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Download or read book The Convent written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no getting away from the past ... A breathtaking novel from Maureen McCarthy, spanning generations, that will be devoured by young women, their sisters, friends, mothers and grandmothers.
Book Synopsis Indigenous Writings from the Convent by : M—nica D’az
Download or read book Indigenous Writings from the Convent written by M—nica D’az and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"
Book Synopsis The Convent's Secret by : C.J. Archer
Download or read book The Convent's Secret written by C.J. Archer and published by C.J. Archer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Pauline Drouin-Degorgue Publisher :Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN 13 :1946539228 Total Pages :252 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (465 download)
Book Synopsis The Convent's Assassin by : Pauline Drouin-Degorgue
Download or read book The Convent's Assassin written by Pauline Drouin-Degorgue and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convent’s Assassin A nun has been murdered. In the room a sleeping body offers its uncovered throat. In a split second, the murder-ous arm rises and strikes its target two times. The weapon pierces the throat to the right and to the left. The body convulses for a moment before surrendering to death. The door closes and the shadow slips back into the darkness. The deceased is Mother Notre-Dame-Des-Pins, the Mother Guardian of the Convent. One could say that she was a mean and cruel woman. Many lives were held captive in her hands. All feared destruction by her vengeful nature. She had to die. However, who possessed the courage to administer justice? Was the killer a nun or her young paramour? Or rather, these two lovers surprised in action by the terrible woman? Or perhaps this good chaplain with a heavy conscience? Just what goes on behind the closed doors of Convents? Set in the 1950s, this spell-binding murder mystery holds its secrets until the very end.
Download or read book The Convent written by Panos Karnezis and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding, major new novel from one of Britain's finest young writers. A taut, suspenseful tale of an unexpected arrival at a Spanish convent and the intrigue that ensues among the order. Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad... The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense pine forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind. This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. The Convent is storytelling at its very best: enthralling, highly readable and wonderfully atmospheric.
Book Synopsis The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays by : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Download or read book The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire for fame. Loves Adventures (1662) centers on a woman succeeding in war and diplomacy by passing as a man. Similarly, the heroine of Bell in Campo (1662) rescues her husband at the head of an army of women in this tale of a marriage of near equals. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) proposes a separatist community of women and has received attention for its suggestion of lesbian sexuality. The Bridals (1662), a more typical restoration comedy satirizing marriage, rounds out the collection. Edited with notes and annotation by Anne Shaver, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays also contains a timeline, biography and bibliography of the Duchess, an appreciation of Cavendish's life and work, and a bibliography of critical essays. Also included are all of Cavendish's epistles To the Reader as well as Other Preliminary Matter from Playes (1662), and Cavendish's original preface to Plays Never Before Printed (1668). A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender.
Book Synopsis The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio by : Hubert Wolf
Download or read book The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she feared for her life. A subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered the shocking secrets of a convent ruled by a beautiful young mistress, who coerced her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies, and who entered into an illicit relationship with a young theologian. Drawing upon written testimony and original documents discovered in a secret Vatican archive, The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio is the never-before-told true story of how one woman was able to practice deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.
Book Synopsis Fire and Roses by : Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Download or read book Fire and Roses written by Nancy Lusignan Schultz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking story of the night an angry mob burned down a quiet Massachusetts convent -- and the larger story of anti-Papist and anti-feminist sentiment.
Book Synopsis Divas in the Convent by : Craig A. Monson
Download or read book Divas in the Convent written by Craig A. Monson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monson retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Monson explains how the sisters fought back with words and music, and when these proved futile, with bricks, roof tiles, and stones.
