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"This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland. In addition to their recollections, Marilyn Yalom added her own wartime memories-those of an American girl safely protected in Washington, D.C., while bombs dropped on my counterparts abroad"-- Provided by publisher

"A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as we all age"--

An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity

Marilyn Yalom explores the transformation of marriage from a religious duty in medieval Europe to a source of personal fulfillment in modern America. She examines the rise of romantic love and the evolving purpose of marriage for women, providing an insightful historical analysis of this institution amidst contemporary changes.

Exploring the deep-rooted French culture of romance, Marilyn Yalom delves into how love is celebrated through various forms of art, including literature, paintings, and cinema. She highlights the belief that a French person devoid of romantic desire is akin to someone lacking essential senses. Yalom's scholarly examination reveals the core principles that have shaped the French understanding of love over centuries, offering insights into the societal norms surrounding amorous relationships in France.

The evolution of chess is explored through the fascinating history of the queen piece, which emerged after five centuries without her. Initially absent from the game, the queen's introduction coincided with chess's rise in popularity among European royals in the Middle Ages. Over time, she transformed into a formidable force on the board, serving as both a fierce warrior and protector of the king, reflecting broader societal changes in gender roles and power dynamics.

In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men’s and women’s writing. The eternal questions of identity, choice, responsibility, happiness, tragedy, and even death are interpreted in terms of gender analysis. The book presents a sequence of studies from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century that includes individuals such as American poet Anne Sexton and German writers Christa Wolf and Paul Celan, and groups such as nineteenth-century Mexican women and members of the British working class. It extends the paradigm of “self-reflexive” literature to include and highlight the overlap between autobiography and biography, especially in the case of women who often wrote their lives obliquely through the biographies of their famous male relatives, e. g., Adèle Hugo and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. The authors refuse to accept a monolithic conception of gender. The studies of Charles and Mary Lamb, Nadezhda Durova, and John Stuart Mill demonstrate that even in the nineteenth century, a binary gender system is inadequate as a mode of approach to actual life stories.