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Book Synopsis Tales from the Poorhouse by : Eugene McCabe
Download or read book Tales from the Poorhouse written by Eugene McCabe and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a remarkable suite of four monologues: "The Orphan", "The Master", "The Landlord", and "The Mother". They place in counterpoint, the stories of a mother and her daughter, a landlord, and the Master of a workhouse in mid-19th century Ireland. In the immediate aftermath of the "hard hunger", and against the backdrop of other miseries -- an American Wake, poverty, deaths in childbearing -- Eugene McCabe relates memories, confessions, and apologies. Through nimble shifts of time, perspective, and voices, he reveals why he is celebrated as a chronicler of complex historical predicaments and the details of social nuance. In this memorable fiction, his imagination and narrative artistry are at their most vital.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction by : Liam Harte
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction written by Liam Harte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.
Download or read book Tales of the Road written by Cathy Wurzer and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion book to a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary also called "Tales of the Road" (airing in November 2008), Wurzer unearths stories about Highway 61, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today.
Book Synopsis My Story: Workhouse by : Pamela Oldfield
Download or read book My Story: Workhouse written by Pamela Oldfield and published by Scholastic Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workhouse is a grim and forbidding place - not the kind of place where sheltered Edith Lorrimer can normally be found. But when she visits a workhouse for the poor, Edith meets Rosie, a quick-tempered orphan who is always in trouble...
Book Synopsis Fairy Tales for Workers' Children by : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Download or read book Fairy Tales for Workers' Children written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories is intended to show children from underprivileged families that rich and lazy people who do not have to work for a living are the enemies of the working class. The author (1883 – 1951) was a committed socialist from a Viennese aristocratic Catholic family. She was sometimes called the Red Countess.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Asylum by : Sylvia Shults
Download or read book Tales from the Asylum written by Sylvia Shults and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in one volume -- 44 YEARS in DARKNESS and FRACTURED SPIRITS 44 YEARS IN DARKNESS In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beaten her front teeth in. Her legs had atrophied to the point where she could no longer stand on her own, or even sit in a wheelchair. She had been committed there by her own family when they could no longer care for her at home. She spent decades locked away from the world. Her crime? Falling in love. Rhoda suffered a mental breakdown after being “cursed” by the mother of the boy she was engaged to marry. Committed to the almshouse for violent insanity, she was eventually rescued by Dr. George A. Zeller. She was transferred to the Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois, where she spent the remainder of her days in peace and comfort. Rhoda died in 1906, but her spirit seems to live on … Sylvia Shults, author of Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, returns to the hilltop to tell the story of Rhoda's life, and her afterlife. She examines the social pressures that led to Rhoda's breakdown and her eventual insanity. And she explores the stories that continue to be told about Rhoda, and her presence on the hilltop. FRACTURED SPIRITS During the first half of the twentieth century, the Peoria State Hospital was the premiere mental health facility of its day. Dr. George Zeller instituted the eight-hour workday for his staff, removed patient restraints, and made the asylum into a model for the care of the mentally ill. Today, there are only a few buildings of the hospital left. Some of them are still in use, others are inhabited only by ghosts. Our guide to these ghosts -- and the history they represent -- is Sylvia Shults. In Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, she brings a passion for paranormal investigation to her adventures at this haunted hotspot. The spirits come to life once more as Shults explores their former home. Other voices help her tell the story: this is a collection of people's experiences at the Peoria State Hospital. Ghost hunting groups, sensitives, former nurses, and ordinary people share their stories with us, their voices resonating to create a panoramic view to rival the vista of the Illinois River. To visit the remaining buildings of the Peoria State Hospital today is to visit a small piece of history. A ghost story over a hundred years in the making, Fractured Spirits is narrative nonfiction at its finest.
Download or read book Workhouse written by Pamela Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workhouse is the gripping tale of a girl drawn into the world of a Victorian workhouse. It's January 1871 when Edith, the sheltered daughter of a wealthy widow, pays her first eventful visit to the workhouse for the poor. There she meets Rosie, a rebellious, quick-tempered orphan who is always getting into trouble. Edith soon finds herself drawn into Rosie's wild schemes and both their lives are never the same again...
Book Synopsis Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life by : Alice Brown
Download or read book Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life written by Alice Brown and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Brown's "Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life" is a compilation of short stories that delves into the social customs and everyday life of people in New England. The stories take place in small towns and rural communities during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and provide readers with a realistic portrayal of ordinary people. Brown's focus on character development makes for an intriguing glimpse into a bygone era.
Book Synopsis Dickens and the Workhouse by : Ruth Richardson
Download or read book Dickens and the Workhouse written by Ruth Richardson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were still standing, near London's Telecom Tower. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father's imprisonment in a debtors' prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.
Book Synopsis Tales of Scottish Highlands & Moors – 70+ Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & Victorian Romances by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Tales of Scottish Highlands & Moors – 70+ Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & Victorian Romances written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 15243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents to you this unique collection with carefully picked out historical novels, adventure classics, romance novels, war stories and other tales set in Scottish highlands and moors. Table of Contents: Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped Catriona Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale Weir of Hermiston Walter Scott: Waverley Guy Mannering The Antiquary Rob Roy Ivanhoe Kenilworth The Pirate The Fortunes of Nigel Peveril of the Peak Quentin Durward St. Ronan's Well Redgauntlet Woodstock The Fair Maid of Perth Anne of Geierstein Old Mortality The Black Dwarf The Heart of Midlothian The Bride of Lammermoor A Legend of Montrose Count Robert of Paris Castle Dangerous The Monastery The Abbot The Betrothed The Talisman John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps The Three Hostages Huntingtower Castle Gay The Power-House John Macnab Sir Quixote of the Moors John Burnet of Barns A Lost Lady of Old Years The Half-Hearted Salute to Adventurers Midwinter Witch Wood The Free Fishers Anna Buchan: Olivia in India The Setons Penny Plain Ann and Her Mother Pink Sugar The Proper Place The Day of Small Things Priorsford Taken by the Hand Jane's Parlour The House That Is Our Own George MacDonald: David Elginbrod Alec Forbes of Howglen Robert Falconer Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood What's Mine's Mine The Elect Lady Heather and Snow Salted with Fire Malcolm The Marquis of Lossie Sir Gibbie Donal Grant J. M. Barrie: Auld Licht Idylls A Window in Thrums The Little Minister Sentimental Tommy Tommy and Grizel
Download or read book Meadow-grass written by Alice Brown and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ready-to-tell Tales by : Bill Mooney
Download or read book Ready-to-tell Tales written by Bill Mooney and published by august house. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multicultural collection of traditional tales contributed by more than forty of America's most experienced storytellers, with tips for telling the stories.
Book Synopsis Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie by :
Download or read book Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie ...: The little minister by : James Matthew Barrie
Download or read book The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie ...: The little minister written by James Matthew Barrie and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Poor-house to Pulpit, Or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, from Boyhood to Manhood by : William M. Thayer
Download or read book From Poor-house to Pulpit, Or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, from Boyhood to Manhood written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Hospitals written by Mark Leslie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on. Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death? Journey inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world.
Book Synopsis Tales from Dickens by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Tales from Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1940-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles John Huffham Dickens; the master story-teller; was born in Landport; England; February 7; 1812. His father was a clerk in one of the offices of the Navy; and he was one of eight children. When he was four years old; his father moved to the town of Chatham; near the old city of Rochester. Round about are chalk hills; green lanes; forests and marshes; and amid such scenes the little Charles's genius first began to show itself.
