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Book The Twice told Tale

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  • Author : Abba Bendavid
  • Publisher : Carta Jerusalem
  • Release : 2017-09
  • ISBN : 9789652208866
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Twice told Tale written by Abba Bendavid and published by Carta Jerusalem. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twice-Told Tale: Parallels in the Bible is the English version of a Hebrew work titled Parallels in the Bible, which is also published by Carta Jerusalem. As in the Hebrew version, the entire Book of Chronicles (I and II) appears in one column, with the parallel verses from other books of the Bible in an accompanying column on the same page. Parallels between books other than Chronicles are also included, such as parallel laws in the Pentateuch, later prophets' use of earlier prophets, and parallel psalms and proverbs. Words or phrases that are omitted in one source are represented by blank spaces of appropriate length in the opposite column. The Twice-Told Tale uses the classic text of the King James Version for this English edition. Key features of The Twice-Told Tale - It collates and presents parallel Bible texts in a way that clearly shows the duplications, differences, and silences. - It is conveniently arranged for ease of study. - It allows you to draw your own conclusions regarding the variant accounts in the Bible.

Book Twicetold Tales  Cassie and the Woolf

Download or read book Twicetold Tales Cassie and the Woolf written by Olivia Snowe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Woolf has designs on the basket of food that Cassie Cloak takes to her grandmother every Sunday, so they set a trap to teach him a lesson.

Book Abigail 1702

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  • Author : Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 2017-09-29
  • ISBN : 0822230755
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Abigail 1702 written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale of New England witchery, it is ten years after the harrowing and tragic events of the Salem witch trials. Abigail Williams—the lead accuser who sent twenty people to their doom as a young girl—now lives under an assumed name on the outskirts of Boston, quietly striving to atone for her sins. When a handsome stranger arrives claiming to be a sailor in need, Abigail takes him in, and long-dormant passions awaken within her. Love starts to grow between the two—an unlikely flower cracking through salty earth. But their contentment is short-lived, for someone else is coming for Abigail, someone who has been looking for her since she danced in the weird woods of Salem. The Devil is demanding Abigail's soul, and a debt will be paid—but first, Abigail must make peace with the woman she most wronged…

Book Twice Told Tales

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  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2001-10-09
  • ISBN : 0375757880
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Twice Told Tales written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of short stories and shorter works by Nathaniel Hawthorne was heralded upon its release and is still widely considered a classic.

Book The Glass Voice

Download or read book The Glass Voice written by Olivia Snowe and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern version of Cinderella, Chantella Verre is being treated like a servant by her oblivious father's new wife and her awful twins--but Chantella gets a chance to sing at the Next Teen Star audition when her former nanny shows up to set things right.

Book The Girl and the Seven Thieves

Download or read book The Girl and the Seven Thieves written by Olivia Snowe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eira is left in a New York City alley. When seven thieves find her, she'll have to trust them.

Book A Twice told Tale

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  • Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780874137330
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book A Twice told Tale written by Santiago Juan-Navarro and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

Book Twice told Tales

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  • Author : Hans Dieckmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780933029026
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Twice told Tales written by Hans Dieckmann and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice Told Tales are not only for the young. Many have discovered the "magnificent, colorful, many-sided, fantasy world of fairy tales" as children, but, as Hans Dieckmann points out, we can rediscover their value as adults. "As with all great art, the fairy tale's deepest meaning will be different for each person, and different for the same person at various moments in his life." (Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment) By the use of case histories, Dr. Dieckmann recounts ways in which "the greatest treasures of the soul" can be revealed in fairy tales. He graphically shows how fairy tales can give "color and vivacity to a life grown empty, sterile, and desolate." Dr. Dieckmann interprets the symbolic significance of many individual fairy tales and relates their meaning to various stages of a person's development.

