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Author: Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368368435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Reproduction of the original.
Author: Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368368435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Reproduction of the original.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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This supernatural romance, set in 19th century England, tells the story of a young physician who settled in one of the wealthiest English towns. Life seems normal until the town's hidden secrets started to bother this young physician's life, and finally culminated in the appearance of a hideous and dreadful creature.
Author: Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041270899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Mrs. Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Joseph Barry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil war
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Songling Pu
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The public has, perhaps, a right to be made acquainted with the title under which I, an unknown writer, come forward as the translator of a difficult Chinese work. In the spring of 1867 I began the study of Chinese at H.B.M.ÕsLegation, Peking, under an implied promise, in a despatch from the then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that successful efforts would be rewarded by proportionately rapid advancement in the service of which I was a member. Then followed a long novitiate of utterly uninteresting and, indeed, most repellent labour,Ñinseparable, however, from the acquisition of this language, which throughout its early stages demands more from sheer memory than from the exercise of any other intellectual faculty. At length, in the spring of 1877, while acting as Vice-Consul at Canton, I commenced the translation of the work here offered to the English reader. For such a task I had flattered myself into the belief that I possessed two of the requisite qualifications: an accurate knowledge of the grammatical structure of the language, and an extensive insight into the manners, customs, superstitions, and general social life of the Chinese. I had been variously stationed at Peking, Tientsin, Takow, and Taiwan Fu (in Formosa), Ningpo, Hankow, Swatow, and Canton, from the latter of which I was transferredÑwhen my task was still only half finishedÑto Amoy. I had travelled beyond the Great Wall into Mongolia; and I had made the journey overland from Swatow to Canton, a distance of five hundred miles; besides which, in addition to my study of the language, my daily object in life had always been to familiarise myself as much as possible with Chinese sympathies and habits of thought. With these advantages, and by the interesting nature of the subject-matter, I hoped to be able on the one hand to arouse a somewhat deeper interest than is usually taken in the affairs of China; and, on the other, to correct at any rate some of the erroneous views, too frequently palmed off by inefficient and disingenuous workers, and too readily accepted as fact.Ê
Author: Art Spiegelman
Publisher: HarperColl
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A collecton of comic strips and cartoons by various artists.
Author: Dennis Wheatley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448213894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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When Linda boarded the train that would take her to London and freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the seat opposite was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated – and expensive. In a few months the rough country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack – and once again Linda must take desperate action to survive.
Author: Stacy Nicole Davis
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This book addresses the claim that an American antebellum era anti-African reading of "the curse of Canaan" story originated in rabbinic literature. By tracing the curse of Canaan's history of interpretation from the beginning of the Common Era to 1865, with particular emphasis on the neglected medieval period, this work examines this long-held false claim. Although Jewish readings of the curse of Canaan appear in medieval Christian commentaries, no Jewish references to skin color are repeated in Christian exegesis. Therefore, the book argues that the anti-African antebellum reading develops in response both to abolitionism and the biblical text's establishment of a social hierarchy that divides humankind into slaves and masters. The pro-slavery reading is an extension of Christian allegorical exegesis of the curse of Canaan, in which Shem, Ham, and Japheth represented different groups of people depending upon the interpreter's historical context, usually Jewish Christians, Jews or Christian heretics, and Gentile Christians respectively. Southerners and their allies simply changed the typology, making Shem the ancestor of brown people, Ham the ancestor of black people due to a reading of his genealogy in Genesis 10, and Japheth the ancestor of white people. The new typology justified African slavery as a divinely ordained and sanctioned economic system, just as the old typology justified Christian supersessionism. Book jacket.
