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Book Synopsis The Horseman's Graves by : Jacqueline Baker
Download or read book The Horseman's Graves written by Jacqueline Baker and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of passion, sin and redemption, The Horseman’s Graves returns to the harsh locale of Sand Hills on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, the location for Jacqueline Baker’s multiple award-winning short story collection A Hard Witching and Other Stories. Speaking through the narrative voice of a see-all neighbour and filling her story with memorable characters—a blustering, pious priest; a mysterious “witch” faith healer; the town busybody; a fearful young farm wife who is virtually worked to death—Baker unfolds a tale of a small German farming community where the failures of one generation are passed on to the next.
Book Synopsis The Horseman's Graves by : Jacqueline Baker
Download or read book The Horseman's Graves written by Jacqueline Baker and published by Phyllis Bruce Books. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of passion, sin and redemption, The Horseman's Graves returns to the harsh locale of Sand Hills on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, the location for Jacqueline Baker's multiple award-winning short story collection A Hard Witching and Other Stories. Speaking through the narrative voice of a see-all neighbour and filling her story with memorable characters--a blustering, pious priest; a mysterious "witch" faith healer; the town busybody; a fearful young farm wife who is virtually worked to death--Baker unfolds a tale of a small German farming community where the failures of one generation are passed on to the next.
Download or read book The Horseman's Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC) by : Elena Walter-Karydi
Download or read book The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC) written by Elena Walter-Karydi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views. The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.
Download or read book The Horseman's Song written by Ben Pastor and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco’s volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to Ithaca and others in the Bora series. Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and youthful recklessness. The first doubts, however, rise in Bora’ s mind when he happens on the body of Federico Garcia Lorca, a brilliant poet, progressive and homosexual. Who murdered him? Why? The official version does not convince Bora, who begins a perilous investigation. His inquiry paradoxically proceeds alongside that which is being carried out by an “enemy”: Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades. Soon enough the German and the New Englander will join forces, and their cooperation will not only culminate in a thrilling chase after a murderer, but also in a very human, existential face-to-face between two adversaries forever changed by their crime-solving encounter...
Download or read book Beyond the Grave written by Barbara Cox and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghoulish beings are just waiting to pop out of this book, which is chock full of terrifying tales of demons, headless horsemen, and more. With zombies becoming increasingly popular on TV and at the movies, readers will love learning about the origin of the "undead." And since many fantasy creatures come from mythologies around the world, this book, with its hair-raising illustrations and photographs, is a fun exploration of various cultures as well as the just plain spooky!
Book Synopsis Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies by : Marc Lodewijckx
Download or read book Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies written by Marc Lodewijckx and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this volume of essays in his honour gives a good overview of the fields in which Prof. Van Doorselaer has been active throughout his academic career. This book is especially an Album Amicorum, filled with reminiscences and intentions to continue the work. The voluminous size of this book may be considered as an adequate measure of the overall sympathy for Prof. Van Doorselaer. We hope that this publication may encourage him to remain active in the field of archaeology, and that the co-operation among colleagues, stimulated by this project, may be continued in the future.
Book Synopsis In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by : Larry McMurtry
Download or read book In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father’s ranch. From literature to rodeos, small-town folk to big city intellectuals, McMurtry explores all the singular elements that define his land and community, revealing the surprising and particular challenges in the “dying . . . rural, pastoral way of life.” “The gold standard for understanding Houston’s brash rootlessness and civic insecurities” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), In a Narrow Grave offers a timeless portrait of the vividly human, complex, full-blooded Texan.
Book Synopsis Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th Century AD by : Georgios Kardaras
Download or read book Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th Century AD written by Georgios Kardaras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the political and cultural contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing in their reconstruction after 626 and the definition of the possible channels of communication.