Book A Thrice Told Tale

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  • Author : Margery Wolf
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1992-04
  • ISBN : 9780804719803
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book A Thrice Told Tale written by Margery Wolf and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan--a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article--to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different style, and has different "outcomes," yet all three involve the same fascinating set of events. A young mother began to behave in a decidedly abherrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization? Or was she being cynically manipulated by her ne'er-do-well husband to elicit sympathy and money from her neighbors? In the end, the woman was taken away from the area to her mother's house. For some villagers, this settled the matter; for others the debate over her behavior was probably never truly resolved. The first text is a short story written shortly after the incident, which occurred almost thrity years ago; the second text is a copy of the fieldnotes collected about the events covered in the short story; the third text is an article published in 1990 in American Ethnologist that analyzes the incident from the author's current perspective. Following each text is a Commentary in which the author discusses such topics as experimental ethnography, polyvocality, authorial presence and control, reflexivity, and some of the differences between fiction and ethnography. The three texts are framed by two chapters in which the author discusses the genereal problems posed by feminist and postmodernist critics of ethnography and presents her personal exploration of these issues in an argument that is strongly self-reflexive and theoretically rigorous. She considers some feminist concerns over colonial research methods and takes issues with the insistence of some feminists tha the topics of ethnographic research be set by those who are studied. The book concludes with a plea for ethnographic responsibility based on a less academic and more practical perspective.

Book The Mirror of Ink

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  • Author : Jorge Luis Borges
  • Publisher : Penguin Hardcover
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780141022130
  • Pages : 55 pages

Download or read book The Mirror of Ink written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Penguin Hardcover. This book was released on 2005 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explore philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence, and Penguin Modern Classics introduced many of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions, to a wide audience. This collection includes seven of his most famous tales, which intrigue, inspire and mesmerize through their singular genius.

Book Fortune s Fool

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  • Author : Mercedes Lackey
  • Publisher : LUNA
  • Release : 2008-04-01
  • ISBN : 1426814828
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Fortune s Fool written by Mercedes Lackey and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…

Book Selected Twice told Tales

Download or read book Selected Twice told Tales written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

Download or read book Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *National Bestseller* The acclaimed retelling of the world’s best-loved fairy tales by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass and The Book of Dust—now in paperback, and with 3 new tales! Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” and “Hansel and Gretel” have become deeply woven into the Western imagination. Now Philip Pullman, the New York Times bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. Here are Pullman’s fifty favorites—a wide-ranging selection that includes the most popular stories as well as lesser-known treasures like “The Three Snake Leaves,” “Godfather Death,” and “The Girl with No Hands”—alongside his personal commentaries on each story’s sources, variations, and everlasting appeal. Suffused with romance and villainy, danger and wit, Pullman’s beguiling retellings will cast a spell on readers of all ages. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book The Sealed Up House

Download or read book The Sealed Up House written by Olivia Snowe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a house in the hills that no one has gone into in a hundred years.

Book Hell s Half Acre

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  • Author : Susan Jonusas
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2023-03-07
  • ISBN : 1984879855
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Hell s Half Acre written by Susan Jonusas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's "Books We Love" New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war. In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders. The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders—one among the thousands relocating farther west in search of land and opportunity after the Civil War—were capable of operating "a human slaughter pen" appalled and fascinated the nation. But who the Benders really were, why they committed such a vicious killing spree and whether justice ever caught up to them is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set against the backdrop of postbellum America, Hell’s Half-Acre explores the environment capable of allowing such horrors to take place. Drawing on extensive original archival material, Susan Jonusas introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, many of whom have been previously missing from the story. Among them are the families of the victims, the hapless detectives who lost the trail, and the fugitives that helped the murderers escape. Hell’s Half-Acre is a journey into the turbulent heart of nineteenth century America, a place where modernity stalks across the landscape, violently displacing existing populations and building new ones. It is a world where folklore can quickly become fact and an entire family of criminals can slip through a community’s fingers, only to reappear in the most unexpected of places.

Book Dandelion and the Witch

Download or read book Dandelion and the Witch written by Olivia Snowe and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fourteen years Dandelion has lived in a house with the witch she thinks is her mother, but when she shows signs of growing up the witch locks her in a tower in the woods--where a boy named Arthur hears her singing.

Book Crossings

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  • Author : Alex Landragin
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 1250259053
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Crossings written by Alex Landragin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." —Publishers Weekly "Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.