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Book Synopsis The Comfort of Ghosts by : Jacqueline Winspear
Download or read book The Comfort of Ghosts written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. “An outstanding historical series.”—The New York Times “Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”—The Historical Novel Society Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future. London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.
Book Synopsis Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts by : Ann C. Hall
Download or read book Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts written by Ann C. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
Book Synopsis The Comfort of Things by : Daniel Miller
Download or read book The Comfort of Things written by Daniel Miller and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things – their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. These are the means by which they express who they have become, and relationships to objects turn out to be central to their relationships with other people – children, lovers, brothers and friends. If this is a typical street in a modern city like London, then what kind of society is this? It’s not a community, nor a neighbourhood, nor is it a collection of isolated individuals. It isn’t dominated by the family. We assume that social life is corrupted by materialism, made superficial and individualistic by a surfeit of consumer goods, but this is misleading. If the street isn’t any of these things, then what is it? This brilliant and revealing portrayal of a street in modern London, written by one the most prominent anthropologists, shows how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we used to be and focus instead on what we are now becoming. It reveals the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives, and the ways in which objects become our companions in the daily struggle to make life meaningful.
Book Synopsis The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by : Wilhelm Hauff
Download or read book The Wine-ghosts of Bremen written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by : Вильгельм Гауф
Download or read book The Wine-ghosts of Bremen written by Вильгельм Гауф and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Range of Ghosts written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empires along the Celadon Highway, from Messaline to Song, are plunged into war in this first book of The Endless Sky trilogy.
Book Synopsis Popular Ghosts by : Maria del Pilar Blanco
Download or read book Popular Ghosts written by Maria del Pilar Blanco and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
Book Synopsis Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts by : Augustin Calmet
Download or read book Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts written by Augustin Calmet and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Midnight Ghosts by : Thirteen O'Clock Press
Download or read book Midnight Ghosts written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tradition and Dramatic Form in the Persians of Aeschylus by : Ann N. Michelini
Download or read book Tradition and Dramatic Form in the Persians of Aeschylus written by Ann N. Michelini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghosts of the Titanic by : Julie Lawson
Download or read book Ghosts of the Titanic written by Julie Lawson and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage boy finds himself caught up in a century-old mystery -- aboard the Titanic! Kevin and his family are enroute to Halifax to check out a house they have mysteriously inherited from a man named Angus Seaton -- mysterious because none of them have any clue who he was or why they would be named in his will. While at the house, Kevin does his own investigating and discovers some old artifacts hidden behind a wall, including enigmatic photographs dating back to 1911, which show a young woman and her baby. This puzzling discovery leads to troubling dreams for Kevin -- haunting dreams and a voice that plagues him, a voice he cannot escape. Someone -- somehwere -- needs his help. One night he tries to answer the call, and finds himself in another reality, another time, in a flooded corridor... ... aboard the ship Titanic. In this ghostly new mystery by award--winning writer Julie Lawson, the terror, anxiety and reality of the sinking of the Titanic comes to life, as a teenage boy tries to right the wrongs of the past... and put some troubled souls to rest.
Book Synopsis The Comfort of Ghosts by : Jacqueline Winspear
Download or read book The Comfort of Ghosts written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1945. In London, it feels as if the peace is harder than the war. Years of devastating Luftwaffe bombing has obliterated stretches of the city and left others abandoned. Against this backdrop, psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the plight of a group of adolescent orphans, along with a gravely ill demobbed soldier who are squatting in a Belgravia mansion. Maisie's attempt to help brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning her first husband, James Compton, who was killed while flying an experimental fighter aircraft. The deeply personal investigation leads her to a ghostly figure who is grappling with the weight of his own conscience and the outcome of the part he played during the war. This final instalment in the internationally bestselling series will challenge so much of what Maisie understands about her life and forces her to question what she has always accepted to be true.
Download or read book A Trial of Ghosts written by Kate Krake and published by Sylvan Star Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impossible crime. The dark past of Blackthorn Springs revealed. A bewitching mystery that will keep you guessing until the end. The whimsical mountain village of Blackthorn Springs is the perfect place for Belinda Drake to finally settle into a quiet, comfortable life filled with love, magic, books, and too much chocolate. But when people start turning up dead, the supernatural community of Blackthorn Springs faces the firing line, and the true nature of the seemingly peaceful town is revealed. Now it’s up to Belinda to figure out who the killer is and save Blackthorn Springs from its own dark history. A Trial of Ghosts is the third novel in the bewitching Witch Against Wicked series. If you like thrilling mysteries laced with magic and romance, you’ll love this fantastic series. Get A Trial of Ghosts today and continue the adventure through an enchanting world of magic and mystery. The Complete Witch Against Wicked Series: 1. A Maze of Murder 2. A Mask of Chaos 3. A Trial of Ghosts 4. A Wreath of Ruin (Christmas Novella) 5. A Hex of Wolves 6. A Trick of Terror (Halloween Novella) 7. A Coven of Demons Each book has its own main story alongside a plot arc that continues across all books. For maximum reading pleasure, the author recommends reading the books in order.
Download or read book Seeing Ghosts written by Kat Chow and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander. Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family’s story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss. AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 PICK * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A NEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * A HARPER'S BAZAAR BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2021 * A TOWN & COUNTRYBEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A FORTUNE BEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK
Book Synopsis Ghosts in the Glass and Other Stories by : Lynda Collins
Download or read book Ghosts in the Glass and Other Stories written by Lynda Collins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belfast Writers' Group presents a collection of seventeen tales of the supernatural, featuring ghosts, fiends, and an assortment of other monstrosities. This anthology will terrify and tease you with its feast of short stories full of fear, humour, and suspense.
Book Synopsis The Ghosts by : Robert Green Ingersoll
Download or read book The Ghosts written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ghosts by : Robert Green Ingersoll
Download or read book The Ghosts written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Ghosts by Robert Green Ingersoll
