Download or read book UNDERHANDEDLY CLEVER written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They traumatized her with shallow insincerities and polite cruelties: every single one was crazy. The wicked creep into houses leading captive silly women and the early trauma made her needy of treacherous friends if you can call em that. HEAL from being scorned, mocked and belittled by dam rats. The controller breaks your spirit: he is underhandedly clever micromanaging the situation with you kept under. He leads you to hope but never delivers and hope deferred makes the heart sick/all visions blurred. Just walk away--it's that simple. Start a new life every day then avoid those people. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inside art by Blaze Goldburst
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Maria Cândida Zamith and published by Universidade do Porto. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Incest and Influence written by Adam Kuper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. Incest and Influence shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans—in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. In a richly detailed narrative, Kuper deploys his expertise as an anthropologist to analyze kin marriages among the Darwins and Wedgwoods, in Quaker and Jewish banking families, and in the Clapham Sect and their descendants over four generations, ending with a revealing account of the Bloomsbury Group, the most eccentric product of English bourgeois endogamy. These marriage strategies were the staple of novels, and contemporaries were obsessed with them. But there were concerns. Ideas about incest were in flux as theological doctrines were challenged. For forty years Victorian parliaments debated whether a man could marry his deceased wife’s sister. Cousin marriage troubled scientists, including Charles Darwin and his cousin Francis Galton, provoking revolutionary ideas about breeding and heredity. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.
Download or read book Clever Hearts written by Hugh Cecil and published by Pub Overstock Unlimited Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sudan written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the armies of dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. To commemorate the event, 11 historians have produced a reappraisal of the reconquest and its international repercussions. They examine some of the policies, personalities and issues involved.
Download or read book The Quiet Heart written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Quiet Heart' is a novel by Mrs. Oliphant that draws the reader into the world of Menie Laurie, a young, fearless woman who has never experienced any heartache or headaches. The story begins with Menie's sole servant, Jenny Durward, who is impatiently questioned by a visitor about Menie's whereabouts. Although Jenny is determined to remain calm, her temper flares, causing her to "fuff."
Download or read book Balfour s World written by Nancy W. Ellenberger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of political culture in Britain in the last decades of the nineteenth century, revealing how Arthur Balfour and his circle served as a clear bridge between the Victorians and the moderns in Britain's twentieth-century political culture.
Download or read book Foolish Hearts written by Emma Mills and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary novel about a girl whose high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream leads her to new friends—and maybe even new love.
Download or read book New Science of the Mind written by Darragh Tobin and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionNew Science of the Mind is an expression of personal emotions encountered on a journey navigated through fifteen years of living with mental illness. The book contains a selection of writings in the form of 'inner philosophy', fantasy and poems expressing concerns about a world affected by wars, climate change, famine, terrorism and suffering amongst the innocent. New Science of the Mind is Darragh Tobin's first book. About the AuthorBorn in 1972, Darragh Tobin grew up in Cork and Co Wexford before moving to Kildare where he now lives and writes. He has been a mental health service user since the age of 15 years and enjoys films, music, travel, entertainment, arts and sciences. Darragh Tobin describers the process of writing as both difficult and liberating and now wishes to share the fruits of his innermost thoughts and labour with others.
Download or read book Anny written by Henrietta Garnett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. Based on new and original research, this enchanting and evocative memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin on Lake Coniston. In addition we read about Anny's own inner life: her near-obsession with her father: William Makepeace Thackeray, her escape into writing, her startling marriage to her second cousin and her godson, and the story of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen. We also learn of Stephen's second wife, Julia Jackson, mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Meticulously researched, this intimate story draws not only on a wealth of letters, journals, hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs, but also on family legends passed down to the author through four generations. Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury.
Download or read book Faint Praise written by Gail Pool and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007-07-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise, hostility, banality, and bias. Faint Praise takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of book reviewing. Gail Pool, herself an accomplished reviewer and review editor, analyzes the inner workings of this troubled trade to show how it works—and why it so often fails to work well. She reveals why bad reviewing happens despite good intentions and how it is that so many intelligent people who love books can say so many unintelligent things on their behalf. Reviewers have the power to award prestige to authors, give prominence to topics, and shape opinion and taste; yet most readers have little knowledge of why certain books are selected for review, why certain reviewers are selected to review them, and why they so often praise books that aren’t all that good. Pool takes readers behind the scenes to describe how editors choose books for review and assign them to reviewers, and she examines the additional roles played by publishers, authors, and readers. In describing the context of reviewing, she reveals a culture with little interest in literature, much antipathy to criticism, and a decided weakness for praise. In dissecting the language of reviews, Pool demonstrates how it often boils down to unbelievable hype. Pool explores the multifaceted world of book reviewing today, contrasting traditional methods of reviewing with alternative book coverage, from Amazon.com to Oprah, and suggesting how the more established practices could be revised. She also explores the divide between service journalism practiced by reviewers versus the alleged high art served up by literary critics—and what this fuzzy boundary between reviewing and criticism really means. This is the first book to analyze the field in depth, weighing the inherent difficulties of reviewing against the unacceptable practices that undermine the very reasons we read—and need—reviews. Faint Praise is a book not just for those who create and review books but also for everyone who loves books. By demystifying this hidden process, Pool helps everyone understand how to read reviews—and better decide what to read.
