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Book Something to read  ed  by E J  Brett   With  Something to read novelette

Download or read book Something to read ed by E J Brett With Something to read novelette written by Edwin John Brett and published by . This book was released on with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blotto  Twinks and the Ex King s Daughter

Download or read book Blotto Twinks and the Ex King s Daughter written by Simon Brett and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duke’s halfwit son and brainy daughter search for a kidnapped princess and a dangerous killer in this hilarious historical mystery series debut. It’s that glorious period between the two World Wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is celebrating with a visit to Tawcester Towers, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Tawcester. When the ex-king’s daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges Blotto, the Duke’s brave and handsome son, to drive off to the rescue. Sadly, he is rather staggeringly stupid—with a nickname like “Blotto,” what could one expect?—but his sister, Twinks, got all the family brains, and she is inclined to be helpful. And in more good news for the purloined princess, Blotto’s devoted valet is coming along for the ride. Plus, they’ve got a really swell car. First in a new series by a master of the comic mystery, Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter is a deliriously funny parody of the Golden Age of mystery. “Brett’s latest is a complete wow. . . . Brett re-creates the aristocratic world of Wodehouse and Dorothy Sayers piece by piece. . . . A breakneck plot in the Restoration comedy mold, absolutely bullet-riddled with Wodehouseian wit. Brett’s best yet.” —Booklist, starred review “Zany. . . . Brett puts a hilarious spin on the traditional British mystery.” —Publishers Weekly

Book A Postcolonial Reading of Mark s Story of Jesus

Download or read book A Postcolonial Reading of Mark s Story of Jesus written by Simon Samuel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique contribution to Markan studies reads Mark's story of Jesus from a postcolonial perspective. It proposes that Mark need not necessarily be treated in an oversimplified polarity as an anti- or pro-colonial discourse. Instead it may be treated as a postcolonial discourse, i.e. as a hybrid discourse that accommodates and disrupts both the native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses of power. It shows that Mark accommodates itself into a strategic third space in between the variegated native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses in order to enunciate its own voice. As an ambivalent and hybrid discourse it mimics and mocks, accommodates and disrupts both the Jewish as well as the Roman colonial voices. The portrait of Jesus in Mark, which Samuel shows to be encoding also the portrait of a community, exhibits a colonial/ postcolonial conundrum which can neither be damned as pro- nor be praised as anti-colonial in nature. Instead the portrait of Jesus in Mark may be appreciated as a strategic essentialist and transcultural hybrid, in which the claims of difference and the desire for transculturality are both contradictorily present and visible. In showing such a portrait and invoking a complex discursive strategy Mark as the discourse of a subject community is not alone or unique in the Graeco-Roman world. A number of discourses-historical, creative novelistic and apocalyptic-of the subject Greek and Jewish communities in the eastern Mediterranean under the imperium of Rome from the second century BCE to the end of the first century CE exhibit very similar postcolonial traits which one may add to be not far from the postcolonial traits of a number of postcolonial creative writings and cultural discourses of the colonial subject and the dominated post-colonial communities of our time.

Book The Dime Novel in Children s Literature

Download or read book The Dime Novel in Children s Literature written by Vicki Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.

Book Athenaeum

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  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 936 pages

Download or read book Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature written by William Isaac Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Penny Dreadfuls and Boys  Adventures

Download or read book Penny Dreadfuls and Boys Adventures written by Elizabeth James and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny dreadfuls - sensational stories published in weekly parts - were an important feature of Victorian popular literature. They were often anonymous, and inspired by the melodramas of the day. This is the catalogue of a comprehensive collection bequeathed by music-hall performer Barry Ono.

Book The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals  1824 1900

Download or read book The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals 1824 1900 written by Michael Wolff and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals

Book Reading the Latter Prophets

Download or read book Reading the Latter Prophets written by Edgar W. Conrad and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar W. Conrad focuses on the prophetic books as composite collections and shows that (1) prophets are characters in the text, depicted as figures of the past whose words are significant for a later time; (2) reading and writing play a central role in the depiction of prophets; (3) prophetic books are presented as written words available to later generations through reading; (4) that read as a whole, the latter prophets depict the end of prophecy and the emergence of messengers of the Lord. Reading the Latter Prophets is an important contribution to the problems of both the formation and function of the prophetic literature.

Book The Well

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  • Author : Elizabeth Jolley
  • Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
  • Release : 2007-09-03
  • ISBN : 0143180010
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book The Well written by Elizabeth Jolley and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester. A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory, desire and loneliness.

Book Clinton Cash  A Graphic Novel

Download or read book Clinton Cash A Graphic Novel written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Museum

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  • Pages : 808 pages

Download or read book British Museum written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: