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Book Synopsis The Devil and Daniel Webster by : Stephen Vincent Benet
Download or read book The Devil and Daniel Webster written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Author :Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp Publisher :Wayne State University Press ISBN 13 :081433721X Total Pages :413 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (143 download)
Book Synopsis The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp by : Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Download or read book The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp written by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Devil Made Me Do It by : Phyllis Gruesbeck
Download or read book The Devil Made Me Do It written by Phyllis Gruesbeck and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder how the world got to be in such a mess? Why does evil abound? Why do bad things happen to everyone, including “good” people? The book that you hold in your hands will give you a basic overview of just how sin got started on earth and its origin in heaven. “The devil made me do it” was a popularized catchphrase by Comedian Flip Wilson. But within these covers, you’ll learn that God is more powerful than the devil, and He is “able to keep you from falling” (Jude 24). You will also learn to identify the mysterious antichrist by learning the biblical identifiers. Another bit of knowledge that you will gain is who changed—or rather, attempted to change—the Ten Commandments, why, and where they are in print in their modified version. Do you know the five major characteristics of the God Family? You’ll find them outlined and explained here: 1. Holiness; 2. Omnipotence; 3. Omnipresence; 4. Omniscience; and 5. Immortality. By the time you come to the last page, you will know three things for sure: God is all-powerful, He loves you more than you can imagine, and He craves your love in return. And when you’ve finished, share the book with a friend who needs to know who God is. “…It is based in sound biblical knowledge with a sensitivity from one who has traveled life’s road and found God’s unchanging love.” —Jay Gallimore, former president, Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists “Phyllis was a student of the Word and she was a teacher at heart which you will discover as you journey through this book.” —Nadine Whitacre, Retired Nurse
Book Synopsis The Devil on Screen by : Charles P. Mitchell
Download or read book The Devil on Screen written by Charles P. Mitchell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil has been represented in many film genres, including horror, comedy, the musical, fantasy, satire, drama, and the religious epic, and in these works has assumed many shapes and forms. This book begins with a discussion of how the devil has been portrayed on stage, how that portrayal carried over to the big screen, and what are the standard elements of a satanic plot. Each entry in the filmography includes year of production, running time, writer, editor, cinematographer, producer, and director, evaluative rating, annotated cast list, plot synopsis, overall appraisal, and a spotlight on the actor playing Satan.
Book Synopsis The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape by : Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Download or read book The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape written by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghost cat, the Devil, a deceitful criminal, a father framed for murder, and a vulnerable young girl combine in this magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, and her husband Pat J.J. Murphy. The Devil has been up to no good . . . Brad Falon, one of Satan’s longtime puppets, orchestrated a deadly robbery and set up his old friend Morgan Blake to take the fall. Now, Morgan has been sentenced to life in prison, and his wife Becky and young daughter Sammie are devastated. Alone and afraid, in need of comfort and a friend, Sammie turns to Misto, the ghost cat. Behind bars, her father Morgan makes fast friends with an old con named Lee Fontana who knows a few tricks about outwitting evil. They plan a wily escape to bring the real killer to justice and clear Morgan’s name for good. All it will take is outsmarting the Devil one more time. . . .
Book Synopsis Publications by : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beat the Devil written by Claud Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Book Synopsis The Daniel Gates Adventures, Vol. 1 by : Frazer Lee
Download or read book The Daniel Gates Adventures, Vol. 1 written by Frazer Lee and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together in one volume, the first two novellas in the Daniel Gates Adventures. THE LUCIFER GLASS "It may cost you your soul." Daniel Gates is a fixer. Whatever his client wants, he can get for a price. But the price of his latest assignment is a high one indeed. He is to travel to Scotland to exchange a rare demonic text, a grimoire, for a consignment of even rarer whiskey. Reading the grimoire, Gates learns of the legend of Lucifer s Glass and the unholy trinity of green-eyed demons who protect it. As he does battle with the demons, Daniel realizes too late that there is much more to his assignment than meets the eye. He is locked in a struggle to save his very soul from damnation. THE LEPER WINDOW "Do not gaze into its secrets." Daniel Gates’s last assignment involving a rare demonic book left him plagued by hideous nightmares, which are about to get even worse. When a page is stolen from Choronzon’s Grimoire, Daniel is sent to the wilds of North Wales to retrieve it for his mysterious client. But the stolen page contains dark, occult secrets, and he finds to his peril that he is not the only one desperate to find it. Daniel’s journey takes him to the very brink of madness and to the demons that await—beyond the Leper Window.
Download or read book Devil's Ballast written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutthroat and daring new YA release, featuring one of history’s greatest anti-heroines.
Book Synopsis Devil's Brood by : Sharon Kay Penman
Download or read book Devil's Brood written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking and sweeping epic of a family at its breaking point, Devil’s Brood shows how Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—two monumental figures once bound by all-consuming love—became the bitterest of adversaries... A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in all but name, the clash between these two strong-willed and passionate souls will have far-reaching and devastating consequences throughout Christendom.
Download or read book Devil's Gate written by Clive Cussler and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships and planes . . . Nearby, a Japanese cargo ship blows up without warning. Racing to help, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape, the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Soon they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of terrible power, a kidnapped CERN scientist and a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft and its precious cargo. As a terrifying and audacious plan to bring the world's major nations to their knees is set in motion, only Kurt Austin - the right man, in the right place, at the right time - can stop it . . . With Devil's Gate, number one bestseller Clive Cussler shows us once more why he is the grand master of adventure fiction. In this ninth book in his bestselling NUMA Files series, Kurt Austin, hero of previous titles Medusa and The Navigator, must avert a disaster of global proportions. Praise for Clive Cussler 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' Stephen Coonts
Download or read book Devil's Piper written by Sarah Rayne and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On inheriting his grandfather's tumbledown Irish cottage, adjoining the grounds of an old monastery, Isarel West discovers some old sheet music composed by his grandfather entitled the Devil's Piper Suite, and starts to play it. But little can he realize the evil that the music conjures up.
Download or read book Devil's Own written by Veronica Wolff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Veronica Wolff's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community After surviving slavery, Aiden MacAlpin has nothing but thoughts of vengeance. When his tutor Elspeth learns a secret to his past, it thrusts them both into a game of passion and deception that neither may survive.
Book Synopsis Devil's Slide by : Stacy Lynn Miller
Download or read book Devil's Slide written by Stacy Lynn Miller and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are second chances enough when the world is conspiring against you? High school best friends Rose and Dax each have a secret—they like the other in a way they shouldn’t in 1920’s Prohibition Era California. After sharing a first kiss, they’re forced apart—each sent to a different city to account for their sin. Rose lands in the coastal tourist city of Half Moon Bay in virtual servitude, working for a distant cousin for pennies. Dax has an idyllic existence in San Francisco, living with her married sister. Then the fates change. Rose escapes and lands a job as a singer at an underground speakeasy. Dax wears out her welcome and ends up at a restaurant—in Half Moon Bay. After nine years, their paths cross again. But is it too late? Will the lives they’ve led keep them apart? Or will Dax and Rose defy the odds and find a way to be together again? Book One in the Speakeasy Series.
Download or read book Devil's Breath written by Emily Kimelman and published by Emily Kimelman. This book was released on with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of a long journey, lightning flashed outside my window…I need more control. My hand jumped to Mulberry's forearm and squeezed. Shutting my eyes, I struggled not to picture the small plane cracking in half, my body flying through the air, still seat-belted to the beige leather chair; Blue, his paws grasping at empty space, disappearing into the bruise-colored clouds. The small jet shook and our pilot's voice, smooth and steady, came over the loudspeaker, "Sorry about the bumps. We'll have you down in Miami in about twenty minutes. Just hold tight." Mulberry put his hand over mine. "Don't worry," he said. "We'll be there soon." He smiled, making his crow's feet crinkle. Mulberry's eyes were deep emerald with ochre and flashes of gold. I tried to smile back but could tell I was just giving grimace. Mulberry handed me his whisky and soda. I finished it off. The ice cubes danced in my empty glass. Then we were suddenly out of the clouds. Below us the ocean was close, steel blue with white caps cresting each wave. The city's skyscrapers looked like towers of mercury in the storm's eerie light. Raindrops clung to my window, streaking across it as our speed pushed them aside. Hugh was somewhere down there in that city, a flat landscape made multi-dimensional through the efforts of man. My stomach lurched as we dropped through the air, my seat belt pressing into me. Blue whined softly and flattened himself even further onto the floor of the plane. A giant of a dog, Blue has the coat of a wolf, the snout of a Collie, with one brown eye and one blue. Both of which were trained on me at that moment. My fear was freaking him out. Closing my eyes, I tried to imagine the turbulence as a gentle rocking but it didn't work. An ice cube jumped out of my glass landing on the carpeting. Blue, his belly still flat on the ground, inched his way toward it, then his tongue stretched out and pulled the cube into his mouth. He crunched twice before looking back up at me, now hoping for more whisky-flavored ice. I couldn't help but smile at the expectant look on his fuzzy face. We touched down with a jerk that sent my heart racing one more time. But as we slowly taxied toward our hangar the storm seemed suddenly minor. Just a breath of wind fluttered across the puddles, turning them into shimmering mirrors framed by the dark tarmac. "All right Ms. Rye," our captain's voice came back on over the loudspeaker. "Sorry about that descent, but we got you here safe. Thanks for flying with us, I hope we'll have you back real soon." As soon as humanly possible. I didn't want to be here, but Hugh was in trouble, and if there was one person I cared about in this world it was him. He was a tie to my murdered brother, a shared memory bank. I would do anything to help Hugh. P.S. The dog does not die. **Beware: If you can’t handle a few f-bombs, you can’t handle this series.**
Book Synopsis Devil's Daughter by : Catherine Coulter
Download or read book Devil's Daughter written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-12-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devilish romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Golden-haired hellion Arabella goes to Naples, Italy, to solve the mystery of her father's missing ships and cargo. But soon she discovers that the man behind the thievery is a man she can't resist.
