Author: British LionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The British Lion's Message, to the British People. A Letter to John Bull, Esqr. from the British Bulldog
Author: British LionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The British Lion's Message to the British People. A Letter to John Bull , Esq., from the British Bulldog [concerning the Assumption of the Title of “Empress of India” by Queen Victoria.]
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Author: British lionKing Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam HochschildPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760785202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
The Book of the Lion
Author: Sir Alfred Edward PeasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Stark Munro Letters
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1595404155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the troubles which a young man may be called upon to face right away at the outset of his career, that I have handed them over to the gentleman who is about to edit them. There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary; but in the main I hope that they may be reproduced as they stand. I am sure that there is no privilege which my friend would value more highly than the thought that some other young man, harassed by the needs of this world and doubts of the next, should have gotten strength by reading how a brother had passed down the valley of shadow before him.
His Natural Life
Author: Marcus ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Biglow Papers
Author: James Russell LowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
John Ploughman's Talk
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
English Surnames
Author: Charles Wareing Endell BardsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Author: John BerendtPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679429220
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.