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volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

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...en Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication To Ma... ...y Ellen Marriage Dedication To Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders, of whom these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quai... ... these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quaint legend of old Flanders. De Balzac. AT A DIMLY REMOTE PERIOD in the history of Brabant, co... ...the institutions of an advanced civilization. Who reigned over Brabant and Flanders in those days? On this point tradition is mute. Let us confess at ... ...d night and day, and the chronicle has changed its complexion 4 Christ in Flanders somewhat in every age. Like some great building that has suffered ... ...tes to despair. The narrator believes in it, as all superstitious minds in Flanders likewise believe; and is not a whit wiser nor more credulous than ... ... that day. Night was falling. It was scarcely possible to see the coast of Flanders by the dying fires of the sunset, or to make out upon the hither s...

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...The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe. - Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work ...

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...nse air effort was clearly in t°he west. There, belligerents pressed aviation technology and tactics to the limits ; the skies of northern France and Flanders offered the only opportunity for movement across the stagnated front. Another important consideration was the availability of rich documentation concerning night aerial activity in the theater....

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...not seen as a very scholarly work, the Stricklands used many sources that had not been used before. Volume one includes the biographies of Matilda of Flanders, Matilda of Scotland, Adelicia of Louvaine, Matilda of Boulogne and Eleanora of Aquitaine. (Introduction by Ann Boulais)...

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...The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character ...

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...ce bekend als “de man die zijn volk leerde lezen.” (Samenvatting door Anna Simon) A historic novel about the “Battle of the Golden Spurs”, in 1302 in Flanders, and the events leading up to it. The story is laced with a romance between Machteld, daugher of Robrecht van Bethune (also known as The Lion of Flanders) and the knight Adolf van Nieuwland. Conscience wanted to make...

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...ish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commanderin- Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey....

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... for me in January,1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander- in-Chief: an invitation which was, under the cir...

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...novel concerns the story of an unnamed fallen woman, the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including Roxana, describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a fool of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up...

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...g Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called--in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by G...

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...urselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called—in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant—was a part of Holland; and it ob- tained its own indep...

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...’re embracing the theatrical lifestyle with gusto I see, Morgan.” “Mr. Fl—Flanders is an old friend of Daniel’s.” “I’m sure.” Camilla appraised h... ... “I just thought you might like me to keep an eye out, in case that Michael Flanders or Flinders or whoever pokes his nose around Morgan’s dressing ... ...ing to do with this?” What was it she had said? Somethin’ about a Michael Flanders or Flind…” No, it wasn’t possible. “Lord, Gertie, has Michae...

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...ountries of the earth. He sailed out from Gibraltar and thence for England and Flanders, but being overtaken by a storm, which continued with the grea... ...ed silk and gold thread on the top of the caps; and fifty sheaths of knives of Flanders, with ivory handles, which were made in Lisbon, and the sheath...

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...cal professions; various organizations represent the cultural inter- ests of Flanders and Wallonia; various peace groups such as Flemish Action Commit...

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...tural coincidence? Look at what became of the lowest of the lowlanders: the Flanders Dutch. When they first tasted the poison of wealth, and power... ...nk the millions of dead, all the graveyards of the First World War are called Flanders fields? Because every poppy that grows there for a short... ...ne-year short year of life of a soldier in the killing fields of Holland and Flanders where they fought and died. Every poppy worn on a veteran’s...

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...us with the Ægyptians, Henries in England, Charles in France, Baldwins in Flanders, and Williams in our ancient Aquitanie, whence some say came the ...

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...ave and departed, and took their shipping at Sandwich, and passed forth by Flanders, 6 Sir Thomas Malory Almaine, the mountains, and all Italy, until... ...d their coming he made ready his Romans and all the people between him and Flanders. Also he had gotten with him fifty giants which had been en- 7 Le... ...s soon they had sight of land, and sailed till they arrived at Barflete in Flanders, and when they were there he found many of his great lords ready, ... ...eat battle achieved against the Romans, entered into Lorraine, Brabant and Flanders, and sithen returned into Haut Almaine, and so over the mountains ...

