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Book Victorian Midnights 1

Download or read book Victorian Midnights 1 written by John Pirillo and published by John Pirillo. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO EXCITING SHERLOCK HOLMES URBAN FANTASY MYSTERIES DARK STROKES: A MAN SEEKS TO HAVE HIS WISH GRANTED, BUT AT A COST HE MIGHT LATER REGRET. SHERLOCK HOLMES REVEALED: A FUN INTERVIEW WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Book The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

Book Sherlock Holmes  Victorian Midnights 1

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Victorian Midnights 1 written by John Pirillo and published by Victorian Midnights. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO EXCITING SHERLOCK HOLMES URBAN FANTASY MYSTERIES DARK STROKES: A MAN SEEKS TO HAVE HIS WISH GRANTED, BUT AT A COST HE MIGHT LATER REGRET. SHERLOCK HOLMES REVEALED: A FUN INTERVIEW WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES. Don't miss out on these exciting Holmes stories.

Book Twelve Minutes to Midnight

Download or read book Twelve Minutes to Midnight written by Christopher Edge and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales—concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch—are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly writing-incoherent ramblings that Penelope quickly realizes are frightening visions of the century to come. But what is causing this phenomenon? In the first book of this smart new series, Penelope is drawn into a thrilling mystery more terrifying than anything she could ever imagine!

Book Midnight  Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning

Download or read book Midnight Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning written by Victoria Shorr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but Midnight finds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. Joan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved—and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.

Book Cassell s time tables of the Metropolitan railways

Download or read book Cassell s time tables of the Metropolitan railways written by Cassell, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tom s Midnight Garden

Download or read book Tom s Midnight Garden written by Philippa Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Book Midnight Never Come

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie Brennan
  • Publisher : Titan Books
  • Release : 2015-11-13
  • ISBN : 1785650742
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Midnight Never Come written by Marie Brennan and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In hidden catacombs beneath London, below the royal court of Elizabeth I, a second queen holds power. Invidiana, the dark ruler of faerie England. Fae and mortal politics have become inextricably entwined, in alliances and betrayals. When the faerie Lune is sent to manipulate Elizabeth's spymaster, her path crosses that of a mortal agent, Michael Deven, who is seeking the hidden hand in English politics. Will they be able to find the source of Invidiana's power? Find it, and break it...

Book The Victoria Nautical and Commercial Almanac  for

Download or read book The Victoria Nautical and Commercial Almanac for written by Andrew Murray and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jacaranda Maths Quest 8 Victorian Curriculum  3e learnON and Print

Download or read book Jacaranda Maths Quest 8 Victorian Curriculum 3e learnON and Print written by Catherine Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Results of the Meteorological Observations Taken in the Colony of Victoria  During the Years 1859 1862

Download or read book Results of the Meteorological Observations Taken in the Colony of Victoria During the Years 1859 1862 written by Melbourne Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady of a Thousand Treasures

Download or read book Lady of a Thousand Treasures written by Sandra Byrd and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father’s passing and her uncle’s decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron’s legendary collection. She must choose whether to donate the priceless treasures to a museum or allow them to pass to the baron’s only living son, Harry—the man who broke Eleanor’s heart. Eleanor distrusts the baron’s motives and her own ability to be unbiased regarding Harry’s future. Harry claims to still love her and Eleanor yearns to believe him, but his mysterious comments and actions fuel her doubts. When she learns an Italian beauty accompanied him on his return to England, her lingering hope for a future with Harry dims. With the threat of debtor’s prison closing in, Eleanor knows that donating the baron’s collection would win her favor among potential clients, saving Sheffield Brothers. But the more time she spends with Harry, the more her faith in him grows. Might Harry be worthy of his inheritance, and her heart, after all? As pressures mount and time runs out, Eleanor must decide whom she can trust—who in her life is false or true, brass or gold—and what is meant to be treasured.

Book Midnight Rambles

Download or read book Midnight Rambles written by David J. Goodwin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. Midnight Rambles explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in his life that shaped his literary career and the inextricable racism in his work. Initially, New York stood as a place of liberation for Lovecraft. During the brief period between 1924 and 1926 when he lived there, Lovecraft joined a creative community and experimented with bohemian living in the publishing and cultural capital of the United States. He also married fellow writer Sonia H. Greene, a Ukrainian-Jewish émigré in the fashion industry. However, cascading personal setbacks and his own professional ineptitude soured him on New York. As Lovecraft became more frustrated, his xenophobia and racism became more pronounced. New York’s large immigrant population and minority communities disgusted him, and this mindset soon became evident in his writing. Many of his stories from this era are infused with racial and ethnic stereotypes and nativist themes, most notably his overtly racist short story, “The Horror at Red Hook,” set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His personal letters reveal an even darker bigotry. Author David J. Goodwin presents a chronological micro-biography of Lovecraft’s New York years, emphasizing Lovecraft’s exploration of the city environment, the greater metropolitan region, and other locales and how they molded him as a writer and as an individual. Drawing from primary sources (letters, memoirs, and published personal reflections) and secondary sources (biographies and scholarship), Midnight Rambles develops a portrait of a talented and troubled author and offers insights into his unsettling beliefs on race, ethnicity, and immigration.

Book The Mid Victorian Generation

Download or read book The Mid Victorian Generation written by K. Theodore Hoppen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.

Book Victoria Crosses on the Western Front

Download or read book Victoria Crosses on the Western Front written by Paul Oldfield and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Second Battle of Bapaume is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close to, where each VC was won. Photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering every aspect of their lives warts and all: parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.

Book Drink and the Victorians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Howard Harrison
  • Publisher : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Drink and the Victorians written by Brian Howard Harrison and published by [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the lesser known aspects of industrialization in nineteenth-century England is its impact on people's drinking habits and on their attitudes to drink. This pioneering study analyzes the role of drink in England between 1815 and 1872 and investigates the motives and methods of the reformers who tried to combat the widespread drunkenness prevalent at that time..." - Book jacket.