Love and Death in Bali(Reprint) (Periplus Classics Series) by VickiBaum, Nigel Barley Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Tuttle Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-4180-1, ISBN: 0-8048-4180-2
"Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, the moving story unfolds of the peasant Pak and his family and friends, and the tragedy that is their shared fate. Written within living memory of the bloody events called the puputan (the "ending"), Love and Death in Bali is the story of a passionate yet peaceful and deeply spiritual people who defy ..."
"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he’s been awaiting for year ..."
Helene (Hardback) by VickiBaum Pasta Dura, 292 Pages, Published 2008 by Hesperides Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4437-2486-9, ISBN: 1-4437-2486-6
"HELENE by VICKI BAUM "THE young girl sat in a fourthclass carriage of a local train, which was making its way with considerable speed through the night, in order to reach the main station at Frankfurt at the scheduled time. The February night seemed to consist entirely of black glass, lit occasionally by flashes from the windows of passr ing trains and then becoming opaque again, streaked with black rivulets of rain blown on small gus ..."
Shanghai '37(Updated) by VickiBaum, H. J. Lethbridge Paperback, 619 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-583876-3, ISBN: 0-19-583876-9
"Vicki Baum, author of the acclaimed Grand Hotel, visited Shanghai in 1937. Her many friends there provided her with a wealth of information about China's convoluted politics, and the secret life and unique personalities of Shanghai--material she used as the basis of Shanghai '37. The hotel depicted in the novel was the Cathay, which, on August 14, 1937, following the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, was attacked by a bomb. This inc ..."
Grand Hotel by VickiBaum Hardcover, Published 1990 by Buccaneer Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89968-476-5, ISBN: 0-89968-476-9
Grand Hotel(Updated) by VickiBaum, Basil Creighton Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1972 by Michael Joseph Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7181-1064-2, ISBN: 0-7181-1064-1
Grand Hotel(Updated) by VickiBaum Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1972 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-330-02895-0, ISBN: 0-330-02895-2
Tale from Bali(Updated) (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks) by VickiBaum, Basil Creighton Paperback, 492 Pages, Published 1982 by Oxford Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-580287-0, ISBN: 0-19-580287-X
"Vicki Baum's evocative historical novel recounts the lives of peasants and nobles in colonial Bali, reared against a backdrop of bloodshed and cultural invasion. Dutch imperialism brings upheaval and revolution to the beautiful island, and the Balinese rebel in what would become a powerful and poignant example of symbolic resistance. A Tale from Bali culminates with the historic Battle of Badung, in which thousands of Balinese soldiers, ..."
Love and Death in Bali by VickiBaum 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Tuttle Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4629-0018-3, ISBN: 1-4629-0018-6
"It was not until late at night, when news came from the cemetery that the fire had
burnt out and the ashes had cooled, that they went back there. And now torches
could be seen flitting about on all sides in the drifting smoke as each family ..."
The Grand Hotel (Paperback) by Gregory Day, VickiBaum Paperback, 468 Pages, Published 2010 by Triangle Books, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-74166-973-2, ISBN: 1-74166-973-1
"This is a novel about an Australian pub twenty-first-century style, where the toilets play automated Dadaist recordings, Happy Hour comes with a blessing from the Pope and the patrons' libidos are as voracious as their thirst for the local ..."
Helene by VickiBaum Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Hesperides Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4067-3243-6, ISBN: 1-4067-3243-5
"Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork."
"Grand Hotel (DVD)Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and WallaceBeery star in this winner of an Oscar for Best Picture--Grand Hotel.In asingle day in Berlin's Grand Hotel, jewel thief Baron Felix von Geigern(John Barrymore--Dinner at Eight) covets both prima ballerinaGrusinskaya's (Garbo--Anna Christie) jewels and the beautiful Flaemmchen(Academy Award winner Crawford--Mildred Pierce), who is the mistress ofthe ..."
"This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a sweeping soap opera about the guests at the Grand Hotel. Several plots intertwine, but mostly it's about Stars! Stars! Stars! Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and both Barrymore brothers head up the cast. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the neurotic and famous-but-slipping dancer and, yes, she "vonts to be alone." John Barrymore is a cat burglar with blue blood and a heart of g ..."
Berlin Hotel by VickiBaum Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 1977 by C.Chivers Formato Grande ISBN-13: 978-0-85997-205-5, ISBN: 0-85997-205-4