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Book Synopsis Sicilian Shadows by : Francesco Scannella
Download or read book Sicilian Shadows written by Francesco Scannella and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged seven, Francesco Scannella's world turns upside down when he is uprooted from his English suburban home, and sent to the heartland of the Cosa Nostra. He quickly forgets that he ever spoke English and survives by the sharpness of his wit and the strength of his fists, adopting the machismo ways of his elders. Every day is a fight for survival, gang violence is the norm, and the Mafia rules. In this compelling memoir, the author throws open a window on the true nature of Sicilians, explains how and why they turn to the Mafia and how desperate life was at the time. He tells with wry humour and brutal honesty of tragic young love; of how a school friend became an assassin; of politics and philosophy, cookery and cryptozoology. Frank Sinatra makes an appearance, as does the father of the modern Mafia, Don Caló Vizzini. Sicilian Shadows, Francesco Scannella's first book, is an absorbing story of the loss of innocence, a homage to a homeland, and a history lesson about one of the most misunderstood societies in the world: light years away from cosmopolitan Palermo and the paparazzi glitz of 1960s Italy. No-one from that region with the author's connections or perspective has ever written about what it was really like. Names, times and places, for obvious reasons, have been altered - he has a family and a life.
Book Synopsis Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief Work by : Maud Howe Elliott
Download or read book Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief Work written by Maud Howe Elliott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief Work' is a narrative report written by Maud Howe regarding the 1908 Messina earthquake. The earthquake hit Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The epicenter was in the Strait of Messina which separates Sicily from the Italian mainland. The cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria were almost completely destroyed and between 75,000 and 82,000 people died. It was the most destructive earthquake ever to strike Europe.
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel written by Ann Radcliffe in 1790. The story tells about one of Marquis Mazzini's daughters, who falls in love with a handsome young Italian nobleman, but her father promises her to another man. Being horrified by the fate of marrying the man she hates, Julia, the protagonist, decides to elope a day before her wedding. But that star a chain of dangerous adventures and unexpected discoveries.
Book Synopsis The Chivalric Folk Tradition in Sicily by : Marcella Croce
Download or read book The Chivalric Folk Tradition in Sicily written by Marcella Croce and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development in Sicily of a chivalric tradition based on the medieval stories of Charlemagne and his knights, this is an analysis of Sicilian storytelling, puppetry, festivals, cart painting and other folk art. Interviews with puppeteers are documented, and hand painted cart panels and playbill posters are described and illustrated. The diffusion of the chivalric tradition in Sicily is explained in part by the "sense of honor" that has permeated Sicilian life. The story of one puppeteer, Girolamo Cuticchio, and his family sheds light on the hardships and uncertain future of this art.
Book Synopsis A House in the Shadows by : Maria Messina
Download or read book A House in the Shadows written by Maria Messina and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Italy in 1921, this short novel is a dark, grim account of two Sicilian women's voluntary imprisonment in the elder's dull, dour marriage. Sisters Nicolina and Antonietta see their chance to flee their small Italian village when Don Lucio announces his intentions to marry Antonietta. They envision a grand life for themselves in Lucio's large, gloomy house in the city--but their taste of freedom proves fleeting. Nicolina dwindles to an unpaid drudge for her sister's family, while Antonietta fares only slightly better as a wife-of-all-work and beleaguered mother. Together the housebound pair ministers to the touchy Don (a domineering, wily paterfamilias and likely crook whose cunning they barely sense) and withers gradually in servitude. After the Don seduces Nicolina, the sisters' friendship ends, and further tragedy intrudes in the self-inflicted death of Antonietta's young son. Though dated in her fairy-tale-like simplicity of character, Messina, who died in 1944, wrote with courage and understated strength of a narrow, prototypically female life singed by masochistic fury.
Download or read book Shadows written by Bruce Baugh and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chains of Night and Blood The vampire Lucita is a prisoner to the fanatical monsters of the Sabbat, who are forcing her to hunt for a hidden enemy and powerful shadow-caster. Every night in captivity further erodes her soul and enslaves her to the sect born of the murder of the tyrannical progenitor of Clan Lasombra. But soon enough, these concerns fade before the mounting evidence that the enemy they all face is no mad ritualist or lone elder. The shadows whisper words of doom: if this is the final night, it will last forever. Lasombra returns.
