Download or read book Picking the Ballad s Bones written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland are great stories to visit but nobody in their right mind would want to live there. There s a high body count for every ballad and a happy ending usually involves boy meets girl and they end up sharing a grave. The musicians who go to retrieve the songs, with the help of the magic banjo, Lazarus, know this, but the fact is, the songs also contain a great deal of magic useful in defeating the devils who are out to dehumanize humanity by stealing the music. The Queen of the Fairies, aka the Debauchery Demon, Torchy Burns, makes them a deal they can t refuse and the reluctant heroes find themselves thrust into the lives and deaths of ballad people they know are going to end badly. It s enough to make a picker take up accounting!
Download or read book The Roxburghe Ballads Etc written by Ballad Society (London) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Pedlar s Pack of Ballads and Songs written by William Hugh Logan and published by Edinburgh : W. Paterson. This book was released on 1869 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder Ballad written by Lucy Ribchester and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh, 1791. Isobel Duguid and her friend Clessidro are the stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Clessidro sings opera and Isobel sings famously dark Scottish ballads, despite her cavalier attitude to holding a tune. They roam the streets of Edinburgh, enjoying an opulent lifestyle. One night a note arrives from the mysterious Mrs Abercorn, asking if Isobel's most notorious song, The Fiddler's Wrath, might be included in a book. It's the tale of a prima donna who died of heartbreak after her husband committed murder and was sent to the gallows. Isobel is intrigued. But Mrs. Abercorn's curiosity about the ballad is far more than a fickle interest. When Clessidro goes missing, Isobel is forced to confront her past and the truth about The Fiddler's Wrath begins to emerge. Using the geography of Edinburgh to guide us through the story, this dark tale becomes more complicated than anyone could have imagined and awakens the chilling retribution of a once buried secret.
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Download or read book Mastering English Literature written by Richard Gill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this leading text provides a comprehensive guide to literary study. Emphasis has been placed on contextualizing literature and this updated version takes these changes into account by incorporating more material on historical and cultural contexts as well as in-depth discussions on novels, drama and poetry.
Download or read book Eliot Joyce and Company written by Stanley Sultan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perceptive study illuminates the careers of two major figures of twentieth-century literature, combining a literary history of Modernism with an intimate knowledge of their key works.
Download or read book What Do I Read Next written by Kristin Ramsdell and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides synopses for over 1,500 titles of current popular fiction and recommends other books by such criteria as authors, characters portrayed, time period, geographical setting, or genre.
Download or read book The Southern Appalachian Region written by Thomas R. Ford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American "problem area"—an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation ultimately amounting to $250,000, they set out to analyze the direction and extent of the changes which had taken place since the last survey (in1935), to define the problem in terms of the present situation, and—if possible—to arrive at recommendations for action which might enable the leaders of the Region and the nation to attack the problem with practical measures. In this volume are presented their comprehensive reports on the Region's population, its economy, its institutions, and its culture. The problems defined by this survey are a challenge to the whole nation, for the consequences of success or failure in solving them will not be limited to the Southern Appalachian Region.
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Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries. Includes Parts IX and X of the original set — ballads 266-305 — plus indexes, glossary.
Download or read book The American Songbag written by Carl Sandburg and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1927 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred and eighty songs and ballads trace the growth of America.
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