Download or read book The Oak and Serpent written by Gary B. O'sullivan, M.d. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of the illustrious O'Sullivan clan, including new information concerning the true meaning of the name. The O'Sullivan tartan and the O'Sullivan battle flag are introduced and a detailed account of the O'Sullivan MacCragh sept of Dunderry Castle is provided.
Download or read book The Oak and Serpent written by Order of Oak and Serpent and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oak and Serpent is a comprehensive social, genealogical, philosophical, and theological history of the Ó Súilleabháin Clan of Munster.
Download or read book The Oak and Serpent written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the O'Sullivan Clan of Munster.
Download or read book Vanessa written by Amelie Loyot and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Martha's Vineyard fairy tale about a curious Sea Serpent and how she came to live in a pond in Oak Bluffs.
Download or read book The Serpent of Stars written by Jean Giono and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Serpent of Stars (Le serpent d¢étoiles, 1993; reprinted 1999 Grasset) takes place in rural southern France in the early part of the century. The novel’s elusive narrative thread ties landscape to character to an expanse just beyond our grasp. The narrator encounters a shepherding family and glimpse by glimpse, each family member and the shepherding way of life is revealed to us. The novel culminates in a large shepherds’ gathering where a traditional Shepherd’s Play—a kind of creation myth that includes in its cast The River, The Sea, The Man, and The Mountain—is enacted. The work’s proto-environmental world view as well as its hybrid form—part play, part novel—makes The Serpent of Stars astonishingly contemporary. W.S. Merwin’s "Green Fields" begins, "By this part of the century few are left who believe/in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts/of them served on plates and the pleas from slatted trucks..." This novel leaves the reader believing not only in the animals, but the terrain they are part of, the people who tend them, and the life all these elements together compose.
Download or read book Snakes of the Southeast written by J. Whitfield Gibbons and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and nearly fifty distribution maps, Snakes of the Southeast is stuffed with both entertaining and detailed, in-depth information. Includes and explores size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation.
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Sir George Newnes and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent Club written by Tom Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Lowe, a Los Angeles reporter, investigates the death of a young girl. Suddenly it becomes clear that someone does not want Ted to learn the truth.
Download or read book The Essex Serpent written by Sarah Perry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award Finalist “A novel of almost insolent ambition—lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden gate...it’s part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. I found it so transporting that 48 hours after completing it, I was still resentful to be back home.” —New York Times London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne’s brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was an unhappy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space, she leaves the metropolis for coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year-old son, Francis, and the boy’s nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend. Once there, they hear rumors that after nearly three hundred years, the mythical Essex Serpent, a fearsome creature that once roamed the marshes, has returned. When a young man is mysteriously killed on New Year’s Eve, the community’s dread transforms to terror. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, is immediately enthralled, certain that what locals think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered species. Eager to investigate, she is introduced to parish vicar William Ransome, who is equally suspicious of the rumors but for different reasons: a man of faith, he is convinced the alarming reports are caused by moral panic, a flight from the correct and righteous path. As Cora and William attempt to discover the truth about the Essex Serpent’s existence, these seeming opposites find themselves inexorably drawn together in an intense relationship that will change both of them in ways entirely unexpected. And as they search for answers, Cora’s London past follows her to the coast, with striking consequences. Told with exquisite grace and intelligence, The Essex Serpent masterfully explores questions of science and religion, skepticism and faith, but it is most of all a celebration of love, and the many different—and surprising—guises it can take.
Download or read book Reflections in a Serpent s Eye written by Micaela Janan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community engage Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of the Eternal City's origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid (Vergil's poem attained nonpareil status as the Latin epic soon after publication). The Aeneid has regularly been read as persuasively formulating how and why Rome will stride forward into history, into manifest destiny, and into `empire without end'. The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface reflects what is already inherently perverse in that master-narrative, disclosing the narrative's internal contradictions. Ovid rigorously and sceptically not only interrogates the existing (Roman) political order, claimed as lasting truth, but also the very possibility of organizing any polity into a harmonious, organically unified, lasting institution.
Download or read book The Complete Folktales of A N Afanas ev written by Jack V. Haney and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes, an anthology of mildly obscene tales, and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and Slavic mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth century. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were of a stylistic nature, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included. Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition (Moscow: Nauka, 1984-1986), widely regarded as the authoritative edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number.
Download or read book Nest of Serpents written by Curtis Jobling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With friends turning into enemies, can Drew find his way out of this war alive? The entire kingdom of Lyssia is now at war, and the battle lines have been drawn. While Drew and his ragtag army defend the throne against Ratlords and Crowlords, Gretchen and Whitley venture on a harrowing journey through the perilous Dyrewood. But none of the werelords counted on the return of the most terrifying monster of them all...
Download or read book The Marine Serpent written by MCR El Pensador and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the stories is marine monsters as the imagination can reach as projections in the twentieth century would be a battle so serious in our fight a civilized world can devour marine showed up the human species to be crossed ahead But the reality beyond the fantasy of living marine Monsters stories presents us with a past but this story of the sea serpent my mental vehicle transports me into doing imaginations as this story of Mobsters other legends of the seas imaginable that in leaving legacies remain in our memories lives in a fantasy world but in give life our imagination but a legacy is a legend a fairy story a birth and a port old fishermen do hear stories like in my case my childhood stage of sea lions in their stories most of them is that I got the idea to make the history of sea snake, which is name and my transportation cangli mentally project the images to make this work a content to leave them frightened The story of the sea serpent mcr the thinker el pensador
Download or read book Tree and Serpent Worship written by James Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dust Be the Serpent s Meat written by Carver Wendell Waters and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a small town near the Gulf of Mexico, this novel is both social commentary on the lives of Black folk, as well as examination of the lives of five Black boys during the summer of 1954. The adult Black folk in Riverville are keenly aware of family histories which have developed under segregation, but which are inter-related to the white community. The diversity, resilience, and faults of these characters do not hinder their progress towards equality.
Download or read book A Gilded Serpent written by James Edward Muddock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gilded Serpent is the story of an affair between Norah Lacey and Jim and the mystery surrounding their entanglements. Excerpt: "SOON after leaving the pleasantly situated country town of Ministerfield, by the high road running North, the traveler used to catch sight of the tower and turrets and upper windows of Runnells Hall, a fine old mansion, a portion of it dating back to Henry VIII's time. It was conspicuously perched on a wooded eminence, and formed a very picturesque object in the landscape."
