Bertha von Suttner

Roman

Die Waffen nieder!

Bertha von Suttners klassiker "Ned med våbnene" bygger i høj grad på hendes egne oplevelser som guvernante og de erfaringer, hun havde gjort sig gennem mændene i sin familie, der deltog i de tre krige mellem 1859-1871. I bogen såvel som i sit eget liv raser Bertha von Suttner imod krigen og hele dens væsen. Bogen indeholder både et gennemslagskraftigt budskab om pacifisme, der var med til at ændre samfundsstemningen over for krig, og al det personlige drama og lidenskab, som man kender fra den typiske guvernanteroman. Denne oversættelse er fra 1891 Baronesse Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) var en østrigsk forfatter, kvindesagsforkæmper, underviser og pacifist. Bertha von Suttner var gennem hele sit liv vidne til, at mændene i hendes familie deltog aktivt i det nittende århundredes mange krige, og det gjorde stort indtryk på hende. Hendes modvilje mod krig og kærlighed til freden var inspiration til romanen "Ned med våbnene", der blev en enorm succes både i hendes fædreland, Østrig-Ungarn, og uden for dets grænser. I 1905 modtog Bertha von Suttner Nobels Fredspris for sit store engagement inden for den pacifistiske bevægelse.

Ned med våbnene

ein Phantasiestück

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Inventarium einer Seele

The Story of a Life

"Ground Arms!"

This novel was written by Bertha von Suttner, an Austrian-Bohemian countess, pacifist, and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate. Here, the themes of war and pacificism take life in Mr. John A. Toker, an American multimillionaire who decided to develop airships - for the betterment of humanity - against the zeitgeist, which is on the verge of war between sovereign nations.

A romance of the immediate future

When Thoughts Will Soar

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip, who live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Smith, whom they call "Granser", decides to tell them the story of the disease alternately referred to as scarlet plague, scarlet death, or red death. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences.

Martha's Kinder: Antikriegsroman

Martha's Kinder

The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling ...

Lay Down Your Arms

A Realistic Romance of Modern War

T. Holmes

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The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling

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The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling - Primary Source Edition

Excerpt from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling When I was requested by the Committee of the International Arbitration and Peace Association, of which I have the honour to be a Member, to undertake the translation of the novel entitled Die Waffen Nieder, I considered it my duty to consent; and I have found the labour truly a delight. Baroness Suttner's striking tale has had so great a success on the Continent of Europe that it seems singular that no complete translation into English should yet have appeared. An incomplete version was published some time since in the United States, without the sanction of the authoress; but it gives no just idea of the work. Apart from its value as a work of fiction - great as that is - the book has a transcendent interest for the Society with which I am connected from its bearing on the question of war in general and of the present state of Europe in particular. We English-speaking people, whether in England, in the Colonies, or in the United States, being ourselves in no immediate danger of seeing our homes invaded, and our cities laid under contribution by hostile armies, are apt to forget how terribly the remembrance of such calamities, and the constant threat of their recurrence, haunt the lives of our Continental brethren. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Autobiography of Martha Von Tilling (Classic Reprint)

Die Waffen nieder! (1889), translated into English in 1892 as Lay Down Your Arms, was an international bestseller. Its Austrian author Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) chose the medium of fiction in order to reach as broad an audience as possible with her pacifist ideals. Challenging the narrow nationalisms of nineteenth-century Europe, Suttner believed that disputes between nations should be settled by means of arbitration rather than armed conflict. She devoted her life to campaigning for the cause of peace, and in 1905 became the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner’s influential novel yields insights into the early development of calls for a united Europe and an end to the arms race. This English translation of the novel was carried out as a ‘labour of love’ by the eminent Victorian surgeon and medical scholar Timothy Holmes (1825-1907), the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, for whom this was an unusual foray into the world of fiction. Holmes was Vice-Chairman of the London-based International Arbitration and Peace Association and a contemporary of Suttner. His translation helped to spread Suttner’s views across the Anglophone world, and contributed to the growth of the peace movement in the period before the First World War.

The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Bertha von Suttner, 'Lay Down Your Arms'

Disarm!

Excerpt from Disarm! Disarm! Adapted From the German Romance Die Waffen Nieder, by the Baroness Bertha Von Suttner About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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