Download or read book The Blue Eyed Witch written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored with the Social world of London and the constant demands of the lovelorn Prince of Wales, the Marquis of Aldridge takes refuge at his remote country estate, Ridge Castle, deep in the 'Witch Country' of Essex. Riding through a village close to The Castle he comes upon a mob of villagers dragging the unconscious body of a young woman to the duck pond. Convinced she is a witch, they are bent on putting her to the ultimate test. If she drowns she is innocent. If she floats she is evil and must die! Rescuing the young waif and installing her at his castle, the Marquis is convinced that this raven-haired, blue-eyed beauty, whose name is Idylla, is far too lovely - too innocent - to be a witch. Nevertheless, he falls helplessly under her spell - and as he uncovers the murderous plot that brought her to him, he also discovers a love beyond anything he imagined possible.

Download or read book The Blue eyed Witch written by Barbara Cartland and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unediting the Renaissance written by Leah Marcus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such as Shakespeare's First Folio should not be viewed as mutilated copies of originals, but rather reputable alternatives encoding differences in ideology, cultural meaning and other elements of performance. Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works- Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'. Examining the cultural attitudes, fears and influences which influence textual editors, from the seveteenth century to the present day, Marcus sheds new light on a previously unexamined aspect of Renaissance studies. A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

Download or read book Tempest in the Caribbean written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's The Tempest has long been claimed by colonials and postcolonial thinkers alike as the dramatic work that most enables them to confront their entangled history, recognized as early modernity's most extensive engagement with the vexing issues of colonialism--race, dispossession, language, European displacement and occupation, disregard for native culture. Tempest in the Caribbean reads some of the "classic" anticolonial texts--by Aime Cesaire, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, George Lamming, and Frantz Fanon, for instance--through the lens of feminist and queer analysis exemplified by the theoretical essays of Sylvia Wynter and the work of Michelle Cliff. Extending the Tempest plot, Goldberg considers recent works by Caribbean authors and social theorists, among them Patricia Powell, Jamaica Kincaid, and Hilton Als. These rewritings, he suggests, and the lived conditions to which they testify, present alternatives to the masculinist and heterosexual bias of the legacy that has been derived from The Tempest. By placing gender and sexuality at the center of the debate about the uses of Shakespeare for anticolonial purposes, Goldberg's work points to new possibilities that might be articulated through the nexus of race and sexuality. Place sexuality at the center of Caribbean responses to Shakespeare's play.

Download or read book A Letter to Three Witches written by Elizabeth Bass and published by A Cupcake Coven Romance. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bewitched meets Practical Magic in this bubbly, quirky romantic comedy with an enchanted twist from acclaimed author Elizabeth Bass. When romance problems cause their powers to go berserk, a trio of witches whose family was banned from practicing magic risk getting in serious trouble with the Grand Council of Witches. Can they get their magic--and their love lives--in order before it's too late?"--

Download or read book The Lost Witch written by Paige Crutcher and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paige Crutcher, author of the “mystical, magical, and wildly original”* The Orphan Witch, weaves a spellbinding tale of contemporary fantasy, romance, and Irish mythology as a woman torn out of time faces a dangerous coven, otherworldly creatures, and a seductive demi-god to save the souls of a cursed island in The Lost Witch. 1922. The town of Evermore off the coast of Ireland is under the protection of a Goddess. She has bestowed power upon village healer Brigid Heron to ensure the heart of magic within the Lough of Brionglóid—the lake of dreams—remains untouched. For the witches of Knight want to absorb its powerful energies and release the Damned from the Otherworld. Brigid has devoted her whole life to being Evermore’s guardian, immersing herself in witchcraft, and sacrificing her own dreams. Until Luc Knightly, a trickster god with his own claim on the lough, offers Brigid her heart’s desire in exchange for betraying her Goddess’s trust. 2022. A century later, Evermore is under siege. The witches of Knight wield chaos magic, opening the rift between the island and the Otherworld wider every day. Beings born from folklore nightmares prey on the villagers, consuming their very humanity. Ophelia Gallagher, Brigid’s descendent, and her fellow witch Finola McEntire do their best to keep the monsters and mayhem at bay. Brigid awakens in this world with no memory of how she traveled into the future, and why Evermore has been cursed. To seal the lough and stop the witches of Knight, she must work with Ophelia and Finola to help her remember the events of a hundred years ago. But the knowledge she seeks lies with Luc Knightly himself--mysterious, handsome, and powerful--and the one who once upon a time granted Brigid her dearest wish—a daughter. To save Evermore, Brigid may have to lose her daughter—again...

