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The Book of Misers

Author : Jāḥiẓ
Publisher : ISBS
ISBN 13 : 9781859641415
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Misers written by Jāḥiẓ and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Jahiz (776-869) was one of the greatest exponents of Arabic prose of all time. His scholarship, the breadth of his interests, and his ability to express his ideas and arguments with vigour and humour were outstanding; "The Book of Misers" is his comical masterpiece, and one of the earliest works of fiction from the Islamic world. Generosity is regarded by Arab society as one of the principle virtues, and this satire on miserliness has a clear social purpose. With his acute powers of observation, light-hearted scepticism, his comic sense and satirical turn of mind, he ridicules both individuals and groups such as schoolmasters, singers or scribes. In addition, there is much incidental detail about traditional culture and conduct. It will appeal to the modern reader for its comical power, sometimes covert and sometimes straight-faced, which remains undiminished 1100 years after it was written . This translation by the late Professor R.B. Serjeant makes this work available to the English-speaking world. Professor Serjeant was one of the most eminent Arabic scholars in Britain, and since the 1950s he had used extracts from this work when teaching Arabic to his students, as he felt it gave great insight into traditional Arabic society.

Misers

Author : Timothy Alborn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000586006
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Misers written by Timothy Alborn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before, the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers, as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label, populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843, many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period, this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315667
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists written by Keith McMahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"--caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.

Miser's Money

Author : Eden Phillpotts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Miser's Money written by Eden Phillpotts and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives and Anecdotes of Misers

Author : F. Somner MERRYWEATHER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lives and Anecdotes of Misers written by F. Somner MERRYWEATHER and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives and Anecdotes of Misers Or the Passion of Avarice Displayed in the

Author : Frederick Somner Merryweather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Lives and Anecdotes of Misers Or the Passion of Avarice Displayed in the written by Frederick Somner Merryweather and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of Remarkable Misers

Author : Cyrus Redding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Remarkable Misers written by Cyrus Redding and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor Novels ...: Miser's money

Author : Eden Phillpotts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor Novels ...: Miser's money written by Eden Phillpotts and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Widecombe Edition of Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor Novels in Twenty Volumes: Miser's money

Author : Eden Phillpotts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Widecombe Edition of Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor Novels in Twenty Volumes: Miser's money written by Eden Phillpotts and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Misers Bluff ; Phase II, Event I

Author : J. W. Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Misers Bluff ; Phase II, Event I written by J. W. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Misers Bluff, Phase II, Event I, Bridge Test

Author : J. W. Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Misers Bluff, Phase II, Event I, Bridge Test written by J. W. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ploughman's Lunch and the Miser's Feast

Author : Brian Yarvin
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
ISBN 13 : 155832772X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Ploughman's Lunch and the Miser's Feast written by Brian Yarvin and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity television chefs like Jamie Oliver and culinary stars like Hugh Fearnely-Wittingstall have made Americans newly aware of the great potential in British cooking. But the new British food revolution is not limited to fine restaurants and television. Within Britain, pub and country inn chefs, newspaper and magazine food writers, and everyday home cooks are taking a renewed interest in their own traditional cuisine, at long last approaching it with more pride than with prejudice. In The Ploughman's Lunch and the Miser's Feast, the American cookbook author, travel writer and professional photographer Brian Yarvin brings these newly rediscovered pleasures to the attention of home cooks on this side of the Atlantic. In 100 recipes, 65 color photos, and dozens of lively sidebars, Yarvin reveals what he has discovered in his numerous walking and driving trips across the length and breadth of Great Britain. His recipes emphasize traditional and down-home dishes as perfected and updated by the best cooks in Britain. They include lots of pub fare, like Fish and Chips, Shepherd's Pie, Ploughman's Lunch, and a host of savory cakes and pasties. There are festive and substantial main courses like Howtowdie, Poached Salmon with White Sauce, and, of course, a splendidly done Beef Wellington. The hard-working Brits love big breakfasts, and there is a chapter devoted to those, while another chapter celebrates the sandwiches, salads, and snacks that are served at tea time. Curry shops have been ubiquitous for so long that Indian food by now is properly British, and Yarvin devotes another chapter to dishes such as Shrimp Biryani and Chicken Korma. A big chapter, too, shows us how to make the best-loved British sweets, from the humbly named Plum Pudding and Mincemeat Cake to the amusingly monikered Fast Rascals, Kentish Huffkins, and Welsh Dripping Cake.

Misers

Author : Timothy Alborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367524647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Misers written by Timothy Alborn and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miserable sinners -- Necessary evils -- Misers, sex, and the family -- The butt of all jokes -- Characters -- Saving graces -- Succeeding misers.

The Miser's Daughter ...

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Miser's Daughter ... written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Miser

Author : Molière
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Miser written by Molière and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Miser" by Molière. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Energy Miser's Manual

Author : William H. Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Energy Miser's Manual written by William H. Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: