Download or read book The Girl from Pompey written by Bryony Best and published by Bryony Best. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryony Best was born and raised in Portsmouth. As an ex-drug addict and alcoholic, she has overcome many life challenges, including near death. Bryony is a girl on a mission; she has a burning question inside of her - What is happiness and fulfilment? Who has it, and how can she get it? Follow Bryony on her journey as she searches for answers, seeking them from the people who cross her path. As her quest unfolds, will she find the answers? Bryony was once in a very dark place. She has overcome an alcoholic father, addiction, attempts by others to take her life, and along the way she is desperately trying to find her way back to herself. Family fences need mending, and so does her life. But the real question is - Are you happy and fulfilled?
Download or read book The View from Pompey s Head written by Hamilton Basso and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with the enduring power of lineage to determine belonging and dominance, exclusion and shame, and the realization that leaving does not mean escaping.A deft interlacing of recollection and suspense, The View from Pompey's Head is Hamilton Basso's most popularly acclaimed novel. When first published, it spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into seven languages.
Download or read book Pompeii written by Robert Harris and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently placed in charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples, Roman engineer Marius Primus struggles to discover why the aqueduct has ceased delivering water and heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to find the problem, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe of mammoth proportions. Reprint.
Download or read book I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii AD 79 I Survived 10 written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beast beneath the mountain is restless... No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?
Download or read book Diary Of Dorkius Maximus written by Tim Collins and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious diary recounts the exploits of Dorkius Maximus, a geeky young boy growing up in ancient Rome.
Download or read book The Last Girls of Pompeii written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; Sura’s beauty turns heads. Julia is free; Sura is her slave. Then Julia learns that her parents are planning to put her in the service of the Temple of Damia, the center of a cultish new religion, and Sura will be sold to an awful man who plans to make her his concubine. But when Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Julia’s and Sura’s fates are forever altered, forcing them both to face the true meaning of freedom.
Download or read book Novel on Yellow Paper written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.
Download or read book The Road From Pompey s Head The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso written by Inez Hollander Lake and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girl s Book of Famous Queens written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Girl's Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Download or read book The History of Pompey the Little written by Francis Coventry and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girl s Book of Famous Queens written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loving Arms written by Karen Schneider and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II. Evoking the famous "St. Crispin's Day" speech from Henry V and then her own father's account of being moved to tears on V-J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far-reaching potency. She admits—perhaps for all of us—that such stories "had powerfully shaped my consciousness in ways I could not completely resist." How a story is narrated and by whom are matters of no small importance. As widely defined and accepted, war stories are men's stories. If we are to hear an "other" story of war, then we must listen to the stories women tell. Many of the war stories written by women insist that war is not the condition of men but rather the condition of humanity, beginning with relations between the sexes. For the five women whose work is examined in Loving Arms—Stevie Smith, Katharine Burdekin, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Doris Lessing—this latter point was particularly relevant. Their positions as women within a patriarchal, militarist culture that was externally threatened by an overtly fascist one led to an acute ambivalence, says Schneider. Though all five women perceived the war from substantially different perspectives, each in her own way exposed and critiqued the seductive power of war and war stories, with their densely interwoven tropes of masculinity and nationalism. Yet these writers' conflicting impulses of loyalty to England and resistance to the war betray their ambivalence. Loving Arms will interest students of twentieth-century British literature and culture, gender studies, and narratology. Even today, we maintain an unabated love affair with the war story. But unless we listen to what the women had to say fifty years ago, we are doomed to hear only "the same old story."
Download or read book Blood on the Stage 1600 to 1800 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Download or read book The Girls They Left Behind written by Lilian Harry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the April Grove series, following the lives of working-class families during the Second World War. It is 1940, and the neighbours in April Grove are close knit, patriotic and proud - but the onset of the Blitz tests their loyalties and courage as never before. Betty Chapman meets a devastatingly attractive man in the Land Army, who upsets all her settled ideas; Olive Harker, just married, must now decide whether to risk motherhood; and Nancy Baxter offers comfort to lonely serviceman while her son runs wild... Their stories are played out against the backdrop of a great seaport at war: the horror of the air raid sirens, the naval dockyards buzzing with activity and the overwhelming desire to survive the city's darkest hour...
Download or read book My Lady Laughter written by Dwight Tilton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Son written by James C. Johnston Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1815, deep within Africa, a fifteen-year-old prince of the Matabele nation is captured and sold to slave traders in Mozambique. As he travels on a ship bound for America, the prince realizes he will never again hear his name--Atachawayo--cried out in greeting. But as soon as the ship docks in New Orleans, Samuel, as he is now known, escapes with a member of the slave ship's company and enters into a bargain that will change the direction of his life forever. After he becomes the shadow master of a large plantation in Georgia, he begins planning his revenge against the man who brought him to America in chains ... As he begins what will become a thirty-five-year journey from the confines of slavery to the joy of freedom ... Samuel stops at nothing to fulfill his promise to himself to achieve total revenge."--Back cover
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