Download or read book The Punjat s Ruby written by Marian J. A. Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, a female was the property of either a father or husband, and for a girl of her station to become anything but a wealthy man’s wife was unthinkable. But Miss Abigail Patience Danforth was determined to usher in the twentieth century by becoming the world’s first female consulting detective, even after Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle himself tries to dissuade her and Mark Twain refuses to encourage her. Frederick, The Earl of Hunterswell is eager to ask Miss Danforth’s father for her hand, but then the fabulous Punjat’s ruby, intended as a gift for the Prince of Wales, disappears from Hunterswell House and Miss Danforth is pitched headlong into her first case. With Lord Frederick in tow, Miss Danforth returns to her father’s Gramercy Park mansion in New York where she enlists the help of the famous actor, Will Gillette, who was starring in “Sherlock Holmes” on Broadway, to help her pursue her elusive quarry – risking her life to retrieve The Punjat’s Ruby.
Download or read book Tales of the Punjab written by Flora Annie Steel and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Punjab (1894) is a collection of stories translated and collected by Flora Annie Steel. Collected while Steel lived with her husband in the north of the Indian subcontinent, Tales of the Punjab was a successful introduction to legends and stories from the Punjab region for children and adults back home in England. Published while India remained under the control of the British Empire, Steel’s collection puts a decidedly Western twist on the stories she learned from local women while advocating for education reform. In a village in the Punjab, as the sun sets on an exceedingly hot day, the local people return from the fields to prepare dinner and settle down for the evening. As they await the cooling winds of midnight in order to sleep outside, the villagers gather around a local storyteller. Possessing a wide knowledge of legends, tales, and history, he calmly begins to speak to his gathered audience. “Sir Buzz” is the story of a woman and her son who are left in dire poverty following the death of her husband, a soldier. Although young, the boy dreams of setting out into the world in order to bring something home for his mother. Finding six shillings in the pocket of an old coat, he leaves his home only to run into an injured tigress. Unable to remove a thorn from her paw, she asks the boy for his assistance, and offers him a mysterious reward. In “The Rat’s Wedding,” a rat takes shelter underground during a steady rainstorm. In his digging, he discovers a root, which he takes with him on his journey homeward once the rain subsides. Looking forward to using the root for himself, he encounters an old man struggling to light a fire with wood soaked through with rain. Exchanging his root for a piece of food, the generous rat continues on his way. Tales of the Punjab is a collection of forty-three instructive, humorous, and authentic stories translated by Flora Annie Steel. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Flora Annie Steel’s Tales of the Punjab is a classic of Anglo-Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Tales of the Punjab Folklore of India written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of "Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India" by Flora Annie Webster Steel. This captivating collection brings to life the rich tapestry of Indian folklore, weaving together stories that are as timeless as they are intriguing. In "Tales of the Punjab," Steel gathers a wealth of traditional tales, each brimming with magic, adventure, and moral lessons. From the tale of the soldier’s son and the mysteriously heavy box to other delightful narratives, these stories offer a window into the vibrant culture and values of Punjab. But what secrets lie within these ancient tales? How do they reflect the beliefs and wisdom of a bygone era? Discover the charm and depth of Indian folklore through "Tales of the Punjab," where each story is a journey into the heart of tradition and imagination. Let Steel's vivid storytelling transport you to a world where every tale is a treasure trove of wonder and wisdom. Ready to explore the folklore that has captivated generations? Embrace the magic of "Tales of the Punjab" and bring home a piece of cultural heritage. Purchase your copy today and delve into the enchanting stories of India’s past.
Download or read book Tales of the Punjab Told by the People written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story written by Bettina Jansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.
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Download or read book Daaku written by Ranj Dhaliwal and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the violent and ruthless world of Indo-Canadian gangs, Ruby Pandher is on his way up. A self-described daaku (Punjabi for outlaw), Ruby learns young that might, in the form of his drunken father's fists, is right, and that money is easier to steal than earn. Ruby's small-time scams reveal a knack for leadership and after his first stint in youth detention, the big-timers start to notice his potential. Soon, Ruby is doing collections for Indo-Canadian drug dealers. Now "known to police," Ruby is drawn into a gang war just as he's trying to beat the rap on weapons charges and theft -- while simultaneously organizing a jailhouse smuggling ring. On the cusp of adulthood, and surrounded by Punjabi terrorists, bikers and Indo-Canadian gangsters, Ruby is drawn like a moth to the glamour of power, money, and drugs. A story of betrayal, cold-blooded murder and the rise and eventual fall of one gangster, Daaku is a bullet-riddled grand tour of Indo-Canadian gangland.
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Download or read book Maximum Feasible Participation written by Stephen Schryer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this phrase, the Johnson administration provided its imprimatur for an emerging model of professionalism that sought to eradicate boundaries between professionals and their clients—a model that appealed to writers, especially African Americans and Chicanos/as associated with the cultural nationalisms gaining traction in the inner cities. These writers privileged artistic process over product, rejecting conventions that separated writers from their audiences. "Participatory professionalism," however, drew on a social scientific conception of poverty that proved to be the paradigm's undoing: the culture of poverty thesis popularized by Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Daniel Moynihan. For writers and policy experts associated with the War on Poverty, this thesis described the cultural gap that they hoped to close. Instead, it eventually led to the dismantling of the welfare state. Ranging from the 1950s to the present, the book explores how writers like Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Alice Walker, Philip Roth, and others exposed the War on Poverty's contradictions during its heyday and kept its legacy alive in the decades that followed.
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Download or read book South Asian Filmscapes written by Elora Halim Chowdhury and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South Asian cultural production continues today. South Asian Filmscapes excavates these complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners, while others interrogate how filmic politics intersects with discourses of nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language. Together, they offer a fluid approach to the multiple histories and encounters that conjure “South Asia” as a geographic and political entity in the region and globally through a cinematic imagination.
Download or read book Cyclop dia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial Industrial and Scientific written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tales of the Punjab Folklore of India written by Flora Annie Steel and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India is a collection of 43 folk-tales from the Punjab region of India. Written by Flora Annie Steel, it was first published in 1894. Stories include: The King of the Crocodiles; Little Anklebone; The Close Alliance; The Two Brothers; The Jackal and the Iguana; The Death and Burial of Poor Hen-Sparrow; Princess Pepperina; Peasie and Beansir; The Jackal and the Partridge; The Snake-woman and King Ali Mardan; The Wonderful Ring; The Jackal and the Pea-hen; The Grain of Corn; The Farmer and the Money-lender, and many more.
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