Download or read book The Opposite Bastard written by Simon Packham and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to take employment as live-in carer for a genius quadriplegic undergraduate, failed actor Timothy Salt is not optimistic. His charge, Michael Owen, is only at Oxford to please his devoted mum. When ersatz aristo Phillip Sydney offers the leading role in his student production of Hamlet to Michael, Timothy’s humiliation seems complete. Meanwhile, fellow student thespian Anna Jenkins, deciding that Phillip is the ‘perfect gentleman’ who Mummy so wants her to find, accepts the part of Ophelia. Then TV producer Nikki Hardbody (Kids with Cancer and Pepé: The Boy with No Nose) arrives to immortalise Michael in her latest documentary, and Timothy realizes that the only way he can salvage any self-respect is by sabotaging the production of Hamlet. Michael, meanwhile, is horrified to find himself falling for Anna. As rehearsals progress, Anna discovers that her perfect partner isn’t Phillip Sydney after all. No one is more delighted than cynical Nikki Hardbody. The Opposite Bastard is a dark comedy of manners. An uproarious and moving commentary on love, disability, dignity, political correctness and media opportunism, it is a strikingly original and provocative debut.
Download or read book The Book of Bastards written by Brian Thornton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over, Benedict Arnold . . . Oh to be sure, America's first traitor is one of the 101 bastards you will find in this one-of-a-kind account of bad guys in Washington. But compared to some of the gross misconduct in this frighteningly funny history book, well, let's just say he's in good company. This page-turner of a potboiler reveals all the dirtiest little secrets readers never learned in history class. From illegitimate children (we thought Grover Cleveland was too boring to have sex) and illicit trysts (Warren G. Harding in the White House phone booth with his secretary) to turncoats (make up your own mind about Daniel Ellsberg) and traitors (General Wilkinson, aka a Spanish secret agent), you will discover all the dirt worth dishing since the founding of Jamestown. The Book of Bastards - because what you don't know about the history of our great nation can make you laugh and cry!
Download or read book The Reading of the Famous and Learned Robert Callis Esq Upon the Statute of Sewers written by Robert Callis and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bastard written by Luther Butler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the time when stoop labor is needed by farmers in the United States you see them working in fields throughout the United States. Brown skinned people of South Texas jam into old vehicles and set out for places where they hope to earn enough money to help get them fed and clothed until El Patrons cotton and vegetable fields give them a winter job. Hispanic migratory workers play a large role in keeping us fed and clothed. Often times they are mistreated and abused. BASTARD follows one group of these workers from their South Texas homes to a Colorado beet field. Destined to follow this path of migration for generations, Hesus and his bodyguard, Juan, follow the workers before they go to Southern Methodist University to learn how to better conditions for the people of Tex-Mex heritage. In the same order as Sinclair Lewis in DUBIOUS BATTLE, the author hopes this novel will draw attention to the migratory workers of the Southwest. In addition this touching story of a familys fight for existence should be some mighty fine reading savored with a touch of chili powder.
Download or read book The True Bastards written by Jonathan P. French and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2019 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to The Grey Bastards, this irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed fantasy is rollicking, cunningly clever swords 'n' sorcery storytelling that's a shot of pure fun for fantasy fans.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law written by Arthur English and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes contain absorbing and interesting concise definitions of ancient and modern words and terms that a student or lawyer might come across in legal readings. Purely statutory and judicial definitions, since they are constantly changing, are excluded. This is a wonderful reference source for all who are serious about legal history or merely curious as to the meaning of thousands of words often or rarely encountered.
Download or read book The Knight the Cross and the Song written by Stefan Erik Kristiaan Vander Elst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the role of secular chivalric literature in shaping Crusade propaganda across three centuries.
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Download or read book Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World written by Subha Mukherji and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "blind spot" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain "reads" the "blind spot" of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual "community" into print.
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Download or read book The Hundred Years War Vol 5 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative.' The Times 'Unsurpassed, and probably unsurpassable.' Daily Telegraph In this final volume of his epic history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest, from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI until the loss of all of England's continental dominions except Calais thirty years later. This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation-states of western Europe, ending four centuries of the English dynasty's presence in France and separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined, creating a new sense of national identity in both. The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come. Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age: the Duke of Bedford, the English Regent who ruled much of France; Charles VII of France, who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years; the captains populating the pages of Shakespeare - Fastolf, Montagu, Talbot, Dunois and, above all, the extraordinary figure of Joan of Arc who changed the course of the war in a few weeks at the age of seventeen. 'The Hundred Years War ends in England's agonising defeat - but triumph for Jonathan Sumption . . . There is no doubting his achievement. It is, as everyone says, a "monumental" work.' Spectator
