Download or read book The Englishman written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 16th Song written by David Powell and published by David Powell. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Daniels, a talented composer and pianist, is alone in the turbulent Paris of the 1950’s when Marie Gautier, an attractive translator and her charismatic boy friend, Jean-Claude Gubler, a radical young lawyer, befriend him. Working as he does in the demi-monde of illegal immigrants and left wing causes, Jean-Claude helps him find work replacing an American pianist who has broken his fingers in a fight in a jazz club. When the man is deported Peter moves into his flat and discovers a sheaf of unpublished but brilliant music. When Peter hears of the man’s suicide in an American jail, the music becomes both his treasure and his guilty secret. At the same time, the political and criminal forces that Jean-Claude opposes pursue them and destroy their relationship, forcing Peter to run for his emotional life back to a life with Hannah, his student girlfriend. Almost by accident, his illicit musical treasure trove makes him rich, but its source makes him secretive and this secrecy, along with his suspicious nature, threaten to break his marriage. Yet the music acts as a conduit to the past and try as he might, he cannot escape the spotlight it draws to him. Peter learns that just as events control his life, and his need for secrecy perverts it, and he worries that his past will destroy him before he can prove to himself his real worth as a musician.
Download or read book The Works of the British Poets written by John Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soul Caller written by Ana Peters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic story of brotherhood, magic, and spiritual growth. Two young men from Laos immigrate to Minnesota, U.S.A., during the Vietnam War. Enemies and rivals for the love of a village woman who stayed behind, each tries to resolve his confusion about living in a new culture and the loss of their beloved beauty, Zoua Lee. For Pao Moua, Zoua comes alive in his paintings of the village. On dark nights, from a mural lit by headlights, she speaks to Pao and helps him find a way to accept his new life. For Lue Vang, there is no such understanding. He turns to gang life, and must kill or be killed by his gang brothers. In trying to help Lue Vang, Pao nearly loses his life, but in the process he undergoes a life-changing experience that will lead him to become the shaman he always wanted to become. On the other hand, Lue Vang must leave the city to stay alive, but he leaves transformed after seeing a vision of Zoua Lee and saving Paos life. In the end, he realizes his own courage.
Download or read book Journal of the American Bankers Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century written by Grace Moore and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. The contributors engage with acts of piracy by men and women in the literary marketplace as well as on the high seas. Linking the pirate's development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state reveals much about race, class, and evolving gender relationships.
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Download or read book The Works of the British Poets Selected and Chronologically Arranged From Falconer to Sir Walter Scott written by John Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Deciphering Race written by Laura Callanan and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciphering Race engages with the complex and contested world of Victorian racial discourse. In the five central texts under consideration in this study--Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man, Robert Knox's The Races of Men, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners," the transcript of the inquiry into the Governor Eyre Controversy, and James Grant's First Love and Last Love--a white English author or character turns to the aesthetic in order to assuage a sense of anxiety produced by a confrontation with racial otherness. White characters or narrators confront the limitations of preconceived ideologies or the interlacing of oppressions, and subsequently falter. In this manner these narratives confront the complexity, indeterminacy, and irrationality of both racial difference and the systems put in place to understand that difference. Deciphering Race unpacks this narrative turn to the aesthetic in writings by white English individuals and thus reveals the instability at the heart of cultural understanding of race and racial tropes at mid-century. This series of readings will help to see how figurative structures, while providing a bridge between different cultures and epistemologies, also reinforce a distance that keeps groups separate. Only by disentangling these structures, by addressing and unpacking our assumptions and narratives about those different from ourselves, and by understanding our deep cultural anxiety and investment in these ways of talking about one another, can we begin to create the conditions for productive, local understanding between different cultures, races, and communities.
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Download or read book Frankie And The Big Bang Theory written by Prince Hoover and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story starts and ends in Wildwood, New Jersey, and revolves around a boy named Frankie. From childhood, Frankie Merlino hatched one moneymaking scheme after another, schemes that were not always legal. Some boys dream of being a rock star, some a doctor—Frankie had a different dream altogether. As an adult, while experiencing a creative dry spell, he stumbled upon an idea of epic proportions. Watching a report on CNN, Frankie came up with a plan that he was certain would help him fulfill his dream. A plan designed to gain acceptance by and entry into the South Jersey mob. Aided by his best friend, Joey Vitolo, who is a minor functionary in the aforementioned organization, Frankie meets with the boss, Mr. Benecasa, and sells him on the project. I’ll share with you my knowledge of trade unions, the mob’s interplay in Atlantic City, and political life, along with its consequences here in New Jersey. Along the way, you will come to love two wise guys, Sal and Nino, who were dispatched by Mr. B. to convince a brilliant physicist, Dr. MacDonald, that it was in his best interest to work on the project. Dr. MacDonald, though gifted, has his own demons. He is a compulsive gambler as well as a shameless philanderer. I have often asked why God places gifted minds in defective bodies, a true paradox of life. We’ll visit Paris, Naples, Pakistan, and Rio. I’ll take you to other locations on the Jersey shore, and just maybe, I can change your perception of the Garden State. On a lighter note, how would you like to be able to smell the wonderful food at Maria’s, the restaurant where much of the planning takes place? I’ll help you visualize the largest boardwalk in the Western hemisphere. We’ll stroll down wide clean beaches, and quite possibly, I can take you back to your childhood with memories of amusement rides. This tale has a dark side however with intrigue, corruption, terrorists and . . . well for the rest, you’ll just have to read this book. By the way, if the terms “towel head” or “camel jockey” offend you, I suggest you move along to the romance section. Father Kelly
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Download or read book Grammar Meaning and Concepts written by Susan Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.
