Download or read book Agatha Christie written by Lucy Worsley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Download or read book O Genteel Lady written by Esther Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nebt het Lady of the House written by Tamara L. Siuda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Egyptian goddess Nebt-het (better known by the Greek version of her name, Nephthys) is a goddess in shadows: associated with death, liminality and time, creation and destruction.In Nebt-Het: Lady of the House, the first volume of a projected series on the Gods and Goddesses of Kemet, presented by Kemetic Orthodox spiritual leader and professional Egyptologist Rev. Tamara L. Siuda, Nebt-het's identity, titles and functions are discussed in detail, as well as Her relationships to the myth cycle of Wesir and Aset (Osiris and Isis), the equally misunderstood god Set, and Her overlooked connections to the goddesses Nit (Neith), Hethert (Hathor) and Seshat. This special second edition of the original paper contains a comprehensive listing of Nebt-het's epithets, titles and known divine syncretizations, never before available in English translation.
Download or read book Elusive written by Sara Rosett and published by Sara Rosett. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her ex goes missing, Zoe is swept into an international mystery that takes her from glitzy Las Vegas to the old-world charm of Italy. Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black. But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zoe’s life goes from delightfully unpredictable to downright frightening. Plunged into a world of fake identities, deception, and murder, she’s afraid to trust anyone. Zoe impulsively skips town in a search for answers that takes her from Las Vegas to Italy, but instead of tracking down answers, she only uncovers more questions. Who was Jack? Is he dead or did he fake his disappearance? And, what was he mixed up in—art theft, the mafia, espionage, or all three?
Download or read book Lady Carolyn Conquers written by D.J. Lohr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to avenge her brother’s death, Lady Carolyn Beresford flees from her sinister uncle in order to gain proof of his misdeeds. With the help of her penpal, Jane, Carolyn goes undercover as a man and secures the post of butler in the home of Sir Joshua Callister. Sir Joshua finds comfort and friendship in the form of his new butler. As their friendship grows Sir Joshua becomes aware that something is not quite right with his butler. When all the deception is uncovered, will there still be friendship and devotion between these two?
Download or read book Vanishing Women written by Karen Redrobe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman reveals how these new visual technologies projected their anxieties about insubstantiality and reproducibility onto the female body, producing an image of "woman" as utterly unstable and constantly prone to disappearance. Drawing on cinema studies and psychoanalysis as well as the histories of magic, spiritualism, and photography, Beckman looks at particular instances of female vanishing at specific historical moments—in Victorian magic’s obsessive manipulation of female and colonized bodies, spiritualist photography’s search to capture traces of ghosts, the comings and goings of bodies in early cinema, and Bette Davis’s multiple roles as a fading female star. As Beckman places the vanishing woman in the context of feminism’s discussion of spectacle and subjectivity, she explores not only the problems, but also the political utility of this obstinate figure who hovers endlessly between visible and invisible worlds. Through her readings, Beckman argues that the visibly vanishing woman repeatedly signals the lurking presence of less immediately perceptible psychic and physical erasures, and she contends that this enigmatic figure, so ubiquitous in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, provides a new space through which to consider the relationships between visibility, gender, and agency.
Download or read book His Captive Lady written by Anne Gracie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry’s Story England 1818 Harry Morant’s tough exterior hides a badly scarred heart. Home after eight years at war, Harry is planning a practical, unemotional marriage. But his careful plans are threatened by an unexpected passion for an unknown lady. A lifetime of lies has brought Lady Helen (Nell) Freymore to the brink of ruin. Forced into a marriage she never thought to have, she soon finds herself powerfully drawn to this deceptively gentle soldier… and increasingly worried about his reaction once he discovers her secret.
Download or read book Beautiful written by Andrew L. Erdman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful is a biography of Julian Eltinge, a female impersonator and major cultural figure who has been appropriated as, variously, a gay icon, a highly-closeted turncoat, and a emblem of an era when many of our contemporary ideas about sex and gender were just beginning to take shape.
Download or read book The Lady in Red written by Shirley Elizabeth Brumfield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY STORY IS about an addict whose name is Elijah Wayne Jackson, Eli for short. This has many characters, mainly drug addicts. I have woven the Lady in Red on the assumption that she is a product of his paranoia. The story line, I hope, will bring the public to an awareness of addicts and the things they do when they are high and ingesting drugs. The story is very explicit and complete with mystery and science fiction overtures. My story takes place in a ghetto in Brooklyn, New York, around the late 1980s, a time when crack cocaine was strongly used. Although other addicts and their highs are being depicted, it is only to give the reader a sense of how things play out in the drug world as opposed to the real world. Basically, I am trying to bring science fiction to the ghetto in a more believable sense. Along with the mystery of the Lady in Red, there is another main character that comes into play, and his name is James. James is a mystery within himself. To go into more detail about my story and its characters, you will just have to read my story.
Download or read book Journal of a Lady of Quality written by Janet Schaw and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appointment at Bloodstar written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Empire's boldest agents - Jules and Yvette d'Alembert - blast off against the most dangerous conspiracy in the Galaxy. But even the lightning-powers inherited from their triple-gravity planet are no match for their adversary, the beautiful and ruthless star-warrior called...Lady A.
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Frown of Fortune written by Geoff Quaife and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1653 Cromwell sent Luke Tremayne and his deputy Harry Lloyd to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled King Charles II. After a serious mishap to Luke, Harry is forced to complete the mission alone. Luke is nevertheless gainfully employed by a wealthy French aristocrat the Marquis des Anges to investigate the murder of his first wife and the attempted murder of his second. Harry assists the English courtiers to solve the murder of two young ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother Henriette Marie, and together with a Royalist peer is falsely imprisoned and tortured. He escapes and after many life threatening adventures is rescued on the orders of Frances chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Meanwhile Lukes investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, a Canadian adventurer, a rampaging bear and a mysterious treasure of English Catholic gold and silverinvestigations that provoke a series of fatal bombings. Harrys determination to find and exact revenge on a renegade French aristocrat responsible for his torture leads him eventually to the French chateau where Luke is pursuing his villains.
Download or read book The Independent written by William Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
