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Author : Jane Duncan (pseud. van Elisabeth Jane Cameron)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)
Download or read book My Friends The Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan (pseud. van Elisabeth Jane Cameron) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552128742
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447297652
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity. Into this remote backwater come the 'Miss Boyds'-a clutch of flighty, townbred sisters. At first they are figures of fun, but the tragedy that overtakes them arouses all the compassion of the highland people. Full of humour, incident and colour, this delightful novel brings a forgotten era vividly to life, captures all a child's excitement as the world expands around her.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902173313
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (733 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into a peaceful backwater in Ross-shire come the Miss Boyds - essentially silly, giggling old maids, at first they are laughing stocks, everthing they do and say offends the other in the community but when tragedy strikes a kindness is aroused.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Miss Boyds, Etc written by Jane Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane DUNCAN (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Miss Boyds. A Novel written by Jane DUNCAN (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danah Boyd
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166311
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book It's Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498870
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Reappraising Jane Duncan written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 144729789X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Mrs. Millers written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This Paradise community doesn't seem to me to be the secure, feudal, friendly affair that everybody likes to think. There's a change working . . .' As the turbulent island of St. Jago reaches a turning point in its way of life Janet and Twice Alexander are once again deeply involved in the daily life of the community. Many loved Friends reappear and now added to these are the gentle Mrs Miller from Achcraggan, a link with Janet's childhood; the widowed Mrs Miller in the toils of a mixed marriage, and coloured Mrs Miller who becomes Twice's secretary. When a double crisis occurs in her personal fortunes, Janet finds a new maturity.
Author : Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086853
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Rapt in Plaid written by Elizabeth Waterston and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.
Author : David Simon
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307833461
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Corner written by David Simon and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447298101
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Misses Kindness written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband's death and her own breakdown, from which she has been rescued by her good friend Sashie, Janet Sandison sets sail from her West Indian home to return to Scotland and make a new life for herself as an author. She is beset by doubts, but as the days pass aboard R.M.S. Mnemosyne the personalities and dramas of her fellow passengers claim her attention more and more, not least of all the puckish child Helga, and the three elephantine sisters, the Misses Kindness, whose mission in life is to make everyone as much like themselves as possible. Behind their backs they are soon nicknamed 'The Friendly Ones' for, like the Furies of Greek mythology, they must be placated as well as, if possible, avoided. There are other Furies aboard too, for each passenger has his or her private interior demon; but in the young Second Engineer Janet finds an unexpected and rewarding friend, and as the ship draws near to England the threads of all their lives dramatically come together for a while. The deep vein of truth that underlies all Jane Duncan's books is here at its most impressive and, together with her sharp observation of human nature and her story-telling skill, make this one of her most compelling novels.
Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574193
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627991
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Reappraising Jane Duncan written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841582108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie written by Jane Duncan and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a warning to stay away from a dangerous well, Janet peeks in and sees a terrible kelpie monster staring back at her.
Author : Scott Mickelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 159078605X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Artichoke Boy written by Scott Mickelson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy describes how much he loves artichokes in rhymed text and illustrations.
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447298012
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book My Friends the Hungry Generation written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a long journey from the West Indies to Scotland - but Janet's holiday turned out to be unforgettable . . . It was a wrench for Janet to leave her husband behind-but Twice's heart condition did not permit him to leave the West Indies. So she set off to Scotland without him, to spend a holiday with her family-her brother Jock, his wife and their three lively children, Liz, Duncan and George. Having to take their mother's place while she is in hospital, Janet finds the Hungry Generation almost too much for her . . . but stories of her childhood at Reachfar prove the first step towards a surprising alliance . . .