Book Synopsis Understanding Self and Others in the Postmodern World by : Richard E. Bailey Ph. D.
Download or read book Understanding Self and Others in the Postmodern World written by Richard E. Bailey Ph. D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Self and Others in the Postmodern World is unlike most books directed at giving people insight into themselves in that it is addressed to those who want to think about their lives, relationships with others, and how Western culture has arrived at the Postmodern World. This book examines seven different worldviews that have become dominant for periods of time in the history of Western culture. The author explains that, although all worldviews share the same structure and characteristics, they vary markedly in their contents. Further, a worldview molds those entering it after its own image. Those readers: (1) who identify their own assumptions about the nature of reality, what it means to be a human being, and the truth, will gain insight into themselves. And, identifying the assumptions held by others on these matters will give the reader insight into them. The problem in the Postmodern World is that we live and work with people who live in these different worlds. That situation has invited disagreement and conflict which, unresolved, has led to the chaos that is characteristic of our time. The solution before the nations of the West is that each citizen must grant to all others the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness he or she claims for him or herself.
Download or read book In Sicily written by Norman Lewis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first, wartime visit - to a land untouched since the Middle Ages - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In 1998 he returned yet again to write this book, the result of a sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian. In Sicily reveals this fascination on every page. Throughout there is the Mafia, and Lewis's friendships with policemen, journalists and men of respect. But more, he writes of landscape and language, of his memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes and member of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces - and of strange superstitions, of witches and bandits and murder.
Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to Sicily by : Rough Guides
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Sicily written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new full-color Rough Guide to Sicily is the ultimate travel guide to the Mediterranean's most captivating island. Discover the highlights of Sicily through stunning photography, color-coded street maps, and detailed listings of hotels, B&Bs, campsites, restaurants, cafés, and bars. Climb the active volcanoes of Etna, Stromboli, and Vulcano and see the ancient Greek temples of Agrigento, Segesta, and Selinunte. Laze on unspoiled beaches, dive the waters of Ustica and the Aeolian islands, and see the world's first bikinis in a mosaic at the Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina. Sample the street food of Palermo, shop at the markets of Catania, visit the island city of Siracusa, and follow in the footsteps of TV detective Montalbano to the glorious Baroque towns of the Val di Noto. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Sicily. Now available in ePub format.
Book Synopsis The Sicilian's Defiant Virgin by : Susan Stephens
Download or read book The Sicilian's Defiant Virgin written by Susan Stephens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do what you have to, Luca. Seduce her, if you must." Luca Tebaldi spent his life distancing himself from the family empire. So he's furious at being drawn back in by a gold digger who's gotten hold of his late brother's entire estate! He'll make Jen Sanderson take her claws out of her ill-gotten riches by luring her to his Sicilian island and seducing the truth out of her! But Luca discovers that Jen is innocent in more ways than one… The sensual virgin challenges him and sets his senses on fire, but is he ready to confront the truth she is enticing out of him?
Book Synopsis The Sicilian's Wife by : Kate Walker
Download or read book The Sicilian's Wife written by Kate Walker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage to Cesare Santorino is all Megan hasever wanted, although never like this! She's indeep trouble and, with no other choice, agreesto Cesare's offer of a mutually beneficial,convenient marriage.Cesare makes no secret of his attraction to her.But what about love? Megan can only hope thather proud Sicilian husband might eventuallycome to see his young wife with more thanjust passion….
Download or read book Sicily written by Andrew Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily's violently beautiful landscapes are haunted by a vibrant mix of cultures and her soil has always been fertile ground for the literary and artistic imagination. This compelling guide uncovers the island's multi-faceted personality through those literary figures who have managed to get under her skin - from Pindar, Cicero and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Cervantes; DH Lawrence, Coleridge and Oscar Wilde to Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound and Lawrence Durrell; as well as local writers who have defined the modern Italian novel - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Leonardo Sciascia. Through their words and lives we witness the beauty, pain and power of the Sicilian cultural landscape and discover how the potent mix of influences on the island's society has been preserved forever in literature.