Download or read book To Trust the Wolf written by and published by Peter Birk. This book was released on with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Memory Thief written by Jodi Lynn Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.

Download or read book Poetical Works written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women in Shakespeare written by Alison Findlay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.

Download or read book Browning s Beginnings written by Herbert F. Tucker Jr. and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1980-12-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browning's Beginnings was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Browning's Beginnings offers a fresh approach to the poet who, among major Victorians, has proved at once the most congenial and most inscrutable to modern readers. Drawing on recent developments in literary theory and in the criticism of romantic poetry, Herbert F. Tucker, Jr., argues that Browning's stylistic "obscurity" is the result of a principled poetics of evasion. This art of disclosure, in deferring formal and semantic finalities, constitutes an aesthetic counterpart to his open-ended moral philosophy of"incompleteness," Browning's poems, like his enormously productive career, find their motivation and sustenance in his optimistic love of the future—a love that is indistinguishable from his lifelong fear that there will be nothing left to say. The opening chapters trace the workings of Browning's art of disclosure with extensive and original interpretations of the unduly neglected early poems, Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello, and place special emphasis on Browning's attitudes toward poetic tradition and language. A chapter on Browning's attitudes toward poetic tradition and language. A chapter on Browning's plays identifies dynamics of representation in Pippa Passes, Strafford,and King Victor and King Charles. Tucker discusses the pervasive analogy between Browning's ideas about poetic representation and about representation in its erotic and religious aspects, and shows how the early poems and plays illustrate correlative developments in poetics and in the exploration and dramatic rendering of human psychology. The remaining chapters follow the poetic psychology of Browning to its culmination in the great poems of his middle years; exemplary readings of selected dramatic lyrics and monologues suggest that the ways of meaning in Browning's mature work variously bear out the sense of endlessness or perpetual initiation that is central to his poetic beginnings. Tucker thus contends that the "romantic" and the "Victorian" Browning have more in common than is generally supposed, and his book should appeal to students of both periods. Its discussion of general literary issues - poetic influence, closure, representation, and meaning - in application to particular texts should further recommend Browning's Beginnings to the nonspecialist reader interested in poetry and poetic theory.

Download or read book The Great Witch of Brittany written by Louisa Morgan and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the late 1700s, a tale of magic and fate, triumph and heartbreak, and the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters unfolds in this spellbinding novel from a master storyteller. Brittany, 1762 There hasn’t been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops. Ursule Orchière has been raised on stories of the great witches of the past. But the only magic she knows is the false spells her mother weaves over the gullible women who visit their fortune-telling caravan. Everything changes when Ursule comes of age and a spark of power flares to life. Thrilled to be chosen, she has no idea how magic will twist and shape her future. Guided by an ancient grimoire and the whispers of her ancestors, Ursule is destined to walk the same path as the great witches of old. But first, the Orchière magical lineage must survive. And danger hovers over her, whether it’s the bloodlust of the mob or the flames of the pyre. ​Return to the world of A Secret History of Witches with the bewitching tale of Ursule Orchière and her discovery of magical abilities that will not only change the course of her life but every generation that comes after her. For more from Louisa Morgan, check out: A Secret History of Witches The Witch's Kind The Age of Witches

Download or read book Love and Death in the American Novel written by Leslie A. Fiedler and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

Download or read book Forbidden Magic written by Cheyenne McCray and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheyenne McCray's paranormal romances seduce with an award-winning combination of heat and fantasy. Now, she weaves the first tale in an enthralling new series sizzling with dark magic and dangerous desires. Prepare to be spellbound by Forbidden Magic... D'Anu witch Silver Ashcroft knows she walks a perilous line by practicing gray magic. But it's the only way to protect herself from the evil that surrounds her. After the horrors she has witnessed, Silver thinks she is ready for anything...until the most intensely arousing being she has ever encountered swiftly—and sensuously—proves her wrong... Hawk is a Tuatha D'Danann warrior—powerful beings descended from the Fae. And for him duty has always come before pleasure. Then, clad only in moonlight, Silver Ashcroft welcomes him to her city of San Francisco and makes his blood sing with a passion beyond compare. She is the embodiment of fantasies he never knew he had, but the terrifying reality of his mission lurks in every shadow... Only the strongest will survive the upcoming battle, and the forces of darkness are more powerful than ever. Now, warrior and witch must trust in their hearts above all else—for to claim victory, they first must claim each other...

