Author: Rhona Martin
Publisher: Mereo Books
ISBN: 1861515456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner, and stumble along a fateful collision towards a harrowing climax. Winner of the First Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize founded in memory of Georgette Heyer by Bodley Head and Corgi Books. Rhona Martin's remarkable first novel won the award in 1977, its first year, in competition with 150 entries.
Gallows Wedding
Author: Rhona Martin
Publisher: Mereo Books
ISBN: 1861515456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner, and stumble along a fateful collision towards a harrowing climax. Winner of the First Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize founded in memory of Georgette Heyer by Bodley Head and Corgi Books. Rhona Martin's remarkable first novel won the award in 1977, its first year, in competition with 150 entries.
Publisher: Mereo Books
ISBN: 1861515456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner, and stumble along a fateful collision towards a harrowing climax. Winner of the First Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize founded in memory of Georgette Heyer by Bodley Head and Corgi Books. Rhona Martin's remarkable first novel won the award in 1977, its first year, in competition with 150 entries.
The Clothes that Wear Us
Author: Jessica Munns
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136722
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136722
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: Edward J. Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Gallows Wedding
Author: Rhona Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780425042991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780425042991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Efraim's Book
Author: Alfred Andersch
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Efraim's Book is the sophisticated, offbeat novel about the peculiar society of post-World-II Berlin. Its hero George Efraim is a Jewish reporter who has fought for the British on the Italian front and lost both parents to Auschwitz. He returns home to Berlin in 1962 for the first time since the war to investigate the wartime disappearance of his editor's daughter, only to begin writing a novel, which helps him "to embark on a certain arrangement of signs with the help of which I hope to chart my position." Like the great German novels of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll, Alfred Andersch's Efraim's Book grapples with the legacy of World War II and the Holocaust in all its horror and sad humanity. A troubling yet often humorous book, it offers a poignant account of the traumatized German state.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Efraim's Book is the sophisticated, offbeat novel about the peculiar society of post-World-II Berlin. Its hero George Efraim is a Jewish reporter who has fought for the British on the Italian front and lost both parents to Auschwitz. He returns home to Berlin in 1962 for the first time since the war to investigate the wartime disappearance of his editor's daughter, only to begin writing a novel, which helps him "to embark on a certain arrangement of signs with the help of which I hope to chart my position." Like the great German novels of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll, Alfred Andersch's Efraim's Book grapples with the legacy of World War II and the Holocaust in all its horror and sad humanity. A troubling yet often humorous book, it offers a poignant account of the traumatized German state.
Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton
Author: John Rumrich
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108422330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A collection examining representations of the embodied self in the writings of Milton and his contemporaries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108422330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A collection examining representations of the embodied self in the writings of Milton and his contemporaries.
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: Edward J. WOOD (of Clerkenwell.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Murdering to Dissect
Author: Tim Marshall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
When Frankenstein appeared in 1818 it was well known that the medical profession lent silent support to the grave-robbing gangs who regulary sold the surgeons newly-buried bodies for dissection. This resurection trade led to the sensational Burke and Hare case, which revealed that the bodies of murder victims had been pased to the Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox with his connivance.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
When Frankenstein appeared in 1818 it was well known that the medical profession lent silent support to the grave-robbing gangs who regulary sold the surgeons newly-buried bodies for dissection. This resurection trade led to the sensational Burke and Hare case, which revealed that the bodies of murder victims had been pased to the Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox with his connivance.
The Wedding Night Affair
Author: L.C. Sharp
Publisher: Carina Press
ISBN: 0369702891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An unlikely pair explores the darkest corners of London society in this thrilling historical mystery. The year is 1748, and Lady Juliana Uppingham awakens in a pool of blood, with no memory of how her new husband ended up dead beside her. Her distaste for her betrothed was no secret, but even so, Juliana couldn’t possibly have killed him…could she? Juliana’s only hope is Sir Edmund Ashendon, a dashing baronet with a knack for solving seemingly unsolvable crimes—and a reputation for trouble. A man as comfortable in the rookeries of St. Giles as he is in the royal court, Ash believes Juliana is innocent, though all signs point to her as the killer. He doesn’t expect to develop a soft spot for the spirited widow, one that only grows when escalating threats against Juliana force Ash to shelter her in his home. When another body is found, it becomes clear that Juliana has been dragged into something much, much bigger than simply her husband’s murder. With a collection of deadly black-tipped feathers as their sole clue and a date at the end of a hangman’s noose looming, they’ll have to find the real killer—before it’s too late. Ash & Juliana Book 1: The Wedding Night Affair Book 2: The Sign of the Raven
Publisher: Carina Press
ISBN: 0369702891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An unlikely pair explores the darkest corners of London society in this thrilling historical mystery. The year is 1748, and Lady Juliana Uppingham awakens in a pool of blood, with no memory of how her new husband ended up dead beside her. Her distaste for her betrothed was no secret, but even so, Juliana couldn’t possibly have killed him…could she? Juliana’s only hope is Sir Edmund Ashendon, a dashing baronet with a knack for solving seemingly unsolvable crimes—and a reputation for trouble. A man as comfortable in the rookeries of St. Giles as he is in the royal court, Ash believes Juliana is innocent, though all signs point to her as the killer. He doesn’t expect to develop a soft spot for the spirited widow, one that only grows when escalating threats against Juliana force Ash to shelter her in his home. When another body is found, it becomes clear that Juliana has been dragged into something much, much bigger than simply her husband’s murder. With a collection of deadly black-tipped feathers as their sole clue and a date at the end of a hangman’s noose looming, they’ll have to find the real killer—before it’s too late. Ash & Juliana Book 1: The Wedding Night Affair Book 2: The Sign of the Raven
Popular Fictions
Author: Peter Humm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136492569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. All the essays collected here deal in their different ways with 'popular fictions', but they were all, also, first published in the journal Literature and History. In that sense, then, they are quite literally 'essays in literature and history'.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136492569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. All the essays collected here deal in their different ways with 'popular fictions', but they were all, also, first published in the journal Literature and History. In that sense, then, they are quite literally 'essays in literature and history'.