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Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher : Bibliotech Press
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1863 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of the local gentry and nobility leads him to try fitting into their social circles, only to be mocked and treated with derision. He develops a drinking problem and spends more money than he can afford to in his attempts to be an equal to his clients. His bad habits lead to problems in his business, and Edward is forced to take on a junior partner named Mr. Dunster. At the same time, Ellinor becomes engaged to a young upcoming country gentleman named Ralph Corbet. Corbet initiates the engagement partly through love of Ellinor and partly because of a promise of money from Edward. Edward continues to drink and overspend, leading to a confrontation with Mr. Dunster. In the heat of the argument, Edward strikes Mr. Dunster, killing him. Ellinor and a family servant named Dixon help Edward to bury the body in their flower garden. Ellinor soon tells Ralph that a possible disgrace hangs over her. Ralph questions Edward about this, and Edward insults him in a drunken tirade. Ralph dissolves his engagement to Ellinor because of this, and because he regrets forming an engagement to someone who offers no opportunity of helping him advance in society. He later marries into the nobility and becomes a judge. Edward drinks himself to death and Ellinor moves to a distant town, East Chester, after the Wilkins's home Ford Bank is rented out in order to provide Ellinor with a living. Dixon remains as a servant to watch over the home and property where the body is buried. The secret goes unknown for about 15 years until the body is dug up during the construction of a railroad. Dixon is arrested for the murder and later convicted by Ralph, who acts as the judge in the case. Ellinor then tells Ralph the truth, and Dixon is pardoned. She returns to East Chester and marries a local clergyman, Canon Livingstone, who she had known in her youth, and has two children with him. (wikipedia.org)

Book Dark Nights of the Soul

Download or read book Dark Nights of the Soul written by Thomas Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference. Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as: • The healing power of melancholy • The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony • Finding solace during illness and in aging • Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities • Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles • Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness

Book The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy

Download or read book The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy written by Jody Duncan Jesser and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the scenes—and the mask—of the great Batman film trilogy, including stunning illustrations. In 2005, director Christopher Nolan reimagined and forever redefined the Batman legend when he began his epic trilogy of films—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader in a fresh, dynamic reboot of the franchise. All three films would go on to blockbuster success and critical acclaim—including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger’s unforgettable performance as Batman’s eternal nemesis, the Joker. The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy tells the complete story of these three monumental films. Based on in-depth interviews with Nolan and all of the films’ key cast and crew—including cowriters David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan, cinematographer Wally Pfister, and more—the book reveals the creative process behind the epic Dark Knight Trilogy, supported by lavish art and on and off-set photos. This is a fascinating glimpse into the minds that gave new life to one of the most beloved and renowned superheroes in history.

Book Collins Big Cat     It Was a Cold Dark Night  Band 3 Yellow

Download or read book Collins Big Cat It Was a Cold Dark Night Band 3 Yellow written by Tim Hopgood and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned the hedgehog is looking for a home in the cold, dark forest. He needs somewhere warm and cosy to sleep, but all he keeps finding are other creatures' homes: rabbits', foxes', owls', bats'. Will he ever find a snug safe bed of his own? This beautiful book is written and illustrated by award-winning author and illustrator Tim Hopgood. • Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • A map of the forest on pages 14-15 shows Ned's journey and all the animals he encounters along the way. • Curriculum links: Knowledge and understanding of the World