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...ers and customs of a country must naturally conform to this law of nature. Flanders, which in former times was essentially dun-col- ored and monotonou... ...ty in parting with no possession once gained, its endurance of all things, Flanders was considered nothing more than the general storehouse of Europe,... ...e products and the ideas of its masters and its neighbors, this country of Flanders, by nature so tame and devoid of poetry, worked out for itself an ... ...-being and the spirit of indepen- dence which comes of prosperity begot in Flanders, sooner than elsewhere, that craving for liberty which, later, per... ...,—neither houses, furniture, dikes, husbandry , nor revolutions; and they *Flanders was parcelled into three divisions; of which East- ern Flanders, c... ...o three divisions; of which East- ern Flanders, capital Ghent, and Western Flanders, capital Bruges, are two provinces of Belgium. French Flanders, ca... ...nd expression in the name,—the House of Claes. The whole spirit of ancient Flanders breathed in that mansion, which afforded to the lovers of burgher ... ...reath threat- ens our own health. The cloudy skies and humid atmosphere of Flanders, and the shadows produced by the narrowness of the street, some- t... ...ls. A second house, exactly like the building on the street, and called in Flanders the “back-quarter,” stood at the far- ther end of the court-yard, ...

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...fore setting out on a journey to settle the disputes between the Counts of Flanders and Montreuil, and this was the reason of Fru Astrida’s great prep... ...rnestly of the expedition on which they were bound to meet Count Arnulf of Flanders, on a little islet in the river Somme, there to come to some agree... ...how in an evil hour our good Duke appointed to meet this caitiff, Count of Flanders, in the Isle of Pecquigny, the Duke and Count each bringing twelve... ... paltry Montreuil, but even was for offering to pay homage to our Duke for Flanders itself; but this our Wil- liam refused, saying it were foul wrong ... ...d, and spoke on in words, perhaps, suggested by some sage. “Yes, Arnulf of Flanders, know that Duke Wil- liam of Normandy shall not rest unavenged! On... ...rd, thou art of all men the most bound to show love and mercy to Arnulf of Flanders. Yes, when the hand of the Lord hath touched him, and bowed him do... ...s had made up their minds not to attempt a war against the wicked Count of Flanders. He sighed most wearily, yawned again and again, and moved 32 The... ...und him—The Frank means mis- chief! I know from a sure hand that Arnulf of Flanders was in council with him just before he came hither, with his false... ... to conquer us fairly, they now take to foul means. Louis came hither from Flanders, he has brought this great troop of French to surprise us, claim y...

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...hen the viscount, then Thomas Esmond, was serving with the English army in Flanders; he could show, he said, that this Gertrude, deserted by her husba... ...ne in the church- yard, which told that Athanasius Pastoureau, a native of Flanders, lay there buried, aged 87 years. The old man’s cot- tage, which E... ...ancy in Brigadier Webb’s regiment of Fusileers, then with their colonel in Flanders; but being now attached to the suite of Mr. Lumley, Esmond did not... ..., than to pass the winter away behind the fortifications of the dreary old Flanders towns, where the English troops were gathered. Y achts and packets... ...rved with both lords (my Lord Francis and the Viscount Esmond’s father) in Flanders, and in the Duke of Y ork’s Guard, the Duke of Marlborough, who wa... ..., and annihilated it: afflavit Deus, et dissipati sunt. The French army of Flanders was gone, their artillery, their standards, their treasure, provi-... ... fell into our hands when the victory of Ramillies drove the French out of Flanders. 101 Thackeray CHAPTER XIII I MEET AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN FLANDER... ... were silk-weavers out of France, whither they returned to Arras in French Flanders, shortly before your mother took her vows, carrying you with them,... ...ce, much to the disgust of very many of our officers remaining inactive in Flanders, who said that his Grace the Captain-General had had fighting enou...