Download or read book The Seven Curses of London written by James Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seven Curses of London written by James Greenwood (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beggar s Curse written by Ann Pilling and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Pilling manages to combine fascinating historical detail with mysterious and compelling ghost stories, and THE BEGGAR’S CURSE is no exception. Published as an ebook for the first time, it will attract a whole new wave of fans.
Download or read book The Odyssey Re formed written by Frederick Ahl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman believe that contemporary readers who do not know ancient Greek can gain a sophisticated grasp of the Odyssey if they are aware of some of the issues that intrigue and puzzle the experts. They offer a challenging new reading of the epic that is directed to the general student of literature as well as to the classicist.Ahl and Roisman suggest that, while translators have served the Odyssey and its English-speaking readers remarkably well, the nonspecialist wishing to do a more detailed, critical reading of the epic faces a dilemma. The enormous scholarly literature makes few concessions to the nonspecialist, and those studies designed for general readers tend to offer variations on the overly simple, idealized readings of the epic common in high school and college survey courses.The Odyssey Re-Formed offers a lively and detailed reading of the Odyssey, episode by episode, with particular attention paid to the manipulative power of its language and Homer's skill in using that power. The authors explore how myth is shaped for specific, rhetorical reasons and suggest ways in which the epic uses its audience's awareness of the varied pool of mythic traditions to give the Odyssey remarkable and subtle resonances that have profound poetic power.
Download or read book The Fear of Beggars written by Kelly S. Johnson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those qualities. She studies the rhetoric and thought of Christian thinkers, beggar saints, and economists from throughout history, placing greatest emphasis on the life and work of Peter Maurin, a cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Fear of Beggars will move Christian economic ethics into a richer, more involved discussion.
Download or read book The Danger and Power of Hidden Curses written by Rev. James Solomon and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." (Hosea 4:6). A lot of times, there are certain predicaments or situations that occur in one's life that cannot be explained. What makes the situation worse is that this issue is not peculiar to that one person; it has been ongoing from one generation to another. Many times, believers find themselves caught in a cycle of unexplainable predicaments and tend to take it for granted, believing that it is normal. And because they are not knowledgeable about the subject of curses, these predicaments go on, making life a living hell for them. This book is an in-depth study on the subject of "curses" with emphasis on "hidden curses." With a lot of spiritual and prophetic insights, as well as scriptural and practical references, this book reveals what curses are, the different types of curses, how curses operate in one's life, and how a person can overcome and be totally delivered from any existing curse in his/her life. There are also prayers and scriptural declarations to reverse and cancel all curses. Dear brethren, if you have noticed any reoccurring pattern that leads to all kinds of vices in your life, then you must read this book, and the Almighty God will grant you complete victory and deliverance in Jesus's name. [50]
Download or read book The Seven Curses of London Books 1 3 written by Lana Williams and published by Lana Williams. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a USA Today Bestselling Author ~ The first three books in the bestselling 7 Curses of London series: Loving the Hawke, Charming the Scholar, and Rescuing the Earl. Romance, mystery, and adventure set on the dark streets of London... Three full-length novels that share stories of men and women who attempt to battle the ills of London and the love they find along the way. Prepare to be swept into Victorian London today! What Readers Say: ★★★★★ Love her writing style! I enjoy how this author weaves a story, makes you care from the beginning to the end. ★★★★★ 5 Stars! One of the more intriguing books I have read lately. ★★★★★ Tremendous Read! Fascinating, exciting, loving, and enjoyable to read. ★★★★★ The perfect love story! The series includes: Trusting the Wolfe, a novella Loving the Hawke, Book 1 Charming the Scholar, Book 2 Rescuing the Earl, Book 3 Dancing Under the Mistletoe, Book 4 Tempting the Scoundrel, Book 5 Romancing the Rogue, a Regency Prequel Falling for the Viscount, Book 6 Daring the Duke, Book 7 Wishing Upon A Christmas Star, Book 8 Ruby's Gamble, a Novella Gambling for the Governess, Book 9 Redeeming the Lady, Book 10 Enchanting the Duke, Book 11
