Download or read book The Devil Plays an Evil Tune written by Nigel Darter and published by M-Y Books Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a human story of Good verses Evil, of Faith and Courage, of Avarice and Greed, of Love and Dedication, of Trust and Betrayal And above all "The Lust for Diamonds" And so Alex Scott is sent off once again on the trail of Democracy's deadly enemy, The Syndicate who are showing too close an interest in an illegal source of diamonds from Sierra Leone and Angola.
Download or read book The Hour That Changes the World written by Dick Eastman and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consistent daily prayer is possible with help from this program that divides an hour of prayer into five-minute "points of focus."
Download or read book Sing No Evil written by JP Ahonen and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-something guitarist Aksel stutters when he sings, and the latest reviews say he has the voice of a crow with throat plague. That’s not a compliment, even for the avant-garde music his band Perkeros plays. Aksel is having a hard time keeping the band together, stopping his girlfriend from kicking him out, and not getting eaten by his drummer (who happens to be a cranky brown bear). There are also the rival bands that Perkeros find themselves in battle with to save the city from supernatural forces set loose by ancient music. The key to it all could be in the music Aksel hears in his dreams—if it doesn’t drive him mad first. With a visual soundtrack that blasts off the page, Sing No Evil is a wild ride through otherworldly dangers and the power of pure rock’n’roll.
Download or read book The Devil s Horn written by Michael Segell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the saxophone from its invention by the eccentric Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the 1840s to its role in the jazz genre in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Devil s Song written by Lauren Stahl and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Family secrets, childhood memories, and old crimes influence the present in this suspenseful debut...A solid bet for fans of dark crime dramas.”—Library Journal Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just “the judge’s daughter.” As Kate delves into it, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer, who seems to know intimate details about a tragic childhood event from Kate's past—an event she’d long been trying to forget. Paranoia sets in, the night terrors return, and Kate has a strong sense that she’s the killer's next victim. She no longer feels assigned to the case. She is the case, and solving it is her only chance for survival. “Exciting…keeps the reader on a roller-coaster ride with unexpected twists and turns to the end.”—Publishers Weekly "I was up all night, utterly riveted by The Devil's Song, with its memorable characters, crisp dialogue, and meticulous plotting.”—Alafair Burke, New York Times-bestselling author of The Better Sister
Download or read book The Devil and Daniel Webster written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850 1910 written by Michael R. Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably consistent style, it was used for a variety of dramatic forms, although surrounded by critical controversy. The book considers the theories and practice of spectacle production as well as the cultural and artistic movements that created the favourable conditions in which spectacle could dominate such large areas of theatre for so many years. It also discusses the growth of spectacle and the taste of the public for it, examining the influence of painting, archaeology, history, and the trend towards realism in stage production. An explanation of the working of spectacle in Shakespeare, pantomime and melodrama is followed by detailed reconstructions of the spectacle productions of Irving’s Faust and Beerbohm Tree’s King Henry VIII.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare written by Edward Tomarken and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first appearance of Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare's drama in 1765, its Preface has often been published separately, while the Notes have been treated as miscellaneous and fragmentary. As a result, few modern readers realize that the Notes in fact contain coherent interpretations of most of the plays and that many portions of the Preface are generalizations related to those readings. Scholars who have examined the Notes carefully have almost always used them in studies of larger issues, such as Johnson's morality or rhetoric. In this book, Edward Tomarken provides the first full-length study of the Notes to Shakespeare, showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. While referring to Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays--Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth--to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities. Each chapter, devoted to a single play, moves from the particular to the general-from specific remarks about the play in the Notes, to related theoretical statements in the Preface, and finally to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson's relevance to modern criticism. The conception of criticism that emerges in this book goes well beyond the theoretical premises of the eighteenth century. Tomarken submits that the ethical dimension of criticism-the moral aspect so fundamental to Johnson but so foreign to modern critics-can point to a way of mediating between the ideological differences that have become so divisive in modern criticism and theory.
