Download or read book Whispers of Bedlam Asylum written by Mark C. King and published by Mark C. King. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book Reapers written by Mark C. King and published by Mark C. King. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How safe are your stories? Victorian England, 1891. Naomi Gladwyn is an awkward girl, who is uncomfortable in crowds, has more self-doubt than confidence, and would much rather sit quietly reading than attend the most lavish of celebrations. After the deaths of her parents and her uncle's mysterious disappearance along with the rest of the crew of the infamous ghost ship Mary Celeste, her prospects look grim. But just before her eighteenth birthday, when she's to be sent to live out her days in a work house, she runs away - and finds herself swept into the dark world of the Book Reapers, a secret society that knows there's more to some books than meets the eye. Naomi always thought reading was her safest refuge. But she's about to learn that some books are very dangerous...
Download or read book Whispers of Bedlam Asylum written by Mark C. King and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the splendor of Victorian Age London was not without its faults. In its heart is one of the darkest places in human history, Bedlam Asylum. The whispered rumours of brutality, fear, and hopelessness turn out to be only the beginning of its cruelty. One man is trying to protect his family by uncovering the worst of Bedlam's hidden secrets. One woman is following in her late husband's footsteps to try and help those that can't help themselves. They will both find that looking for evil does not necessarily make one prepared to find it.
Download or read book The Whispers of Bedlam Asylum written by Mark C King and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness Is Not Confined To The InsaneEven the splendor of Victorian Age London was not without its faults. In its heart is one of the darkest places in human history, Bedlam Asylum. The whispered rumours of brutality, fear, and hopelessness turn out to be only the beginning of its cruelty.One man is trying to protect his family by uncovering the worst of Bedlam's hidden secrets. One woman is following in her late husband's footsteps to try and help those that can't help themselves.They will both find that looking for evil does not necessarily make one prepared to find it.
Download or read book The Moss Maiden of Kinderhook written by Mark C. King and published by Mark C. King. This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If monsters are real, then anything is possible. Kinderhook, New York - 1826 Like all his peers, seventeen-year-old William Sharp grew up hearing fairy tales about the Moss Maiden, a folklore creature that rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But those were just stories to scare children…weren’t they? Then why are people dying? What is haunting the forests of Kinderhook Village? Though frightened and overwhelmed, William will uncover secrets that will call on him to do more than he could imagine. He’ll have to contend with horrors beyond his most disturbing dreams. For the sake of his family, the girl he loves, and his very life, William will have to face the nightmare that is the Moss Maiden of Kinderhook!
Download or read book Masters of Bedlam written by Andrew Scull and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unreformed Bedlam to the construction of a post-Darwinian bio-psychiatry centered on the new Maudsley Hospital, from a therapeutics of bleeding, purging, and close confinement through the era of moral treatment and nonrestraint to a fin-de-siécle degenerationism and despair, men claiming expertise in the treatment of mental disorder sought to construct a collective identity as trustworthy and scientifically qualified professionals. This fascinating series of biographies answers the question: How successful were they in creating such a new identity?. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, the authors vividly re-create the often colorful and always eventful lives of these seven "masters of bedlam." Sensitive to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of each man's personal biography, the authors replace hagiographical ac-counts of the great men who founded modern psychiatry with fully rounded portraits of their struggles and successes, their achievements and limitations. In the process Masters of Bedlam provides an extremely subtle and nuanced portrait of the efforts of successive generations of alienists to carve out a popular and scientific respect for their specialty, and reminds us repeatedly of the complexities of nineteenth-century developments in the field of psychiatry. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Bughouse written by Daniel Swift and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. Before the trial could take place, however, he was pronounced insane. Escaping a possible death sentence, he was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, D.C., where he was held for more than a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most infamous, and most contradictory. He was a genius and a traitor, a great poet and a madman. He was also an irresistible figure and, in his cell on Chestnut Ward and on the elegant hospital grounds, he was visited by the major poets and writers of his time. T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Charles Olson, and Frederick Seidel all went to sit with him. They listened to him speak and wrote of what they had seen. This was perhaps the world’s most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist, held in a lunatic asylum, with chocolate brownies and mayonnaise sandwiches served for tea. Pound continues to divide all who read and think of him. At the hospital, the doctors who studied him and the poets who learned from him each had a different understanding of this wild and most difficult man. Tracing Pound through the eyes of his visitors, Daniel Swift’s The Bughouse tells a story of politics, madness, and modern art in the twentieth century.
Download or read book My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum written by Herman Charles Merivale and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.
Download or read book The Queen of Bedlam written by Robert McCammon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity—and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend "the Masker," adding fuel to a volatile mystery...and when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart-pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where the Queen of Bedlam reigns—and only a man of Matthew's reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. From the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew's quest will tauntingly reveal the answers he seeks—and the chilling truths he cannot escape.
