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by Cynthia Freeman

Author: Cynthia Freeman
Language: English
Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co; Book Club Edition edition (February 1, 1978)
Pages: 374 pages
Category: Fiction and Literature
Rating: 4.4
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Cynthia Freeman (1915–1988) is the author of multiple bestselling novels including Come Pour the Wine.

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In a novel spanning two world wars, Cynthia Freeman sweeps us into the lives and loves of a powerful European family and the son whose break from tradition has far-reaching consequencesNathan Hack expects his four sons to marry well and keep up the tradition of becoming barristers in the prestigious house of Hack.

For my mother and father with. Rubin’s thoughts on that spring day, however, were not centered on Nathan’s joys, but on his own pleasures as he walked the crooked, cobblestoned streets of Montmartre. His life had been filled with the grandeur of tradition and culture. Sometimes it was overpowering. When Rubin had left London to visit Paris, he took a room on the Left Bank, which his family was unaware of. He should have been staying at the home of his dear friend Emile Jonet, where he still picked up his mail, but that address would not have given him the thing he was seeking.

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That evening Rubin walked along the Rue de l’Odeon, turned right until he stood in front of Sylvia Beach’s book shop. He allowed his mind to dwell on the past and the present. Ezra Poun. ames Joyc. ubin tried to imagine the great men and women who had stepped over the threshold of that outwardly unimpressive little book shop. Exhilarated, he felt a compulsion to walk further until he came to 27 Rue de Fleurus, where Gertrude Stein lived.

Cynthia Freeman’s novels have appealed to many readers. Freeman professed a lifelong affinity for writing, but she never seriously considered writing a novel until she was idled at age 50 by a five-year illness.

It was feared that before long, France and England would have to become involved. With the threat of war in the air, as Jeanette had suspected, Jean-Paul no longer joined the family at dinner. at least, saved some embarrassment. He often was detained at the Foreign Office well into the night. He threw himself into his work with all his vigor. The stronger Hitler became, the more territory he acquired, the more Jean-Paul became convinced that one day Adolf Hitler would, as he had boasted in Mein Kampf, rule the world. And Jean-Paul was determined to be on the winning.

Cynthia Freeman (1915–1988) was the author of multiple bestselling novels, including Come Pour the Wine, No Time for Tears, and The Last Princess. Her novels sold more than twenty million copies worldwide

Cynthia Freeman (1915–1988) was the author of multiple bestselling novels, including Come Pour the Wine, No Time for Tears, and The Last Princess. Her novels sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. Born in New York City’s Lower East Side, she moved as a young child with her family to Northern California, where she grew up. She fell in love with and married her grandmother’s physician. After raising a family and becoming a successful interior decorator, a chronic illness forced her to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle.

Played out on the world stage against the backdrop of World Wars I and II, and peopled by an unforgettable cast of characters, The Days of Winter is a spellbinding story of pride and ambition, survival and redemption. Romance Fiction Family Life Sagas.

A family saga and tumultuous love story involving a well-born and socially prominent British Jew, a girl in Bucharest who is patronized by royalty, his disapproving family, and her fierce, humane determination