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The Black Cliffs

Author : Gunnar Gunnarsson
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Black Cliffs written by Gunnar Gunnarsson and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This novel, written in 1928, based on a true crime which took place in 1802 in Iceland, deals with two couples who lived on an isolated farm. One of the husbands disappears, and when the wife of the other dies, the survivors are arrested and tried for murder. It is an oddly powerful book, since Gunnarsson infuses the stark circumstances of the crime with the sense of harsh existence there and man's trials before God as well as other men. The narrator is a young and inexperienced curate, who is forced to confront the rumors and then the actuality of the two murders. The story is deepened as seen through the curate's fear and compassion, and the untenable situation at the farm is revealed only slowly through the slight testimony of the trial witnesses. And spiritual overtones strengthen the story, so that one remembers not only the uncertainties of those involved but the way in which their actions and emotions create almost elemental conflicts."--Kirkus

The Black Cliffs. Svartfugel

Author : Gunnar Gunnarsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Black Cliffs. Svartfugel written by Gunnar Gunnarsson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illustrated World ...

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated World ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cliffs of Glenhoolie

Author : Gail Harkins
Publisher : Rainforest Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cliffs of Glenhoolie written by Gail Harkins and published by Rainforest Press. This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hills of Scotland don’t compare to the high peaks of the Karakorum or Himalayas for, but mountain climber Hannah Fitzhugh has had her fill of them. After losing a climbing partner near the top of K2, the world’s most savage peak, she craves stability. But first, she will spend one last season on the rocks, teaching classes of secretaries and accountants to scamper up sheer cliffs. Scottish textile merchant Andrew McKinnon is certainly stable, with a thousand years of family centered at Castle Glenhoolie. Having stability, he craves success and, maybe, a hint of adventure to build a life well-lived. The attraction between Hannah and Drew is obvious, but in seeking stability, is Hannah repeating the mistakes of her past? And will their budding relationship be placed in jeopardy with the reappearance of the lively Lady Alexandra Chisholm-Browne and the revelations of what really happened on K2?

Adventure

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Boy

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061935484
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Black Boy written by Richard Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."

Over the Cliffs

Author : Charlotte Chanter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Cliffs written by Charlotte Chanter and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fate of the 'black Swan'

Author : Frank Frankfort Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Fate of the 'black Swan' written by Frank Frankfort Moore and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tourist's Northwest

Author : Ruth Kedzie Wood
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Tourist's Northwest written by Ruth Kedzie Wood and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1916 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chile

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chile written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Black Cliff

Author : A. L. O. E.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Black Cliff written by A. L. O. E. and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reign of the black flame

Author : B.B. Vayk
Publisher : BV Service Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 963898922X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Reign of the black flame written by B.B. Vayk and published by BV Service Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when the mighty Forces of Nature rule, the eternal battle between Fire and Water flares into war. The evil Fire, fueled by ancient jealousies and a lust for power, commits the ultimate treachery - the theft of the Waterglobe. Equilibrium between the Forces is lost, leaving a drought-plagued world that only one brave human can restore. Robert Ground, longing for adventure, lives in a peaceful, sleepy little village. One day, Fire appears, laying to waste everything Robert has ever known. Determined to find out why he has become a target of the Prime Evil, Robert begins a journey to uncover his family’s secrets, and soon discovers a link between his past and the elemental battle waging around him. Robert is joined by the lovely, secretive Marian as they forge an unlikely partnership. Unknown to Robert, Marian is a fireling, and Fire’s cruelest, most loyal apprentice. As Marian pursues her own dark mission, two others join the travelers: Gider, the vicious, coarse, fermad, and Shine, the brave and noble rainsteed. Reaching the Cloud Realm, Robert is tasked with an impossible mission, one that will test him beyond the limits of his endurance. The four adventurers navigate the perilous realms of the Forces, gathering powerful weapons for the final battle with Fire. Each is forever altered, as they must choose between self-sacrifice and treachery. Ultimately, Robert faces Fire and finally learns why he is destined to fight the ultimate evil...

The Churchman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Folding Cliffs

Author : W. S. Merwin
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375701516
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Folding Cliffs written by W. S. Merwin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.

Dogon

Author : Walter E.A. Vanbeek
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810943735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Dogon written by Walter E.A. Vanbeek and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote area of Mali, West Africa, the people called Dogon survive today as they have for thousands of years: in mud-brick houses below the Bandiagara cliffs. In the sandy plains, they grow the millet and sorghum they need to live. This arresting photographic portrait allows us privileged access to their traditional way of life, remarkably maintained today even after extensive contact with Western civilization. Stephenie Hollyman's intimate pictures show a tightly knit, cooperative society engaging in daily activities and sacred rituals: planting and harvesting crops, creating crafts, and performing varied religious ceremonies, most notably the masked dances with which the Dogon celebrate the honored burial of their dead. Walter van Beek's engaging narrative displays the authority and observant eye of an anthropologist who has long lived among the people he writes about. This astonishing volume will find a rapt audience among readers of Abrams' acclaimed African Ceremonies and other popular books on vanishing African tribal customs.

By the Open Sea

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book By the Open Sea written by August Strindberg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Marble Cliffs

Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376253
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book On the Marble Cliffs written by Ernst Jünger and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an enroaching fascistic force. Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards. To the north of the cliffs are the grasslands of the Campagna, occupied by herders. North of that, the great forest begins. There the brutal Head Forester rules, abetted by the warrior bands of the Mauretanians. The brothers have seen all too much of war. Their youth was consumed in fighting. Now they have resolved to live quietly, studying botany, adding to their herbarium, consulting the books in their library, involving themselves in the timeless pursuit of knowledge. However, rumors of dark deeds begin to reach them in their sanctuary. Agents of the Head Forester are infiltrating the peaceful provinces he views with contempt, while peace itself, it seems, may only be a mask for heedlessness. Tess Lewis’s new translation of Jünger’s sinister fable of 1939 brings out all of this legendary book’s dark luster.