Book Synopsis In the Convent of Little Flowers by : Indu Sundaresan
Download or read book In the Convent of Little Flowers written by Indu Sundaresan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a poignant collection of contemporary short stories about the challenges and consequences faced by women in Indian life today. Like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Indu Sundaresan’s In the Convent of Little Flowers gives readers an eloquent and illuminating collection of stories about contemporary Indian life, exploring the cutting-edge issues that surround the clash between ancient tradition and modernity. In the collection’s title story, a young woman adopted by an American family in Seattle receives a letter from Sister Mary Theresa, a nun at the Convent of Little Flowers in Chennai, where she stayed as a child. Unbeknownst to the Indian woman, the nun is her biological mother’s sister. In another story, the grandmother of an Indian journalist begs her grandson to intervene and stop a young widow from being burned alive. And when a teenaged daughter bears a child out of wedlock, her entire family is thrown into turmoil. With their lush prose, vividly rendered settings, and complex characters, these and the other stories in this elegant collection bring readers into the experience of Indian women at home and abroad, where modernity offers them lives their grandmothers could never dream of, while at the same time taking away parts of their history. With a delicate touch, Indu Sundaresan weaves the pieces of the conflict together, presenting a nuanced and unforgettable tapestry.
Book Synopsis Convent Paradise by : Meredith K. Ray
Download or read book Convent Paradise written by Meredith K. Ray and published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts. This book was released on 2020 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English translation of Arcangela Tarabotti's major devotional work, first published in Italian in 1643, celebrating the joys of conventual life -- a striking contrast to her more famous Paternal Tyranny, attacking the practice of the forced conventualization of daughters"--
Book Synopsis The Corner That Held Them by : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
Download or read book The Convent written by Stuart Kells and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was behind the wall and the wire? The local people knew . . . fine courtyards . . . an old swimming pool . . . dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Abbotsford Convent was this haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had gone. In its prime it had been a school, a refuge, a retreat, a workhouse and a prison—the single largest charitable institution in the southern hemisphere. In the late 1990s a proposed high-density development threatened the idyllic riverside location, sparking outrage in the local community and further afield. Years of protesting, negotiating and fundraising followed and the convent, now on Australia’s National Heritage List, has started a new life as a vibrant centre for art and culture. The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of the site’s rich history and the efforts to preserve it. It is an uplifting tale of community activism—a tangible reminder that the magic of the past can endure and what people-power can achieve.
Book Synopsis Measure For Measure, the Law and the Convent by : Darryl J. Gless
Download or read book Measure For Measure, the Law and the Convent written by Darryl J. Gless and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle in Measure for Measure, Darryl Gless brings a new and original interpretation to one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays. This leads him to a comprehensive and coherent reading of the play that has important implications for further understanding of much of the Shakespearean canon and of other Renaissance works, especially those dealing with theological issues. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Rebellious Nuns by : Margaret Chowning
Download or read book Rebellious Nuns written by Margaret Chowning and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuns are hardly associated with rebellion and turmoil. However, convents have often been the scenes of conflict and the author has discovered documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that destroyed a convent in Mexico. Chowning highlights the complicated dynamics of having committed your life to God and community.
Author :Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Publisher :Library of Alexandria ISBN 13 :1465603220 Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (656 download)
Book Synopsis The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy by : Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Download or read book The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy written by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAdam, you being young, handsome, rich, and virtuous, I hope you will not cast away those gifts of Nature, Fortune, and Heaven, upon a Person which cannot merit you? L. Happy. Let me tell you, that Riches ought to be bestowed on such as are poor, and want means to maintain themselves; and Youth, on those that are old; Beauty, on those that are ill-favoured; and Virtue, on those that are vicious: So that if I should place my gifts rightly, I must Marry one that's poor, old, ill-favoured, and debauch'd.
Book Synopsis The Convent of Hell by : Ignacio Noe
Download or read book The Convent of Hell written by Ignacio Noe and published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convent in Spain. Nuns going about their routine in the name of God. But all is not quite as it seems. There are cracks on the surface. Some nuns seem to harbor secret lusts for each other. Then there's an accident in the cellar revealing a very old condemned door found on no plan. One of the less holy nuns has a satanic nightmare about it. She decides to find out. What she unleashes is an unholy bedlam of depravity and lust! Beautifully painted and full of very raw sexual energy!
