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In The Service Of The King And Other Stories
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Book Synopsis The Big Jump and Other Stories by : Benjamin Elkin
Download or read book The Big Jump and Other Stories written by Benjamin Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short stories, with limited vocabulary and told in folk-tale style. Only the King could have a dog for a pet, but Ben and the pup change that rule.
Book Synopsis Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century by : Robert M. Isherwood
Download or read book Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century written by Robert M. Isherwood and published by Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arts, particularly music, are viewed in this work as an integral part of evolving royal absolutism during the reign of Louis XIV. Drawing extensively on archival documents and musical scores, the author views the historical association of music and monarchy as a continuous development beginning with the Valois and climaxing in Louis XIV’s reign. The king is pictured as a rational, calculating man whose luxurious life style was politically motivated, and who undertook the centralization of the arts to assure French artistic preeminence. Elaborate, costly musical productions were also used to distract the nobility, to demonstrate French affluence to foreign powers, and to embellish the royal image.
Download or read book The Young King written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Young King« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Book Synopsis Finding King Onomatopoeia and Other Stories by : Lee B. Woods
Download or read book Finding King Onomatopoeia and Other Stories written by Lee B. Woods and published by Lee Woods. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knowing that young students are tired of boring lectures on grammar, Woods takes readers to a fictional school in Midland City, where they meet James and Jessica Davis, two young students wrestling with the art and craft of writing. Using storytelling and wordplay, Woods brings in offbeat characters who help the brother and sister succeed with 31 writing techniques and exercises."--Page 4 of cover
Book Synopsis The Story of My Life by : Aimee Semple McPherson
Download or read book The Story of My Life written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King's Knight and Other Stories by : James Nathan Post
Download or read book King's Knight and Other Stories written by James Nathan Post and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KING'S KNIGHT is a still-prophetic virtual-world novella written in 1971 about a Chessman with no memory of any other life, struggling with his suspicion there is more to his world than he is allowed to know. From the beginning of cybertelempathy in a 1965 grad student's basement lab, to the man who steals a remotely-operated "gnome" to commit a crime, to the mother who wants to love her baby again and again, these are humorous, exciting, and sometimes provocative visions of what might have been, and yet may be.
Book Synopsis The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories by : Stanley John Weyman
Download or read book The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories written by Stanley John Weyman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman is about Vicomte de Lanthenon and a British captain playing an innocent game of dice. The Vicomte loses the town of Lusigny to the captain in the name of King Henry, but when he returns to his king to deliver the bad news, the two devise a mischievous plan. Excerpt: "He rose as the last word passed his lips, and held out his hand. The Vicomte fell on one knee, and kissed it reverently, then sprang to his feet again. "Sire," he said, standing erect, his eyes shining, "you have punished me heavily, more heavily than was needful. There is only one way in which I can show my gratitude, and that is by ridding you of a servant who can never again look your enemies in the face."
Book Synopsis The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories by : H. Alan Tansson
Download or read book The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories written by H. Alan Tansson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil’s Laugh and Other Stories is a book of folktales to help you check out your philosophy of life. We all know you don’t believe in “ol Scratch,” and you thought you knew what a sphincter was. You’ve never heard of the Quarry of Suffering, and can’t imagine what it’s like to have the evil eye yourself. Therefore, save this book for emergencies—like the day you need to remember what it was like to discover the joy of reading. H. Alan Tansson has also written Captions to the Cartoons We Live: Vol. I—We Think We Think (2010), and Vol. 2—Antidisestablishmentarianistically Speaking (2010). He earns his keep with a variety of jobs in corporate America and is occasionally retired.
Book Synopsis From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories by : Catherine M. Draycott
Download or read book From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories written by Catherine M. Draycott and published by British Institute at Ankara. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca. 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca. 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges to Croesus; the demise of the Urartian Kingdom and Neo-Hittite-type culture and polities; and the invasion of shadowy forces from the Steppe: Cimmerians, Scythians and Medes. The discoveries of Geoffrey and Francoise Summerss project at the massive walled city on Kerkenes Da?? have changed the cultural history and texture of Anatolia during this time period, opening up insights into the spread of Phrygian culture and language and inviting further discussion of how the period is framed. This book honors their accomplishments by presenting papers addressing the dynamics and events of that period from various angles, and in various regions and places, as well as other interventions on Iron Age Anatolia, from dating of kings to rare and potentially influential medical techniques. The volume sheds light on and also advocates for further synthesis of the regional dynamics affecting the Mediterranean, Near East and Anatolia together, toward the production of revised, more nuanced narratives.
Book Synopsis Beatrice Aylmer and Other Stories by : Mary Matilda Howard
Download or read book Beatrice Aylmer and Other Stories written by Mary Matilda Howard and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by : Louis Becke
Download or read book By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories written by Louis Becke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke
Book Synopsis Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis The Bradys and the Dumb Chinaman and Other Stories by :
Download or read book The Bradys and the Dumb Chinaman and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nelycinda and Other Stories by : Susan Visvanathan
Download or read book Nelycinda and Other Stories written by Susan Visvanathan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fourteen stories, Nelycinda & other stories, presents a woman's perspective of society thriving on trade and business. Lyrical and poignant, these stories take us to a world infested with the aroma of spices. The world was always opaque and something about the nearness of the sea made it more so. Susa began her day with the smallness of things, sea sand, which appeared as dull as the day, and the colours in the translucent shells, each catching the first light of the morning. How curious that the sand and salt and the ambitions of the sea creatures could create these colours. She walked to the seaside, wishing that the fisher people were about, but they had dived for pearls earlier than was usual that morning because of the impending storm. A great silence filled the ocean that brought to her the occasional screech of birds wheeling, and the whorls of the sea shells which produced their own sounds. Prison was a place which enclosed one and brought the world much closer by what one could imagine. It was where silence was the only companion, where the routines of the day allowed one to build a small world based entirely on ones thoughts. It was the shelter of the moment to work with the grandeur of the unseen. Imprisoned by the minutes, and allowed to fly when the tasks were completed. She looked at the beach, for the inlets were full of birds and moss and climbing purple flowers, and that was where she would go. To the river that, in its sureness of the life of the people, would bring her conversations and the calm of everyday tasks.
Book Synopsis Billy Budd & Other Stories by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Billy Budd & Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other selections here-"Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza"-also illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society. In his introduction Frederick Busch discusses Melville's preoccupation with his "correspondence with the world," his quarrel with silence, and why fiction was, for Melville, "a matter of life and death." Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories by : H. Rider Haggard
Download or read book Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories written by H. Rider Haggard and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the date of our introduction to him, Philip Hadden was a transport- rider and trader in "the Zulu." Still on the right side of forty, in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall, dark, upright, with keen eyes, short-pointed beard, curling hair and clear-cut features.
Book Synopsis The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories by : John T. Chalcraft
Download or read book The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories written by John T. Chalcraft and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealth of new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventional notions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering the largely unknown histories of crafts workers' restructuring in the face of world economic integration, and their petitions, demonstrations, and strike-action at a time of state-building and colonial rule. Chalcraft demonstrates the economic importance of petty producers and service providers, and tells the story of widespread collective assertion couched in new discourses of citizenship and nationalism. He also gives a new interpretation of the end of the guilds in Egypt and addresses larger debates about unevenness under capitalism.