Download or read book God Duty and Community in English Economic Life 1660 1720 written by Brodie Waddell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of later Stuart economic culture that contributes significantly to our understanding of early modern society. The English economy underwent profound changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, yet the worldly affairs of ordinary people continued to be shaped as much by traditional ideals and moral codes as by material conditions.This book explores the economic implications of many of the era's key concepts, including Christian stewardship, divine providence, patriarchal power, paternal duty, local community, and collective identity. Brodie Waddell drawson a wide range of contemporary sources - from ballads and pamphlets to pauper petitions and guild regulations - to show that such ideas pervaded every aspect of social and economic relations during this crucial period. Previous discussions of English economic life have tended to ignore or dismiss the influence of cultural factors. By contrast, Waddell argues that popular beliefs about divine will, social duty and communal bonds remained the frame through which most people viewed vital 'earthly' concerns such as food marketing, labour relations, trade policy, poor relief, and many others. This innovative study, demonstrating both the vibrancy and the diversity of the 'moral economies' of the later Stuart period, represents a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern society. It will be essential reading for all early modern British economic and cultural historians. BrodieWaddell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published on preaching, local government, the landscape and other aspects of early modern society.
Download or read book Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia written by Xue Mo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xue Mo's novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia presents a rich tapestry of the history, religion, lore, and customs of a region in present-day northwestern China. During its heyday, the Sino-Tibetan kingdom of Xixia (pronounced see-sia; 1038–1227), also known as the Tanguts, rivaled the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China and boasted a cavalry so formidable that the Chinese paid tribute to it to maintain peace. Using the discovery of "lost" manuscripts as a frame, the novel presents historical events and tales of semifictional characters, including the avatar of a local Tantric Buddhist goddess, a Dakini/Vajrayogini named Snow Feather. Taking the readers through different historical times and the various geographical and cultural spaces of the region, Xue Mo reveals truths by blurring the distinction between good and evil, beauty and hideousness, reality and fiction, permanence and impermanence. Magical realism and mimesis coexist. Reality merges with illusion, the mundane with the supernatural.
Download or read book Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America written by Ernest W. Baughman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hellenica written by M. L. West and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from about 90 of West's publications.
Download or read book All the World Over Interesting Stories of Travel Thrilling Adventure and Home Life written by Ella Farman Pratt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life" by Ella Farman Pratt|Lucia Chase Bell|Frank H. Converse|Louise Stockton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Miseries and Misfortunes of Ireland and the Irish People From the Evidence Taken by the Commissioners Etc written by Great Britain.. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Poorer Classes in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fine Balance written by Rohinton Mistry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advice to the Indian Aristocracy written by Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Rao and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Parish written by Steve Hindle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It analyses the relationships between the enduring systems of informal support through which the labouring poor made attempts to survive for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the developing system of parish relief co-ordinated under the Elizabethan poor laws. Based on exhaustive research in the archives of the trustees who administered endowments, of the overseers of the poor who assessed rates and distributed pensions, of the magistrates who audited and co-ordinated relief and of the royal judges who played such an important role in interpreting the Elizabethan statutes, the book reconstructs the hierarchy of provision of relief as it was experienced among the poor themselves. It argues that receipt of a parish pension was only the final (and by no means the inevitable) stage in a protracted process of negotiation between prospective pensioners (or 'collectioners', as they came to be called) and parish officers. This running theme is itself reflected in a series of chapters whose sequence seeks to mirror the experience of indigence, moving gradually (and by stages) from the networks of care provided by kin and neighbours into the bureaucracy of the parish relief system, emphasising in particular the importance of labour discipline in the thinking of parish officers. By illuminating the workings of a relief system in which notions of entitlement were both under-developed and contested, On the Parish? provides historical perspective for contemporary debates about the rights and obligations of the poor in a society where the dismantling of the welfare state implies that there is, once again, no right to relief from cradle to grave.
