Author: David BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781856650366
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Robin Hood's Bridge Memoirs
Author: David BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781856650366
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Bridge Adventures of Robin Hood
Author: David BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781856650359
Category : Contract bridge
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Robin Hood's Hold-up
Author: David BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781771402064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
12th-Century Bridge Adventures Journey back to Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Castle in David Bird's fourth book of Robin Hood bridge stories. The 32 stories contain well over 100 splendid deals and provide the laugh-aloud humor and painless instruction for which the author is renowned. The cast list features Robin Hood, Maid Marian and the Outlaws -- also their arch-enemies, the Sheriff of Nottingham and his hapless side-kick, Sir Guy of Gisborne. Joining in the fun are a host of nuns, novices, priests, bishops, Wise Wynfryth (a witch), Maid Marian's girlfriends, soldiers, serfs, horse traders, landlords, barmaids, undertakers, lords and ladies of the court and their vulnerable young daughters. The deals played are ingenious and the adventures hilarious. Robin Hood's Hold-up is a sequel to the popular Arrow Through the Heart, also available from Master Point Press.
Robin Hood's Bridge Memoirs
Author: David BirdPublisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713482454
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This sequel to the widely acclaimed Bridge Adventures of Robin Hood provides a further feast of 11 brand-new bridge adventures. Fans will find plenty of rollicking humor and painless instruction within.
Bridge's Strangest Hands
Author: Andrew WardPublisher: Portico
ISBN: 1910232394
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This collection of oddities shows how Contract Bridge has played its part in embezzlement, murder, suicide, kidnapping, imprisonment and battle. The stories feature similar hands to those of bridge – the complete misfit, the two-way slam and men against women – while others, like ‘Thirteen Spades’ and ‘The Raspberry Jam Conundrum’, are closer to fantasy. Adaptations of the game, such as Nullo Bridge and Egdirb, are also included. Every hand in this book is a winner. Unless, of course, you were the player who was dealt thirteen hearts but bid diamonds by mistake.
A Rip in Heaven
Author: Jeanine CumminsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627916
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed.
Robin Hood
Author: Jeffrey L. ForgengPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Among the narrative traditions of the Middle Ages, the Robin Hood legend holds a unique, important, and often overlooked position. Robin Hood's uniqueness and importance begins with his status as the only English contribution to world mythology. His is also the only lasting myth to arise from the High Middle Ages and the last Western legend to achieve a sustained international appeal. Several Robin Hood ballads survive from the Middle Ages, and from the 15th to the 17th centuries he figured prominently in folk drama. Since then, he has appeared in numerous proverbs, placenames, operas, novels, children's stories, films, and television series. A tale told so often must be profoundly significant to the society that retells it. Yet in spite of its importance and popularity, the legend of Robin Hood has received surprisingly little study. This book overviews the genesis and development of the Robin Hood legend from the Middle Ages to 1700. As is appropriate for a work that bridges the divide between the worlds of fiction and history, this volume incorporates the strengths of both historical and literary approaches, respecting both the circumstances of the historic setting and the legend's status as a fictive creation. The principal focus of the book is the interaction between the text and the social context in which the legend arose and developed. The first two chapters examine the early Robin Hood tradition, including the initial nondramatic manifestations of the legend and the later dramatic representations. The volume then looks at the transformation of the legend in the 16th and 17th centuries and considers how the various elements of the legend interacted with each other and with society as a whole.
The King's Table / the Bridge Adventures of Robin Hood / Contract Killers
Author: Philip KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713481013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Author: Francis Beaumont