Word: fin-de-si
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What about modern, gel hybrids? Dolly? The 24-hour information superhighway? Stick to Tang and astronaut ice cream, even disposable cartridges, my friends. Nothing beats fin-de-siècle sex appeal...
...thread of folly that runs through Barbara Tuchman's books is a filament of doom. In The Guns of August, a wrongheaded French strategy in the first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-siéde Europe and America in The Proud Tower are primed to explode in that same war. And the chaos of the 14th century becomes A Distant Mirror of the modern distemper...
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ·Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske · Misia, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein Sex in History, Reay Tannahill Show People, Kenneth Tynan · The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe