post, Nora Waln covered the rise of Chinese Communism, the Pacific Theater in World War II, The Nuremberg Trials, the Korean War, and postwar Japan. She died in Spain in 1965 at age 70.

Comprend les noms: Nora Waln, Illustrated by Baldridge, C. Leroy

Œuvres de Nora Waln

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The House of Exile (1933) 99 exemplaires

The Approaching Storm: One Woman's Story of Germany, 1934-1938 (1939) 71 exemplaires

The House of Exile: Supplemented Edition (with Return to the House of Exile) (1992) 25 exemplaires

Sommer in der Mongolei (1936) 1 exemplaire

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Family Treasury of Great Biographies Volume 03 (1922) 33 exemplaires

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1930-1943 (2) 1934-1938: The Approaching Storm (Waln) (1) A lire (3) Allemagne (9) AmerA (2) Autobiographie (6) Biographie (8) Box-247 (1) Chine (29) Fiction (8) First Warnings (1) GERMANY -- Social conditions (1) Histoire (19) Histoire de l'Allemagne (2) Histoire de l'Europe (2) Histoire de la Chine (2) Histoire sociale et culturelle (1) Interbellum and World War II (1) Interwar Europe (1) koha-import (1) Littérature de voyage (2) livres classiques Penguin (2) memoir (nazi period) (1) Mémoires (18) Nazis (3) Nazisme (2) non-fiction (10) NSDAP (1) Penguin Special (1) Penguin Specials (1) personal accounts (2) Publisher Weekly Bestseller (1) Seconde Guerre mondiale (6) Société (2) Sphenisciformes (7) Totalitarianism. the submission of culture to politics (1) Troisième Reich (2) Troisième reich (2) Voyage (18) XXe siècle (4)

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Date de naissance: 1895
Date de décès: 1964
Sexe: female
Professions: journalist

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The House of Exile: Supplemented Edition (with… par Nora Waln

This is a book written by an American that became the "adopted" daughter of a wealthy house in China in the 1920's. She meets her husband in China also and lives there for years. A slow start but I found the book rather interesting. They lived on "Shameen" Island and I loved reading the discriptions and such after having spent 2 weeks there. The hard part is that the book wasn't finished properly. Then at the end of the book they added what was to be a second book - the parts that were found at a later date - which just confused me more. I would love to know when and why she left China (probably due to her husbands job) and what happened in the big meeting with her adoptive family on her way to Japan to work years later.… (plus d'informations)

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autumnesf | May 20, 2008 |

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