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Author : Alice Thomas Ellis
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589880862
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book The Summer House written by Alice Thomas Ellis and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicious, malicious comedy of marriage, motherhood, and scandal.
Author : Caro Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786691477
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Summer House Party written by Caro Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Smart, complex and deliciously racy' Daily Express In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, the country will be engulfed in war, but for now time stands still as they sip champagne on the lawn, engaging in casual flirtations and carefree conversation. Then a shocking death puts an end to their revelry, changing everything in an instant. For all of them, that summer house party will be a turning point. The mistakes made during that fateful weekend will change their lives for ever.
Author : Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755943
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Follies in America written by Kerry Dean Carso and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
Author : Eric Gabriel Lehman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0312274491
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Summer's House written by Eric Gabriel Lehman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hot New York City summer in the 1970s, the lives of three very different people - each uncomfortable with their surrounds and struggling to find a place where they can feel a sense of belonging - are forever changed. Raymond, an overly cerebral 17 year old, lives in the Bronx with his increasingly estranged parents. He's decided that the time has come for him to fall in love even if he is soure why or with which gender and grapples with the conflicting directions in which he is pulled by his desires and fears. As his parents become increasingly estranged, his mother leaves for a trip to Israel leaving Raymond and his father housemates in an apartment in which neither feels at home. Jerome, one of the legion of unrecognized poets marginally employed as a delivery man Seven Wonders Gourmet Foods, cannot rid himself of his obsession for the woman he loved and lived with - until she threw him out when he uncovered her secret past. His mentor - and sole friend - is the aging, erudite Maurice Rose, who - like Jerome - is about to thrown out of his home. Lester, Raymond's maternal uncle, is the middle aged owner of Seven Wonders Gourmet Foods and an unsuccessful suburbanite living on the edges of New York City. In a family and area were success and status are everything, he must confront the miseries of his failing business, a tense home life, and a persistent obscene caller who knows a bit too much about his wife. Drawn together by chance, circumstance, and mysterious woman with a secret in her past, their lives' intersect, collide, pull apart, and irreversibly change.
Author : Joseph E. Walker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512808199
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Hopewell Village written by Joseph E. Walker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1840 the American iron industry consisted in the main of small furnaces obliged by their need of the charcoal they used for fuel to locate in areas of heavy forest. Around these isolated furnaces grew communities of workers and their families, and of the farmers and service people who supplied their needs. In hundreds of forest clearings there could be found rural industrial settlements as distinctive in form and as important in product as the New England town or the Southern plantation. Hopewell Village tells the story of one such community, which, from 1771 to 1883, made iron in Southern Berks County, Pennsylvania. What little has been written about the iron villages has concentrated largely on the techniques of furnace operation. This book is concerned with the lives of the people of the iron plantations, from the wealthy ironmaster to the youngest indentured servant, and how they interacted with each other and with the outside world in work, religion, education, and play. Special attention has been given to the lives of minorities. While every part of the book is documented for the scholar-reader, the style of writing is plain enough to be read with meaning by those who have little background in the techniques either of the iron industry or historiography. Containing much original source material, tables, tabulations and numerous photographs, Hopewell Village should be of interest to students of industrial history, transportation, labor relations, and race relations, as well as to the general reader of American history.
Author : Mary Harrod Northend
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Historic Homes of New England written by Mary Harrod Northend and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the colonial houses that abounded in New England in the nineteenth century. It gives a real feel about the houses as they seemed to someone from that period. The author specialized in American colonial architecture and home furnishings. She is best known for the thousands of photographs she either took or commissioned to illustrate her books and articles.
Author : Ashley Weaver
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466865687
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book A Most Novel Revenge written by Ashley Weaver and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with A Most Novel Revenge, the charming next instalment in the delightful 1930s Amory Ames mystery series “A pleasant reminder of Golden Age mysteries that keep you guessing until the denouement.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating and stylish characters fill out a finely tuned traditional mystery.” —Publishers Weekly “Well, darling, who do you suppose will turn up dead this time?” With two murder investigations behind them and their marriage at last on steady ground, Amory and Milo Ames intend to winter quietly in Italy. The couple finds their plans derailed, however, when Amory receives an urgent summons to the English countryside from her cousin Laurel. At Lyonsgate, the country house of Laurel’s friend Reginald Lyons, Amory and Milo are surprised to discover an eccentric and distinguished group of guests have also been invited, led by the notorious socialite Isobel Van Allen. After years of social exile, Isobel has returned to England to write a sequel to her scandalous first book, the thinly fictionalized account of a high society murder at the very country house to which the Ameses have been called. Her second incriminating volume, she warns the house’s occupants—all of whom were present when one of their companions was killed years ago—will tell everything that really happened that fateful night. But some secrets are meant to stay buried, and when a desperate person turns to murder, it’s up to Amory and Milo to sort through a web of scandal and lies to uncover the truth, and the identity of a killer. Also out now in the Amory Ames mysteries: Murder at the Brightwell and Death Wears a Mask
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8979 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Works of G. K. Chesterton written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 8979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Greatest Works of G. K. Chesterton,' readers are treated to a collection of some of the most profound and thought-provoking essays, fiction, and poetry by the renowned author. Chesterton's literary style is characterized by his wit, humor, and keen observations on society, religion, and philosophy. His works are known for their paradoxical and witty nature, which challenges readers to think beyond the surface. The collection includes masterpieces such as 'Orthodoxy,' 'The Man Who Was Thursday,' and 'The Ballad of the White Horse,' showcasing Chesterton's versatility as a writer. This compilation provides an in-depth look into the mind of one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, known as G. K. Chesterton, was a prolific writer and thinker whose works continue to inspire readers to this day. His unique perspective on various topics such as religion, morality, and society set him apart as a leading intellectual of his time. Chesterton's ability to blend humor with profound insights makes his works both engaging and enlightening. I highly recommend 'The Greatest Works of G. K. Chesterton' to anyone interested in delving into the brilliant mind of this literary giant. This collection offers a comprehensive overview of Chesterton's body of work and is sure to leave readers with a newfound appreciation for his contributions to literature.
Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Critic written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464215855
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Guilty Creatures written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unusually rewarding anthology whose most dangerous species remain Homo sapiens."— Kirkus Reviews Feline friends, canine companions and aviary associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction—be they detectives, or delinquents. Martin Edwards reaches into the British Library of Crime Classics to collect mysteries featuring an animal cohort. Guilty Creatures celebrates an often-overlooked species of classic crime fiction. Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centered around cats, dogs, and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakeets, and serpents—complete with a customary shoal of red herrings. The collection includes an introduction on animals in detective fiction by Martin Edwards. "From the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's locked room puzzle 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' onwards, animals, birds, and insects have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a wide variety of ways. Count Fosco, the brilliantly characterized villain in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was surrounded by "a cockatoo, two canary-birds and a whole family of white mice," while the hound of the Baskervilles famously terrorised Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's superb Sherlock Holmes novel. Since then, many crime writers have written about members of the animal kingdom."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Railway Anecdote Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl R. Anderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639160
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Folk-taxonomies in Early English written by Earl R. Anderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folk-taxonomy is a semantic field that represents the particular way in which a language imposes structure and order upon the myriad impressions of human experience and perception. Thus, for example, the experience of color in modem English is structured around an inventory of twelve "basic" color terms; but languages vary in the number of basic color terms used, from thirteen or fourteen terms to as few as two or three. Anthropological linguists have been interested in the comparative study of folk-taxonomies across contemporary languages, and in their studies they have sometimes proposed evolutionary models for the development and elaboration of these taxonomies. The evolutionary models have implications for historical linguistics, but there have been very few studies of the historical development of a folk-taxonomy within a language or within a language family. Folk-Taxonomies in Early English undertakes this task for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo-European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. Anderson's emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.
Author : Edward Sylvester Morse
Publisher : Boston, Ticknor, 1886 [1885]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings written by Edward Sylvester Morse and published by Boston, Ticknor, 1886 [1885]. This book was released on 1885 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Don Hale
ISBN 13 : 1907163174
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Diaries written by and published by Don Hale. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The South African Journal of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include list of members.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1721 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Anton Chekhov Short Stories v4 written by Anton Chekhov and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 1721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories (54) List A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE SLEEPY THE STEPPE LIGHTS THE BEAUTIES THE PARTY A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE SHOEMAKER AND THE DEVIL THE BET THE PRINCESS THE HORSE-STEALERS GUSEV PEASANT WIVES THE WIFE THE GRASSHOPPER AFTER THE THEATRE IN EXILE NEIGHBOURS WARD NO. 6 TERROR AN ANONYMOUS STORY THE TWO VOLODYAS THE BLACK MONK A WOMAN'S KINGDOM ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE THE STUDENT THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE AT A COUNTRY HOUSE THE HEAD-GARDENER'S STORY THREE YEARS THE HELPMATE WHITEBROW "ANNA ON THE NECK" THE MURDER ARIADNE AN ARTIST'S STORY MY LIFE PEASANTS THE PETCHENYEG AT HOME THE SCHOOLMISTRESS THE MAN IN A CASE GOOSEBERRIES ABOUT LOVE IONITCH A DOCTOR'S VISIT THE DARLING THE NEW VILLA ON OFFICIAL DUTY THE LADY WITH THE DOG AT CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE RAVINE THE BISHOP BETROTHED
Author : Robert Hastings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134256507
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Solar Air Systems - Built Examples written by Robert Hastings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five different buildings with successfully installed solar air systems are described and documented. The building types cover single family houses, apartment buildings, schools, sports halls, and industrial commercial buildings with six different configurations of solar air systems used. Each example building is described over several pages, with plans, performance details and illustrations provided. This is supplemented by a summary of the types of system used.