Book The Dark Night  Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality

Download or read book The Dark Night Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality written by Marc Foley, OCD and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St. John presents seems so stark and painful that one might be tempted to just close the book and stop reading. On top of that, both the process St. John describes and the language he uses can be confusing and intimidating. The language of 16th-century scholasticism is not easily understood by 21st-century readers living in a completely different culture and context. Perhaps even more challenging is that fact that our modern lives, filled with the non-stop clutter of social media and technology, as well as comfort and ease, do not prepare most of us well to honestly look into our own depths to see who we are and who we are intended to become as fully alive human beings. Fortunately we now have this helpful book to guide us to that full life which St. John invites us to in The Dark Night. Father Marc Foley here combines his own theological and psychological background, as well as his experience as a spiritual guide, to help modern readers understand the experiences, challenges, and graced events of the purifying nights of sense and spirit. In addition to exploring certain key terms that John uses in Spanish and their meaning in the saint’s time and today, Father Marc includes pertinent selections from a wide range of writers, ancient to modern, that illustrate the themes he covers. Each chapter concludes with insightful questions for personal reflection or group discussion. The book has a comprehensive index.

Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-23
  • ISBN : 9781710460018
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking.

Book Bright Lights  Dark Nights

Download or read book Bright Lights Dark Nights written by Stephen Emond and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Wilcox's first love, Naomi, happens to be African American, so when Walter's policeman father is caught in a racial profiling scandal, the teens' bond and mutual love of the Foo Fighters may not be enough to keep them together through the pressures they face at school, at home, and online.

Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781975985028
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking.

Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking

Book On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House

Download or read book On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator. The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable to speak, and the narrative is transformed from ironic description into a collection of sensual impressions, observations and reflections. The pharmacist, who is now called the driver, sets out on a quest, travelling into the Alps with two companions—a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet--where he is beaten and later stalked by a woman. He drives through a tunnel and has a premonition of death, then finds himself in a surreal, foreign land. In a final series of bizarre, cathartic events, the driver regains his speech and is taken back to his pharmacy—back to his former life, but forever changed. A powerful, poetic exploration of language, longing and dislocation in the human experience, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House reveals Handke at his magical best.

Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dark Night s Work  illustrated Edition

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work illustrated Edition written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking

Book Upon a Dark Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Lovesey
  • Publisher : Soho Press
  • Release : 2005-06-01
  • ISBN : 1569473935
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Upon a Dark Night written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The threads of Peter Lovesey’s new Peter Diamond mystery, Upon a Dark Night, twist up so neatly they make a perfect hangman’s noose—another triumph of plotting from this master of the classic puzzle form.”—The New York Times Book Review A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospital’s parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve: A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides what they seem, or are there sinister forces at work? And might the amnesiac woman hold the key to both cases?

Book A Dark Night s Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Work written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, 'A Dark Night's Work', tells the tragic story of a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward tries to fit into high society circles and develop a drinking problem in the process. His overspending leads him to take on a junior partner, Mr. Dunster, but a violent argument between the two results in Dunster's death.

Book Save the Cat

Download or read book Save the Cat written by Blake Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Book Dark Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paige Shelton
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2021-12-07
  • ISBN : 1250796288
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Dark Night written by Paige Shelton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Night marks the third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series from Paige Shelton, in which Benedict, Alaska is met with some unexpected visitors...and then disappearances. Winter is falling in the remote town of Benedict, Alaska, and with the cold comes a mysterious guest. The dreaded "census man," seemingly innocuous, is an unwelcome presence to those members of this secretive community who would prefer to keep their business to themselves. Meanwhile, thriller writer Beth Rivers has received her own unexpected company: her mother. The last Beth heard, Mill Rivers had gone underground in search of Beth’s kidnapper, and Beth can't help but be a little alarmed at her appearance: If Mill was able to track down her daughter, who knows who else might be able to? Beth doesn't have time to ponder this for long, after a battered woman stumbles into the town bar one night, and her husband is found dead the next morning. Suspicions immediately turn to the census man, but when he, too, goes missing, everyone in Benedict—including the police chief—is suspected, and Beth and Mill must work to uncover the truth.

Book A Dark Night s Passing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naoya Shiga
  • Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780870113628
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book A Dark Night s Passing written by Naoya Shiga and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An autobiographicl novel tracing a young man's passage through a sequence of distrubing events to a hard-won truce with himself."--Page 4 of cover.