Book Synopsis Looting or Missioning by : Egil Mikkelsen
Download or read book Looting or Missioning written by Egil Mikkelsen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought these objects back to their homeland where they were often broken up and used as jewellery or got alternative functions. Looting or Missioning looks at the use and functions of these sacred objects in their original Christian contexts. Based on such an analysis the author proposes an alternative interpretation of these objects: they were brought by Christian missionaries from different parts of the British Isles and the Continent to Norway. The objects were either personal (crosses, croziers, portable reliquaries etc.), objects used for baptism (hanging bowls), equipment to officiate a mass (mountings from books or reading equipment, altars or crosses) or to give the communion (pitchers, glass vessels, chalices, paten). We know from contemporary sources (Ansgar in Birka, Sweden in the ninth century) that missionaries brought this sort of equipment on their mission journeys. We also hear that missionaries were robbed, killed or chased off. Mikkelson interprets the sacred objects found in Viking Age pagan graves as objects that originate from the many unsuccessful mission attempts in Norway throughout the Viking Age. They changed function and were integrated in the pagan tradition. The conversion and Christianisation of Norway can thus be seen as a long-lasting process, at least from about 800 (but probably earlier) to the beginning of the eleventh century. As we must assume that the written sources on the subject are incomplete, the archaeological evidences are the main source. In addition to metal work and written sources, the dating and interpretation of stone crosses, rune stones, manuscript fragments and early Christian graves and churches are discussed. The main part of the manuscript regards the context of all these sources, studied in each part of Norway separately: Where do we find concentrations of objects that could support the interpretation of these being the result of mission attempts, and where can we combine archaeological and written sources to tentatively create more complete stories related to mission? One analysis is of special interest to British and Norwegian scholars and even a broader audience. It refers to the chieftain Ohthere from Northern Norway, who visited King Alfred the Great in Winchester in 890. The author finds a link between Alfred´s court and Ohthere´s farm which, it is argued, for was Borg at Vestvågøy, Lofoten, where the biggest Viking Age house in Northern Europe has been excavated. In the hall of this house were found a rare glass beaker with gold cross decorations, a Continental or British made pitcher, pieces of a bronze bowl and an æstel of gold. This last piece is only found in Northern Norway and in England, with Wessex and Mercia as the core areas. “The Alfred Jewel” (Ashmolean Museum) is also an æstel of the same main type, but much more splendid and with an inscription relating it to King Alfred. Mikkelson argues for a bishop being sent from Wessex and Alfred´s court on Ohthere´s ship back to Northern Norway as a missionary.
Book Synopsis Poems and Ballads by : Heinrich Heine
Download or read book Poems and Ballads written by Heinrich Heine and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weapons, Weaponry, and Man by : Audronė Bliujienė
Download or read book Weapons, Weaponry, and Man written by Audronė Bliujienė and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Grave written by and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects short horror stories and extracts from longer acclaimed novels.
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Author :François-René de Chateaubriand Publisher :New York Review of Books ISBN 13 :1681371294 Total Pages :585 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (813 download)
Book Synopsis Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 by : François-René de Chateaubriand
Download or read book Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 written by François-René de Chateaubriand and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of his massive Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father’s castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand’s return to France after seven years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged English translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self deprecating egotist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom.
Book Synopsis A Grave at Glorieta by : Michael Kilian
Download or read book A Grave at Glorieta written by Michael Kilian and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pinkerton spy solves the murder of a war hero out West, in a mystery filled with “delightful characters [and] much fun” (Publishers Weekly). It’s 1862, and the Civil War rages. Although the Union has beaten back the Southern armies in the east, the Confederacy is intent on opening new fronts to the west—and perhaps securing British support to widen this ugly conflict into a world war. To contain the rebellion, Abraham Lincoln’s secret service sends exiled Virginian Harrison Raines to Texas to gather intelligence about a planned Confederate invasion of New Mexico. Raines has never been west of the Mississippi, and he will find Texan hospitality rather rougher than he expected . . . When the hero of the Battle of Glorieta Pass is killed, Raines’s only friend in Texas is accused of the crime. To save his friend’s neck, Raines must find the real killer—or risk never making it back to Virginia alive. A Grave at Glorieta is the fourth book in the Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.