Download or read book Ten Days in a Mad House EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition written by Nellie Bly and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mercy of the Lord written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Mercy of the Lord' is a drama-genre novel, colored with religious undertones, written by Flora Annie Webster Steel. In the first chapter, we found Craddock, one of the main characters, polishing the brass of his safety valve and singing the while at high pressure between set teeth: his choice of a ditty determined by one of his transitory lapses into conventional righteousness. The cause of which in the present instance being an equally transient admiration for a good little Eurasian girl fresh from her convent. As the sun--which shines equally on the just and the unjust--flamed on his red face and glowed from his corn-coloured beard it seemed to me--waiting in the comparative coolth of the pointsman's mud-oven shelter till the one mail train of the day should appear and disappear, leaving the ribbon of rail which spanned the desert world to its horizon free for our passaging--that both he and his engine radiated heat: that they gave out--as the burning bush or the flaming swords of the paradise-protectors must have given out--a message of fiery warning that suited the words he sang.
Download or read book The Mercy of the Lord written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mercy Of The Lord written by Annie Steel Flora and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mercy of the Lord" is a set of quick tales written through Flora Annie Steel, an English writer recognised for her works set in British India. The book offers a compilation of captivating memories that delve into the human revel in and discover numerous themes. The memories in "The Mercy of the Lord" offer readers a glimpse into the wealthy and numerous lifestyle of India, as well as the complexities of human nature. Flora Annie Steel, who lived in India for 22 years, brings her firsthand studies and deep expertise of the place to the narratives. Each story in the series affords a unique attitude, providing insights into the lives of different characters, their struggles, joys, and interactions. From memories that depict the mercy and compassion of the divine to memories featuring everyday people navigating demanding situations and dilemmas, the ebook encompasses more than a few feelings and conditions. Flora Annie Steel's writing fashion is characterised by means of shiny descriptions, evocative imagery, and a nuanced portrayal of cultural nuances. Through her storytelling, she ambitions to entertain, enlighten, and provoke notion, inviting readers to contemplate profound questions and respect the intricacies of the human condition.
Download or read book A Duke the Lady and a Baby written by Vanessa Riley and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a “Must Read” by Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Vulture, NPR, Woman’s World and more, the first installment in award-winning author Vanessa Riley’s swoon-worthy Rogues & Remarkable Women series is now available in mass market! This groundbreaking, empowering, sexy Regency romance featuring a recently widowed Afro-Caribbean heiress and a dashing Duke is perfect for the Bridgerton binge-watcher and fans of witty historical romance by authors such as Julia Quinn, Evie Dunmore, and Eloisa James. “Smart and witty . . . the perfect historical read.” —Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author It’s challenging for a widow, especially one who’s fallen from grace, to find true love again—or perhaps for the very first time. When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything—most devastatingly, her newborn son, Lionel. Falsely persecuted, she risks her life to be near him, disguising herself in order to be hired as her own son’s nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his strictness belies an ex-rake of unswerving honor—and unexpected passion . . . A wounded military hero, Repington is determined to resolve his dead cousin’s dangerous financial dealings for Lionel’s sake. But that’s a minor skirmish compared to dealing with the forthright, courageous, and alluring Patience. Somehow, she's breaking his rules, and sweeping past his defenses. Soon, between enemies and obstacles, they form a fragile trust—but will it be enough to save the future they long to dare together? “Vanessa Riley at her finest.” —Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author “I was delighted. Readers on the lookout for Black or disabled characters in historical romance will not want to miss this.” —New York Times Book Review “One of the best historicals I’ve read in years.” —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author “Expertly crafted romance.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
Download or read book Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy written by Dennis Lines and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy explores the idea that throughout the course of a therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, a spiritual level is reached by the two people involved. The author shows how this dimension can help clients who are living in an increasingly secular and faithless society to find some resolution with the issues they bring to therapy. By exploring different perspectives on religion and spirituality, the book provides therapists with the grounding they need to introduce spiritually-centered counseling into their practice.
Download or read book Blake Mortimer The Call of the Moloch written by Jean Dufaux and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2021-02-18T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tasked by the queen to close the ‘Septimus Wave’ case once and for all, Captain Blake is facing a daunting task, for many questions remain unanswered. Where did the spaceship buried beneath London come from? What became of Lady Rowana and Professor Evangely? Meanwhile, Mortimer is trying to pull Olrik out of the catatonic state the villain has been in since his encounter with the ship’s occupant. Has the threat to the nation truly been vanquished?
Download or read book Five O Clock on the Sun written by Terence Kuch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five O'Clock on the Sun is the third collection of "memorable fancies," which have appeared daily on the author's website for several years. This volume continues on from Everything Wants to Happen (fancies 1-1000) and Your Life Here (fancies 1001-2000). The subjects covered in this series include love, death, hope, the joys and agonies of life, and other topics, both commonplace and preposterous..
