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Book Synopsis Sons of the Rumour by : David Foster
Download or read book Sons of the Rumour written by David Foster and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade, a beauty of such wiles and storytelling gifts she manages to entertain the him for 1001 nights, staving off death for both herself and her countrywomen. In the process, she also bears him three sons, wisely educates him in morality and kindness, and eventually convinces him to take her as his lawful wife. Intersecting with the historical tale is the story of Al Morrisey - a middle-aged, Anglo-Irish, former jazz-drumming everyman, on the run from a failed marriage, and cursed with Freudian daydreams of his mother and peculiar nightmares of all things Persian - as he vainly attempts to reconcile the past with the present and reclaim some of his youthful vigour. Ingeniously manipulating the frame tale of the Arabian Nights, and utilising all his narrative gifts of adventurous satire, David Foster has produced a work of fiction like no other. Sprawling, ambitious, explicit but frequently hilarious, Sons of the Rumour is a modern masterpiece, an utterly original novel by one of Australia's greatest living writers, a man who the Sydney Morning Herald critic Andrew Riemer has called Patrick White's worthy successor.
Download or read book Enter Rumour written by Robert Bernard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.
Book Synopsis News and rumour in Jacobean England by : David Coast
Download or read book News and rumour in Jacobean England written by David Coast and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign. It investigates how the flow of information was managed and suppressed at the centre, as well as how James I attempted to mislead a variety of audiences about his policies and intentions. It also examines the reception and unintended consequences of his behaviour, and explores the political significance of the mis- and dis-information that circulated in court and country. It thereby contributes to a wider range of historical debates that reach across the politics and political culture of the reign and beyond, advancing new arguments about censorship, counsel and the formation of policy; propaganda and royal image-making; political rumours and the relationship between elite and popular politics, as well as shedding new light on the nature and success of James I’s style of rule.
Book Synopsis A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour by : Grace A. Musila
Download or read book A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour written by Grace A. Musila and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.
Book Synopsis His Revenge Was Sweeter Than Honey by : Dahn Batchelor
Download or read book His Revenge Was Sweeter Than Honey written by Dahn Batchelor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of short stories has 20 stories in it and each story is vastly different than the others. Some of the stories refer to actual events that have occurred in history with fi ctional characters in the stories. Other stories raise moral issues and others still are adventure and mystery stories. Many of them have incredibly interesting endings that will tantalize the reader.
Book Synopsis Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets by : Nathan Klaus
Download or read book Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets written by Nathan Klaus and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'pivot pattern' is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage. The main idea is found primarily at its pivot, while its elements, normally of an uneven number, are distributed on both sides of the pivot in a mirrored symmetry. Klaus undertakes here to compile a 'grammar' of the pattern, and to characterize, exemplify and differentiate its various forms.
Book Synopsis Mothers and Sons; a Story of Real Life by : William PLATT (Novelist.)
Download or read book Mothers and Sons; a Story of Real Life written by William PLATT (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tragedies of Sophocles by : Richard C. Jebb
Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles written by Richard C. Jebb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1904, and reprinted numerous times thereafter, this book contains translations of the seven tragedies of Sophocles. The translations were all produced by the renowned classical scholar and politician Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Sophocles, translation and Ancient Greek drama.
Book Synopsis Parenting After the Century of the Child by : Tatjana Thelen
Download or read book Parenting After the Century of the Child written by Tatjana Thelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the ’globalization’ of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child provides a timely intervention to the scholarship. It explores in depth negotiations of travelling ideals on childhood, showing the power of institutional implementations that affect parenting practices. Drawing on the latest research conducted in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and South East Asia, this book examines ideas currently travelling across the globe within institutional settings, providing new insights into the dynamics and ambivalences involved in the simultaneous reframing of childhood and parenthood. This truly global volume will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists with interests in gender, childhood studies and the sociology of the family.
Book Synopsis The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Plays of William Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of W. Shakespeare Life by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of W. Shakespeare Life written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The works of William Shakspeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The works of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare. Reprinted from the Early Editions, Including Life, Glossary, &c by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare. Reprinted from the Early Editions, Including Life, Glossary, &c written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mothers and sons written by William Platt and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