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell Volume 2 written by Nicholas Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited second volume of Russell's best letters reveals the inner workings of a philosophical genius and an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. The letters, only three of which have been published before, cover most of Russell's adult life, a period in which he wrote over thirty books, including his famous History of Western Philosophy. Richly illustrated with photographs from Russell's life, the collection includes letters to Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru and Albert Einstein.
Download or read book The Poetical Remains of L B W with Some Account of Her Life by J H Millard written by Lucy Bell WESTWOOD and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landlord In Zhou Dynasty written by Jian QiangDeAHua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a traveler, Chen shouxin's dream was to be a happy small landlord in the zhou dynasty. How beautiful would it be to pen some land, brew some wine, raise a few herds of cattle and sheep, and marry a few beautiful wives? Which idea, the family affairs, the state affairs, the world affairs all together poured over. Pacify the rebellion, suppress the Japanese pirates, open the sea ban, prosper the civil affairs, on behalf of the sky patrol to kill the corrupt officials... The emperor of big zhou is willing to allow him to superfine maharaja position, the prime minister of the government, in exchange for big zhou zuanshan. But he really just wants to be a f*cking little landlord.
Download or read book Young Bloomsbury written by Nino Strachey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “illuminating” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s England. In the years before the First World War, a collection of writers and artists—Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey among them—began to make a name for themselves in England and America for their irreverent spirit and provocative works of literature, art, and criticism. They called themselves the Bloomsbury Group and by the 1920s, they were at the height of their influence. Then a new generation stepped forward—creative young people who tantalized their elders with their captivating looks, bold ideas, and subversive energy. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to this colorful cast of characters, including novelist Eddy Sackville-West, who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet; artist Stephen Tomlin, who sculpted the heads of his male and female lovers; and author Julia Strachey, who wrote a searing tale of blighted love. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives. The group had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way they chose. But as transgressive self-expression became more public, this younger generation gave Old Bloomsbury a new voice. Revealing an aspect of history not yet explored and with “effervescent detail” (Juliet Nicolson, author of Frostquake), Young Bloomsbury celebrates an open way of living and loving that would not be embraced for another hundred years.
Download or read book The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines written by Peter Brooker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and artistic modernism in the UK and Ireland. In thirty-seven chapters covering over eighty magazines expert contributors investigate the inner dynamics and economic and intellectual conditions that governed the life of these fugitive but vibrant publications. We learn of the role of editors and sponsors, the relation of the arts to contemporary philosophy and politics, the effects of war and economic depression and of the survival in hard times of radical ideas and a belief in innovation. The chapters are arranged according to historical themes with accompanying contextual introductions, and include studies of the New Age, Blast, the Egoist and the Criterion, New Writing, New Verse , and Scrutiny as well as of lesser known magazines such as the Evergreen, Coterie, the Bermondsey Book, the Mask, Welsh Review, the Modern Scot, and the Bell. To return to the pages of these magazines returns us a world where the material constraints of costs and anxieties over censorship and declining readerships ran alongside the excitement of a new poem or manifesto. This collection therefore confirms the value of magazine culture to the field of modernist studies; it provides a rich and hitherto under-examined resource which both brings to light the debate and dialogue out of which modernism evolved and helps us recover the vitality and potential of that earlier discussion.
Download or read book The Missing Queen written by Sally Watson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Tutankhamon is dead. The possibly-divine ivory cat Nefru is still (perhaps) putting a paw into royal Egyptian affairs. Lord Ay wants a royal wife-Tut's widow, actually-to give him the blood-right to the throne. She flees marriage with him and finds long-lost relatives. Princesses Baketamon and Meri have both longed to be Queen of Egypt-but both find sand in that honey. General Horemheb (described as being like 'desert red, rectangles and a lion') has sent Ranofer to find a lady once known as Twitterwit. Four competitive Hunting Parties from Thebes are searching for some long-missing princesses. Chief of Police Mahu knows where they all are, but won't tell. His son Ranofer, who fears he'll never fit his father's sandals-and fears Horemheb even more-doesn't want to know. Besotted and delusional Ahmose knows, but his incoherence just further confuses all four Hunting Parties-who were already at cross-purposes. A garrulous washerman thinks he knows everything. The kitten Katti sometimes gives what might possibly be divine messages from Nefru (or Bastet?). The massive cat Ab-ram, still always getting tripped over in doorways, still innocently certain of his welcome, changes history for all of them.