Download or read book History of English Drama 1660 1900 written by Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Sherry Cottle Graham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coahoma - The black panther is Chief Ituha's son, a natural leader, training to become a healer, falls in love with Ethane'. Moki - The white tailed buck is Makah's son, an empath, loves working with plants, and is training to become a healer. Fala - The crow is Lanto's son, has a good sense of humor, but doesn't like his animal spirit, training to become a healer. Laurel - The Old Woman Who Walks with a Bear, is a gifted medicine woman, fights the white witches and giants. Chief Ituha - Chief of the Choctaw, Coahoma and Dakota's father, works with Laurel to save his tribe from the giants. Pontiac - He is Laurel's apprentice who is possessed by Lugh's spirit. He loses his battle and mutates into a werewolf. Tiponi - She is Alawa and Nashoba's daughter who is possessed by Morrigan. Dakota - Coahoma's brother is a fearless leader who wants to be chief, falls in love with Nita, and fights the giant Alli. Tecumseh - Laurel's deceased husband, warns Laurel about Pontiac and Tiponi's possession, protects Laurel. Aylwen and Wakie Wisag Lugh - The Ole' Wolf is a red haired elite Aylwen warrior who becomes a shaman, and his dream is to be a werewolf. Morrigan - She is Lugh's wife, a master shaman, mother of Ethane' and five sons, and seeks her revenge through Tiponi. Ethane' - Lugh and Morrigan's daughter is a tall blue eyed teenager who is betrothed to the prince, and is kidnapped. Dahey - He is Lugh and Morrigan's son who travels to the Choctaw village to save his father and massacre the village. Bradan - He is one of Lugh and Morrigan's twin sons who plans to save his father and massacre the Choctaw village. Tomas - He is Bradan's twin. He travels with his brothers to the Choctaw village to save his Pa. Cu Chulainn - He is the ten foot elite warrior who travels with the prince on the Dragon Lady to fight the Choctaw. Kenji - He is a gifted dwarf shaman of the Wakie Wisag tribe, Gaim's friend, and fights the blood brothers. Prince Sangann - He is King Gann's son, an elite Aylwen warrior, betrothed to Ethane', leads his warriors to the Choctaw. Coahoma wakes up and sees a shadow person hovering beside him. When it fades from sight, he hears an ominous timber wolf howling in the distance. When his mother shares a bad dream that she had about him, he defies her wishes to abandon the path that he has chosen - to become a healer. He tells her not to worry about the wolf. Coahoma, Moki, and Fala are anxious to journey into the Spirit World to spy on the Soul Robber. These blood brothers are disappointed when Laurel reads her old bones and decides to take the boys to see Kachina, the Guardian of the Bees instead. Coahoma watches Pontiac while they are with Kachina and realizes that this trip is a healing lesson. He learns the plant names that make up the Sacred Seven. After they return and things quiet down, Laurel receives a message that wolves are attacking her bear. She arms herself and rushes to him. She battles this pack and eventually kills a strange tattered wolf. She realizes that he is a shape shifter and tells Pontiac to rip out his heart. When Pontiac performs this ancient ritual, he traps Lugh spirit in him. Tecumseh travels from the Happy World to warn Laurel that Lugh's wife is coming to get her revenge for her husband. She takes possession of Tiponi and uses her as an avatar to be near Lugh. She also sends her three sons: Dahey, Bradan, and Tomas to this remote village to behead the men and bring their heads back to her. She hopes to find Lugh's spirit and return it to him. The blood brothers disobey Laurel and follow her across the Ohi:Yo' River and into the Land of the Giant blonde hair sorcerers to lean their black magic and to learn the identity of these white witches that possess Pontiac and Tiponi. While they are spying on this village, they run into a hideous ghost named Donehogawa and Coahoma falls in love with Ethane', the Ol' W