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Proud Beggars

Author : Albert Cossery
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174631
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proud Beggars written by Albert Cossery and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery’s masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.

Beggars in Spain

Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061931950
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Beggars in Spain written by Nancy Kress and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.

Beggars and Choosers

Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812550108
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Beggars and Choosers written by Nancy Kress and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1995-12-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment. Reprint.

This Forsaken Earth

Author : Paul Kearney
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553903152
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book This Forsaken Earth written by Paul Kearney and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s spoken of only in whispers. His origins are a mystery. Some say that he’s descended from the last of the angels. Others say much worse. By all appearances, Rol Cortishane is just another ruthless pirate roaming the lawless seas, raiding warships and slavers. But the truth is something far more complicated and dangerous than anyone can imagine, including Rol. Even as he seeks to escape his birthright, Rol is slowly discovering who—and what—he really is. But the revelation won’t come without exacting a terrible price from Rol and all he loves. Now a treacherous figure from his past has made him a proposition it would be fatal to turn down. Racing against time, Rol must chart a harrowing course across the sea, back to the beautiful Rowen and the people she would rule as Queen. With his steadfast crew—the battle-scarred Creed, the mirthful halftroll Gallico, and a young escaped slave named Giffon—Rol will plunge headlong into a destiny as dark as they come. And toward a terrifying battle against an enemy as determined to destroy the world as Rol is to save it.

Beggars and Choosers

Author : Rickie Solinger
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809028603
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Beggars and Choosers written by Rickie Solinger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Beggars and Choosers, Rickie Solinger shows that historical distinctions between women of color and white women, between poor and middle-class women, persisted and were used in new ways during the era of "choice." Politicians and policy makers excluded certain women from the class of "deserving mothers" by using the language of choice to create public policies concerning everything from Medicaid funding for abortions to family tax credits, infertility treatments, international adoption, teen pregnancy, and welfare. Solinger argues that a guarantee of "choice," when the word is imbued with the old prejudices of class and race, is a shaky foundation on which to build our concept of reproductive freedom."--BOOK JACKET.

The Fear of Beggars

Author : Kelly S. Johnson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802803784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Fear of Beggars written by Kelly S. Johnson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those qualities. She studies the rhetoric and thought of Christian thinkers, beggar saints, and economists from throughout history, placing greatest emphasis on the life and work of Peter Maurin, a cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Fear of Beggars will move Christian economic ethics into a richer, more involved discussion.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Author : Brendan Larnen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586170387
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book St. Thomas Aquinas written by Brendan Larnen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominican Fr. Brendan Larnen and children's author Milton Lomask present the latest in the Vision Books series of saints' lives for youth. The story of St. Thomas Aquinas is one full of moving and dramatic scenes: the flaming destruction of Monte Cassino Abbey, the reception into the Dominican order of the quiet, determined young Thomas, the breath-taking escape from the donjon tower, and the striking instances of the saint's eloquence and brilliance.In this 26th volume of the acclaimed Vision Books series of saints lives, children from ages 9 to 15 will enjoy the exciting story of the man who wrote the masterful Summa Theologica, the advisor to popes who refused ecclesiastical honor, the simple friar who shook the medieval world with his intellect.

Beggars

Author : W. H Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752394900
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots

Author : Peter Arnade
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726714
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots written by Peter Arnade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In 1781, John Adams observed that the American Revolution was its "transcript." Known for its many protagonists—King Philip II, the Duke of Alba, the counts of Egmont and Hornes, radical Calvinists, obstreperous townspeople, and William of Orange—the Dutch Revolt brought into relief conflicts among civic freedoms, religious dissent, representative institutions, and royal authority. Drawing on a vast array of sources-including archival documents, political and religious pamphlets, ballads, chronicles and letters, and a rich store of popular prints-Peter Arnade gives us a new history of the core years of the revolt between 1566 and 1585, showing how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action. In Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots, Arnade focuses on the political culture that took shape during the Revolt, a culture that itself fueled decades of turmoil. He sees the pulse of the Revolt in its public dramatization-the acts, words, and cultural representations that were its "daily bread and popular voice." The violent wave of radical iconoclasm that swept the southern Netherlands in 1566 is the book's pivot, setting the stage for the Duke of Alba's brutal effort to restore the authority of the Spanish crown. Arnade details the sieges and violent sacks of Dutch cities by the Army of Flanders, and the response of Dutch rebels, who touted defiant cities as the seats and guarantors of unassailable rights and freedoms. This civic patriotism hailed William of Orange as father of the fatherland, his apotheosis hearkening back to late medieval princely ritual even as it invoked new republican imagery.

Bureaucrats and Beggars

Author : Thomas McStay Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195051688
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bureaucrats and Beggars written by Thomas McStay Adams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of 18th-century French society to the problem of poverty, and examining the institutions which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor.

Lives of Famous London Beggars

Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752432306
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Famous London Beggars written by John Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Lives of Famous London Beggars by John Thomas Smith

The London Merchants Triumphant: Or Sturdy Beggars are Brave Fellows. A New Ballad, Proper to be Sung on the 12th of June, Etc. [An Attack on the Excise Scheme.]

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Author : LONDON MERCHANTS.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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The Beggars of Paris (Paris Qui Mendie).

Author : Louis Paulian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggars of Paris (Paris Qui Mendie). written by Louis Paulian and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jovial Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars

Author : Richard Brome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jovial Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars written by Richard Brome and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: Beggars' bush. Love's cure. The maid in the mill. A wife for a month. Rule a wife and have a wife

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: Beggars' bush. Love's cure. The maid in the mill. A wife for a month. Rule a wife and have a wife written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015962194
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars written by John Camden Hotten and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Fat King, Lean Beggar

Author : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722484
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fat King, Lean Beggar written by William C. Carroll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve.Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama.Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom.