Download or read book The Lamplighter written by Maria Susanna Cummins and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Gertrude Flint, an abandoned and mistreated orphan rescued at the age of eight by Trueman Flint, a lamplighter, from her abusive guardian, Nan Grant. Gerty is lovingly raised and taught virtues and religious faith, forming her to become a moral woman. In adulthood, she is rewarded for her many tribulations by marriage to a childhood friend.
Download or read book Peppe the Lamplighter written by Elisa Bartone and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peppe becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century New York City, despite his papa's disapproval. But when Peppe's job helps save his little sister, he earns the respect of his entire family.
Download or read book The Lamplighter written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1854 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lamplighter written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rossamèund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary.
Download or read book The Lamplighters written by Emma Stonex and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Transported me effortlessly…Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.” --Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push “A ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing. . . . As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity, in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible.” --The Guardian (London) Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent. It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45. Two decades later, the keepers' wives are visited by a writer determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe. In her riveting and suspenseful novel, Emma Stonex writes a story of isolation and obsession, of reality and illusion, and of what it takes to keep the light burning when all else is swallowed by dark.
Download or read book The Lamplighter written by Jackie Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women’ Guardian 'Jackie Kay’s work, formally expansive and inclusive . . . is always about the opening up of our notions of identity' Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both In The Lamplighter award-winning poet and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay takes us on a journey into the dark heart of Britain’s legacy in the slave trade. First produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic multi-layered poem. We watch as four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, following life on the plantations, charting the growth of the British city and the industrial revolution. Constance has witnessed the sale of her own child; Mary has been beaten to an inch of her life; Black Harriot has been forced to sell her body; and our lead, the Lamplighter, was sold twice into slavery from the ports in Bristol. Their different voices sing together in a rousing chorus that speaks to the experiences of all those brutalised by slavery, and lifts in the end to a soaring and powerful conclusion. Stirring, impassioned and deeply affecting, The Lamplighter remains as essential today as the day it was first performed. This is an essential work by one of our most beloved writers.
Download or read book The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]. This book was released on 1900 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lamplighter written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lamplighter written by Kerry Brown and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old World lamplighters once lit the streets of cities like Constantinople, Alexandria, and Rome. In the countryside, in the new colonies, the lamplighter doesn't light passages through the dark; he lights perimeters against it, and the wildernesses beyond. In the tiny South Island beach settlement of Porbeagle, Candle is apprentice to his grandfather, Ignis. But as the community prepares to celebrate the lamplighter's retirement, old stories take on darker hues. If the origins of folklore are in a sunken history of violence and prejudice, what is the price of Candle's freedom? Inhabiting a luminous space between realism and parable, between an all-too-familiar contemporary New Zealand and a magical otherworld, Lamplighter is as captivating as it is unsettling.
Download or read book The Gentleman and the Lamplighter written by Summer Devon and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GENTLEMAN AND THE LAMPLIGHTER is a historical romance short story about two men from different worlds who find acceptance—and red-hot passion—in each other's arms. From Summer Devon, who writes "gay Victorian romance with emotional tension" (Publishers Weekly). You Can't Walk Away from Love. Destroyed by the death of his former schoolmate yet unable to show it publicly, Giles Fullerton has taken to walking the streets of London in the middle of the night, the only time he can safely mourn the only person he's ever loved—until one chance meeting with a lamplighter changes everything.... But You Can Walk Toward It... Widower John Banks knows a thing or two about grief, and immediately recognizes a kindred spirit when he finally meets the handsome, haunted gentleman he's admired from afar. And in fact, the two men discover shared passions and the possibility of a forever love—if they can overcome social taboos, and their own fears.... A HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Original Short Story
Download or read book Teddy s Button written by Amy Le Feuvre and published by Curiosmith. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proud Teddy tells the story behind a button taken from his father's coat after he died in battle. The new neighborhood girl, Nancy, dressed in a sailor's outfit brings challenges and trouble. Teddy loves all things related to soldiers and becomes a soldier in the Lord's army. This story highlights the everyday inner battles that a Christian faces, such as contention. An important verse is "His banner over me was love."-Song of Solomon 2:4.
Download or read book The Hedge of Thorns written by Mary Martha Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge of Thorns recounts the life of John Carrol, a Christian working man. Sherwood includes Biblical annotations throughout the tale.
Download or read book Lamplighter written by Bernice Thurman Hunter and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic-TAB. This book was released on 1987 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stout loghouse and a strong papa; crackly cornhusk mattresses and water fetched from a spring down the hill; crashing trees and howling storms; encounters with bears, wolves and deer; exciting trips to Toronto. All these things and more - make a rich and varied life for young Willie Adams. Find out what it was like to live in Northern Ontario in 1888 in this book by the award-winning author of the popular Booky trilogy and Amy's Promise.
Download or read book The Lamp of God written by Freema Gottlieb and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Download or read book American Too written by Elisa Bartone and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rosina arrives in New York Harbor with her family from Italy, she dreams of dressing up someday as the Statue of Liberty.
Download or read book Dovetail written by Karen McQuestion and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death. Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple effect on all who loved her. Digging into the events of that summer in 1916, Joe is convinced that his recurrent visions relate to Alice's untimely passing and to the beloved man she meant to marry. With the help of Kathleen, a local woman Joe's fallen for, the puzzles of the past start falling into place. As uncovered truths bring Joe and Kathleen closer together, they also reveal a new danger. For Joe's dreams may be a warning--from one star-crossed couple to another.