Download or read book Tell Me a Story Sing Me a Song written by William A. Owens and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas, the 1930s—the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Américo Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux, the black man they called "Grey Ghost," and all the other extraordinary "ordinary" people whom William A. Owens met in his travels. "Up and down and sideways" across Texas, Owens traveled. His goal: to learn for himself what the diverse peoples of the state "believed in, yearned for, laughed at, fought over, as revealed in story and song." Tell me a story, sing me a song brings together both the songs he gathered—many accompanied by music—and Owens' warm reminiscences of his travels in the Texas of the Thirties and early Forties.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Collected Works written by Thomas Hardy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 7346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Thomas Hardy's greatest works includes:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Under the Greenwood Tree_x000D_ Far from the Madding Crowd_x000D_ The Return of the Native_x000D_ The Mayor of Casterbridge_x000D_ The Woodlanders_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles_x000D_ Jude the Obscure_x000D_ A Pair of Blue Eyes_x000D_ The Trumpet-Major_x000D_ Two on a Tower_x000D_ The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid_x000D_ The Well-Beloved_x000D_ Desperate Remedies_x000D_ The Hand of Ethelberta_x000D_ A Laodicean_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Wessex Tales_x000D_ An Imaginative Woman_x000D_ The Three Strangers_x000D_ The Withered Arm_x000D_ Fellow-Townsmen_x000D_ Interlopers at the Knap_x000D_ The Distracted Preacher_x000D_ Life's Little Ironies_x000D_ The Son's Veto_x000D_ For Conscience' Sake_x000D_ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions_x000D_ On the Western Circuit_x000D_ To Please His Wife_x000D_ The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion_x000D_ A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four_x000D_ The Fiddler of the Reels_x000D_ A Few Crusted Characters_x000D_ Tony Kytes, the Arch-deceiver_x000D_ The History of the Hardcomes_x000D_ The Superstitious Man's Story_x000D_ Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk_x000D_ Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician_x000D_ Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir_x000D_ The Winters and the Palmleys_x000D_ Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life_x000D_ Netty Sargent's Copyhold_x000D_ A Group of Noble Dames_x000D_ The First Countess of Wessex_x000D_ Barbara of the House of Grebe_x000D_ The Marchioness of Stonehenge_x000D_ Lady Mottisfont_x000D_ The Lady Icenway_x000D_ Squire Petrick's Lady_x000D_ Anna, Lady Baxby_x000D_ The Lady Penelope_x000D_ The Duchess of Hamptonshire_x000D_ The Honourable Laura_x000D_ A Changed Man and Other Tales_x000D_ Other Stories_x000D_ Drama:_x000D_ The Dynasts_x000D_ Poetry Collections:_x000D_ Wessex Poems and Other Verses_x000D_ Poems of the Past and the Present_x000D_ Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses_x000D_ Satires of Circumstance_x000D_ Moments of Vision_x000D_ Late Lyrics and Earlier_x000D_ Other Works:_x000D_ The Dorsetshire Labourer_x000D_ The Rev. William Barnes, B.D._x000D_ The Science of Fiction_x000D_ The Profitable Reading of Fiction_x000D_ Candour in English Fiction and more
Download or read book THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection 15 Novels 53 Short Stories 650 Poems Illustrated Edition written by Thomas Hardy and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 7340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: Under the Greenwood Tree Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge The Woodlanders Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure A Pair of Blue Eyes The Trumpet-Major Two on a Tower The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid The Well-Beloved Desperate Remedies The Hand of Ethelberta A Laodicean Short Stories: Wessex Tales An Imaginative Woman The Three Strangers The Withered Arm Fellow-Townsmen Interlopers at the Knap The Distracted Preacher Life's Little Ironies The Son's Veto For Conscience' Sake A Tragedy of Two Ambitions On the Western Circuit To Please His Wife The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four The Fiddler of the Reels A Few Crusted Characters Tony Kytes, the Arch-deceiver The History of the Hardcomes The Superstitious Man's Story Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir The Winters and the Palmleys Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life Netty Sargent's Copyhold A Group of Noble Dames The First Countess of Wessex Barbara of the House of Grebe The Marchioness of Stonehenge Lady Mottisfont The Lady Icenway Squire Petrick's Lady Anna, Lady Baxby The Lady Penelope The Duchess of Hamptonshire The Honourable Laura A Changed Man and Other Tales Other Stories Drama: The Dynasts Poetry Collections: Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses Satires of Circumstance Moments of Vision Late Lyrics and Earlier Other Works: The Dorsetshire Labourer The Rev. William Barnes, B.D. The Science of Fiction The Profitable Reading of Fiction Candour in English Fiction and more
Download or read book The Hick Arrives written by Rufus "Junior" Hickman Jr and published by Terry Dugan. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwesterners are like you only completely different. Join Rufus "Junior" Hickman, Jr. in this hilarious human travelogue as he takes you on a journey to see how the middle half lives. In "The Hick Arrives: A Guide to Midwestern Living," Rufus gives you an inside look at life in the Midwest, with a focus on Nebraska, to find out what makes his people tick. Over the course of 20 chapters, you'll discover more than you really wanted to know about guns, talking pigs, death, booze, ditchweed, sex, pet ownership, tornadoes, the Homestead Act, football, law enforcement, why everyone else sucks, immigration, cow love, child abuse, the Lewis & Clark expedition, guns (did we mention guns?), being poor, lust, the banking industry, non-medical marijuana, the Devil & God and much, much more. Thanks to Rufus' Hicktionary, you'll also learn new meanings to more than 100 words and find out what people are really telling you when they say you have Midwestern good looks. Get ready for a wild ride. Don't buckle up and you'll fit in just fine.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hell written by Miriam Van Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, alphabetic survey of the underworld from cultures throughout the world, including representations in mythologies, religions, works of art, operas, stage plays, songs, films, and television productions.
Download or read book The Poetics of American Song Lyrics written by Charlotte Pence and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and blues. The first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.
Download or read book Dictionary of the History of Ideas Law conception of to Protest movements written by Philip Paul Wiener and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
