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Book The Little Manx Nation

Download or read book The Little Manx Nation written by Hall Caine and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Little Manx Nation   1891

Download or read book The Little Manx Nation 1891 written by Hall Caine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Hall Caine

Book The Selected Works of Sir Hall Caine

Download or read book The Selected Works of Sir Hall Caine written by Sir Hall Caine and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 5433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Deemster Christian of Ballawhaine was a hard man—hard on the outside, at all events. They called him Iron Christian, and people said, "Don't turn that iron hand against you." Yet his character was stamped with nobleness as well as strength. He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him. There was fire enough underneath, at which he warmed his old heart when alone, but he liked the air to be congealed about his face. He was a man of a closed soul. One had to wrench open the dark chamber where he kept his feelings; but the man who had done that had uncovered his nakedness, and he cut him off for ever. That was how it happened with his son, the father of Philip. He had two sons; the elder was an impetuous creature, a fiery spirit, one of the masterful souls who want the restraint of the curb if they are not to hurry headlong into the abyss. Old Deemster Christian had called this boy Thomas Wilson, after the serene saint who had once been Bishop of Man. He was intended, however, for the law, not for the Church. The office of Deemster never has been and never can be hereditary; yet the Christians of Ballawhaine had been Deemsters through six generations, and old Iron Christian expected that Thomas Wilson Christian would succeed him. But there was enough uncertainty about the succession to make merit of more value than precedent in the selection, and so the old man had brought up his son to the English bar, and afterwards called him to practise in the Manx one. The young fellow had not altogether rewarded his father's endeavours. During his residence in England, he had acquired certain modern doctrines which were highly obnoxious to the old Deemster. New views on property, new ideas about woman and marriage, new theories concerning religion (always re-christened superstition), the usual barnacles of young vessels fresh from unknown waters; but the old man was no shipwright in harbour who has learnt the art of removing them without injury to the hull. The Deemster knew these notions when he met with them in the English newspapers. There was something awesome in their effect on his stay-at-home imagination, as of vices confusing and difficult to true men that walk steadily; but, above all, very far off, over the mountains and across the sea, like distant cities of Sodom, only waiting for Sodom's doom. And yet, lo! here they were in a twinkling, shunted and shot into his own house and his own stackyard.

Book A New History of the Isle of Man  The modern period 1830 1999

Download or read book A New History of the Isle of Man The modern period 1830 1999 written by Richard Chiverrell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labor, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial center.

Book The Literary World

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  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New History of the Isle of Man  Vol  5

Download or read book A New History of the Isle of Man Vol 5 written by John Belchem and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labour, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial centre.

Book Northern Identities

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  • Author : Neville Kirk
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1351914294
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Northern Identities written by Neville Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed an explosion of academic and popular interest in the issue of social identity. Yet the subject areas of regional and sub-regional identities, and historical engagements between ’the regional’, ’the local’ and ’the national’, remain very neglected. Seeking to make a contribution towards redressing these areas of neglect and to further advancing our knowledge and understanding of the general issue of social identity, this volume of essays offers the reader an exploration of some of the rich and varied, historical interpretations of ’the North’ and ’Northernness’. The focus rests mainly, but not exclusively, upon the North of England. Taken as a whole, the essays highlight the contingent, fluid, and ambiguous nature of ’Northenness’, its complex and shifting interplay with feelings of localism and nationalism, and the profound, if varying, influences of class, race, gender, sport, tourism, music and political and economic structures and concerns upon ’northern’ identities. This book will hold a general appeal to readers interested in the issue of social identity, especially in its regional and local manifestations and engagements. It will find a wide readership across the humanities and social sciences. It should be compulsory reading for those in New Labour addressing the issue of the ’North-South divide’.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gothic Britain

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  • Author : William Hughes
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2018-04-15
  • ISBN : 1786832356
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Gothic Britain written by William Hughes and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.

Book Hall Caine

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  • Author : Vivien Allen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 1997-07-01
  • ISBN : 1847141684
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book Hall Caine written by Vivien Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full biography of the Victorian romantic novelist Hall Caine traces his life from childhood in Liverpool, through his time as 'housemate' to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and association with members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to his triumphant career as a popular novelist. Caine, a swashbuckling character who might have figured in one of his own novels, wrote fifteen novels and many non-fiction works. Vivien Allen has been able to take advantage of Caine's family papers and letters and, living in the Isle of Man, is well placed to write about this half-forgotten author of Manx descent who made his home there from 1896 until his death in 1931. The book contains letters to Hall Caine from the American, Dr Francis Tumblety who has been recently identified as the probable 'Jack the Ripper'. These letters were mentioned in the Channel 4 (UK) documentary 'Jack the Ripper' 1996. Much of the archive material was accessed with the assistance of the New York Public Library and the New York Theatre Museum.

Book The London Quarterly and Holborn Review

Download or read book The London Quarterly and Holborn Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Quarterly Review

Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Quarterly Review

Download or read book London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: