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Book The Devil s Disciple

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Huxley

Download or read book Huxley written by Adrian J. Desmond and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.H. Huxley led a fascinating and outgoing life. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. He carried Darwin's fight to the public. This book uses the life of Huxley to illustrate the second half of the 19th century.

Book Otto Skorzeny

Download or read book Otto Skorzeny written by Stuart Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando. SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence on special operations doctrine was far-reaching and long-lasting – in 2011, when US Navy SEALs infiltrated Pakistan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, the operational planning was influenced by Skorzeny's legacy. Yet he was also an egoist who stole other men's credit (including for the seminal rescue of Mussolini), brave and resourceful but also an unrepentant Nazi and a self-aggrandizing hogger of the limelight. Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna, to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny's story in full – warts and all – for the first time.

Book The Devil s Disciple

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  • Author : George Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781798239346
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" is the story of Richard Dudgeon. Set during the Revolutionary War, Richard is considered by his friends and family be the "Devil's disciple" because of his rebellious personality and unfaithfulness to religion. However, when British Soldiers visit the home of the town's minister, Anthony Anderson, with the intentions of arresting Anderson, Mr. Dudgeon's true colors are shown. In a heroic moment Mr. Dudgeon allows the soldiers to arrest him, having mistaken him for Anderson, although it may mean the death of him.

Book The Devil s Disciples

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  • Author : Richard T. Ryan
  • Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
  • Release : 2023-07-03
  • ISBN : 1804242667
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciples written by Richard T. Ryan and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early- and mid-1880s, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the forerunner of the modern IRA, waged a bombing campaign that terrorized the citizens of London for more than four years. Explosives were detonated in such places as the Tower of London, the House of Commons, Victoria station and at the London Bridge. The bombings were carried out in an attempt to secure Ireland's freedom from England. The Fenians, as they were called, hoped citizens would put pressure on the government to resolve the dispute. Implored by the government to end the reign of terror, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson take up residence in a doss house in Whitechapel, which would achieve even greater notoriety a few years later courtesy of Jack the Ripper, posing as dock workers in order to learn more about the shadowy group and ingratiate themselves with its members. When Holmes learns a new bomb-maker is on the way and the bombings will increase in frequency, he understands time is running out. Despite proving his bona fides by bombing 10 Downing Street, Holmes is still held at arm's length by the group's leader Michael. As plans for the extensive new bombing campaign are formulated, Holmes realizes that he must act quickly in order to stop the terror. However, as clever as Holmes is, Michael is his match. The Devil's Disciples pits Holmes against an adversary who is every bit as cunning as he - but far more ruthless.

Book The Devil s Disciple

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  • Author : Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Devil's Disciple" by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Devil s Disciples

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  • Author : Jeff Godwin
  • Publisher : Chick Pub
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780937958230
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciples written by Jeff Godwin and published by Chick Pub. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devil s Disciple

Download or read book Devil s Disciple written by Judy Miller Snavely and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARE YOU LISTENING? I AM CLOSING THE DOOR TO YESTERDAY IF I DON'T IT'S NOBODY'S FAULT BUT MINE. I DON'T KNOW WHEN, I DON'T KNOW HOW, I JUST KNOW THAT "MY FATHER'S" DELAY IS NOT A DENIAL.

Book Whiskey River  Take My Mind

Download or read book Whiskey River Take My Mind written by Johnny Bush and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of live music will get a kick out of” this Texas Country Music Hall of Famer’s “fond but brutally honest memories, playing gigs with Willie Nelson” (Publishers Weekly). When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson’s classic concert anthem “Whiskey River,” and singer of hits such as “You Gave Me a Mountain” and “I’ll Be There,” Johnny Bush is a legend in country music, a singer-songwriter who has lived the cheatin’, hurtin’, hard-drinkin’ life and recorded some of the most heart-wrenching songs about it. He has one of the purest honky-tonk voices ever to come out of Texas. And Bush’s career has been just as dramatic as his songs—on the verge of achieving superstardom in the early 1970s, he was sidelined by a rare vocal disorder. But survivor that he is, Bush is once again filling dance halls across Texas and inspiring a new generation of musicians. In Whiskey River (Take My Mind), Johnny Bush tells the twin stories of his life and of Texas honky-tonk music. He recalls growing up poor and learning his chops in honky-tonks around Houston and San Antonio. Bush vividly describes life on the road in the 1960s as a band member for Ray Price and Willie Nelson. Woven throughout Bush's autobiography is the never-before-told story of Texas honky-tonk music, from Bob Wills and Floyd Tillman to Junior Brown and Pat Green. For everyone who loves genuine country music, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, and stories of triumph against all odds, Whiskey River (Take My Mind) is a must-read.

Book The Devil s Disciple

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  • Author : George Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 9781693320774
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.

Book Huxley

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  • Author : Adrian Desmond
  • Publisher : Diane Publishing Company
  • Release : 1997-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780756761547
  • Pages : 820 pages

Download or read book Huxley written by Adrian Desmond and published by Diane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This racy biography of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is a portrait of the modern age being born. Huxley was a superb scientist and Adrian Desmond writes about science as lucidly as anyone can, but Huxley was also the great apostle of Darwinism, and Desmond vividly sketches his ferocious assaults on the structures of Victorian society -- religion, class, education -- as he molded Darwin's scientific revolution into a social engine to overthrow the old order. The man and the historical transformation are one in this intensely dramatic, amusing account". -- New York Times

Book The Devil s Disciple

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  • Author : George Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs. Dudgeon's face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride. She is an elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it except dominion and detestation in her sordid home, and an unquestioned reputation for piety and respectability among her neighbors, to whom drink and debauchery are still so much more tempting than religion and rectitude, that they conceive goodness simply as self-denial. This conception is easily extended to others - denial, and finally generalized as covering anything disagreeable. So Mrs. Dudgeon, being exceedingly disagreeable, is held to be excee-dingly good. Short of flat felony, she enjoys complete license except for amiable weaknesses of any sort, and is consequently, without knowing it, the most licentious woman in the parish on the strength of never having broken the seventh commandment or missed a Sunday at the Presbyterian church

Book Three Plays for Puritans

Download or read book Three Plays for Puritans written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil s Disciples

Download or read book The Devil s Disciples written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look at the Salem outbreak based on recent studies of panic rumors, teen hysteria, child abuse, and intrafamily relations. He brings to life a set of conversations -- in taverns and courtrooms, at home and work -- which took place among suspected witches, accusers, witnesses, and spectators. The accusations, denials, and confessions of this legal story eventually resurrect the tangled internal tensions that lay at the bottom of the Salem witch hunts.

Book Plays by George Bernard Shaw

Download or read book Plays by George Bernard Shaw written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd

Book The Devil s Disciple

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  • Author : Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-12-15
  • ISBN : 9781541110328
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he authored more than 60 plays. Nearly all of his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege and found them all defective. He was most angered by the exploitation of the working class, and most of his writings censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal political rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthful lifestyles.

Book The Devil s Disciple

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01
  • ISBN : 9781407672892
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Disciple written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.