Book Synopsis Playing the Sicilian's Game of Revenge by : Lorraine Hall
Download or read book Playing the Sicilian's Game of Revenge written by Lorraine Hall and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The line between love and hate is thin for a feisty heiress and her Sicilian boss. Discover how revenge sparks an inferno in this addictive new romance by Lorraine Hall! They’re both playing a game But just one can win! Saverina Parisi is a means to an end—a fact Teo LaRosa forgets the moment they share a blazing kiss. He doesn’t want to hurt this brilliant, beautiful woman, but marrying into her family’s empire is an essential step in his ruthless vendetta. When Saverina discovers Teo’s deception, her hurt is matched by her need to destroy the same enemy. She’ll agree to play his fiancée and take pleasure in testing his patience. But Saverina doesn’t expect their burning connection to evolve into so much more… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to Sicily by : Jules Brown
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Sicily written by Jules Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Sicily is the leading travel guide to this fascinating island, with detailed maps, inspiring photography and thorough coverage of all the attractions, from flamboyant Arabo-Norman cathedrals to stunning galleries and the best collection of Greek temples outside Greece. Sicily's natural beauties are equally well covered, taking in the ascent of Europe's greatest volcano, Etna, hiking trails in the Monti Madonie and the most exquisite beaches of the Aeolian Islands. From Palermo to Taormina, unearth all the best restaurants, bars and cafés, the liveliest nightlife and the most brilliant festivals. The Rough Guide to Sicily provides detailed practical advice on where to stay, from hostels to luxury boutique hotels, how to get around and how to get the best value for money, plus background information on the art, architecture and history of this most colourful of Mediterranean islands. Originally published in print in 2011. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Sicily. Now available in ePub format.
Book Synopsis Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily by : Kathryn G. Bosher
Download or read book Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily written by Kathryn G. Bosher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of ancient theater have traditionally taken Athens as their creative center. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and particularly comedy, within a Sicilian and southern Italian context. Each chapter explores a different category of theatrical evidence, from the literary (fragments of Epicharmus and cult traditions) to the artistic (phylax vases) and the archaeological (theater buildings). Kathryn G. Bosher argues that, unlike in classical Athens, the golden days of theatrical production on Sicily coincided with the rule of tyrants, rather than with democratic interludes. Moreover, this was not accidental, but plays and the theater were an integral part of the tyrants' propaganda system. The volume will appeal widely to classicists and to theater historians.
Book Synopsis The Sicilian's Passion by : Sharon Kendrick
Download or read book The Sicilian's Passion written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just plain old physical attraction. That didn’t mean it was any “big love” or anything, did it? Kate was just mistress to a very passionate Sicilian man, Giovanni Calverri. And sex was all it was ever supposed to be. Until the day when everything changed. When fate forced them to put their steamy arrangement on hold—and think about what they really had together…
Book Synopsis The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement and The Greek's Virgin Bride by : Lucy Monroe
Download or read book The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement and The Greek's Virgin Bride written by Lucy Monroe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement by Lucy Munroe Hope Bishop is stunned when darkly sexy Sicilian tycoon Luciano di Valerio proposes marriage. Brought up by her wealthy but distant grandfather, she is used to fading into the background. But Luciano's sensual lovemaking makes her feel vibrantly alive. Hope falls in love with her husband and is blissfully happy—until she discovers that Luciano married her to fulfill his own ruthless agenda…! The Greek's Virgin Bride by Julia James As the illegitimate granddaughter of a famous Greek billionaire, Andrea Fraser was disowned at birth and grew up in poverty. Now, at the age of twenty-five, she is unexpectedly called to Greece, where shocking news awaits her—Andrea's grandfather has found her a husband! She's promised to tycoon Nikos Vassilis as part of a business deal. But Andrea has no intention of meekly accepting a marriage of convenience. Nikos may be the most sophisticated man she's ever met, but she'll be leaving him the first chance she gets…won't she?
