Author: Helen HuntingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Slender Reed
Author: Helen HuntingtonThe Slender Reed
Author: Helen HuntingtonThe Slender Reed
Author: John W. CassellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592997398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A career prosecutor suddenly finds himself thrust into the world of dirty politics when his boss resigns to accept a judgeship. He readily finds that the ruling political machine has created a system where any opposition finds itself either in prison or forever disgraced. He must shortly choose between the ethics which have guided his career thus far and actions which would ensure his survival. Certain he is doomed, State's Attorney Edward A. Cranford nonetheless tries to do what is right, encountering both the vengeance and greed that could at any moment destroy him and allies who, like him, refuse to give in. An authentic tale of justice and politics in modern America written by a 25-year veteran of prosecution, THE SLENDER REED brings to life the struggle between those determined to wield unquestioned power, and those whose faith in the system demands they be stopped.
Journal
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Slender Reed; A Biographical Novel of James Knox Polk, Eleventh President of the U.S.
Author: Noel Bertram GersonPoems of Guido Gezelle
Author: Paul VincentPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634948
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle(1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezellewas hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modern Flemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlands and often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’soutput, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’sfavourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.However, an important barrier to wider international recognition of his lyric genius up to now has been the absence of translations that do justice to the vigour and musicality of Gezelle’sWest Flemish idiom. Two of the translations included go some way to redressing the balance: ‘TheWatter-Scriever’ by Scotland’s national poet Edwin Morgan and ‘A Little Leaf . . .’ by Francis Jones. Both translators make brilliant use of their own vernaculars (Glaswegian and North Yorkshire respectively) to bring Gezelleto life for the non-Dutch-speaking reader.
The Journal of the Linnean Society
Author: The Journal of the Linnean Society of London
Author: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Aesop's Fables in Rhyme for Little Philosophers
Author: John MartinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486781801
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Twenty-four fables, recounted in verse, tell of the hare and the tortoise, the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf, and other timeless morality tales. Includes distinctive silhouette illustrations.