Download or read book The Magnificent Mummer written by Horace Wyndham and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mummer s Curse written by Gillian Roberts and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new novel starring Philadelphia schoolteacher Amanda Pepper, Gillian Roberts once again mixes mystery and mirth. This time Roberts explores Philadelphia's unique flesh and blood "historical monument"-- the Mummers, who live (and perhaps are willing to die) for a few hours of glory every New Year's Day. The famous Mummers' Parade is an extravaganza that draws enormous crowds who cheer through chattering teeth, as more than thirty thousand clowns, string bands, and fancy brigades strut their stuff up Broad Street. But this year, while the music blares and the Mummers dance, a reveling Pierrot suddenly sinks to the ground, shot dead. Amanda is, at first, only a horrified spectator. But when the prime suspect--her friend and fellow teacher at Philly Prep--falsely claims to have been with her at the time of the murder, Amanda can no longer stay on the sidelines. Is the murder a flare-up of deadly rivalries? Is it connected with the disappearance, the week before Christmas, of another Mummer, the heir to a meat-packing family? Does someone disapprove of the Mummers' feathers, sequins, and string bands? And why is no one in the tight-knit world Amanda investigates willing to tell the truth about anything? With Amanda on the scene, the who in whodunit doesn't stay secret for long. In The Mummers' Curse, Gillian Roberts is, as always, at the head of the parade.
Download or read book A Mummer s Tale and The Wicker Work Woman written by Anatole France and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊIN his study M. Bergeret, professor of literature at the University, was preparing his lesson on the eighth book of the ®neidto the shrill mechanical accompaniment of the piano, on which, close by, his daughters were practising a difficult exercise. M. BergeretÕs room possessed only one window, but this was a large one, and filled up one whole side. It admitted, however, more draught than light, for the sashes were ill-fitting and the panes darkened by a high contiguous wall. M. BergeretÕs table, pushed close against this window, caught the dismal rays of niggard daylight that filtered through. As a matter of fact this study, where the professor polished and repolished his fine, scholarly phrases, was nothing more than a shapeless cranny, or rather a double recess, behind the framework of the main staircase which, spreading out most inconsiderately in a great curve towards the window, left only room on either side for two useless, churlish corners. Trammelled by this monstrous, green-papered paunch of masonry, M. Bergeret had with difficulty discovered in his cantankerous studyÑa geometrical abortion as well as an ¾sthetic abominationÑa scanty flat surface where he could stack his books along the deal shelves, upon which yellow rows of Teubner classics were plunged in never-lifted gloom. M. Bergeret himself used to sit squeezed close up against the window, writing in a cold, chilly style that owed much to the bleakness of the atmosphere in which he worked. Whenever he found his papers neither torn nor topsy-turvy and his pens not gaping cross-nibbed, he considered himself a lucky man! For such was the usual result of a visit to the study from Madame Bergeret or her daughters, where they came to write up the laundry list or the household accounts. Here, too, stood the dressmakerÕs dummy, on which Madame Bergeret used to drape the skirts she cut out at home. There, bolt upright, over against the learned editions of Catullus and Petronius, stood, like a symbol of the wedded state, this wicker-work woman. M. Bergeret was preparing his lesson on the eighth book of the ®neid, and he ought to have been devoting himself exclusively to the fascinating details of metre and language. In this task he would have found, if not joy, at any rate mental peace and the priceless balm of spiritual tranquillity. Instead, he had turned his thoughts in another direction: he was musing on the soul, the genius, the outward features of that classic world whose books he spent his life in studying. He had given himself up to the longing to behold with his own eyes those golden shores, that azure sea, those rose-hued mountains, those lovely meadows through which the poet leads his heroes. He was bemoaning himself bitterly that it had never been his lot to visit the shores where once Troy stood, to gaze on the landscape of Virgil, to breathe the air of Italy, of Greece and holy Asia, as Gaston Boissier and Gaston Deschamps had done. The melancholy aspect of his study overwhelmed him and great waves of misery submerged his mind. His sadness was, of course, the fruit of his own folly, for all our real sorrows come from within and are self-caused. We mistakenly believe that they come from outside, but we create them within ourselves from our own personality.
Download or read book The Ramblings of an Old Mummer written by Russell Craufurd and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Martin the Mummer written by Dorothy Margaret Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The unconscious mummers A prince of Bohemia A man of business Gaudissart II The firm of Nucingen Facino Cane A princess s secrets Bureaucracy written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Drift written by Michael Swanwick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “shocking [and] powerful” classic of postapocalyptic terror by the Nebula Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (New York Daily News). It’s been one hundred years since Three Mile Island went into full meltdown, filling the atmosphere with a radioactive poison that would contaminate the skies for hundreds of generations. Since then, the area around the island—now known as the Drift—has been a wasteland of disease and deformity, madness and monsters. It’s been one hundred years since humanity knew what order and hope were. The Drift has a law unto itself—one of vampires and mutants and outcasts left to struggle for daily survival. Within its bounds, the simplest act—even asking the wrong questions—can mean death. Or worse. Praised by George R. R. Martin as “a potent new myth from the reality of radioactive waste,” In the Drift is an inventive and unsettling look at the lives of those who are left to deal with the fallout of a nuclear disaster—a towering work of postapocalyptic fiction that provokes conversation and consideration even as it produces nightmares.
Download or read book Plays for Strolling Mummers written by Frank Shay and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.
Download or read book Modern Men and Mummers written by Hesketh Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Science Fiction Thrillers written by Michael Swanwick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three excursions through time, outer space, and imaginary worlds from “one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation” (The Washington Post). Michael Swanwick is a legend in the science fiction and fantasy universe, having won five Hugos, a Nebula, a World Fantasy Award, and many more honors for his mind-bending work. This trio of acclaimed sci-fi thrillers showcases the versatility of an author who can build a world, foresee a future, and alter reality. Bones of the Earth: A remarkable scientific breakthrough presented to humankind by an enigmatic future race enables a team of paleontologists to travel back in time to study dinosaurs in their natural prehistoric habitat. But the greatest discovery in history threatens to foment terrorism and create dangerous time paradoxes that could alter tomorrow’s world in this Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated novel. In the Drift: On an alternate Earth, the meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant created a radioactive wasteland and caused the collapse of the US government. A century later, the mutants, monsters, and untouchables of the no-man’s-land called “the Drift” are descending on the city of Philadelphia. Vacuum Flowers: In this futuristic cyberpunk thriller, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is a recorded personality owned by a corporate giant. When Rebel’s personality is uploaded to an unsuspecting persona tester and burned into her brain, she escapes the corporation by hijacking her host’s body and embarking on a mad dash to freedom across the solar system.
Download or read book The Stanford Illustrated Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seraphita Louis Lambert The sceaux ball The unconscious mummers A daughter of Eve Letters of two brides written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honor de Balzac in twenty five volumes The unconscious mummers A Prince of Bohemia A man of business Gaudissart II The firm of Nucingen Facino Cane A princess s secrets Bureaucracy written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead The belief among the Polynesians written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead written by Frazer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 1913 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1913 volume discusses several religions whereby believers worship the dead both in hopes that the dead will bless their futures and in hopes that the dead will rise up to bless the living. This concept of the undead or dead rising again is present in some capacity in many religions, even mainstream ones like Christianity (i.e. the resurrection). This volume highlights those beliefs among the Aborigines in Australia, New Guinea and Melanesia.
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Sociology magic and religion of the Eastern Islanders written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
