Author: Mongo Beti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of misfortunes, Banda loses both his crop and his bride to be. Making his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa, and as his journey progresses, the novel mirrors these changes in its style and language. Published here with the author's essay "Romancing Africa," the novel signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing.
Cruel City
Author: Mongo Beti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.
The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet ; Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil Wars Between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy
Author: Enguerrand de Monstrelet
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368744143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368744143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
What This Cruel War Was Over
Author: Chandra Manning
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307277321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307277321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
A History of the Cruel Sufferings of the Protestants and Others, by Popish Persecutions, in Various Countries
Author: John Lockman
Publisher:
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Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Calendar
Author: University of St. Andrews
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
French and Indian Cruelty: Exemplified in the Life, and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune, of Peter Williamson
French and Indian cruelty exemplified in the life, ... of P. W. ... Written by himself. The third edition, with additions
Author: Peter WILLIAMSON (of Hirnley, Aberdeenshire.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
French and Indian Cruelty; exemplified in the life ... of P. Williamson ... Containing a particular account of the manners ... of the savages ... Written by Himself
Author: Peter WILLIAMSON (of Hirnley, Aberdeenshire.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Harper's Young People
Author:
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Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
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Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Cruelty and Silence
Author: Kanan Makiya
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Hailed as one of the most important books ever written on the state of the modern Middle East, this brave and controversial work confronts the rhetoric ofArab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political brutality in the Arab world.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Hailed as one of the most important books ever written on the state of the modern Middle East, this brave and controversial work confronts the rhetoric ofArab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political brutality in the Arab world.