Download or read book Old St Paul s Cathedral written by William Benham and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1902 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bells of Old Tokyo written by Anna Sherman and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman’s account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the lost bells of the city – the bells by which its inhabitants kept time before the Jesuits introduced them to clocks – to her personal friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, here is Tokyo in its bewildering variety. From the love hotels of Shinjuku to the appalling fire-storms of 1945 (in which many more thousands of people died than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki), from the death of Mishima to the impact of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. For fans of The Lonely City, and Lost in Translation, The Bells of Old Tokyo is a beautiful and original portrait of Tokyo told through time.
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Download or read book Old Saint Paul s written by William Ainsworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Download or read book Old Saint Paul s written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale is one of most exciting interest and Mr. Ainsworth has selected a theme rich in remarkable incidents, and which his fruitful fancy has wrought into a picture highly and faithfully illustrative of moral society in the time of the second Charles. The libertine and licentious character of the court at that period is exposed in a manner well calculated to convince the present generation how much princely manners and princely morals will be aped by the attendants of a court and spread themselves throughout the less elevated ranks of society. We have always thought that the works of Mr. Ainsworth, from being addressed so pointedly and directly to the feelings, and not so exclusively to the simple fantasia and imaginative of the mind as some other popular writers of his time, that they were therefore so much better calculated to convey lasting impressions to the reader and carry with them a power of moral sentiment in depicting vice, and deploring its dreadful consequences , which can never attend anything which is a mere display of ideality. In the present work the author has given powerful evidence of his particular kind of talent. From the glowing and animated description of the grocer of Wood Street and his family to the pictures of the monarch and his associates , there is a highly interesting portraiture of character, and in many places where other authors would have made nothing of the subject, or perhaps left it altogether untouched, such as in the scenes connected with the pesthouse and the other miseries of the plague, he has, by introducing them, developed some of the most touching appeals to the feelings to be anywhere met with. A less skillful master might have been unable to introduce such topics without harassing the feelings and would have left them untouched, but Mr. Ainsworth has given to them an importance and tragic truth which render them essential to the character of the tale.
Download or read book Old St Paul s written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old St Paul's is a historical novel that describes the events of the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. The story spreads between April 1665 and September 1666 and details the events of the grocer Stephen Bloundel's life. His daughter Amabel is wooed by Leonard Holt, the grocer's apprentice, while she in turn pursues Maurice Wyvil. This happens while a plague hits London, and St Paul's Cathedral is turned into a place to house the sick. During the plague, London is filled with plague victims while many people go around killing and robbing the sick. Bloundel seals his house to avoid the plague. Holt wanders alone in London and catches the plague, and Amabel goes away to marry Wyvil. However, Wyvil, really John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, holds a fake marriage, and when Amabel finds out she grows sick and soon dies. Eventually, Holt recovers from the plague and continues to wander London, meeting Nizza Macascree, a woman who is soon revealed to be Lady Isabella Argentine. As they grow fond, the London fires are started by a group of religious zealots, and London is in danger again.
Download or read book The Works of W Harrison Ainsworth Esq Old Saint Paul s a tale of the plague and the fire written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Saint Paul s a tale of the Plague and the Fire With illustrations by John Franklin written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Old Saint Paul s a Tale of the Plague and the Fire written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Shadow of St Paul s Cathedral written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for over a thousand years, becoming a theater for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip. For the first time Margaret Willes tells the full story of the area. She explores the dramatic religious debates at Paul's Cross, the bookshops where Shakespeare came in search of inspiration, and the theater where boy actors performed plays by leading dramatists. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Churchyard became the center of the English literary world, its bookshops nestling among establishments offering luxury goods. This remarkable community came to an abrupt end with the Blitz. First the soaring spire of Old St. Paul's and then Wren's splendid Baroque dome had dominated the area, but now the vibrant secular society that had lived in their shadow was no more.
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