Author: John Dickson CarrPublisher:
ISBN: 9781932009583
Category : Detective and mystery plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
13 to the Gallows
Author: John Dickson CarrPublisher:
ISBN: 9781932009583
Category : Detective and mystery plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Walk Towards the Gallows
Author: Tom MitchellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'
The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament
Author: George V. WigramPublisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1565632087
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1713
Book Description
This new edition of the standard work "The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament" is an improved and corrected edition that features a new, larger format. Now coded to "Strong's, " it is invaluable in Bible study for those who do not know Hebrew. A new index of out-of-sequence "Strong's" numbers allows the reader to quickly and easily locate any word by its "Strong's "number. The Hebrew and English indexes have been retained.
The Gallows Pole
Author: Benjamin MyersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526611147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker 'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year ... It's the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year
The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament
Author: George V. WigramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The Book of Numbers
Author: Tim Glynne-JonesPublisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1848584407
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From zero to infinity, The Book of Numbers is a handy-sized volume which opens up a new realm of knowledge. Where else in one place could you find out how the illegal numbers racket worked, what makes some people see numbers as colours, why the standard US rail gauge exactly matches the axle width of an ancient Roman chariot, and the numerological connection between Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden?
The Holy Bible, with Explanatory Notes ... by Thomas Scott ... A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections ... and with Ten Maps
Author: The Self-pronouncing S.S. Teachers' Combination Bible, Showing ... All Changes, Additions and Omissions Made by the Revisers in the King James Version ...
Author: Migration and Diaspora
Author: Hisako KinukawaPublisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1628370092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Engage and explore readings from a multi-religious, globalized, multicultural region The papers in this collection were presented at the third meeting of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies held at the Sabah Theological Seminary, Malaysia in 2012. The essays represent the work of women/feminist scholars in biblical hermeneutics in this region who have raised questions against traditional, male-centered interpretations, offering distinct perspectives based on their experiences of pain, subjugation, and a forced sacrificial philosophy of life. Features: Articles focused on finding justice for women through dialogue with biblical texts Reflections on migration, diaspora, displacement, discrimination, and conditions generated by poverty and systemic oppression Five essays from women in China, Japan, and Korea
Author: Robert Young