Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Star in the Dust-heap
Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Star in the Dust-Heap
Author: Louisa Lelias GreenePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358858307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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The Star in the Dust-heap
Author: Mrs. Greene (Louisa Lilias)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Star in the Dust-Heap
Author: Louisa Lelias GreenePublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458937421
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. A RAILWAY TRIP. next morning Davie came down to breakfast with pale face and heavy swollen eyelids, fearing to meet his aunt, or to ask the result of poor Milly's fall; but Mrs. Priestley's storm was over for the present, and the baby, dressed in her neatest Sunday frock, held out her arms to greet him, and welcomed his appearance with frantic bounds and squeals of joy. The day, too, was a bright and cheerful one. Great gleams of sunshine came slanting down the narrow street, and the sounds of the early church bells rang pleasantly through the air; nor had Davie forgotten the whispered promise given him by his uncle the day before. The walk in the fields, the quiet talk over the past ? the beautiful, golden past, with its long dream of love and peace and happiness; and now and again Davie cast furtive glances towards his uncle, to see if he also remembered the compact of the previous day. But Tom Priestley was too wide awake to show any excitement, or to descant upon pleasures to come. He 31 sat meekly at the side of his table, looking doubly meek in his polished, ill-fitting Sunday garments, and ate the brown bread and butter set before him by his wife with a passive expressionless face, on which no bright reflection of pink-eyed daisies or golden buttercups could be traced. Mrs. Priestley presided over the breakfast-table, wielding a huge earthenware tea-pot with one hand, and a very small blue milk-jug with the other. Beside her also stood the platter for the bread, and the carving-knife, with which she sawed off great hunks, and handed them down the table. It was indeed no small matter to fill so many hungry gaping mouths, for the Priestley family numbered eight?four sons and four daughters?and now there was little Davie to swell the crowd, though small i...
The Athenaeum
Author: International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science
Author: Histories of the Dustheap
Author: Stephanie FootePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary. Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems—the local and the global, the economic and the ecological, the historical and the contemporary—and shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies. The contributors first consider garbage in subjective terms, examining “toxic autobiography” by residents of Love Canal, the intersection of public health and women's rights, and enviroblogging. They explore the importance of place, with studies of post-Katrina soil contamination in New Orleans, e-waste disposal in Bloomington, Indiana, and garbage on Mount Everest. And finally, they look at cultural contradictions as objects hover between waste and desirability, examining Milwaukee's efforts to sell its sludge as fertilizer, the plastics industry's attempt to wrap plastic bottles and bags in the mantle of freedom of choice, and the idea of obsolescence in the animated film The Brave Little Toaster. Histories of the Dustheap offers a range of perspectives on a variety of incarnations of garbage, inviting the reader to consider garbage in a way that goes beyond the common “buy green” discourse that empowers individuals while limiting environmental activism to consumerist practices.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Household Words :
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Author: